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A History of Law in Canada, Volume One : Beginnings to 1866 / Volume 1, Beginnings to 1866 / Beginnings to 1866 / Volume 1,

This volume presents a history of the development of three legal traditions in Canada - the Indigenous, the French, and the English.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Girard, Philip (Autor), Brown, R. Blake (Autor), Phillips, Jim, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
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.