The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 / / Morton J. Horwitz.
In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting vie...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1977 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Legal History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. The Emergence of an Instrumental Conception of Law
- II. The Transformation in the Conception of Property
- III. Subsidization of Economic Growth through the Legal System
- IV. Competition and Economic Development
- V. The Relation between the Bar and Commercial Interests
- VI. The Triumph of Contract
- VII. The Development of Commercial Law
- VIII. The Rise of Legal Formalism
- Notes
- Index
- STUDIES IN LEGAL HISTORY