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The Common Law of England in the Territory of Utah
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Winter 1992
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60
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4-26
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Utah was one of two territories that never adopted common law as the basis of their jurisprudence. Mormons never statutorily adopted common law because it was not consistent with their idea of the coming kingdom of God. This was one other area the federal government tried to 'Americanize' in Utah.
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A Kingdom Transformed : Themes in the Development of Mormonism
Gold Rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City, 1849 and 1850
History of Utah 1540-1886
'Mountain Common Law' : The Extralegal Punishment of Seducers in Early Utah
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Resolution of Civil Disputes by Mormon Ecclesiastical Courts
Roots of Modern Mormonism
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The English Common Law in the Rocky Mountain West
The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders
The Judiciary and the Common Law in Utah Territory, 1850-61
The Mormons, the Law and the Territory of Utah
The State of Deseret
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900