The Creation of American common law, 1850-1880 : technology, politics, and the construction of citizenship / Howard Schweber.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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25083

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Common law -- United States -- History.

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1. North and south

2. Illinois: "We were determined to have a rail-road"

3. "The memory of man runneth not to the contrary": cases involving damage to property

4. "Intelligent beings": cases involving injuries to persons

5. The north: Ohio, Vermont, and New York

6. Virginia through the 1850s: The last days of planter rule

7. The common law of antebellum Virginia: the preservation of status

8. Virginia's version of American common law: old wine in new bottles

9. The south: Georgia, North Carolina, and Kentucky

10. Legal change and social order.

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Includes bibliography and inex.

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0521824621

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vii, 296 p.