Commercial Development
Here we consider how the commercial systems of British North America
developed, and how the law of mercantile commerce was shaped by North
American realities.
Readings
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Assigned
From
Records of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island, 1716-1752 (Towle ed. 1936)
From
Select Cases of the Mayor's Court of New York City, 1674-1784 (Morris ed. 1935)
Eben Moglen, Settling the Law (1993), Commercial Law in War and Peace
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