Territorial legislatures inherited statutes useless to their local conditions

Evidence

The laws of Michigan mentioned essoins and wager of law, no doubt needlessly; most lawyers would have been just as bewildered by these medieval rags and tatters as the layman. The first Illinois legislature “imported [laws] … for the inspection of hemp and tobacco, when there was neither hemp nor tobacco raised in the country.” — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 911

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Agricultural and institutional differences made most English statutes useless in South Carolina — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 506