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A history of American law / Lawrence M. Friedman.
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Publication details:
New York : Touchstone, 2005.
Edition:
3rd ed.
Record id:
25390
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Subject:
Law -- United States -- History.
Contents:
Part I The Beginnings: American law in the colonial period
Part II From the revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century: 1776-1850
Chapter 1 The republic of bees
Chapter 2 Outposts of the law: the frontier and the civil law fringe
Chapter 3 Law and the economy: 1776-1850
Chapter 4 The law of personal status: wives, paupers, and slaves
Chapter 5 An American law of property
Chapter 6 The law of commerce and trade
Chapter 7 Crime and punishment: and a footnote on tort
Chapter 8 The bar and its works
Part III American law to the close to the nineteenth century
Chapter 1 Blood and gold: some main themes in the law in the last
Chapter 2 Judges and courts: 1850-1900
Chapter 3 Procedure and practice: an age of reform
Chapter 4 The land and other property
Chapter 5 Administrative law and regulation of business
Chapter 6 Torts
Chapter 7 The underdogs: 1850-1900
Chapter 8 The law of corporations
Chapter 9 Commerce, labor, and taxation
Chapter 10 Crime and punishment
Chapter 11 The legal profession: the training and literature law
Chapter 12 The legal profession: at work
Part IV
Chapter 1 Leviathan comes of age
Chapter 2 The growth of the law
Chapter 3 Internal legal culture in the twentieth century; lawyers, judges, and the law books
Chapter 4 Regulation, welfare, and the rise of environmental law
Chapter 5 Crime and punishment in the twentieth century
Chapter 6 Family law in the twentieth century.
ISBN:
0684869888
Phys. description:
xx, 620 p.