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A history of law in Canada. Volume 1, Beginnings to 1866 /

"A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Girard, Philip (Autor), Phillips, Jim, 1954- (Autor), Brown, R. Blake (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : published for The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1. Introduction
  • 2. Roots: Indigenous Legal Traditions
  • 3. Roots: French Legal Traditions
  • 4. Roots: British Legal Traditions.
  • PART TWO: EUROPEAN CHARTERED ENTERPRISE, NEW FRANCE, AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH INDIGENOUS LAW, 1500-1701. 5. Early Contacts, Early Charters
  • 6. Law and Governance in the French Possessions: Public Law and the Growth of Institutions
  • 7. Law and Governance in the English Possessions
  • 8. The Interface of European and Indigenous Law
  • 9. French Private Law
  • 10. The Early Modern Legacy.
  • PART THREE: THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701-1815. 11. Constitutional Law in the Long Eighteenth Century
  • 12. New France/Quebec/Lower Canada: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples
  • 13. The British Colonies of Settlement: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples
  • 14. The British Commercial Territories: Newfoundland and Rupert's Land
  • 15. The Legal Professions
  • 16. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
  • 17. Indigenous Law
  • 18. Private Law: The Civil Law
  • 19. Private Law: The Common Law
  • 20. The Early Modern Legacy.
  • PART FOUR: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1815-1860s. 21. Law in British North America, 1815-1866: Introduction
  • 22. Court Systems and Judicial Personnel
  • 23. Sources of Law and Law ReformSources of Law in Common Law Jurisdictions
  • 24. Indigenous Law in British North America
  • 25. The Legal Professions
  • 26. Constitutional Developments I: European-Indigenous Relations, the Old Colonial System, and the Rebellions, 1815-ca 1839
  • 27. Constitutional Developments II: The Act of Union, Responsible Government, and the Origins of Acculturation Policy, ca 1840-1866T
  • 28. Criminal Justice I: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Policing
  • 29. Criminal Justice II: The Criminal Trial
  • 30. Land Law and Policy: Titles, Tenure, Squatters, Indigenous Dispossession, and the Rights and Obligations of Ownership
  • 31. Law and the Economy I: Common Law, Statutes, and the Emergence of the CorporationJudges, Private Law, and the Economy
  • 32. Law and the Economy II: Debtor-Creditor Law
  • 33. Less Favoured by Law I: Blacks and Workers
  • 34. Less Favoured by Law II: Women and the Law
  • 35. Law and Legal Institutions on the Eve of Confederation: The British North American Legacy.