Law and society in Puritan Massachusetts : Essex County, 1629-1692 / / David Thomas Konig

• Autore: Konig David Thomas <1947->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 1979
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 215 pages)
• Disciplina: 340/.09744
• Soggetto topico: Law - Massachusetts - Essex County - History; Puritans - Massachusetts - Essex County - History
• Soggetto geografico: Essex County (Mass.) History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography: p. 193-204 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: English law and Puritan society : the legal and social foundations of order, 1629/1640 Real property litigation : the social and economic backgrounds of legal change Outsiders and subgroups : the coordinative functions of the court From communalism to litigation : the elevation of law and legal forms The court and the community : law in a post revolutionary Puritan society Challenges to the law : the conflict of legal and extra legal methods of social control Law, magic, and disorder : the crisis of the Interregnum, 1684-1692 Epilogue: A contentious and well-ordered people
• Sommario/riassunto: Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from England's and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals. The author discovers that law gradually replaced religion and communalism as the source of social stability, and he gives a new interpretation to the witchcraft prosecutions of 1692.
• Titolo autorizzato: Law and society in Puritan Massachusetts
• ISBN: 979-88-908716-5-7; 0-8078-6343-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823650403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in legal history.