When Good Little Debts Went Bad
Civil Litigation on the Virginia Frontier, 1745-1755
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3487927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tinni Sen (0009-0008-3552-5743), Turk Mccleskey, Atin Basuchoudhary (0000-0001-8094-2388) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-89 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jinh_a_00796 |
| OpenAlex | W1912698707 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
The use of a multinomial logit model to analyze a hitherto unavailable dataset of 1,376 small-claims lawsuits in colonial Augusta County, Virginia, for information about debts, litigants, and procedures f inds no evidence of prejudice in the legal system. The magistrates' consistently fair enforcement of legitimate contracts may have induced both plaintiffs and defendants to settle their disputes in court rather than in private. The evidence corroborates the view that by the mid-eighteenth century, Virginia's frontier judicial system was sufficiently impartial to encourage creditors to draw up efficient contracts even for small debts
Business · Civil litigation · Creditor · Debt · Economics · Enforcement · Frontier · Law and economics · Plaintiff · Political science · Prejudice (legal term) · Finance · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
The Economic History Review
Economic Behavior in a Planting Society
Tobacco Culture
Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers
Gentlemen Freeholders
Surveyors and Statesmen
Colonial Courts and Secured Credit
Law and People in Colonial America
The Many Legalities of Early America
Of "Good Laws" and "Good Men
The British Credit Crisis of 1772 and The American Colonies
Economic Base and Social Structure
Gentry and Common Folk
Merchant Credit and Labour Strategies in Historical Perspective
Legal History of the Colonial South
Neighbors and Strangers
Law as Litigation
A Summary View of the Law of British America
Commercialism and Frontier
Unification of a Slave State
Scottish Traders in Virginia, 1750-177511
Justice of the Marketplace
The Last Phase of the Virginia-London Consignment Trade
Planters, Merchants, and Lawyers
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |