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Essays in the History of Canadian Law : Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island.
This volume, which includes a number of essays examining women's legal status and access to the courts, is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of legal history in two Canadian provinces.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Essays in the History of Canadian Law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part One: Historiography
- 1 The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland
- 2 The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island
- Part Two: The Administration of Justice
- 3 Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769-1805
- 4 Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland
- 5 The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826-33
- Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance
- 6 Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes
- 7 Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834
- 8 'The Duty of Every Man': Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828-1905
- Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women
- 9 'Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You': Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860
- 10 Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757-1823
- 11 'Out of Date in a Good Many Respects': The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945-9
- Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law
- 12 Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce
- 13 The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
- R
- S
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