Essays in the History of Canadian Law : : Volume I / / ed. by David Flaherty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Backhouse, Constance B.,; Banks, Margaret A.,; Bindon, Kathryn M.,; Blackwell, John D.,; Craven, Paul,; Flaherty, David H.,; Nedelsky, Jennifer,; Oliver, Peter N.,; O’Brien, Brendan,; Parker, Graham,; Q., C.,; Risk, R. C. B.,; Stoddart, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Flaherty, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Essays in the History of Canadian Law
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)

This volume, containing ten essays, is the first of two designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history and reflecting the current interests of those working in that area. Topics covered include historical aspects of company law, the law and the economy, legal reform in Ontario, custody law, the law of master and servant, the law of nuisance, origins of the Canadian Criminal Code, and women's rights in Quebec. Professor Flaherty supplies an introduction to the writing of Canadian legal history and, with his contributors, provides an important building block on which a significant tradition of indigenous legal history in Canada may grow and flourish.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Writing Canadian Legal History: An Introduction -- 2. Hudson's Bay Company Law: Adam Thorn and the Institution of Order in Rupert's Land 1839-54 -- 3. The Law and the Economy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ontario: A Perspective -- 4. William Hume Blake and the Judicature Acts of 1849: The Process of Legal Reform at Mid-Century in Upper Canada -- 5. The Law of Master and Servant in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ontario -- 6. Shifting Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Custody Law -- 7. The Origins of the Canadian Criminal Code -- 8. Judicial Conservatism in an Age of Innovation: Comparative Perspectives on Canadian Nuisance Law 1880-1930 -- 9. Quebec's Legal Elite Looks at Women's Rights: The Dorion Commission 1929-31 -- 10. An Annotated Bibliography of Statutes and Related Publications: Upper Canada, the Province of Canada, and Ontario 1792-1980 -- Table of Cases -- Index