TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schweber,Howard H.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The creation of American common law, 1850-1880: technology, politics, and the construction of citizenship 
AV  - KF394 .S39 2004eb
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Common law
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Customary law
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-292) and index; Introduction -- North and South -- Illinois: "We were determined to have a rail-road" -- "The memory of man runneth not to the contrary": cases involving damage to property -- "Intelligent beings": cases involving injuries to persons -- The North: Ohio, Vermont, and New York -- Virginia in the 1850s: the last days of planter rule -- The common law of antebellum Virginia: the preservation of status -- Virginia's version of American common law: old wine in new bottles -- The South: Georgia, North Carolina, and Kentucky -- Legal change and social order; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2006; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10120438
ER  -