The grand experiment : law and legal culture in British settler societies /
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Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver :
Published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by UBC Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Does law matter? The new colonial legal history / Benjamin L. Berger, Hamar Foster, and A.R. Buck
- Libel and the colonial administration of justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales, c. 1825-30 / Barry Wright
- The limits of despotic government at sea / Bruce Kercher
- One chief, two chiefs, red chiefs, blue chiefs: newcomer perspectives on indigenous leadership in Rupert's land and the North-West Territories / Janna Promislow
- Rhetoric, reason, and the rule of law in early colonial New South Wales / Ian Holloway, Simon Bronitt, and John Williams
- Sometimes persuasive authority : Dominion case law and English judges, 1895-1970 / Jeremy Finn
- Courts, communities, and communication : the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on circuit, 1816-50 / Jim Phillips and Philip Girard
- Fame and infamy: two men of the law in colonial New Zealand / David V. Williams
- Moving in an "eccentric orbit" : the independence of Judge Algernon Sidney Montagu in Van Diemen's land 1833-47 / Stefan Petrow
- "Not in keeping with the traditions of the Cariboo Courts" : courts and community identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1920-50 / Jonatan Swainger
- Starkie's adventures in North America : the emergence of libel law / Lyndsay M. Campbell
- The law of dower in New South Wales and the United States : a study in comparative legal history / A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright
- Contesting prohibition and the Constitution in 1850s New Brunswick / Greg Marquis
- From humble prayers to legal demands : the Cowichan petition of 1909 and the British Columbia Indian land question / Hamar Foster and Benjamin L. Berger
- Afterword: Looking from the past into the future / John McLaren.