Title: Law and people in colonial America /
Authors: Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Law United States History; United States History; United States History
Contents: Ch. 1. "That the Said Statutes, Lawes, and Ordinances May Be as Neere as Conveniently May, Agreeable to the Forme of the Lawes and Pollicy of England" -- Ch. 2. "And to the End that All Laws Prepared by the Governour and Provincial Council Aforesaid, May Yet Have the More Full Concurrence of the Free-Men of the Province" -- Ch. 3. "These Dirty and Ridiculous Litigations Have Been Multiplied in this Town, Till the Very Earth Groans and the Stones Cry Out" -- Ch. 4. "Just so th' Unletter'd Blockheads of the Robe; (Than Whom no Greater Monsters on the Globe); Their Wire-Drawn, Incoherent, Jargon Spin, Or Lug a Point by Head and Shoulders In" -- Ch. 5. "On What Principles, Then, on What Motives of Action, Can We Depend for the Security of our Liberties, of our Properties. . . of Life Itself?"