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Lawyers and legal culture in British North America : Beamish Murdoch of Halifax /
"From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Published for the Osgoode Society for Legal History by University of Toronto Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North American lawyers created a distinctive Canadian template for the profession by combining the strong collective governance of the English tradition with the high degree of creativity and client responsiveness characteristic of U.S. lawyers - a mix that forms the basis of the legal profession in Canada today. Girard provides a unique window on the interconnections between lawyers' roles as community leaders and as legal professionals. Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history."--Pub. desc. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : portrait, digital file |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442699212 1442699213 9781442644106 1442644109 |