Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut
(Part of the Studies in Legal History Series)
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Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution. Analyzing a sample of more than five thousand civil cases from the records of local courts in Connecticut, he shows how once-neighborly modes of disputing yielded to a legal system that treated neighbors and strangers alike. During the colonial period population growth, immigration, economic...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807817562
ISBN13:9780807817568
Release Date:August 2001
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:6.1" x 9.3"
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