Canada's federal system: being a treatise on Canadian constitutional law under the British North America Act

Canada's federal system; being a treatise on Canadian constitutional law under the British North America act

Law of America > Law of Canada > Federal law. Common and collective provincial law Individual provinces and territories > Constitutional law > Sources > Texts of the British North America Act of 1867 and subsequent (i.e. amending) acts > Commentaries

Edition Details

• Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy
• Language: English
• Jurisdiction(s): Ontario Federal
• Publication Information: Toronto : Carswell Co., 1913
• Material: Document, Internet resource
• Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
• Series title: LLMC-digital (Series)
• Permalink: https://books.lawi.ca/canada-s-federal-system-being-a-treatise-on-canadian-constitutional-law-under-the-british-north-america-act/ (Stable identifier)

Additional Format

(DLC) 14001791 (OCoLC)818371

Short Description

Lxviii, 898 pages ; 23 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Canada's federal system: being a treatise on Canadian constitutional law under the British North America Act is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

• Responsable Person: by A.H.F. Lefroy.
• Publication Date: 1913
• Country/State: Ontario
• Number of Editions: 17 editions
• First edition Date: 1913
• Last edition Date: 2006
• General Notes: “To describe this work as a second edition of the one published in 1898-9 under the name of The law of legislative power in Canada, would be misleading. Although I have endeavoured to retain the principal features of that work, I have entirely re-written it, and greatly altered the arrangement.”–Preface.
  Includes index.
• Reproduction Notes: Electronic reproduction. [Kaneohe, Hawaii : LLMC, 2008]. (LLMC-Digital). Digitized image of the original. Subscription required for access. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Languages: English
• Library of Congress Code: KE4170
• OCLC: 212625093

Main Contents

The general scheme
Some general considerations
The crown in Canada
The imperial parliament in relation to Canada
Principal sections of the Federation Act distributing legislative powers
Plenary powers of Canadian legislatures
Some introductory remarks as to the distribution of legislative power within Canada
Concurrent jurisdiction
General principles of construction of the British North America Act in respect to the distribution of legislative powers
Predominance of dominion legislation.

Structured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada
• Constitutional history
• Constitutional law
• Federal government
• Legislative bodies
• Legislative power
• Politics and government

Unstructured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada
• Constitutional law
• Legislative bodies
• Politics and government

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