David Flaherty

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume II

Herausgeber: Flaherty, David H

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 614
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781442613584
• ISBN-10: 1442613580
• Artikelnr.: 34761947

Autorenporträt

David H. Flaherty is a professor emeritus in the Department of History and the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He now specializes in the management of privacy and information issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Contributors
1.Instruments of Commerce and Authority: The Civil Courts in Upper Canada
1789-1812
2.Legal Education in Upper Canada 1785-1889: The law Society as Educator
3.'The Ten Thousand Pound Job': Political Corruption, Equitable
Jurisdiction, and the Public Interest in Upper Canada 1852-6
4.Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape-Law 1800-92
5.Law and Ideology: The Toronto Police Court 1850-80
6.The Kamloops Outlaws and Commissions of Assize in Nineteenth-Century
British Colombia
7.Private Rights and Public Purposes in the Lakes, Rivers, and Streams of
Ontario 1870-1930
8.'The Nuisance of Litigation': The Origins of Workers' Compensation in
Ontario
9.The Evolution of the Ontario Courts 1788-1981
Table of Cases
Index