Essays in the History of Canadian Law : : Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island /

Essays in the History of Canadian Law : : Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island / / ed. by Christopher English.

The study of Canadian legal history has seen a remarkable growth in the past decade, nowhere more so than in Atlantic Canada. Given its early settlement and some of the liberties taken with legal procedure there - as well as some creative interpretations of English law - the region is ripe for close...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bannister, Jerry,
Brown, Laura,
Bulger, David M.,
Bumsted, J.M.,
Goudie, Nina Jane,
Johnson, Trudi,
Keough, Willeen L.,
Kercher, Bruce,
Simon, Krista L.,
Stairs, Michele,
Young, Jodie,
HerausgeberIn:
English, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2005
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (438 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Historiography
  • 1. The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland
  • 2. The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island
  • Part Two: The Administration of Justice
  • 3. Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769-1805
  • 4. Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland
  • 5. The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826-33
  • Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance
  • 6. Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes
  • 7. Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834
  • 8. 'The Duty of Every Man': Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828-1905
  • Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women
  • 9. 'Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You': Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860
  • 10. Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757-1823
  • 11. 'Out of Date in a Good Many Respects': The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945-9
  • Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law
  • 12. Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce
  • 13. The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947
  • Index

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