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  • - Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832
    af Jerry Bannister
    491,95 - 870,95 kr.

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

  • af Lori Chambers
    306,95 - 686,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A History, 1875-1992
    af Ian Bushnell
    925,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
    af Constance Backhouse
    420,95 kr.

    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.

  • - An Autobiography
    af Fred Kaufman
    811,95 kr.

    Searching for Justice is Kaufman's remarkable story in his own words. It is the tale of adversity overcome in a crucial period of Canadian legal history.

  • - Low Law and the Sessions System in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867
    af Paul Craven
    799,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792-2013
    af Christopher Moore
    512,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Quebec and the Canadas
     
    948,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958
    af Barrington Walker
    354,95 kr.

    This exploration of the complex and often contradictory web of racial attitudes and the values of white legal elites not only exposes how blackness was articulated in Canadian law but also offers a rare glimpse of black life as experienced in Canada's past.

  • af Carolyn Strange
    952,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Law as Large as Life
    af Ellen Anderson
    678,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Prince Edward County, 1884
    af Robert J. Sharpe
    317,95 - 535,95 kr.

    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 and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution
    af F. Murray Greenwood
    497,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Diaries of Ontario Chief Justice Robert A. Harrison, 1856-1878
     
    925,95 kr.

    Although unusual in his driving ambitions and his consuming need to accumulate a fortune, Harrison remained in most respects thoroughly conventional and Victorian, and his diary offers unrivalled insights into the voice of the mid-nineteenth century Toronto male.

  • - Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island
     
    868,95 kr.

    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.

  • - A Biographical History
    af Dale Brawn
    824,95 kr.

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

  • - Beamish Murdoch of Halifax
    af Philip Girard
    583,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Seduction in Canadian Law
    af Patrick Brode
    452,95 kr.

    Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century Canada - breaches of duty leading to liability for damages for seduction, breach of promise of marriage, and criminal conversation.

  • - From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle
     
    925,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Life of Justice Emmett Hall
    af Frederick Vaughan
    640,95 kr.

    Aggressive in Pursuit traces Hall's career from his earliest days of private practice in Saskatchewan to the end of his career, and death, in 1994. It shows how one prairie lawyer made a difference in the life of Canada.

  • - Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969
    af Lori Chambers
    352,95 - 675,95 kr.

    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.

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