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Canada's legal environment: its history, institutions, and principles

Canada's legal environment: its history, institutions, and principles

Canada's legal environment: its history, institutions, and principles

Law of America > Law of Canada > Federal law. Common and collective provincial law Individual provinces and territories > History > General

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Online version: Yates, Richard A. Canada's legal environment. Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice-Hall Canada, c1993 (OCoLC)758278151

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XI, 419 p. ; 23 cm.

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Useful for students learning an area of law, Canada's legal environment: its history, institutions, and principles is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Main Contents

1. Introduction
2. The civil law
3. History of the English common law
4. Sources of law
5. Constitutional law
6. Protection of human rights
7. The courts
8. Criminal law
9. Tort law
10. Family law and estates
11. Contract law
12. Commercial relationships
13. Property rights

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