Debt, seduction and other disasters : the birth of civil law in convict New South Wales.

Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Pr, 1996.

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Civil law -- History -- New South Wales.

New South Wales -- History.

1. English law in the Australian bush

2. Military honour and civilian law

3. Freedom in an unfree colony

4. From honour to wealth

5. Pigs, storms and fires

6. Chaotic land titles, strange currencies and the failures of the autocrats

7. The birth of contract

8. Deceit and debtors' prison

9. Transferring law to the bush.

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