Creation of American Common Law, 1850-1880 - Technology, Politics, and the Construction of Citizenship

Klappentext This 2004 book is a comparative study of the American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung This book is a comparative study of the American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia! supported by observations from six additional states! the book traces the crucial formative moment in the development of an American system of common law in northern and southern courts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: 1. Introduction; Part II: 1. North and South; 2. Illinois. 'We were determined to have a rail-road'; 3. 'The memory of man runneth not to the contrary': cases involving damage to property; 4. 'Intelligent beings': cases involving injuries to persons; 5. The North: Ohio, Vermont, and New York; 6. Virginia in the 1850s: the last days of planter rule; 7. The Common Law of Antebellum Virginia: old wine in new bottles; 8. Virginia's version of American Common Law: old wine in new bottles; 9. The South: Georgia, North Carolina, and Kentucky; 10. Legal change and social order.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Schweber, Howard (University of Wisconsin Schweber
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2004
• EAN: 9780521824620
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82462-0
• No. of pages: 306
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education