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2019. ISBN-13: 9781616195847 ISBN-10: 1616195843. Donlan, Sean Patrick and Vernon Palmer. Legal Traditions in Louisiana and the Floridas 1763-1848. xxxv, 297 pp. 10 illustrations. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing (an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.), 2019. ISBN-13: 9781616195847. ISBN-10: 1616195843. Hardcover. New. $75. * This collection focuses on the period from 1763 through the mid-nineteenth century. In Louisiana and the Floridas, the territorial ambitions of Britain, France, and Spain, as well as the United States, led to a rapidly shifting series of political and cultural changes. The result in the region was the creation of complex hybrids of social mores, customs, and legal ideas and institutions. Of particular significance were the land claims that inevitably followed transfers of sovereignty and legal systems, the social and legal entrenchment of established elites and the institution of slavery, as well as a legacy of extra-legal violence and folk justice. The fluid borders of… Read More

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