This volume, which includes a number of essays examining women's legal status and access to the courts, is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of legal history in two Canadian provinces.
This volume, which includes a number of essays examining women's legal status and access to the courts, is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of legal history in two Canadian provinces.
Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH Part One: Historiography 1. The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH 2. The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island J.M. BUMSTED Part Two: The Administration of Justice 1. Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769–1805 J.M. BUMSTED 2. Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland JERRY BANNISTER 3. The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826–33 NINA JANE GOUDIE Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance 4. Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes BRUCE KERCHER AND JODIE YOUNG 5. Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834 TRUDI JOHNSON 6. ‘The Duty of Every Man’: Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828–1905 MICHEL STAIRS Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women ‘Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You’: Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860 WILLEEN L. KEOUGH Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757–1823 KRISTA L. SIMON ‘Out of Date in a Good Many Respects’: The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945–9 LAURA BROWN Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law 7. Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce BAVID M. BULGER 8. The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947 CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH Index
Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH Part One: Historiography 1. The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH 2. The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island J.M. BUMSTED Part Two: The Administration of Justice 1. Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769–1805 J.M. BUMSTED 2. Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland JERRY BANNISTER 3. The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826–33 NINA JANE GOUDIE Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance 4. Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes BRUCE KERCHER AND JODIE YOUNG 5. Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834 TRUDI JOHNSON 6. ‘The Duty of Every Man’: Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828–1905 MICHEL STAIRS Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women ‘Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You’: Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860 WILLEEN L. KEOUGH Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757–1823 KRISTA L. SIMON ‘Out of Date in a Good Many Respects’: The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945–9 LAURA BROWN Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law 7. Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce BAVID M. BULGER 8. The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947 CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH Index
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