Judgment for Solomon The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America

Name: Judgment for Solomon The d'Hauteville Case and Legal Experience in Antebellum America
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ISBN: 9780521557450

ISBN-10: 0521557453

ISBN-13: 9780521557450

Edition: 1996

Authors: Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins

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A Judgment for Solomon tells the story of the dHauteville case, a controversial child custody battle fought in 1840. It uses the story of one couples bitter fight over their son to explore some timebound and timeless features of American legal culture. In a narrative analysis, it recounts how marital woes led Ellen and Gonzalve dHauteville into what Alexis de Tocqueville called the shadow of the law. Their multiple legal experiences culminated in an eagerly followed Philadelphia trial that sparked a national debate over the legal rights and duties of mothers and fathers, and husbands and wives. The story of the dHauteville case explains why popular trials become precedents of legal…

Book details

List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/23/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Entering the law's shadows



Bargaining in the shadow of the law



Out of the shadows



Into a court of law



Into the court of public opinion



Back into the shadows