Abstract. This essay examines the transfer of women's property in the town and neighbourhood of Whitehaven in the late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century, directing attention to a social group ...

Animals, warlords, and governments all do it, and the modern conception of “fee simple”—that is, unrestricted, perpetual, and private—land ownership has existed in English common law since ...

WEST CHESTER, PA — A remarkable discovery at the Chester County History Center has extended the historical record of land ownership in Chester and Lancaster Counties. A long-lost document ...

The land became part of New Spain, Provincia de la Luisiana. In 1800, Louisiana Territory, as it was called, was transferred back to the French Republic in a deal with Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.