TY - JOUR
AU - Goodman, Leonard S.
AB - 1958 MANDAMUS IN THE COLONIES 1 Mandamus in the Colonies-The Rise of the Superintending Power of American Courts by LEONARD S. GOODMAN* (Continued from 1 Amer. J. Legal History, 335 (1957) ). Maine HE STORY of Massachusetts is the story, also, of Maine, which administratively was a part of Massachusetts until the "Missouri Compromise" and statehood in 1819. When it was decided at London that the province was not within the limits of Massachusetts, the latter bought off the rival claim- ant, admitted deputies to the General Court, then decided to govern Maine as a "subject province" under the grant of its recent transferor. Thus, Massachusetts in 1680 appointed a provincial president and established a legislature in Maine. The "Standing Council", the legislative upper house, was also constituted in 1680 the high court. From 1699, the Superior Court of Massachusetts held two sessions a year in Maine, which comprised but one county until 1760, when two additional counties were formed. An act of 1820 granted the new Supreme Judicial Court of Maine "general superintendence of all courts of inferior jurisdiction for the prevention and correction of errors and abuses, where the laws have not expressly provided any remedy" ; 
TI - Mandamus in the Colonies—The Rise of the Superintending Power of American Courts
JF - American Journal of Legal History
DO - 10.2307/844300
DA - 1958-01-01
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