Between Law and Custom
Subtitle: 'High' and 'Low' Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora - The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 16001900
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780521792837
Subjects: Common law; World history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Reception; History - General History; Law; Australia; Fiji; New Zealand; North America; Southern Africa; Renaissance; Common law--History; History / Renaissance; History; International; Customary law
First sentence: Between 1575 and 1825, successive English Parliaments responded to calls from "improvement"-minded aristocrats and gentry with legislation that arranged for the purchase and extinguishing of customary rights held by cottagers, cottiers, crofters, and yeomen tenant-farmers in one village, fen, and forest after another.