UID:
almafu_9959230625102883
Format:
1 online resource (562 pages)
ISBN:
1-4426-2178-8
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1-4426-2177-X
Series Statement:
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Uniform Title:
Association of Canadian University Presses collection
Content:
Petty Justice examines the role of justices of the peace and other front-line low law officials like customs officers and deputy land surveyors in colonial local government.
Note:
1. Introduction : High Law, Low Law, No Law -- I. Petty Justices. 2. The Trials of David Owen -- 3. High Noon at Campobello -- 4. The Empire Strikes Back.
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II. Doing Substantial Justice. 5. In the Woods -- 6. "Unconnected with Mercantile Pursuits" -- 7. Hatheway's Civil Docket 1847-67 -- 8. Hatheway's Crown Docket, 1847-67.
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III. The Sessions System and Its Enemies. 9. Called to Account -- 10. Three Ships -- 11. The Temperance Magistrates -- 12. The Sessions System in Decline.
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Appendices. A Reference Tables -- B Commission of the Peace, 1845 -- C Sources cited.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-4991-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442621770
