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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808105803321

Titolo

Essays in the history of Canadian law . Volume VIII In honour of R.C.B. Risk / / editors, G. Blaine Baker, Jim Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-4426-5780-4

1-4426-2079-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (607 pages)

Collana

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Disciplina

349.71

Soggetti

Law - Canada - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Special Acknowledgment -- Contributors -- 1. Richard C.B. Risk: A Tribute -- 2. R.C.B. Risk’s Canadian Legal History -- 3. ‘Your Conscience Will Be Your Own Punishment’: The Racially Motivated Murder of Gus Ninham, Ontario, 1902 -- 4. Ontario Water Quality, Public Health, and the Law, 1880–1930 -- 5. ‘The Modern Spirit of the Law’: Blake, Mowat, and the Breaches of Contract Act, 1877 -- 6. A Romance of the Lost: The Role of Tom MacInnes in the History of the British Columbia Indian Land Question -- 7. Taking Litigation Seriously: The Market Wharf Controversy at Halifax, 1785–1820 -- 8. ‘Our Arctic Brethren’: Canadian Law and Lawyers as Portrayed in American Legal Periodicals, 1829–1911 -- 9. Conservative Insurrection: Great Strikes and Deep Law in Cleveland, Ohio, and London, Ontario, 1898–1899 -- 10. Gooderham & Worts: A Case Study in Business Organization in Nineteenth-Century Ontario -- 11. The Sacred Rights of Property: Title, Entitlement, and the Land Question in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island -- 12. Race and the Criminal Justice System in British Columbia, 1892–1920: Constructing Chinese Crimes -- 13. Power, Politics, and the Law: The Place of the Judiciary in the Historiography of Upper Canada -- 14. The Criminal Trial in Nova Scotia, 1749–1815 -- 15. ‘The Disquisitions of Learned Judges’: Making Manitoba Lawyers,



1885–1931 -- 16. The Law of Evolution and the Evolution of the Law: Mills, Darwin, and Late-Nineteenth-Century Legal Thought -- R.C.B. Risk Bibliography -- Publications of The Osgoode Society

Sommario/riassunto

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were students of Professor Risk, and represent some of the best and most original work in the area of Canadian legal history. They cover a number of important topics that range from the form of the criminal trial in the eighteenth century, to debates over the meaning of property in the nineteenth, and to lawyer/poet Tom MacInnes's views on the law of aboriginal title in the twentieth century.