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title	:	Legal Systems in Conflict : Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750-1860 Legal History of North America ; V. 7
author	:	Banner, Stuart.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806131829
print isbn13	:	9780806131825
ebook isbn13	:	9780585242033
language	:	English
subject	Law--Missouri--History, Real property--Missouri--History.
publication date	:	2000
lcc	:	KFM7878.B36 2000eb
ddc	:	346.77804/2
subject	:	Law--Missouri--History, Real property--Missouri--History.

Page i Legal Systems in Conflict Legal History of North America

Page ii Legal History of North America General Editor Gordon Morris Bakken, California State University, Fullerton Associate Editors David J. Langum, Samford University John P. S. McLaren, University of Victoria John Phillip Reid, New York University

Page iii Legal Systems in Conflict Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 17501860 Stuart Banner

Page iv Also by Stuart Banner Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 16901860 (Cambridge and New York, 1998) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Banner, Stuart, 1963 Legal system in conflict: property and sovereignty in Missouri, 17501860 / by Stuart Banner. p. cm. (Legal history of North America; v. 7) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8061-3182-9 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. LawMissouriHistory. 2. Real propertyMissouriHistory. I. Title. II. Series. KFM7878.B36 2000 346.77804'2dc21 99-36236 CIP Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 17501860 is Volume 7 in the Legal History of North America series. Text design by Gail Carter. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Copyright 2000 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Page v FOR JILLIAN AND HARRISON, TWO NATIVES

Page vii CONTENTS List of Maps ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Sources and Translations xiii Introduction 3 Part I: France and Spain, 17501803 11 1. Upper Louisiana 13 2. Sources of Written Law 36 3. Unwritten Norms 51 4. Common Fields 67 Part II: United States, 18031860 83 5. Transition 85 6. Lawyers 101 7. Written Law 122 8. Private Land 137 Conclusion 149 Notes 153 Bibliography 181 Index 201

Page ix MAPS 1. The Illinois Country, 1778 15 2. Missouri Territory, 1814 110 3. St. Louis Common, 1838 142

Page xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS For useful advice on the entire manuscript, I would like to thank Gordon Bakken, Charles Cutter, Tom Green, and especially David Langum, who offered suggestions on several occasions. Many more people helped on individual chapters, including Susan Appleton, Morris Arnold, Tamara Detloff, Robert Ellickson, Richard Epstein, Kathy Goldwasser, Michael Grossberg, Richard Helmholz, Bill Jones, Dan Keating, David Konig, Stan Krauss, Richard Lazarus, Steve Legomsky, Lynn LoPucki, Bruce Mann, Ronald Mann, Curtis Milhaupt, Andy Rutten, Bob Thompson, and participants in workshops in the law school and the economics department at Washington University. As the bibliography demonstrates, I owe an enormous debt to the archivists at the Missouri Historical Society. Thanks are also due the archivists at the University of Missouri's Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, the Missouri State Archives, the New-York Historical Society, and the New York office of the National Archives, and to the law librarians at Washington University. For extraordinary research assistance, I thank Joe Fiorill, James McElveen, and Shawn Van Asdale. Portions of this book have previously been published as "Written Law and Unwritten Norms in Colonial St. Louis,"

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