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Colonial justice : justice, morality and crime in the Niagara district, 1791-1849 /

"In 1791, when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this study of earl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, David Robert (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ontario] : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2002]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In 1791, when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this study of early Canadian law, David Murray delves into the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of criminal court records surviving from Upper Canada, to analyse the criminal justice system in the district during the first half of the nineteenth century."--Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-267) and index.
ISBN:9781442623408
1442623403