Archives Of Maryland LI; Proceeding Of The Court Of Chancery Of Maryland 1669-1679 Court Series (5)

Behind every decree lies a life. Every case tells a story. Archives Of Maryland LI: Proceedings of the Court of Chancery of Maryland, 1669-1679 gathers in one authoritative volume the surviving colonial Maryland court records of the province's equity tribunal. Edited by J. Hall Pleasants and long recognised among Maryland Historical Society publications, it presents complete chancery court proceedings as primary source legal documents: bills, answers, orders and decrees that reveal the workings of colonial equity jurisprudence under British colonial law. For anyone tracing seventeenth century Maryland history or early America legal history, these Maryland chancery cases 1669 1679 offer a rare, unfiltered view of how power, property and personal obligation were argued and resolved. Legal historians, family historians and local researchers alike will value this legal historians research edition as both a British colonial law reference and a rich genealogy research resource Maryland families can mine for names, places and relationships otherwise lost. As part of the wider Archives of Maryland collection, this volume stands at the intersection of law, social history and lived experience in a formative decade of a growing colony. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure: a classic work of documentary scholarship, republished for casual readers with an interest in colonial lives as well as serious scholars and collectors of original sources.