The Common Law in Colonial America —— Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750

----- 美洲殖民地的普通法：第三卷：切萨皮克和新英格兰，1660年至1750年

ISBN: 9780190465056 出版年：2016 页码：241 Nelson, William E Oxford University Press

This volume traces English efforts to govern the Chesapeake and New England colonies by imposing the common law. Although every colony received the common law by 1750, local interests retained significant power everywhere and used that power to preserve divergent, customary patterns of law that had arisen in the seventeenth century.