This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...to be given according to law and good con Documents Relative to Colonial History of New York, III, 260, 416; IV, 1154. 'Ibid., Ill, 355. 3Smith's History of New York, 55. 'New York Historical Society Collections, 1869, 75. Ibid., p. 118, 119. 'Documentary History of New York, I, 147. 7Documentary History of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...to be given according to law and good con Documents Relative to Colonial History of New York, III, 260, 416; IV, 1154. 'Ibid., Ill, 355. 3Smith's History of New York, 55. 'New York Historical Society Collections, 1869, 75. Ibid., p. 118, 119. 'Documentary History of New York, I, 147. 7Documentary History of New York, I, 87. 'Documents Relative to Colonial History of New York, IV, 520. "Ibid., VIII. 28. 10Documents Relative to Colonial History of New York, XIV, 570, 589, 600, 629. "Underbill vs. Hempstead, Ibid., 589. Immediately upon the occupation by the English, the jury came into use in New York. Jury trials are, however, at first, very informal, more after the manner of a simple arbitration, and verdicts are often given in the alternative.12 In the form of testamentary disposition the Eoman Dutch law of the "ntpw Npt.liprlanris left abirtinjTtraces. The method of making wills by oral declaration before a notary, or by a written and sealed instrument deposited with that official, was used long after the first English occupation.13 We find that in these early days the functions of the court were not only judicial but administrative, much like those of the earliest itinerant judges in England. Thus the judges are directed to make inquiries into town training, the bearing of arms, the price of corn, wages, and escheats.14 As another reversion to older practice, we may note the concentration of various functions, judicial, administrative, and legislative, in the hands of the colonial council of the earliest time. A still closer analogy to medieval English history in this respect we shall find in the case of Pennsylvania. In the year 1700, a professional English lawyer, Attwood, be-J came chief justice of New York. It was his avowed...
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