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2 unusual facts about Property Law in Colonial New York


Property Law in Colonial New York

English structural influence was due in large part to the widespread textual invocation of Blackstone.

According to political scientist Donald Lutz, no European authorities were cited more often than Blackstone and Montesquieu during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and each were quoted nearly three times as often as the next person on the list, John Locke.



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