03498nam 2200661 450 991081367890332120230501055327.01-4426-9921-310.3138/9781442699212(CKB)2670000000185824(OCoLC)793385416(CaPaEBR)ebrary10553793(SSID)ssj0000646495(PQKBManifestationID)11383557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646495(PQKBWorkID)10685799(PQKB)10244075(CEL)438815(CaBNVSL)slc00228666(DE-B1597)465250(OCoLC)979584934(DE-B1597)9781442699212(Au-PeEL)EBL4673016(CaPaEBR)ebr11258665(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105906(MiAaPQ)EBC4673016(EXLCZ)99267000000018582420160926h20112011 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrLawyers and legal culture in British North America Beamish Murdoch of Halifax /Philip GirardToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2011.©20111 online resource (297 p.) Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History1-4426-4410-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Antecedents -- Apprenticeship -- The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: Organization and Mobility -- The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-1827 -- The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-1850 -- The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer: Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government -- Law and Politics in the Colonial City: Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-1860 -- Law, Identity and Improvement: Murdoch as Cultural Producer."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 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."--Pub. desc.Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.LawyersNova ScotiaBiographyPractice of lawNova ScotiaHistory19th centuryHalifax (N.S.)BiographyLawyersPractice of lawHistory340.092Girard Philip949736Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813678903321Lawyers and legal culture in British North America4050719UNINA