Settlement
In this section of the course, we consider the process by which colonial legal regimes were created in British North America, and how the law was "settled," by the relevant forms of social negotiation.
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Assigned
For the Colony in Virginea Brittania, Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall
Suggested
Wallace Notestein, The English People on the Eve of Colonization, 1603-1630 (1954)
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