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 / / Paul Craven.

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Until the late nineteenth-century, the most common form of local government in rural England and the British Empire was administration by amateur justices of the peace: the sessions system. Petty Justice uses an unusually well-documented example of the colonial sessions system in Loyalist New Brunsw...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package 2014-2016
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Craven, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2014
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.) :; 11 figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: High law, low law, not law
  • Chapter 2. The trials of David Owen, 1787-1803
  • Chapter 3. High noon at Campobello: St Andrews and the islands in the 1820s
  • Chapter 4. The empire strikes back: Executive action, 1824-32
  • Chapter 5. In the woods: Low law and the Crown Land Office
  • Chapter 6. 'Unconnected with mercantile pursuits': The justice business, 1840-1
  • Chapter 7. Hatheway's civil docket, 1847-67
  • Chapter 8. Hatheway's crown docket, 1847-67
  • Chapter 9. Called to account: Justices, assemblymen, and ratepayers
  • Chapter 10. Three ships: Poverty, paternalism, and politics atmid-century
  • Chapter 11. The temperance magistrates: License and prohibition
  • Chapter 12. The sessions system in decline
  • Appendix A. Reference tables
  • Appendix B. Commission of the Peace, 1845
  • Appendix C. Sources cited
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Topical Index
  • Backmatter

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