New York City Property Rights within the Marital Relationship
The marital property system in British common law supported the interest of the patriarchal landed class to keep estates intact and under the control of a single male. Under …
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Punishment in America
In the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, established in 1607, the Virginia Company established a form of military law to enforce order. The Lawes Divine, Morall, and …
Quincy, Josiah, Jr. 1744–1775
Josiah Quincy, Jr. lawyer and patriot leader, was born in 1744 in Boston and raised in nearby Braintree. He graduated from Harvard in 1763, returning in 1766 to collect …
Property and Property Rights
The concepts of property and property rights in colonial America reflected common law patterns established in England. Property was categorized as either real property or personal property. Simply put, …
American Race and Ethnicity
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Americans tend to differentiate between race and ethnicity, seeing the former as inherited physical differences and the latter as a distinctive sense …
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Rising anti-British feeling among Native Americans allowed diverse groups of Senecas, Shawnees, Delawares, and various Algonquin villages to set aside former differences. In the winter of 1762, war belts …
American Quebec Act 1774
Passed by Parliament on June 22, 1774, the Quebec Act attempted to secure the political allegiance of Britain’s new Catholic Canadian subjects acquired as a result of the Seven …
Pontiac c. 1720–1769
Little is known about the early life and career of Pontiac, an Ottawa war leader most closely associated with a series of frontier attacks known as Pontiac’s Rebellion. Euro-American …