Petty justice : low law and the sessions system in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867

Petty justice : low law and the sessions system in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867

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Edition Details

• Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Paul Craven, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
• Language: English
• Jurisdiction(s): Ontario
• Publication Information: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2014
• Publication Type (Medium): Electronic books, History
• Material: Document, Internet resource
• Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
• Series title: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
• Permalink: https://books.lawi.ca/petty-justice-low-law-and-the-sessions-system-in-charlotte-county-new-brunswick-1785-1867/ (Stable identifier)

Additional Format

Print version: Craven, Paul, 1950- author. Petty justice (OCoLC)879584254

Short Description

1 online resource (XIV, 542 pages) : ILlustrations.

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Bibliographic information

• Publisher: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press
• Responsable Person: Paul Craven.
• Publication Date: 2014
• Country/State: Ontario
• Number of Editions: 4 editions
• First edition Date: 2014
• Last edition Date: 2014
• Languages: English
• Library of Congress Code: KEN532
• Dewey Code: 347.71533
• ISBN: 9781442621770 144262177X
• OCLC: 894227552

Main Contents

1. Introduction : High Law, Low Law, No Law
I. Petty Justices. 2. The Trials of David Owen
3. High Noon at Campobello
4. The Empire Strikes Back. II. Doing Substantial Justice. 5. In the Woods
6. “Unconnected with Mercantile Pursuits”
7. Hatheway's Civil Docket 1847-67
8. Hatheway's Crown Docket, 1847-67. III. The Sessions System and Its Enemies. 9. Called to Account
10. Three Ships
11. The Temperance Magistrates
12. The Sessions System in Decline. Appendices. A Reference Tables
B Commision of the Peace, 1845
C Sources cited.

Structured Subjects (Headings):

• Crime
• Dispute resolution (Law)
• Justice, Administration of
• Justices of the peace
• New Brunswick–Charlotte