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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810555703321

Autore

Craven Paul <1950->

Titolo

Petty justice : low law and the sessions system in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867 / / Paul Craven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-2178-8

1-4426-2177-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (562 pages)

Collana

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Disciplina

347.715/33

Soggetti

Justice, Administration of - New Brunswick - Charlotte - History

Charlotte (N.B.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : High Law, Low Law, No Law -- I. Petty Justices. 2. The Trials of David Owen -- 3. High Noon at Campobello -- 4. The Empire Strikes Back.

II. Doing Substantial Justice. 5. In the Woods -- 6. "Unconnected with Mercantile Pursuits" -- 7. Hatheway's Civil Docket 1847-67 -- 8. Hatheway's Crown Docket, 1847-67.

III. The Sessions System and Its Enemies. 9. Called to Account -- 10. Three Ships -- 11. The Temperance Magistrates -- 12. The Sessions System in Decline.

Appendices. A Reference Tables -- B Commission of the Peace, 1845 -- C Sources cited.

Sommario/riassunto

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.