... in colonial America. As early as the mid-seventeenth century, property law reformers in England proposed ways to make the law of fee tail more responsive to the needs of owners of small estates. The most frequently proposed reform involved 105 lowering the cost of removing the entail. John Cook wrote...

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... Parliament English creditors British colonies colonial America property laws slave labor slaves English land law Under the decentralized British colonial rule of the early eighteenth century, local colonial governments defined the treatment of property in their courts, established the remedies...