The politics of codification : the Lower Canadian Civil Code of 1866 /

Brian Young interprets codification as part of a larger process that included the collapse of the Lower Canadian rebellions, the decline of seigneurialism, expansion of bourgeois democracy in central Canada, professionalization of the bar, and formation of the institutional state. Central to codific...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Young, Brian J., 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Montreal?] : McGill-Queen's University Press [for] the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, ©1994.
Series:Studies on the history of Quebec.
Subjects:
Québec (Province). > Civil Code of Lower Canada > History.
Québec (Province) > Code civil du Bas Canada.
Civil Code of Lower Canada (Québec (Province))
Zivilgesetzbuch <1866>
1820-1866.
Civil law > Political aspects > Québec (Province)
Civil law > Québec (Province) > Codification.
Civil law > Québec (Province) > History.
Droit civil > Aspect politique > Québec (Province)
Droit civil > Québec (Province) > Histoire.
Droit civil > Québec (Province) > Codification.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LAW > Civil Law.
Civil law.
Civil law > Codification.
Civil law > Political aspects.
Politics and government
Geschichte.
Kodifikation.
Québec (Province) > Politics and government.
Québec (Province) > Politique et gouvernement.
Québec.
Québec > Provinz
Kanada.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Legal Landscape
  • 2. Attitudes to Codification before the Rebellions
  • 3. The Political Will to Codify, 1838-57
  • 4. The Codifiers
  • 5. Politics of the Codification Commission, 1857-66
  • 6. The Commission at Work
  • 7. The Persistence of Customary Law: Married Women as Traders
  • 8. 'Wittingly and Willingly': The Law of Obligations
  • 9. Conclusion.

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