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Author Girard, Philip, author.
Title A history of law in Canada. Volume 1, Beginnings to 1866 / Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and R. Blake Brown.
Publisher Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Copyright date ©2018



Descript 1 online resource (xvii, 904 pages) : illustrations
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Contents PART ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1 Introduction -- 2 Roots: Indigenous Legal Traditions -- 3 Roots: French Legal Traditions -- 4 Roots: British Legal Traditions
PART TWO: EUROPEAN CHARTERED ENTERPRISE, NEW FRANCE, AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH INDIGENOUS LAW, 1500-1701. 5 Early Contacts, Early Charters -- 6 Law and Governance in the French Possessions: Public Law and the Growth of Institutions -- 7 Law and Governance in the English Possessions -- 8 The Interface of European and Indigenous Law -- 9 French Private Law -- 10 The Early Modern Legacy
PART THREE: THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701-1815. 11 Constitutional Law in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 12 New France/Quebec/Lower Canada: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples -- 13 The British Colonies of Settlement: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples -- 14 The British Commercial Territories: Newfoundland and Rupert's Land -- 15 The Legal Professions -- 16 Criminal Law and Criminal Justice -- 17 Indigenous Law -- 18 Private Law: The Civil Law -- 19 Private Law: The Common Law -- 20 The Early Modern Legacy
PART FOUR: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1815-1860s. 21 Law in British North America, 1815-1866: Introduction -- 22 Court Systems and Judicial Personnel -- 23 Sources of Law and Law ReformSources of Law in Common Law Jurisdictions -- 24 Indigenous Law in British North America -- 25 The Legal Professions -- 26 Constitutional Developments I: European-Indigenous Relations, the Old Colonial System, and the Rebellions, 1815-ca 1839 -- 27 Constitutional Developments II: The Act of Union, Responsible Government, and the Origins of Acculturation Policy, ca 1840-1866T -- 28 Criminal Justice I: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Policing -- 29 Criminal Justice II: The Criminal Trial -- 30 Land Law and Policy: Titles, Tenure, Squatters, Indigenous Dispossession, and the Rights and Obligations of Ownership -- 31 Law and the Economy I: Common Law, Statutes, and the Emergence of the CorporationJudges, Private Law, and the Economy -- 32 Law and the Economy II: Debtor-Creditor Law -- 33 Less Favoured by Law I: Blacks and Workers -- 34 Less Favoured by Law II: Women and the Law -- 35 Law and Legal Institutions on the Eve of Confederation: The British North American Legacy.
ISBN 9781487530587 (electronic bk.)
1487530587 (electronic bk.)
9781487504632
1487504632
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Author Girard, Philip, author.
Series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
Subject Law -- Canada -- History.
Alt author Phillips, Jim, 1954- author.
Brown, R. Blake, author.
Descript 1 online resource (xvii, 904 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents PART ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1 Introduction -- 2 Roots: Indigenous Legal Traditions -- 3 Roots: French Legal Traditions -- 4 Roots: British Legal Traditions
PART TWO: EUROPEAN CHARTERED ENTERPRISE, NEW FRANCE, AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH INDIGENOUS LAW, 1500-1701. 5 Early Contacts, Early Charters -- 6 Law and Governance in the French Possessions: Public Law and the Growth of Institutions -- 7 Law and Governance in the English Possessions -- 8 The Interface of European and Indigenous Law -- 9 French Private Law -- 10 The Early Modern Legacy
PART THREE: THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701-1815. 11 Constitutional Law in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 12 New France/Quebec/Lower Canada: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples -- 13 The British Colonies of Settlement: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples -- 14 The British Commercial Territories: Newfoundland and Rupert's Land -- 15 The Legal Professions -- 16 Criminal Law and Criminal Justice -- 17 Indigenous Law -- 18 Private Law: The Civil Law -- 19 Private Law: The Common Law -- 20 The Early Modern Legacy
PART FOUR: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1815-1860s. 21 Law in British North America, 1815-1866: Introduction -- 22 Court Systems and Judicial Personnel -- 23 Sources of Law and Law ReformSources of Law in Common Law Jurisdictions -- 24 Indigenous Law in British North America -- 25 The Legal Professions -- 26 Constitutional Developments I: European-Indigenous Relations, the Old Colonial System, and the Rebellions, 1815-ca 1839 -- 27 Constitutional Developments II: The Act of Union, Responsible Government, and the Origins of Acculturation Policy, ca 1840-1866T -- 28 Criminal Justice I: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Policing -- 29 Criminal Justice II: The Criminal Trial -- 30 Land Law and Policy: Titles, Tenure, Squatters, Indigenous Dispossession, and the Rights and Obligations of Ownership -- 31 Law and the Economy I: Common Law, Statutes, and the Emergence of the CorporationJudges, Private Law, and the Economy -- 32 Law and the Economy II: Debtor-Creditor Law -- 33 Less Favoured by Law I: Blacks and Workers -- 34 Less Favoured by Law II: Women and the Law -- 35 Law and Legal Institutions on the Eve of Confederation: The British North American Legacy.
ISBN 9781487530587 (electronic bk.)
1487530587 (electronic bk.)
9781487504632
1487504632
Author Girard, Philip, author.
Series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
Subject Law -- Canada -- History.
Alt author Phillips, Jim, 1954- author.
Brown, R. Blake, author.

Subject Law -- Canada -- History.
Descript 1 online resource (xvii, 904 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents PART ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1 Introduction -- 2 Roots: Indigenous Legal Traditions -- 3 Roots: French Legal Traditions -- 4 Roots: British Legal Traditions
PART TWO: EUROPEAN CHARTERED ENTERPRISE, NEW FRANCE, AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH INDIGENOUS LAW, 1500-1701. 5 Early Contacts, Early Charters -- 6 Law and Governance in the French Possessions: Public Law and the Growth of Institutions -- 7 Law and Governance in the English Possessions -- 8 The Interface of European and Indigenous Law -- 9 French Private Law -- 10 The Early Modern Legacy
PART THREE: THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701-1815. 11 Constitutional Law in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 12 New France/Quebec/Lower Canada: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples -- 13 The British Colonies of Settlement: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples -- 14 The British Commercial Territories: Newfoundland and Rupert's Land -- 15 The Legal Professions -- 16 Criminal Law and Criminal Justice -- 17 Indigenous Law -- 18 Private Law: The Civil Law -- 19 Private Law: The Common Law -- 20 The Early Modern Legacy
PART FOUR: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1815-1860s. 21 Law in British North America, 1815-1866: Introduction -- 22 Court Systems and Judicial Personnel -- 23 Sources of Law and Law ReformSources of Law in Common Law Jurisdictions -- 24 Indigenous Law in British North America -- 25 The Legal Professions -- 26 Constitutional Developments I: European-Indigenous Relations, the Old Colonial System, and the Rebellions, 1815-ca 1839 -- 27 Constitutional Developments II: The Act of Union, Responsible Government, and the Origins of Acculturation Policy, ca 1840-1866T -- 28 Criminal Justice I: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Policing -- 29 Criminal Justice II: The Criminal Trial -- 30 Land Law and Policy: Titles, Tenure, Squatters, Indigenous Dispossession, and the Rights and Obligations of Ownership -- 31 Law and the Economy I: Common Law, Statutes, and the Emergence of the CorporationJudges, Private Law, and the Economy -- 32 Law and the Economy II: Debtor-Creditor Law -- 33 Less Favoured by Law I: Blacks and Workers -- 34 Less Favoured by Law II: Women and the Law -- 35 Law and Legal Institutions on the Eve of Confederation: The British North American Legacy.
Alt author Phillips, Jim, 1954- author.
Brown, R. Blake, author.
ISBN 9781487530587 (electronic bk.)
1487530587 (electronic bk.)
9781487504632
1487504632

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