Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume III

Nova Scotia
Herausgeber: Girard, Philip; Phillips, Jim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This third volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law presents thoroughly researched, original essays in Nova Scotian legal history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781442613591
• ISBN-10: 1442613599
• Artikelnr.: 34761719

Autorenporträt

Edited by Philip Girard and Jim Phillips

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Abbreviations
1.Introduction
The Legal System: An Overview
2.'The Dayly Cry for Justics': The Juridical Failure of the Annapolis Royal
Regime, 1713-1749
3.The Superior Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1754- 1900: A Collective
Biography
4.Married Women's Property, Chancery Abolition, and Insolvency Law: Law
Reform in Nova Scotia, 1820-1867
The Criminal Law in Society
5.Poverty, Unemployment, and the Administration of the Criminal Law:
Vagrancy Laws in Halifax, 1864-1890
6.From Bridewell to Federal Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Nova
Scotia before 1880
7.Raised in Rockhead. Died in the Poor House': Female Petty Criminals in
Halifax, 1864-1890
Woman, The Family, and the Law
8.Divorce in Nova Scotia, 1750-1890
9.Child Custody and Divorce: A Nova Scotia Study, 1866-1910
Law and Economy
10.The Mines Arbitration Act, 1888: Compulsory Arbitration in Context
11.From Private Property to Public Resource: The Emergence of
Administration Control of Water in Nova Scotia
Index