| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 471 pages : illustrations, portraits, map |
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Essays in the history of Canadian law ; v. 10 |
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Essays in the history of Canadian law ; v. 10
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| Contents |
Introduction: Peter Oliver and the Osgoode Society of Canadian Legal History / Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry, and John T. Saywell -- Rape in the House of Commons: the prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929 / Constance Backhouse -- Wardens and prisoners: apsects of prison culture in Ontario, 1974-1914 / Jospeh Ashley Berkovits -- 'Perverts a menace': the development of the criminal sexual psychopath offence, 1948 / Patrick Brode -- The law of rules: prosecuting railway workers in mid-nineteenth-century Ontario / Paul Craven -- Politics, promotion, and professionalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's judicial appointments / Philip Girard -- 'High above the generality of the people': the ideological origins of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court circuit / Jim Phillips -- Judicial scandal and the culture of patronage in early confederation, 1867-78 / Jonathan Swainger -- Strategic Benthamism: rehabilitating United Canada's Bar through criminal law codification, 1847-54 / G. Blaine Baker -- The rule of law and Irish whig constitutionalism in Upper Canada: William Warren Baldwin, the 'Irish opposition, ' and the volunteer connection / John McLaren -- Diplomacy, international law, and foreign fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 convention / Rainer Baehre -- Social workers, courts, and the implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-69 / Lori Chambers -- The David Fasken estate: estate planning and social history in early twentieth-century Ontario / C. Ian Kyer -- Squatters' rights and the origins of Edmonton settlement / Bruce Ziff and Sean Ward |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Oliver, Peter, 1939-
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| SUBJECT |
Oliver, Peter, 1939- fast |
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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
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| SUBJECT |
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History fast |
| Subject |
Law -- Canada -- History
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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LAW -- Legal History.
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Law
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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History
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Saywell, John T., 1929-2011.
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Phillips, Jim, 1954-
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McMurtry, Roland, 1932-
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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
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| ISBN |
9781442689510 |
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144268951X |
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