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Law for the elephant, law for the beaver : essays in the legal history of the North American West

Law for the elephant, law for the beaver : essays in the legal history of the North American West

Law for the elephant, law for the beaver : essays in the legal history of the North American West

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Online version: Law for the elephant, law for the beaver. Regina, Sask.: Canadian Plains Research Center ; Pasadena, Calif.: Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, 1992 (OCoLC)891781310

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IX, 322 pages : ILlustrations ; 23 cm.

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Useful for students learning an area of law, Law for the elephant, law for the beaver : essays in the legal history of the North American West is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Main Contents

Preface / John McLaren
Law for the elephant, law for the beaver: tracking the beasts / Hamar Foster and John McLaren
The layers of western legal history / John Phillip Reid
Law and order on the American frontier: the western civil war of incorporation / Richard Maxwell Brown
Law and order on the Western-Canadian frontier / R.C. Macleod
Aboriginal rights and the Canadian legal system: the west coast anomaly / Paul Tennant
Tee-Hit-Ton and Alaska native rights / Stephen Haycox
Killing Mr. John: law and jurisdiction at Fort Stikine, 1842-1846 / Hamar Foster
Controlling the army of occupation: law enforcement and the morthwest defense projects, 1942-1946 / Kenneth S. Coates and William R. Morrison
Anti-Chinese VIolence in the American west, 1850-1910 / John R. Wunder
The early British Columbia judges, the rule of law and the “Chinese question”: the California and Oregon connection / John McLaren
Water law of the Canadian west: influences from the western states / David R. Percy
Constitution making in the nineteenth-century American west / Christian G. Fritz.

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