Civil Law Versus Common Law: A Primer
Common-Law Codes in the Deep South: The South Carolina Slave Code and Sargent’s Code
| ![]() Frontispiece, Las Siete Partidas (1555) - courtesy Wikimedia Commons Winthrop Sargent (from a painting by Gilbert Stuart) - courtesy New York Public Library "There prevails in the country of our destination, a
refractory and turbulent spirit, with parties headed by men of perverseness and
cunning. They have run wild in the
recess of Government, and every moment’s delay in the adoption of rules and regulations …
must be productive of growing evils and discontent.” – Winthrop
Sargent to U.S. Secretary of State Timothy Pickering (1798) |
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