The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume II: The Middle Colonies and the Carolinas, 1660-1730William E. Nelson's first volume of the four volume The Common Law of Colonial America (2008) established a new benchmark for study of colonial era legal history. Drawing from both a rich archival base and existing scholarship on the topic, the first volume demonstrated how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies each of which had unique economies, political structures, and religious institutions slowly converged into a common