The Dutch in America
Subtitle: a historical argument
By: by William Henry Arnoux
Series: Open Collections Program at Harvard University; 19th-century legal treatises -- no. 2319; Making of modern law
Publisher: Priv. print.
Published: 1890
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: History; Discovery and exploration; Dutch; Immigrants; Property (Roman-Dutch law)
Notes: "... presented to the Court of Appeals in the State of New York as an argument in an elevated railroad case then pending, in which the fundamental question involved was whether the Dutch Roman law prevailed in Manhattan Island before 1664 ... To aid the Court in the solution of this problem this argument was written"--Pref., p. [3].

Includes bibliographical references.