| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 250 pages :) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Summary |
"A concise legal history of Illinois, Prairie Justice covers the French, British, early-American, and Illinois-statehood periods to 1900. It illustrates the changes over time in the different judicial systems, culminating in the establishment of a unique body of Illinois law"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Whose Home Is in the Wilderness" -- Law and Anarchy, Virginia County, Federal Territory -- The Coming of the Common Law -- A Frontier Court -- Lawyers and Law Courts -- Law and Politics -- Giants in the Prairie -- Trails of the Circuit Riders -- The Coming of Age -- Epilogue. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Courts -- Illinois -- History.
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Courts. |
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Illinois. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Lupton, John A., 1966- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780809333691 0809333694 (DLC) 2014017074 |
| ISBN |
0809333708 (electronic book) |
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9780809333707 (electronic book) |
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9780809333691 (hardback) |
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0809333694 (cloth) |
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