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Girard Philip |
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Lawyers and legal culture in British North America : Beamish Murdoch of Halifax / / Philip Girard |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Collana |
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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |
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Soggetti |
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Lawyers - Nova Scotia |
Practice of law - Nova Scotia - History - 19th century |
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Halifax (N.S.) Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Antecedents -- 3. Apprenticeship -- 4. The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: Organization and Mobility -- 5. The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-7 -- 6. The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-50 -- 7. The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer: Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government -- 8. Law and Politics in the Colonial City: Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-60 -- 9. Law, Identity, and Improvement: Murdoch as Cultural Producer -- 10. Epilogue -- 11. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index |
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From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North American lawyers created a distinctive Canadian template for the profession by combining the strong collective governance of the English tradition with the high degree of creativity and client responsiveness characteristic of U.S. lawyers - a mix that forms the basis of the legal profession in Canada today.Girard provides |
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a unique window on the interconnections between lawyers' roles as community leaders and as legal professionals. 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. |
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