The Growth of Family Law, 1750-1880

FAIN: FT-12802-76

Michael Stephen Hindus
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN 55455-2009)

To study family law in a critical period in American social and legal history, through use of printed legal, sources, manuscripts of court records of cases involving families, and the study of values expressed by the courts contrasted to literary sources. The study will further determine the relationship between valve and behavior in an area pro the state took an increasing interest.