Law Debt and Merchant Power by James Muir PAPERBACK 9781487523169

Law Debt and Merchant Power\nby James Muir\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: James Muir\nTitle: Law Debt and Merchant Power\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781487523169\nISBN-10: 1487523165\nRRP: \u00A329.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. People from all classes frequently used litigation and its use in private matters was higher than almost all places in the British Empire in the 18th century.\nIn Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, James Muir offers an extensive analysis of the civil cases of the time as well as the reasons behind their frequency. Muir\u2019s lively and detailed account of the i.