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“Dale's Laws” and the Non-Common Law Origins of Criminal Justice in Virginia
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This article is published in American Journal of Legal History.The article was published on 1982-10-01. It has received 18 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Common law & Criminal justice.read more
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The English Constitution and the Expanding Empire: Sir Edward Coke's British Jurisprudence
TL;DR: This paper examined the early seventeenth century, when the Empire and modern ideas of the English constitution originated, rather than retrospectively from the late eighteenth century when North American colonists revolted in the name of English liberty.
Dissertation
The secularization of ecclesiastical privileges in medieval England and their subsequent adoption and use in Colonial America1066-1766
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case-based approach to describe the social setting of benefit of clergy throughout this period of history and argue that it is vital to an informed understanding of the uptake and use of benefit in colonial America that the history of the arguments that took place in England during the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are explored to understand why transported felons would adopt and apply clericus in such different worlds as existed in Virginia and Massachusetts.
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The Ancient Constitution and the Expanding Empire: Sir Edward Coke’s British Jurisprudence
TL;DR: One of the great ironies in Anglo-American constitutional history is that Sir Edward Coke, the seventeenth-century mythologist of the ‘ancient constitution’1 and the English jurist most celebrated in early America, did not believe that subjects enjoyed the common law and many related liberties of Englishmen while overseas.
Building "the machine": The development of slavery and slave society in early colonial Virginia
TL;DR: In this article, the development of slave society in early colonial Virginia is discussed. But the authors focus on the early years of the slave trade in the colony and do not consider the effects of the American Revolution on the formation of slave societies.
Book
Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500–c.1700
TL;DR: In this article, Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period and argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King's laws.