"Esteemed bookes of lawe" and the legal culture of early Virginia

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    • Billings, Warren M.
    • Tarter, Brent

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"Esteemed bookes of lawe" and the legal culture of early Virginia

edited by Warren M. Billings and Brent Tarter

(Early American histories)

University of Virginia Press, 2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these Virginians therefore offers insight into the history of the book and early American intellectual history. It also addresses essential questions of how English culture migrated to the American colonies and was transformed into a distinctive American culture. Focusing on the law books that colonial Virginians acquired, how they used them, and how they eventually produced a native-grown legal literature, this collection of essays explores important aspects of the law and intellectual culture of the commonwealth that reveal the origins of a distinctively Virginian legal literature. The contributors argue that the development of early Virginia legal history—as revealed through these book collections—not only illuminates important aspects of Virginia’s history and culture; it also underlies a thorough understanding of colonial and revolutionary American history and culture.

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