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Lone Star Law
A Legal History of Texas

By Ariens, Michael

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ISBN: 0896726959 Contributors: Bakken, Gordon Morris (Foreword) Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr Published: Oct 15 2011 Pages: 366 Weight: 2.10lbs. Height: 10.00" Width: 7.00" Depth: 1.00" Language: English

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"Michael Ariens proves that no state possesses a richer or more surprising legal history than Texas. In narrative as engaging as it is accessible, he has produced an overarching consideration of Lone Star law and legal culture--something notably missing in other Texas histories. After taking readers...

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"Michael Ariens proves that no state possesses a richer or more surprising legal history than Texas. In narrative as engaging as it is accessible, he has produced an overarching consideration of Lone Star law and legal culture--something notably missing in other Texas histories. After taking readers chronologically from early settlement through 1920, Ariens focuses on particular areas of Texas law, including property, family, business, criminal, and civil harms (tort), and on the history of Texas's legalprofession itself. Through illuminating and utterly Texan particulars, Ariens helps us understand a place at once southern and western, Spanish and Mexican, republic and state"--