LEADER 04304nam 2200673 450 001 9910460092403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-2177-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442621770 035 $a(CKB)3710000000268218 035 $a(EBL)3295764 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420475 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12598955 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420475 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11403775 035 $a(PQKB)10904987 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669256 035 $a(CEL)448952 035 $a(OCoLC)898086013 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00235315 035 $a(CaOKQ)4501329-queensdb-Voyager 035 $a(CaOKQ)4839424-queensdb-Voyager 035 $a(DE-B1597)465558 035 $a(OCoLC)894227552 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442621770 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669256 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11255799 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000268218 100 $a20160919h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPetty justice $elow law and the sessions system in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867 /$fPaul Craven 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cPublished for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (562 pages) 225 1 $aOsgoode Society for Canadian Legal History 311 $a1-4426-4991-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tList of Tables --$tForeword --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. Introduction: High law, low law, not law --$tChapter 2. The trials of David Owen, 1787-1803 --$tChapter 3. High noon at Campobello: St Andrews and the islands in the 1820s --$tChapter 4. The empire strikes back: Executive action, 1824-32 --$tChapter 5. In the woods: Low law and the Crown Land Office --$tChapter 6. ?Unconnected with mercantile pursuits?: The justice business, 1840-1 --$tChapter 7. Hatheway?s civil docket, 1847-67 --$tChapter 8. Hatheway?s crown docket, 1847-67 --$tChapter 9. Called to account: Justices, assemblymen, and ratepayers --$tChapter 10. Three ships: Poverty, paternalism, and politics atmid-century --$tChapter 11. The temperance magistrates: License and prohibition --$tChapter 12. The sessions system in decline --$tAppendix A. Reference tables --$tAppendix B. Commission of the Peace, 1845 --$tAppendix C. Sources cited --$tBibliography --$tIndex of Names --$tTopical Index --$tBackmatter 330 $aUntil the late nineteenth-century, the most common form of local government in rural England and the British Empire was administration by amateur justices of the peace: the sessions system. Petty Justice uses an unusually well-documented example of the colonial sessions system in Loyalist New Brunswick to examine the role of justices of the peace and other front-line low law officials like customs officers and deputy land surveyors in colonial local government.Using the rich archival resources of Charlotte County, Paul Craven discusses issues such as the impact of commercial rivalries on local administration, the role of low law officials in resolving civil and criminal disputes and keeping the peace, their management of public works, social welfare, and liquor regulation, and the efforts of grand juries, high court judges, colonial governors, and elected governments to supervise them. A concluding chapter explains the demise of the sessions system in Charlotte County in the decade of Confederation. 410 0$aOsgoode Society for Canadian Legal History (Series) 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zNew Brunswick$zCharlotte$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJustice, Administration of$xHistory. 676 $a347.715/33 700 $aCraven$b Paul$f1950-$0869383 712 02$aOsgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 712 02$aWalter de Gruyter & Co. 712 02$aUniversity of Toronto Press, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460092403321 996 $aPetty justice$91940991 997 $aUNINA