Law-in-spacing : geographies of territorialization and resistance

My thesis revolves around the extension of Anglo-American common law to the newly acquired territories of the Old Northwest and Louisiana. Both of these territories had French-speaking populations with traditions of European Civil law systems. I suggest that the extension of common law to these terr...

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Main Author: Stewart, Lynn Alison
Language:English
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1474