A tribute to Peter Oliver

A tribute to Peter Oliver

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Edition Details

• Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): John T. Saywell, Jim Phillips
• Language: English
• Jurisdiction(s): Ontario
• Publication Information: Toronto [Ont.] : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2008
• Publication Type (Medium): Electronic books, Festschriften
• Material: Document, Internet resource
• Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
• Series title: Essays in the history of Canadian law, v. 10.
• Permalink: https://books.lawi.ca/a-tribute-to-peter-oliver/ (Stable identifier)

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1 online resource (XII, 471 pages : ILlustrations, portraits, map).

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Useful for students learning an area of law, A tribute to Peter Oliver is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

• Publisher: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press
• Responsable Person: edited by Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry and John T. Saywell.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Country/State: Ontario
• Number of Editions: 5 editions
• First edition Date: 2008
• Last edition Date: 2008
• Languages: English
• Library of Congress Code: KE394
• Dewey Code: 349.71
• ISBN: 9781442689510 144268951X
• OCLC: 635459393

Main Contents

Introduction: Peter Oliver and the Osgoode Society of Canadian Legal History / Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry, and John T. Saywell
Rape in the House of Commons: the prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929 / Constance Backhouse
Wardens and prisoners: apsects of prison culture in Ontario, 1974-1914 / Jospeh Ashley Berkovits
'Perverts a menace': the development of the criminal sexual psychopath offence, 1948 / Patrick Brode
The law of rules: prosecuting railway workers in mid-nineteenth-century Ontario / Paul Craven
Politics, promotion, and professionalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's judicial appointments / Philip Girard
'High above the generality of the people': the ideological origins of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court circuit / Jim Phillips
Judicial scandal and the culture of patronage in early confederation, 1867-78 / Jonathan Swainger
Strategic Benthamism: rehabilitating United Canada's Bar through criminal law codification, 1847-54 / G. Blaine Baker
The rule of law and Irish whig constitutionalism in Upper Canada: William Warren Baldwin, the 'Irish opposition, ' and the volunteer connection / John McLaren
Diplomacy, international law, and foreign fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 convention / Rainer Baehre
Social workers, courts, and the implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-69 / Lori Chambers
The David Fasken estate: estate planning and social history in early twentieth-century Ontario / C. Ian Kyer
Squatters' rights and the origins of Edmonton settlement / Bruce Ziff and Sean Ward.

Summary Note

Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two hundred years in the legal profession and the judiciary, nineteenth-century prison history, as well as the impact of the 1815 Treaty of Paris.

Structured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada
• Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Unstructured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada

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