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The true-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven : and the false blue-laws invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters, to which are added specimens of the laws and judicial proceedings of other colonies and some blue-laws of England in the reign of James I / edited by J. Hammond Trumbull.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- LLMC-digital (Series)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sunday legislation--Connecticut.
- Sunday legislation.
- Law--Connecticut.
- Law.
- Connecticut.
- Law--Connecticut--New Haven.
- Law--Great Britain.
- Great Britain.
- Connecticut--New Haven.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., 1876.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- text file
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- First constitution of Connecticut, 1639
- Capital laws of Connecticut, 1642
- The first code of laws, 1650
- Laws, orders &c. of the Connecticut courts
- Fundamental agreement at New Haven
- The New Haven code, 1655
- Laws, orders, and judgments, of New Haven courts, 1639-1660
- The "blue law" forgeries of Peters
- Laws and judicial proceedings of other colonies: New York, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts
- Blue laws of England, in the reign of James I.
- Notes:
- The New Haven code has reproduction of t.p: Nevv-Haven's settling in New-England. And some lawes for government : published for use of that Colony ; though some of the orders intended for present convenience, may probably be herafter altered, and as need requireth other lawes added. London : Printed by M.S. for Livewell Chapman, at the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley, 1656.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: True-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven.
- OCLC:
- 679895837
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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