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A trying question : the jury in nineteenth-century Canada /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, R. Blake
Autor Corporativo: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, ©2009
Colección:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Storms, roads, and harvest time : the jury system and attitudes toward jury service in Nova Scotia
  • The jury system and attitudes toward jury service in Upper Canada
  • "The bean box" : reformers and the politicization of the jury system in Nova Scotia
  • Reformers, rebellion, and the jury system of Upper Canada
  • Responsible government, the magistrates' affair, and the breakdown of the Nova Scotia jury system
  • Responsible government and the 1850 Upper Canada Jury Act
  • "We have now no fears of star chamber justice" : the decline of the jury in Nova Scotia
  • "The day has gone by for the worshop of legal idols" : the decline of the jury in Ontario
  • Conclusion.