Bibliography
 		 
General Works

Black, Henry C. Black's Law Dictionary: Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern, 4th ed. St. Paul, Minn.: 1968.

Brown, Elizabeth Gaspar. British Statutes in American Law, 1776-1836. Ann Arbor: 1964

Chroust, Anton-Hermann. The Rise of the Legal Profession in America, 2 vols. (Norman, Okla.: 1965).

Coleman, Peter J. Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt and Bankruptcy, 1607-1900. Madison, Wisc.: 1974. (New York State, pp. 105-29.)

Dumbauld, Edward. "Legal Records in English and Amencan Courts." American Archivist, 36 (1973), 15-32.

Eakle, Arlene, and Johni Cerny, eds. The Source A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Salt Lake City: 1984. (Pp. 150-215 contain a discussion of "American Court Records" by Eakle.)

Friedman, Lawrence M. A History of American Law, 2d ed. New York: 1985. (Standard work.)

Hindus, Michael S., and Douglas L. Jones. "Quantitative Methods or Quantum Meruit?: Tactics for Early American History." Historical Methods Newsletter, 13 (1980), 63-64. (Discusses research methods and problems in both civil and criminal court records. Some of the legal terms used do not accord with those employed in New York.)

Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1 780-1860. Cambridge, Mass.: 1977.

Howe, Mark D., ed. Readings in American Legal History. Cambridge, Mass.: 1949. (Has sections on the Field Code.)

Millar, Robert W. Civil Procedure of the Trial Court in Historical Perspective. New York: 1952. (This is a history of the reform of common law pleading in England and the United States.)

Nelson, William E. Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change in Massachusetts Society, 1760-1830. Cambridge, Mass.: 1975.

Pound, Roscoe. Appellate Procedure in Civil Cases. Boston: 1941. (This work discusses proceedings in error in law courts and appeals in equity courts, and their reform in England and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.)

Rembar, Charles. The Law of the Land. New York: 1980. (A well-written, non-technical introduction to Anglo-American legal history.)

Riesenfeld, Stefan A. "Collection of Money Judgments in American Law-A Historical Inventory and a Prospectus." Iowa Law Review, 42 (1957), 155-82.


History of the Common Law

Baker, John H. An Introduction to English Legal History, 2d ed. London: 1979.

Blackstone, William. Ehrlich's Blackstone, ed. J.W. Ehrlich. San Carlos, Calif: 1959. (This abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries is the most accessible version of the work.)

Harding, Alan. A Social History of English Law. London: 1966.

Kiralfy, A.K.R. Potter's Historical Introduction to English Law and Its Institutions, 4th ed London 1958.

Maitland, Frederic W. The Forms of Action at Common Law; A Course of Lectures. Cambridge: 1936.

Plucknett, Theodore F.T. Concise History of the Common Law, 5th ed. Boston: 1956. 		 


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