Essays in the History of Canadian Law

Essays in the History of Canadian Law

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University of Toronto Press
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This volume is the second in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series, designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history. In combination, these volumes reflect the wide-ranging scope of legal history as an intellectual discipline andencourage others to pursue important avenues of inquiry on all aspects of our legal past.

Topics include the role of civil courts in Upper Canada; legal education; political corruption; nineteenth-century Canadian rape law; the Toronto Police Court; the Kamloops outlaws and commissions of assize in nineteenth-century British Columbia; private rights and public purposes in Ontario waterways; the origins of workers'' compensation in Ontario; and the evolution of the Ontario courts. Contributors include Brendan O''Brien, Peter N. Oliver, William N.T. Wylie, G. Blaine Baker, Paul Romney, Constance B. Backhouse, Paul Craven, Hamar Foster, Jamie Bendickson, R.C.B. Risk, and Margaret A. Banks.

EAN 9781442662919
ISBN 1442662913
Binding Ebook
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Publication date December 15, 2011
Pages 612
Language English
Country Canada
Editors Flaherty, David
Series Essays in the History of Canadian Law