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

Contributor:

Peters, Samuel, 1735-1826.

Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897.

Connecticut (Colony)

New Haven (Colony)

Great Britain

Standardized Title:

Blue Laws.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Connecticut (Colony).

Law.

Connecticut laws.

Local Subjects:

Connecticut laws.

Physical Description:

vi, [9]-360 p. ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

Blue laws.

Place of Publication:

Hartford, CT : American Pub. Co., 1876.

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.