Provincial justice : Upper Canadian legal portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian biography /
In the formative years of Ontario's history, the law loomed large, as a profession, a preoccupation of legislators, a subject of debate and controversy, and a force that many citizens found themselves up against. Robert Fraser has drawn from the pages of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
Published for the Osgoode Society by University of Toronto Press,
©1992.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In the formative years of Ontario's history, the law loomed large, as a profession, a preoccupation of legislators, a subject of debate and controversy, and a force that many citizens found themselves up against. Robert Fraser has drawn from the pages of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography the stories of sixty people who played a key role in the legal history of Upper Canada.Told in a readable style that has been much praised, these profiles contain information that bears the authoritative stamp of the DCB volumes from which they come. They add a valuable personal dimension to Ontario's legal history. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xcii, 470 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781442678880 1442678887 |