LEADER 04869nam 22008054a 450 001 9910780858503321 005 20231206210539.0 010 $a1-282-45701-2 010 $a9786612457012 010 $a0-7748-1493-4 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774814935 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(Au-PeEL)EBL3412627 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348945 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245701 035 $a(OCoLC)923446767 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/89qx85 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412627 035 $a(DE-B1597)662342 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774814935 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3265425 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; 330 $aThe essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. Exploring themes of legal translation, local understandings, judicial biography, and "law at the boundaries," they examine the legal cultures of dominions in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to provide a contextual and comparative account of the "incomplete implementation of the British constitution" in these colonies. 410 0$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 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-$01500080 701 $aBuck$b A. R$01500081 701 $aBerger$b Benjamin L.$f1977-$01500082 712 02$aOsgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780858503321 996 $aThe grand experiment$93726602 997 $aUNINA