Provincial Justice : : Upper Canadian Legal Portraits / / ed. by Robert L. Fraser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Fraser, Robert L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (470 p.)

In the formative years of Ontario's history, the law loomed large, as a profession, a preoccupation of legislators, a subject of debate and controversy, and a force that many citizens found themselves up against. Robert Fraser has drawn from the pages of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography the stories of sixty people who played a key role in the legal history of Upper Canada.Told in a readable style that has been much praised, these profiles contain information that bears the authoritative stamp of the DCB volumes from which they come. They add a valuable personal dimension to Ontario's legal history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- General Introduction -- Preface -- 'All the privileges which Englishmen possess': Order, Rights, and Constitutionalism in Upper Canada -- Officialdom: The Judiciary and Crown Officers -- The Legal Profession -- The Accused -- The Critics and the Causes Célèbres -- Contributors -- Index