Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 419 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781442656994
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1442656999
Series Statement:
Essays in the history of Canadian law volume IX
Content:
This volume, which includes a number of essays examining women's legal status and access to the courts, is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of legal history in two Canadian provinces
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction / CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH -- Part One: Historiography. The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland / CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH -- The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island / J.M. BUMSTED -- Part Two: The Administration of Justice. Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769-1805 / J.M. BUMSTED -- Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland / JERRY BANNISTER -- The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826-33 / NINA JANE GOUDIE -- Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance. Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes / BRUCE KERCHER AND JODIE YOUNG -- Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834 / TRUDI JOHNSON -- 'The Duty of Every Man': Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828-1905 / MICHEL STAIRS -- Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women. 'Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You': Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 / WILLEEN L. KEOUGH -- Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757-1823 / KRISTA L. SIMON -- 'Out of Date in a Good Many Respects': The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945-9 / LAURA BROWN -- Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law. Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce / BAVID M. BULGER -- The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947 / CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH.
Language:
English
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