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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Otros Autores: English, Christopher J. B., 1939- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Colección:Essays in the history of Canadian law ; volume 9.
Temas:
Law > Newfoundland and Labrador > History.
Law > Prince Edward Island > History.
Law > Canada > History.
Droit > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire.
Droit > Île-du-Prince-Édouard > Histoire.
Droit > Canada > Histoire.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law
Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH
  • Part One: Historiography. The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland / CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH
  • The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island / J.M. BUMSTED
  • Part Two: The Administration of Justice. Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769-1805 / J.M. BUMSTED
  • Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland / JERRY BANNISTER
  • The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826-33 / NINA JANE GOUDIE
  • Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance. Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes / BRUCE KERCHER AND JODIE YOUNG
  • Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834 / TRUDI JOHNSON
  • 'The Duty of Every Man': Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828-1905 / MICHEL STAIRS
  • Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women. 'Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You': Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 / WILLEEN L. KEOUGH
  • Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757-1823 / KRISTA L. SIMON
  • 'Out of Date in a Good Many Respects': The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945-9 / LAURA BROWN
  • Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law. Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce / BAVID M. BULGER
  • The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947 / CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH.

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