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Legal history: England & common law tradition: Colonialism & reception abroad

Primary sources online

General overviews & commentary

Comparative & general (ie not single country specific) commentary have shelf marks - Legal Hist or Cw Gen or General. All three collections are shelved on Level 2, the entrance level of the Law Library

A bibliography of the law of British colonies, protectorates and mandated territories : being volume VII of Sweet &Maxwell's legal bibliography at Ref Bibl Cw UK M464/7

There are two general subject searches to use in SOLO 

Law -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History;

Law -- Commonwealth countries -- History

Or look for works on single jurisdictions by constructing subject searches following example below:

Law -- Australia - History

Country specific guides

The following jurisdiction guides have a page looking at the nation's legal history:

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