Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America : Beamish Murdoch of Halifax /

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"From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Girard, Philip
Corporate Author: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : Published for the Osgoode Society for Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Murdoch, Beamish, > 1800?-1876.
Practice of law.
Lawyers.
LAW > Legal History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Lawyers & Judges.
Droit > Pratique > Nouvelle-Écosse > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Practice of law > Nova Scotia > History > 19th century.
Lawyers > Nova Scotia > Biography.
Nova Scotia > Halifax.
Nova Scotia.
Halifax (N.S.) > Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Antecedents
  • Apprenticeship
  • The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: Organization and Mobility
  • The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-1827
  • The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-1850
  • The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer: Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government
  • Law and Politics in the Colonial City: Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-1860
  • Law, Identity and Improvement: Murdoch as Cultural Producer.

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