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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Toronto, Ontario :
Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.