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

Klappentext This 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, Schweber Howard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521158183
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15818-3
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; North America, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, Political science & theory, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, North America (USA and Canada), Systems of law: common law