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

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Main Author:	Konig, David Thomas, 1947- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [1979]
Series:	UNC Press enduring editions. Studies in legal history.
Subjects:	Geschichte 1629-1692. Law > Massachusetts > Essex County > History. Puritans > Massachusetts > Essex County > History. LAW > Legal History. Puritans Law Recht Essex County (Mass.) > History. Massachusetts > Essex County Massachusetts History
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Table of Contents:

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.

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