Contract and consent
Subtitle: representation and the jury in Anglo-American legal history
By: J. R. Pole.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813928616; 9780813928920
Subjects: Law -- England -- History; Law -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Where the law comes from : the courts and the making of society; title: John Slade's other harvest : common law, contract, and the American republic; title: Sedition and the jury in London and New York; title: American independence and the crisis of sovereignty; title: Inferences and continuities; title: Some problems of a colonial attorney general in a multicultural society; title: Bicameralism and republican government in the British American colonies and in the United States; title: The individual, the region, the nation : where three roads meet; title: Nation-making and the American constitutional process; title: The performance of representative institutions, 1776-1876 : ideology, estates, and interests.