{"product_id":"a-history-of-law-in-canada-volume-one-beginnings-to-1866-paperback-softback-9781487547462","title":"A History of Law in Canada, Volume One; Beginnings to 1866 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487547462","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of Law in Canada, Volume One\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBeginnings to 1866\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePhilip Girard (Author), Jim Phillips (Author), R. Blake Brown (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487547462\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 May 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e928 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm, 1.22 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[This] is the best synthesis of a field I have ever seen and should be required reading for all historians of Canada. It is astonishingly all-encompassing, examining not just the history of the evolution of the Canadian constitution, […] derived from France and Britain, but also the history of the Indigenous system of law.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Philip Buckner, University of New Brunswick (\u003cem\u003eBritish Journal of Canadian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA History of Law in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial, constitutional, and criminal law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART ONE: INTRODUCTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003eLegal Pluralism in Empires and Nations\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous Law in History: Methodological and Theoretical Issues\u003cbr\u003eLiberty and Order\u003cbr\u003eOverview: Historiography and Periodization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Roots: Indigenous Legal Traditions\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous Legal Traditions: Basic Features\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous Law: Process and Content\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Roots: French Legal Traditions\u003cbr\u003eThe Roman Legacy\u003cbr\u003eThe Emergence of the French Customs\u003cbr\u003eInstitutional Development\u003cbr\u003eLegal Education, the Legal Professions, and the Role of Doctrine\u003cbr\u003eThe Constitution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Roots: British Legal Traditions\u003cbr\u003eThe Anglo-Saxon Legacy\u003cbr\u003eInstitutional Development after 1066 and the Emergence of the Common Law\u003cbr\u003eLegal Education, the Legal Professions, and the Role of Doctrine\u003cbr\u003eThe Constitution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART TWO: EUROPEAN CHARTERED ENTERPRISE, NEW FRANCE, AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH INDIGENOUS LAW, 1500–1701\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Early Contacts, Early Charters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Law and Governance in the French Possessions: Public Law and the Growth of Institutions\u003cbr\u003eFrom Seigneurial Fief to Royal Colony: Institutional Development\u003cbr\u003eSeigneurial Law\u003cbr\u003eNotaries\u003cbr\u003eCivil Procedure\u003cbr\u003eCriminal Procedure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Law and Governance in the English Possessions\u003cbr\u003eNewfoundland: From Company to Proprietorship to Anti-Colony\u003cbr\u003eRupert\u0026amp;#x2019;s Land: The Emergence of a Company-State\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Interface of European and Indigenous Law\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 French Private Law\u003cbr\u003eThe French Customs\u003cbr\u003eThe Law of Marriage and the Family\u003cbr\u003eThe Law of Family Property: Matrimonial Regimes and Succession\u003cbr\u003eThe Law of Obligations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Early Modern Legacy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePART THREE: THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701–1815\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Constitutional Law in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003eThe Politico-Military Context\u003cbr\u003eThe Legal Contexts\u003cbr\u003eSlavery, Race, and the Constitution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 New France\/Quebec\/Lower Canada: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples\u003cbr\u003eNew France before 1760\u003cbr\u003eQuebec\/Lower Canada after 1760\u003cbr\u003eRelations with Indigenous Peoples\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The British Colonies of Settlement: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples\u003cbr\u003eNova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island\u003cbr\u003eUpper Canada\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The British Commercial Territories: Newfoundland and Rupert\u0026amp;#x2019;s Land\u003cbr\u003eJustice beyond the Settlement Frontier: The Challenge of Remoteness\u003cbr\u003eNewfoundland\u003cbr\u003eRupert\u0026amp;#x2019;s Land\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Legal Professions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Criminal Law and Criminal Justice\u003cbr\u003eEnglish Criminal Law in the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003eThe Reception of English Criminal Law in British North America\u003cbr\u003ePunishment in Practice\u003cbr\u003eBringing an Offender to Court: Policing and Prosecution\u003cbr\u003eThe Criminal Courts: Pretrial Procedures\u003cbr\u003eThe Criminal Trial\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Indigenous Law\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Private Law: The Civil Law 320\u003cbr\u003eThe Civil Law to 1760: Canada, Acadia, Louisbourg 320\u003cbr\u003eThe Civil Law after 1760: The Emergence of a Mixed\u003cbr\u003eLegal Tradition 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Private Law: The Common Law\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Early Modern Legacy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART FOUR: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1815–1860s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Law in British North America, 1815–1866: Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Court Systems and Judicial Personnel\u003cbr\u003eThe Development of a British North American Judiciary\u003cbr\u003eSeparation of Powers, Appointment and Removal of Judges, and Judicial Remuneration\u003cbr\u003eCircuit Systems: Bringing the Centre to the Hinterland\u003cbr\u003eChancery Courts\u003cbr\u003eThe Rise of Inferior Tribunals\u003cbr\u003eNew Superior Courts and Professional Courts of Appeal in the Canadas\u003cbr\u003eProcedural Reform\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Sources of Law and Law Reform\u003cbr\u003eSources of Law in Common Law Jurisdictions\u003cbr\u003eSources of Law: The Civil Law\u003cbr\u003eSources of Law: The Civil Code of Lower Canada\u003cbr\u003eStatutes: Making and Remaking Local Laws and Societies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Indigenous Law in British North America\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous Governance in an Age of Settler Political Reform\u003cbr\u003eLegal Personality and Indigenous Agency\u003cbr\u003eLand Use and Citizenship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Legal Professions\u003cbr\u003eEntry and Governance\u003cbr\u003eThe Business of Lawyering\u003cbr\u003eThe Emergence of University Legal Education\u003cbr\u003eLegal Literature\u003cbr\u003eLaw Reporting\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Constitutional Developments I: European-Indigenous Relations, the Old Colonial System, and the Rebellions, 1815–ca 1839\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous Peoples, Treaties, and the Constitution in Eastern British North America\u003cbr\u003eThe Settler Constitution: Executives, Councils, and Assemblies\u003cbr\u003eRebellion and Repression in the Canadas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Constitutional Developments II: The Act of Union, Responsible Government, and the Origins of Acculturation Policy, ca 1840–1866\u003cbr\u003eThe Settler Constitution after the Rebellions: The Union of the Canadas and Responsible Government\u003cbr\u003eThe Settler Constitutions and Responsible Government\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous Peoples and the \u0026amp;#x2018;Civilizing Mission\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003cbr\u003eSettlement and Colonization in the West\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Criminal Justice I: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Policing\u003cbr\u003eThe Age of Reform: The Demise of Capital and Corporal Punishment\u003cbr\u003eDissatisfaction with Physical Punishments\u003cbr\u003eThe Search for Penal Reform and the Rise of the Penitentiary\u003cbr\u003ePolicing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Criminal Justice II: The Criminal Trial\u003cbr\u003eThe Criminal Process: Judges, Juries, and Procedure\u003cbr\u003eProsecution by Counsel for the Crown\u003cbr\u003eDefence Counsel before the Mid-1830s\u003cbr\u003eThe Prisoners\u0026amp;#x2019; Counsel Acts and Their Effect\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Land Law and Policy: Titles, Tenure, Squatters, Indigenous Dispossession, and the Rights and Obligations of Ownership\u003cbr\u003eUpper Canada: Clergy Reserves and Aliens\u0026amp;#x2019; Titles\u003cbr\u003eLower Canada: Competing Land Law Systems and Seigneuralism\u003cbr\u003ePrince Edward Island: Landlordism\u003cbr\u003eLand Titles and Squatters in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick\u003cbr\u003eNewfoundland: The Formalization of Possessory Title\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous Peoples\u0026amp;#x2019; Continued Dispossession\u003cbr\u003eThe Rights and Obligations of Land Ownership\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Law and the Economy I: Common Law, Statutes, and the Emergence of the Corporation\u003cbr\u003eJudges, Private Law, and the Economy\u003cbr\u003eColonial Statutes and the Market\u003cbr\u003eThe Emergence and Growth of Corporations to 1850\u003cbr\u003eThe 1850s and 1860s: Corporate Growth and Sectoral Incorporation\u003cbr\u003eLimited Liability and the Morality of the Corporation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Law and the Economy II: Debtor-Creditor Law\u003cbr\u003eImprisonment for Debt\u003cbr\u003eBankruptcy Laws\u003cbr\u003eInsolvency: A Clash of Ideologies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Less Favoured by Law I: Blacks and Workers\u003cbr\u003eBlacks and the Law: Not Slaves, but Not Equal\u003cbr\u003eSegregated Schools\u003cbr\u003eFugitive Former Slaves and Extradition\u003cbr\u003eLabour and the Law\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Less 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