{"product_id":"portrait-of-a-patriot-the-major-political-and-legal-papers-of-josiah-quincy-junior-volume-4-hardcover","title":"Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior Volume 4 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJosiah Quincy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel R. Coquillette\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNeil Longley York\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most unique and important of all early American law reports are those of Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). These are the first reports of continental America's oldest court, the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, direct ancestor to today's Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Quincy's candid accounts of events great and small shed light on life in the American colonies just before the Revolution. Reports such as Paxton's Case of the Writs of Assistance (1761) have become great landmarks of American constitutional law, cited by the Supreme Court of the United States. Others, such as Hanlon v. Thayer (1764), involved important women's rights, or, such as Oliver v. Sale (1762) and Allison v. Cockran (1764), vividly demonstrated the legal establishment of slavery. Even the so-called routine cases--those involving sale of goods and early consumer protection, keeping a \"bawdy house,\" women fighting for their children's legitimacy, pirates, apprentices, militia men, double-crossers and frauds, \"fences\" for stolen goods, and many more--provide an invaluable picture of our early legal system and colonial society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Daniel R. Coquillette not only provides new annotations for these cases first annotated by Samuel Quincy Jr. in 1865, but also includes an extensive introduction that sets out a lucid and compelling road map to these historic reports and their continuing significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolumes 4 and 5 complete this five-volume series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel R. Coquillette is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., Professor at Boston College and the Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School. Neil Longley York is the Karl G. Maeser Professor of General Education and Chair of the History Department at Brigham Young University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 434\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.4 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45774904066245,"sku":"9780979466243","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/jqISJ4tHzY9780979466243.webp?v=1770528850","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/portrait-of-a-patriot-the-major-political-and-legal-papers-of-josiah-quincy-junior-volume-4-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}