Essays In The History Of Canadian Law Volume Xii

Author : Lori Chambers,Joan Sangster
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487553913

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XII by Lori Chambers,Joan Sangster Pdf

Drawing on engaging case studies, Essays in the History of Canadian Law brings the law to life. The contributors to this collection provide rich historical and social context for each case, unravelling the process of legal decision-making and explaining the impact of the law on the people involved in legal disputes. Examining the law not simply as legislation and institutions, but as discourse, practice, symbols, rhetoric, and language, the book’s chapters show the law as both oppressive and constraining and as a point of contention and means of resistance. This collection presents new approaches and concerns, as well as re-examinations of existing themes with new evidence and modes of storytelling. Contributors cover many legal thematic areas, from criminal to labour, civil, administrative, and human rights law, spanning English and French Canada, and ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to the late twentieth century. The legal cases vary from precedent-setting cases to lesser-known ones, from those driven by one woman’s quest for personal justice to others in which state actors dominate. Bringing to light how the people embroiled in these cases interacted with the legal system, the book reveals the ramifications of a legal system characterized by multiple layers of inequality.

Author : G. Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442648159

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by G. Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson Pdf

The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of the period under consideration. As such, four of the papers are set in the geographic cradle of modern Quebec, four treat nineteenth-century Ontario, and the remaining four deal with the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes watershed as a whole. The authors come from disciplines as diverse as history, socio-legal studies, women's studies, and law. The majority make substantial use of second-language sources in their essays, which shade into intellectual history, social and family history, regulatory history, and political history.

Author : David H. Flaherty
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780802099112

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by David H. Flaherty Pdf

Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two hundred years in the legal profession and the judiciary, nineteenth-century prison history, as well as the impact of the 1815 Treaty of Paris.

Author : Philip Girard,Osgoode Society
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802047297

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law: In honour of R.C.B. Risk by Philip Girard,Osgoode Society Pdf

The collected essays in this volume represent the highlights of legal historical scholarship in Canada today. All of the essays refer back in some form to Risk's own work in the field.

Author : David H. Flaherty
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1981-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487596972

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by David H. Flaherty Pdf

This volume, containing ten essays, is the first of two designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history and reflecting the current interests of those working in that area. Topics covered include historical aspects of company law, the law and the economy, legal reform in Ontario, custody law, the law of master and servant, the law of nuisance, origins of the Canadian Criminal Code, and women's rights in Quebec. Professor Flaherty supplies an introduction to the writing of Canadian legal history and, with his contributors, provides an important building block on which a significant tradition of indigenous legal history in Canada may grow and flourish.

Author : David H. Flaherty
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442658264

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by David H. Flaherty Pdf

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.

Author : David H. Flaherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1021 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802033822

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by David H. Flaherty Pdf

Author : David H. Flaherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : LCCN:82136585

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law: In honour of R.C.B. Risk by David H. Flaherty Pdf

Author : Carol Wilton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442651289

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Inside the Law by Carol Wilton Pdf

Law firms are important economic institutions in this country: they collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in fees, they order the affairs of businesses and of many government agencies, and their members include some of the most influential Canadians. Some firms have a history stretching back nearly two hundred years, and many are over a century old. Yet the history of law firms in Canada has remained largely unknown. 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. The volume as a whole is an exploration of the impact of economic and social change on law-firm culture and organization. The introduction by Carol Wilton provides a chronological overview of Canadian law-firm evolution and emphasizes the distinctiveness of Canadian law-firm history.

Author : George Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442670068

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by George Blaine Baker,Donald Fyson Pdf

The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of the period under consideration. As such, four of the papers are set in the geographic cradle of modern Quebec, four treat nineteenth-century Ontario, and the remaining four deal with the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes watershed as a whole. The authors come from disciplines as diverse as history, socio-legal studies, women’s studies, and law. The majority make substantial use of second-language sources in their essays, which shade into intellectual history, social and family history, regulatory history, and political history.

Author : George Blain Baker,Jim Phillips
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442657809

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by George Blain Baker,Jim Phillips Pdf

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were students of Professor Risk, and represent some of the best and most original work in the area of Canadian legal history. They cover a number of important topics that range from the form of the criminal trial in the eighteenth century, to debates over the meaning of property in the nineteenth, and to lawyer/poet Tom MacInnes's views on the law of aboriginal title in the twentieth century.

Author : Susan Lewthwaite,Tina Loo,Jim Phillips
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442659087

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by Susan Lewthwaite,Tina Loo,Jim Phillips Pdf

This fifth volume in the distinguished series on the history of Canadian law turns to the important issues of crime and criminal justice. In examining crime and criminal law specifically, the volume contributes to the long-standing concern of Canadian historians with law, order, and authority. The volume covers criminal justice history at various times in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. It is a study which opens up greater vistas of understanding to all those interested in the interstices of law, crime, and punishment.

Author : Hamar Foster,John McLaren
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442655430

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by Hamar Foster,John McLaren Pdf

This sixth volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law turns to the a central theme in the history of British Columbia and the Yukon - law and order. In the early days of British sovereignty, the frenzied activity of the fur trade and the gold rush, along with clashes between settlers and Natives, made law enforcement a difficult business. Later, although law and order were more firmly established, tensions continued between the dominant populations committed to the practice and rhetoric of British justice and those groups owing allegiance to other value systems (such as Native peoples, Asian immigrants, and Doukhobors) or those resisting authority (criminals and the criminally insane). These essays look at key social, economic, and political issues of the times and show how they influenced the developing legal system. The essays cover a wide range of topics, and explore the human as well as the legal dimensions of their subjects, relating specific cases to broader theory. They demonstrate that English law has been flexible enough to accommodate diversity and is, therefore, pragmatic. The volume also proves that there is no single Canadian legal culture: geography, demography, politics, economics, and military considerations have had an impact on the shape of our legal culture. The introduction by John McLaren and Hamar Foster pulls together the many regional themes to provide a clear overview of the legal complexities of the period.

Author : David H. Flaherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : LCCN:82136585

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Two islands : Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island by David H. Flaherty Pdf

Author : Jim Phillips,Roy McMurtry,John T. Saywell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : OCLC:1290062827

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law by Jim Phillips,Roy McMurtry,John T. Saywell Pdf

Written to honour the life and work of the late Peter N. Oliver, the distinguished historian and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History from 1979-2006, this collection assembles the finest legal scholars to reflect on the issues in and development of the field of legal history in Canada.Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two hundred years in the legal profession and the judiciary, nineteenth-century prison history, as well as the impact of the 1815 Treaty of Paris. The introduction also provides insight into the history of the Osgoode Society and of Oliver's essential role in it, along with an illuminating analysis of the Society's publications program, which produced sixty-six books during his tenure.A fitting tribute to one of the foremost legal historians, this tenth volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law is a significant contribution to the discipline to which Oliver devoted so much.