Ruin and Redemption : : The Struggle for a Canadian Bankruptcy Law, 1867-1919 / / Thomas G. W. Telfer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Telfer, Thomas G. W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 4 figures

In 1880 the federal Parliament of Canada repealed the Insolvent Act of 1875, leaving debtor-creditor matters to be regulated by the provinces. Almost forty years later, Parliament finally passed new bankruptcy legislation, recognizing that what was once considered a moral evil had become a commercial necessity. In Ruin and Redemption, Thomas G.W. Telfer analyses the ideas, interests, and institutions that shaped the evolution of Canadian bankruptcy law in this era. Examining the vigorous public debates over the idea of bankruptcy, Telfer argues that the law was shaped by conflict over the morality of release from debts and by the divergence of interests between local and distant creditors. Ruin and Redemption is the first full-length study of the origins of Canadian bankruptcy law, thus making it an important contribution to the study of Canada's commercial law.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Ideas, Interests and Institutions -- Part One. 1867-1880 -- 2. Constitutional and Legislative History 1867-1880 -- 3. The Rise and Fall of Bankruptcy Law 1867-1880: The Equitable Distribution of Assets -- 4. The Repeal of Bankruptcy Law 1867-1880: The Discharge -- 5. The Role of Institutions 1867-1880 -- Part TWO. 1880-1903 -- 6. Living with Repeal and the Failure of Federal Reform 1880-1903 -- 7. The Constitutional Question and the Impact of Federalism 1880-1903 -- 8. The Bankruptcy Law Debates 1880-1903 -- Part THREE. 1903-1919 -- 9. Reform Achieved: The Bankruptcy Act of 1919 -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index