| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 215 pages) |
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UNC Press enduring editions |
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Studies in legal history |
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UNC Press enduring editions.
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Studies in legal history.
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| Contents |
English law and Puritan society : the legal and social foundations of order, 1629/1640 -- Real property litigation : the social and economic backgrounds of legal change -- Outsiders and subgroups : the coordinative functions of the court -- From communalism to litigation : the elevation of law and legal forms -- The court and the community : law in a postrevolutionary Puritan society -- Challenges to the law : the conflict of legal and extra legal methods of social control -- Law, magic, and disorder : the crisis of the Interregnum, 1684-1692 -- Epilogue: A contentious and well-ordered people |
| Summary |
Annotation Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from England's and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals. The author discovers that law gradually replaced religion and communalism as the source of social stability, and he gives a new interpretation to the witchcraft prosecutions of 1692 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-204) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record; online resource viewed September 13, 2016 |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Law -- Massachusetts -- Essex County -- History
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Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Essex County -- History
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LAW -- Legal History.
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Puritans
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Law.
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Recht
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| SUBJECT |
Essex County (Mass.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044928
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| Subject |
Massachusetts -- Essex County.
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Massachusetts
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0807863432 |
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9780807863435 |
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0807813362 |
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9780807813362 |
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