Colonial Justice : : Justice, Morality, and Crime in the Niagara District, 1791-1849 / / David Murray.
In 1791 when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this new study of early C...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Paradise of Upper Canada
- Part One: Justice
- 2. Courts, District Rulers, and Crown Servants
- 3. Servants of the Court
- Part Two: Morality
- 4. Enforcing a Christian Moral Order
- 5. Intruders upon the Precincts of Crime
- 6. The Cold Hand of Charity
- Part Three: Crime
- 7. Crimes and Punishments
- 8. Criminal Victims
- 9. Criminal Boundaries
- 10. Hands Across the Border
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index