Americanization of the Common Law
Subtitle: the impact of legal change on Massachusetts society, 1760-1830
Series: Studies in legal history
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA; London, England
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780674029705
Copyright date: 1975
Table of contents: title: 1. Law in a changing social order; title: The prerevolutionary legal system, 1760-1775.; title: 2. The legal restraint of power; title: 3. The law of a "civil and Christian state"; title: 4. Rules of unity and stability; title: The postrevolutionary legal system, 1780-1830.; title: 5. The reform of common law pleading; title: 6. Law as the guardian of liberty; title: 7. Liberty and the breakdown of stability; title: 8. Economic growth and the law; title: 9. Toward a modern American jurisprudence : judges and legislators as makers of law; title: Bibliography of manuscript sources