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  • - Collected Essays
    av R.C.B. Risk
    949

    Written over more than two decades, and covering the immediate post-Confederation period to the 1960s, these essays reveal a distinctive Canadian tradition of thinking about the nature and functions of law, one which Risk clearly takes pride in and urges us to celebrate.

  • - Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914
     
    489

    The third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and socio-economic change.

  • - Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950
    av Eric H. Reiter
    515 - 685

    Wounded Feelings explores how people brought stories of emotional injury like betrayal, grief, humiliation, and anger before the Quebec courts from 1870 to 1950, and how lawyers and judges translated those feelings into the rational language of law.

  • - Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective
    av Carol Wilton
    755,-

    This collection of essays, Volume VII in the Osgoode Society's series of Essays in the History of Canadian Law, is the first focused study of a variety of law firms and how they have evolved over a century and a half, from the golden age of the sole practitioner in the pre-industrial era to the recent rise of the mega-firm.

  • - Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-1948
    av Patrick Brode
    529,-

    Patrick Brode has produced a fascinating study of government hesitancy surrounding war crime prosecutions in Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments, a history of Canada's prosecution of war crimes committed during the Second World War.

  • - A Biography of James McGregor Stewart
    av Barry Cahill
    559,-

    Thematic rather that chronological in approach, this fascinating legal biography provides both a history of a uniquely Canadian career and an interpretation of its significance for James McGregor Stewart's time and ours.

  • - Beginnings to 1866
    av Philip Girard
    615

    This volume presents a history of the development of three legal traditions in Canada - the Indigenous, the French, and the English.

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    555

    Lori Chambers' fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921.

  • - The Civil Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax
    av The Osgoode Society
    459

    In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, James Muir offers an extensive analysis of the civil cases of the time as well as the reasons behind their frequency.

  • - The Civil Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax
    av The Osgoode Society
    749

    In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, James Muir offers an extensive analysis of the civil cases of the time as well as the reasons behind their frequency.

  • - Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914
    av Bradley Miller
    695

    Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada.Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law.

  • av The Osgoode Society
    695

    Lori Chambers' fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921.

  • - The Struggle for a Canadian Bankruptcy Law, 1867-1919
    av Thomas G. W. Telfer
    839,-

    Ruin and Redemption is the first full-length study of the origins of Canadian bankruptcy law, making it an important contribution to the study of Canada's commercial law.

  • - A History of Gun Control in Canada
    av Osgoode Society & R. Blake Brown
    499,-

    Arming and Disarming provides a careful exploration of how social, economic, cultural, legal, and constitutional concerns shaped gun legislation and its implementation, as well as how these factors defined Canada's historical and contemporary 'gun culture.'

  • - Justice, Morality, and Crime in the Niagara District, 1791-1849
    av David Murray
    457

    This new study of early Canadian law delves into the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of records surviving from Upper Canada, to analyze the criminal justice system in the district during the first half of the 19th century.

  • - Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
    av Peter N. Oliver
    1 099

    The history of the foundations of modern carceral institutions in Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of previously unexplored primary material, Oliver provides a narrative and interpretative account of the penal system in 19th-century Ontario.

  • av Carolyn Strange
    1 229

    This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of "sex killers" while the death penalty was in effect in Canada.

  • - Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969
    av Lori Chambers
    439

    Misconceptions argues that child welfare measures which simultaneously seek to rescue children and punish errant women will not, and cannot, succeed in alleviating child or maternal poverty.

  • - From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle
     
    1 045

    Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history.

  • - Beamish Murdoch of Halifax
    av Philip Girard
    709

    Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history.

  • - A Biographical History
    av Dale Brawn
    949

    This fascinating study offers an intimate look at personalities ranging from prime ministers to members of the bench and both senior levels of government.

  • - Law and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution
    av F. Murray Greenwood
    715

    Murray Greenwood is one of Canada's finest legal historians. In this work his wide perspective, supported by extensive documentation, brings new evidence and insight to a formative and somewhat neglected period in Canada's history.

  • - Prince Edward County, 1884
    av Robert J. Sharpe
    599

    The Lazier Murder explores a community's response to a crime, as well as the realization that it may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice.

  • - Law as Large as Life
    av Ellen Anderson
    615,-

    Supported with the warmth and generosity of Wilson?s numerous personal anecdotes, this work illuminates the life and throught of a woman who has left an extraordinary mark on Canada?s legal landscape.

  • - Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792-2013
    av Christopher Moore
    615

    Christopher Moore's history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario traces the evolution of one of Canada's most influential courts from its origins to the post-Charter years.

  • - A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
    av Constance Backhouse
    545

    A richly textured narrative that seeks to capture the role played by the law in the definition of race and shoring up of racial repression in Canada.

  • - A History, 1875-1992
    av Ian Bushnell
    1 099

    This book is an authoritative history of the Federal Court of Canada. The judges' work in various areas of substantive law provides illustrations of the functioning of the Court in the adjudication of disputes.

  • av Lori Chambers
    409 - 815

    A meticulously researched and revisionist study of the nineteenth-century Ontario's Married Women's Property Acts. They were important landmarks in the legal emancipation of women.

  • - Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832
    av Jerry Bannister
    599 - 979

    The Rule of the Admirals sheds light on one of the most misunderstood chapters in Canadian and British colonial history.

  • - British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900
    av John McLaren
    815

    Using the career histories of judges who challenged the system, Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered illuminates issues of judicial tenure, accountability, and independence throughout the British Empire.

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