Canada's legal inheritances

Canada's legal inheritances

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• Language: English
• Publication Information: Winnipeg : Canadian Legal History Project, Faculty of Law, The University of Manitoba, 2001
• Publication Type (Medium): History
• Type: Book
• Permalink: https://books.lawi.ca/canada-s-legal-inheritances/ (Stable identifier)

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Xlvi, 740 pages : maps ; 23 cm

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Bibliographic information

• Publisher: Canadian Legal History Project, Faculty of Law, The University of Manitoba
• Responsable Person: edited by DeLloyd J. Guth and W. Wesley Pue.
• Number of Editions: 2 editions
• First edition Date: 2001
• Last edition Date: 2001
• General Notes: “Originally published as Numbers 1, 2, and 3 in Volume 23 of the Manitoba Law Journal (January 1996) and now corrected and expanded here.”–Title page verso.
  Errata: p. 740.
• Languages: English
• Library of Congress Code: KE394.Z85
• ISBN: 0968456022 9780968456026
• OCLC: 49772522

Main Contents

Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Where history actually happened: the pursuit of Canadian legal history / by W. Wesley Pue
Prologue to law in Canada: dynamics and roots / by DeLloyd J. Guth
First nations legal inheritances in Canada: the Mikmaq model / by James Youngblood Henderson
New France: law, courts, and the Coutume de Paris, 1608-1760 / by John A. Dickinson
Newfoundland's early laws and legal institutions: from the fishing admirals to the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1791-92 / by Christopher English
Acadei: A la rencontre de l'histoire du droit avant le de?rangement / by Jacques Vanderlinden
Maritime legal institutions under the Ancien re?gime, 1710-1850 / by D.G. Bell
Lower Canada (Quebec): transformation of civil law, from higher morality to autonomous will, 1774-1886 / by F. Murray Greenwood
Upper Canada (Ontario): the administration of justice, 1784-1900 / by Paul Romney
Colonial welfare laws and practices: coping without an English Poor Law in Upper Canada, 1792-1837 / by Russell Smandych
Company justice: origins of legal institutions in Pre-Confederation Manitoba / by Dale Gibson
British Columbia: Legal Institutions in the Far West, from contact to 1871 / Hamar Foster
Canada's treaties with aboriginal peoples / D.N. Sprague
North / Graham Price
Maritime Provinces, 1850-1939: Lawyers and legal institutions / Philip Girard
Married woman in Ascendance, the mother country in retreat: from legal colonialism to legal nationalism in Quebec matrimonial law reform, 1866-1991 / Jean-Maurice Brisson, Nicholas Kasirer
Development of federal legal and judicial institutions in Canada / Dale Gibson
Scholars and the constitution: P.O.G.G. and the privy council / Richard Risk
Recalculating the wages of sin: The social and legal construction of prostitution, 1850-1920 / John McLaren
Shining sixpence: Women's worth in Canadian law at the end of the Victorian era / Constance Backhouse
Labour and the Liberal state: Regulating the employment relationship, 1867-1920 / Margaret E. McCallum
Lottery of death: Capital punishment, 1867-1976 / Carolyn Strange
From Empire Ontario to California North: Law and Legal institutions in twentieth-century Ontario / Jamie Benidickson
Common law legal education in Canada's age of light, soap and water / W. Wesley Pue.

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• Canada
• Newfoundland and Labrador

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