Mr Attorney : The Attorney General for Ontario in Court, Cabinet, and Legislature 1791-1899 /
In early Upper Canada the attorney general was little more than a skilled functionary -- the Crown's chief legal counsel; by the mid-19th century he had become a leading member of cabinet and generally premier. Mr Attorney is the story of this transformation and many other aspects of the attorn...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
Published for the Osgoode Society by University of Toronto Press,
1986.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In early Upper Canada the attorney general was little more than a skilled functionary -- the Crown's chief legal counsel; by the mid-19th century he had become a leading member of cabinet and generally premier. Mr Attorney is the story of this transformation and many other aspects of the attorney general's role in 19th-century Ontario. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (416 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9781487580209 |