LEADER 04072nam 22007574a 450 001 9910456316303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-45701-2 010 $a9786612457012 010 $a0-7748-1493-4 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007473 035 $a(EBL)3265425 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000437285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11287052 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000437285 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10432219 035 $a(PQKB)10773094 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000643793 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12312269 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000643793 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10669226 035 $a(PQKB)11433788 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3265425 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412627 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348945 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245701 035 $a(OCoLC)923446767 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007473 100 $a20090129d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe grand experiment$b[electronic resource] $elaw and legal culture in British settler societies /$fedited by Hamar Foster, Benjamin L. Berger, and A.R. Buck 210 $aVancouver $cPublished by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by UBC Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (415 p.) 225 1 $aLaw and society,$x1496-4953 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7748-1492-6 311 $a0-7748-1491-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [352]-376) and index. 327 $aContents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Does Law Matter? The New Colonial Legal History; PART 1: AUTHORITY AT THE BOUNDARIES OF EMPIRE; 1 Libel and the Colonial Administration of Justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales, c. 1825-30; 2 The Limits of Despotic Government at Sea; 3 One Chief, Two Chiefs, Red Chiefs, Blue Chiefs: Newcomer Perspectives on Indigenous Leadership in Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories; 4 Rhetoric, Reason, and the Rule of Law in Early Colonial New South Wales 327 $a5 Sometimes Persuasive Authority: Dominion Case Law and English Judges, 1895-1970 PART 2: COURTS AND JUDGES IN THE COLONIES; 6 Courts, Communities, and Communication: The Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Circuit, 1816-50; 7 Fame and Infamy: Two Men of the Law in Colonial New Zealand; 8 Moving in an "Eccentric Orbit": The Independence of Judge Algernon Sidney Montagu in Van Diemen's Land, 1833-47; 9 "Not in Keeping with the Traditions of the Cariboo Courts": Courts and Community Identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1920-50; PART 3: PROPERTY, POLITICS, AND PETITIONS IN COLONIAL LAW 327 $a10 Starkie's Adventures in North America: The Emergence of Libel Law 11 The Law of Dower in New South Wales and the United States: A Study in Comparative Legal History; 12 Contesting Prohibition and the Constitution in 1850's New Brunswick; 13 From Humble Prayers to Legal Demands: The Cowichan Petition of 1909 and the British Columbia Indian Land Question; Afterword: Looking from the Past into the Future; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; 410 0$aLaw and society series (Vancouver, B.C.) 606 $aLaw$zGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory 606 $aLaw$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aIndians of North America$xLegal status, laws, etc$zCanada$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLaw$xColonies$xHistory. 615 0$aLaw$xHistory. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory. 676 $a349.41 701 $aFoster$b Hamar$f1948-$0857019 701 $aBuck$b A. R$0857020 701 $aBerger$b Benjamin L.$f1977-$0857021 712 02$aOsgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456316303321 996 $aThe grand experiment$91913819 997 $aUNINA