The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume IV: Law and the Constitution on the Eve of Independence, 1735-1776

by William Edward Nelson

The eminent legal historian William E. Nelson's magisterial four-volume The Common Law in Colonial America traces how the many legal orders of Britain's thirteen North American colonies gradually evolved into one American system. Initially established on divergent political, economic, and religious grounds, the various colonial systems slowly converged until it became possible by the 1770s to imagine that all thirteen participated in a common American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190850485
• ISBN13: 9780190850487
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"