• Making the fairy tale
• The discovery that race politicizes due process
• How revolutionary was the Civil War?
• Privileges and immunities in the Supreme Court
• The jury cases
• Getting blacks on Mississippi juries.

• Making the fairy tale
• The discovery that race politicizes due process
• How revolutionary was the Civil War?
• Privileges and immunities in the Supreme Court
• The jury cases
• Getting blacks on Mississippi juries.

• 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 postrevolutionary 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.

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.Originally published 1979.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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• Province charters, 1691 and
• 1726. Acts, passed 1692-1714
• II. Acts, 1715-1741
• III. Acts, 1742-1756
• IV. Acts, 1757-1768
• V. Acts, 1769-1780.--VI. Private acts, 1692-1780
• VII. Resolves, etc., 1692-1702
• VIII. Resolves, etc., 1703-1707
• IX. Resolves, etc., 1708-1720
• X. Resolves, etc. 1720-1726
• XI. Resolves, etc. 1726-1734
• XII. Resolves, etc., 1734-1741
• XIII. Resolves, etc., 1741-1746
• XIV. Resolves, etc., 1717-1753
• XV. Resolves, etc., 1753-1756
• XVI. Resolves, etc., 1757-1760
• XVII. Resolves, etc. 1761-1764
• XVIII. Resolves, etc., 1765-1774
• XIX. Resolves, etc., 1775-1776
• XX. Resolves, etc. 1777-1778
• XXI. Resolves, etc., 1779-1780, and town chapters, 1692-1714, relating to the establishment of towns, precincts and parishes, determining territorial boundaries and granting lands, given by titles only in volumes VII, VIII, IX; originally planned to be printed in a separate volume.

"This edition ... was partly prepared under chapter 43 of the Resolves of the General court for the year 1865 ... The commissioners appointed under this resolve were John H. Clifford, Ellis Ames, and Abner C. Goodell."--Pref., v. 1, signed: Ellis Ames Abner Cheney Goodell.
"The publication of the Province laws of Massachusetts, stopped in the year 1896, was taken up again, under new legislation, in ... 1900. Mr. Goodell, the former editor, having declined reappointment, Melville Madison Bigelow, esq., was appointed editor."--Pref., v. 9.
Reproduction of the original from the Massachusetts State Historical Society.