America Prisons and Punishment
On the eve of the European invasion of North America, the various aboriginal nations each possessed their own set of laws and norms dictating proper behavior. Early European immigrants, …
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Delaware Guide Tourist
In 1977, the Delaware and Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights published its report on the mushroom industry in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and New …
Providence
Providence, Rhode Island, was founded in 1636 by the banished minister Roger Williams and a group of refugees from the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the first half of …
Delaware CHRONOLOGY
1525 Spanish explorer Estevan Gomes passes by and notes the mouth of Delaware Bay. Slave trader Pedro de Quejo’s expedition reaches the entrance of Delaware Bay and lands on …
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 …
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, …