Essays in the History of Canadian Law : : In Honour of R.C.B. Risk / / ed. by George Blaine Baker, Jim Phillips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Backhouse, Constance,; Benidickson, Jamie,; Blaine Baker, G.,; Craven, Paul,; Feldberg, Georgina,; Foster, Hamar,; Girard, Philip,; Gordon, Robert W.,; Hibbitts, Bernard J.,; Ian Kyer, C.,; Kostal, R.W.,; Mccallum, Margaret E.,; Mclaren, John,; Oliver, Peter,; Phillips, Jim,; Sugarman, David,; Vipond, Robert,; Wesley Pue, W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Baker, George Blaine,; Phillips, Jim,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (606 p.)

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were students of Professor Risk, and represent some of the best and most original work in the area of Canadian legal history. They cover a number of important topics that range from the form of the criminal trial in the eighteenth century, to debates over the meaning of property in the nineteenth, and to lawyer/poet Tom MacInnes's views on the law of aboriginal title in the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Special Acknowledgment -- Contributors -- 1. Richard C.B. Risk: A Tribute -- 2. R.C.B. Risk’s Canadian Legal History -- 3. ‘Your Conscience Will Be Your Own Punishment’: The Racially Motivated Murder of Gus Ninham, Ontario, 1902 -- 4. Ontario Water Quality, Public Health, and the Law, 1880–1930 -- 5. ‘The Modern Spirit of the Law’: Blake, Mowat, and the Breaches of Contract Act, 1877 -- 6. A Romance of the Lost: The Role of Tom MacInnes in the History of the British Columbia Indian Land Question -- 7. Taking Litigation Seriously: The Market Wharf Controversy at Halifax, 1785–1820 -- 8. ‘Our Arctic Brethren’: Canadian Law and Lawyers as Portrayed in American Legal Periodicals, 1829–1911 -- 9. Conservative Insurrection: Great Strikes and Deep Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and London, Ontario, 1898–1899 -- 10. Gooderham & Worts: A Case Study in Business Organization in Nineteenth-Century Ontario -- 11. The Sacred Rights of Property: Title, Entitlement, and the Land Question in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island -- 12. Race and the Criminal Justice System in British Columbia, 1892–1920: Constructing Chinese Crimes -- 13. Power, Politics, and the Law: The Place of the Judiciary in the Historiography of Upper Canada -- 14. The Criminal Trial in Nova Scotia, 1749–1815 -- 15. ‘The Disquisitions of Learned Judges’: Making Manitoba Lawyers, 1885–1931 -- 16. The Law of Evolution and the Evolution of the Law: Mills, Darwin, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Legal Thought -- R.C.B. Risk Bibliography -- Publications of The Osgoode Society