Between Law and Custom

Name: Between Law and Custom
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'High' and 'Low' Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora - The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600–1900

Autor: Peter (University of Pittsburgh) Karsten

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When British authorities established 'settler' colonies in North America and the Antipodes (New Zeal...

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Autor

Peter (University of Pittsburgh) Karsten

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2002

Pagini

578

EAN

9780521792837

ISBN

0521792835

Enbook ID

02043509

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

926

Dimensiuni

164 x 236 x 33

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When British authorities established 'settler' colonies in North America and the Antipodes (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Fiji) from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, they introduced law through parliamentary statutes and Colonial Office oversight, and they dispatched governors and judges to the colonies. These jurists set aside some aspects of English Common Law to meet the special conditions of the settler societies, but the 'Responsible Governments' that were eventually created in the colonies and the British immigrants themselves set aside even more of the English law, exercising 'informal law' - popular norms - in its place. Law and popular norms clashed over a range of issues, including ready access to land, the property rights of aboriginal people. the taking of property for public purposes, master-servant relationships and crown/corporate liability for negligent maintenance and operation of roads, bridges and railways. Drawing on extensive archival and library sources in England, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Karsten explores these collisions and arrives at a number of conclusions that will surprise.

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Between Law and Custom

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