Agricultural and institutional differences made most English statutes useless in South Carolina

Evidence

Trott’s laws, compiled by Nicholas Trott and formally adopted by South Carolina in 1712, merely declared which English statutes were in force in the colony. Many English laws, Trott admitted, were “altogether useless” in South Carolina, “by reason of the different way of agriculture and the differing productions of the earth of this Province from that of England”; others were “impracticable” because of institutional differences. That left one hundred fifty statutes which Trott considered relevant. The code set these out and declared them to be law. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 506

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Territorial legislatures inherited statutes useless to their local conditions — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 911

Broader Connections

• Territorial legislatures inherited statutes useless to their local conditions #expands (0.95) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 911