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The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004 : From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle /

"Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this volume provides a wide-ranging history of the institution, Canada's oldest common law court. The thirteen essays include an account of the first meeting in 1754 of the court in M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Otros Autores: Cahill, Barry (Editor ), Phillips, Jim (Editor ), Girard, Philip (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • MAPS
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Origins: The Courts of Westminster Hall in the Eighteenth Century
  • 3 Colonial and Imperial Contexts
  • Part 2: Overviews
  • 4 The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Origins to Confederation
  • 5 The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Confederation to the Twenty-First Century
  • 6 A Collective Biography of the Supreme Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000
  • 7 Halifax Homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
  • Part 3: Case Studies
  • 8 Michaelmas Term, 1754: The Supreme Court's First Session
  • 9 Women as Litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830
  • 10 Her Majesty's Yankees: American Authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901
  • 11 Instrumentalism and the Law of Injuries in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia
  • 12 Confederation, Adjudicative Culture, and the Law of the Constitution: The Late Nineteenth-Century Persistence of Local Autonomy in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
  • 13 'To Err Is Human, to Forgive Divine': The Labour Relations Board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965
  • APPENDIX: The Records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court
  • ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z.