Introduction, Many legalities of colonization : a manifesto of destiny for early American legal history / Christopher Tomlins
Discovery, grant, charter, conquest, or purchase : John Adams on the legal basis for English possession of North America / James Muldoon
Salamanders and Sons of God : the culture appeal in early New England / Mary Sarah Bilder
"Rigid and inclement" : origins of the Jamaica slave laws of the seventeenth century / David Barry Gaspar
Legal fictions and the rule(s) of law : the Jeffersonian critique of common-law adjudication / David Thomas Konig
"Justice will be done us" : Algonquian demands for reciprocity in the courts of European settlers / Katherine Hermes
"Lest we go in search of relief to our lands and our nation" : customary justice and colonial law in the New Mexico borderlands, 1680-1821 / James F. Brooks
Customary laws of marriage : legal pluralism, colonialism, and Narragansett Indian identity in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Ann Marie Plane
"Liberty to complaine" : servant petitions in Maryland, 1652-1797 / Christine Daniels.
"As though I my self was pr[e]sent" : Virginia women with power of attorney / Linda L. Sturtz
Women and the political culture of eighteenth-century Virginia : gender, property law, and voting rights / John G. Kolp and Terri L. Snyder
Age of reason? : children, testimony, and consent in early America / Holly Brewer
Was there a Calvinist type of patriarchy? : New Haven Colony reconsidered in the early modern context / Cornelia Hughes Dayton.
Limits of authority : courts, ethnicity, and gender in the Middle Colonies, 1670-1710 / William M. Offutt, Jr.
Farmers in court : Orange County, North Carolina, 1750-1776 / Richard Lyman Bushman
Long road to Vidal : charity law and state formation in early America / A.G. Roeber
Afterword, Death and transfiguration of early American legal law / Bruce H. Mann.
