| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |
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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- MAPS -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins: The Courts of Westminster Hall in the Eighteenth Century -- 3 Colonial and Imperial Contexts -- Part 2: Overviews -- 4 The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Origins to Confederation -- 5 The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Confederation to the Twenty-First Century -- 6 A Collective Biography of the Supreme Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000 -- 7 Halifax Homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court -- Part 3: Case Studies -- 8 Michaelmas Term, 1754: The Supreme Court's First Session -- 9 Women as Litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830 -- 10 Her Majesty's Yankees: American Authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901 -- 11 Instrumentalism and the Law of Injuries in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia -- 12 Confederation, Adjudicative Culture, and the Law of the Constitution: The Late Nineteenth-Century Persistence of Local Autonomy in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court -- 13 'To Err Is Human, to Forgive Divine': The Labour Relations Board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965 -- APPENDIX: The Records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
"Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this volume provides a wide-ranging history of the institution, Canada's oldest common law court. The thirteen essays include an account of the first meeting in 1754 of the court in Michaelmas Term; surveys of jurisprudence covering such topics as the court's early federalism cases, its use of American law, and attitudes to the administrative state; and chapters on the courts of Westminster Hall, on which the Supreme Court was modelled, and the various courthouses it has occupied. Comprehensive introductory chapters on the pre-confederation and modern periods provide a contextual framework for the volume."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 11, 2016) |
| Subject |
Nova Scotia. Supreme Court -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Nova Scotia. Supreme Court fast |
| Subject |
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Girard, Philip, editor.
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Phillips, Jim, editor
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Cahill, Barry, editor.
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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
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| ISBN |
9781442655539 |
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1442655534 |
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9781442623774 |
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1442623772 |
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