04057nam 2200757 450 991081141050332120230327051242.01-4426-5816-91-4426-5699-910.3138/9781442656994(CKB)3710000000324309(EBL)3296786(SSID)ssj0001547688(PQKBManifestationID)16145133(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001547688(PQKBWorkID)14797516(PQKB)11723721(CEL)418759(OCoLC)905361970(CaBNVSL)thg00602333(DE-B1597)465564(OCoLC)1013938801(OCoLC)944178702(DE-B1597)9781442656994(Au-PeEL)EBL4669995(CaPaEBR)ebr11256509(OCoLC)958564930(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106866(MiAaPQ)EBC4669995(EXLCZ)99371000000032430920160921h20052005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEssays in the history of canadian lawVolume 9 two islands, newfoundland and Prince Edward island /edited by Christopher EnglishToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2005.©20051 online resource (438 p.)Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal HistoryIncludes index.1-4875-9838-6 0-8020-9043-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One: Historiography -- 1 The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland -- 2 The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island -- Part Two: The Administration of Justice -- 3 Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769-1805 -- 4 Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland -- 5 The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826-33 -- Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance -- 6 Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes -- 7 Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834 -- 8 'The Duty of Every Man': Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828-1905 -- Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women -- 9 'Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You': Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 -- 10 Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757-1823 -- 11 'Out of Date in a Good Many Respects': The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945-9 -- Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law -- 12 Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce -- 13 The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.This volume, which includes a number of essays examining women's legal status and access to the courts, is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of legal history in two Canadian provinces.Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.LawCanadaHistoryLawNewfoundland and LabradorHistoryLawPrince Edward IslandHistoryLAW / Legal HistorybisacshLawHistory.LawHistory.LawHistory.LAW / Legal History.941.085092 English ChristopherOsgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811410503321Essays in the history of Canadian law3939056UNINA