JUSTICES, BOOKS, LAWS, AND COURTS IN 17TH-CENTURY VIRGINIA

Authors
BILLINGS WM
Citation
Wm. Billings, JUSTICES, BOOKS, LAWS, AND COURTS IN 17TH-CENTURY VIRGINIA, Law library journal, 85(2), 1993, pp. 277-296
Citations number
55
Categorie Soggetti
Law,"Information Science & Library Science
Journal title
Law library journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00239283
Volume
85
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
277 - 296
Database
ISI
SICI code
0023-9283(1993)85:2<277:JBLACI>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Professor Billings explores the origins of law in seventeenth-century Virginia by examining the interplay between the social origins Of colo nial justices of the peace and English legal literature of the times.