Common Law and English StatutesAdopted in American Founding Era
nolu chanApril 28, 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF SOURCE MATERIAL
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Miscellaneous:
Commentaries on American Law
by James Kent (Kent’s Commentaries),Vol I, 12th Ed., Edited by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1896)[033]Part I, Of the Law of Nations; Lecture I,Of the Foundation and History of the Law of Nations,pp. 1-23.[056]Part I, Of the Law of Nations; Lecture II,Of the Duties of Nations in a State of Peace,pp. 24-71.[104]Part III, Of the Various Sources of the Municipal Law of theSeveral States; Lecture XXI. Of Reports of Judicial Decisions;Source of the Common Law,pp. 640-668.[133]Patrick Henry, Debates and Other Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia, 2nd Ed., pp. 316-17.
Constitutions:
[135] Connecticut1776
[137]Delaware 1776
[143] Georgia 1777
[150] Maryland 1776
[162] Massachusetts 1780
[180] New Hampshire1776
[182] New Jersey 1776
[187] New York 1777
[199] North Carolina 1776
[205] Pennsylvania 1776
[214] Rhode Island 1842 (superseded charter of 1643)
[225] South Carolina 1776
[231] Virginia 1776
Acts And Statutes
[234]Georgia, Act of February 25, 1784, An Act for reviving andenforcing certain Laws therein mentioned.[236] New Hampshire, Laws of the State of New Hampshire, passedJanuary session, 1943; pp. 231-33, 259.[240] North Carolina, Act of 1715, Chap. 5, An act for the more
effectual observing of the Queen’s peac
e
, and establishing a goodand lasting foundation of government in North Carolina.[241] North Carolina, Act of 1778, Chap. 133,An act to enforce such
parts of the statute and common laws as have been heretofore inforce and use here, and the acts of Assembly made and passedwhen this territory was under the government of Great Britain, andfor reviving the several acts therein mentioned.[243] Pennsylvania, Act of 1777, An Act to revive and put in force such
and so much of the late laws of the province on Pennsylvania, as is judged necessary to be in force in this commonwealth, and torevive and establish the Courts of Justice, and for other purposestherein mentioned.[248] Rhode Island, Act of April, 1700,An Act, for putting in Force the
Laws of England in all Cases, where no Particular Law of thisColony hath Provided a Remedy.[249] Rhode Island, Act of 1750 (1749?), “a bill for introducing into this
colony, such of the statutes of England, as are agreeable to theconstitution, and make report of their doings, the greatest part of whom, presented what followeth; [list of English statutes] … andall and every of the statutes, aforesaid, be, and they are herebyintroduced into this colony, and shall be in full force therein, untilthe General Assembly shall order otherwise.”[251] South Carolina, Act of 1712, An Act to put in force in this
Province the Several Statutes of the Kingdom of England or SouthBritain, therein particularly mentioned.
Common Law and English Statutes Adopted in American Founding Era (with source documents)
The system of law the states adopted in the founding era. English statutes and the law of nations. Source documents appended.
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