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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004

1 online resource (viii, 296 p.)

ISBN 0511164335

ISBN 0521824621 (hardback)

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)69257770