Between Law and Custom : 'High' and 'Low' Legal Cultures in the Lands of the British Diaspora - The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, (Hardcover)

List of illustrations; List of tables; Introduction; Part I. Land: 1. Law versus customs; 2. Concribs, manuring, timber and sheep: landlords, tenants and reversioners; 3. 'They seem to argue that custom has made a higher law': squatters and proprietors; 4. Protecting one's prope'ty: takings, easements, nuisances and trespasses; Part II. Agreements: 5. We have an agreement; 6. Work: the formal and informal law of labour contracts; Part III. Accidents: 7. Judicial responses to negligence claims by the British diaspora, 1800?1910; 8. Beneath the iceberg's tip; 9. Further sorties into the high, middle and low legal cultures of the British diaspora with some conclusions; Cases discussed; Cast of characters; General index.