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Petty Justice : Low Law and the Sessions System in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867 /
Petty Justice examines the role of justices of the peace and other front-line low law officials like customs officers and deputy land surveyors in colonial local government.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction : High Law, Low Law, No Law
- I. Petty Justices. 2. The Trials of David Owen
- 3. High Noon at Campobello
- 4. The Empire Strikes Back.
- II. Doing Substantial Justice. 5. In the Woods
- 6. "Unconnected with Mercantile Pursuits"
- 7. Hatheway's Civil Docket 1847-67
- 8. Hatheway's Crown Docket, 1847-67.
- III. The Sessions System and Its Enemies. 9. Called to Account
- 10. Three Ships
- 11. The Temperance Magistrates
- 12. The Sessions System in Decline.
- Appendices. A Reference Tables
- B Commission of the Peace, 1845
- C Sources cited.