Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume III: Nova Scotia

by Philip Girard (Editor), Jim Phillips (Editor)

Overview

This third volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law presents thoroughly researched, original essays in Nova Scotian legal history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442613591
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	10/23/2011
Series:	Essays in the History of Canadian Law , #3
Pages:	390
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Philip Girard is a University Research Professor and a professor in the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Jim Phillips is a professor in the Faculty of Law and Department of History at the University of Toronto and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors Abbreviations

1. Introduction

The Legal System: An Overview
2. 'The Dayly Cry for Justics': The Juridical Failure of the Annapolis Royal Regime, 1713-1749
3. The Superior Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1754- 1900: A Collective Biography
4. Married Women's Property, Chancery Abolition, and Insolvency Law: Law Reform in Nova Scotia, 1820-1867

The Criminal Law in Society
5. Poverty, Unemployment, and the Administration of the Criminal Law: Vagrancy Laws in Halifax, 1864-1890
6. From Bridewell to Federal Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Nova Scotia before 1880
7. Raised in Rockhead. Died in the Poor House': Female Petty Criminals in Halifax, 1864-1890

Woman, The Family, and the Law
8. Divorce in Nova Scotia, 1750-1890
9. Child Custody and Divorce: A Nova Scotia Study, 1866-1910

Law and Economy
10. The Mines Arbitration Act, 1888: Compulsory Arbitration in Context
11. From Private Property to Public Resource: The Emergence of Administration Control of Water in Nova Scotia

Index

Editorial Reviews

'The appearance of Volume III with its focus on the legal history of Nova Scotia represents an

important new contribution, both because of its differing perspectives from eastern Canada and

because the new volume aptly demonstrates the increasing scope of legal history that has occurred

over the past decade in Canada ... As a series of essays on the regional legal history of Nova

Scotia, this volume is exceptional; as a microcosm of the issues that need to be researched and

analysed - questions about law reform, about criminal law and punishment, about families and family

life, and about law and the economy—this volume is a contribution to a more textured

understanding of Canadian legal history as a whole.'
— Mary Jane Mossman

The Canadian Bar Review

'The essays are thus an important manifestation of the "new" legal history and open up many insights

and avenues for both the Canadian legal historian and the comparativist. Most striking, however, is

the coherent picture of the scope and role of the legal order in nineteenth century Nova Scotia that

begins to emerge.'
— L. Kinvin Wroth

American Review of Canadian Studies

'A major contribution to both regional and national historiography.'
— Greg Marquis

Acadiensis

'The appearance of Volume III with its focus on the legal history of Nova Scotia represents an important new contribution, both because of its differing perspectives from eastern Canada and because the new volume aptly demonstrates the increasing scope of legal history that has occurred over the past decade in Canada ... As a series of essays on the regional legal history of Nova Scotia, this volume is exceptional; as a microcosm of the issues that need to be researched and analysed - questions about law reform, about criminal law and punishment, about families and family life, and about law and the economy - this volume is a contribution to a more textured understanding of Canadian legal history as a whole.'

Mary Jane Mossman, The Canadian Bar Review

'A major contribution to both regional and national historiography.'

Greg Marquis, Acadiensis

'The essays are thus an important manifestation of the "new" legal history and open up many insights and avenues for both the Canadian legal historian and the comparativist. Most striking, however, is the coherent picture of the scope and role of the legal order in nineteenth century Nova Scotia that begins to emerge.'

L. Kinvin Wroth, American Review of Canadian Studies

From the Publisher

'A major contribution to both regional and national historiography.'

Acadiensis - Greg Marquis

'The essays are thus an important manifestation of the .new. legal history and open up many insights

and avenues for both the Canadian legal historian and the comparativist. Most striking, however, is

the coherent picture of the scope and role of the legal order in nineteenth century Nova Scotia that

begins to emerge.'

American Review of Canadian Studies - L. Kinvin Wroth

'The appearance of Volume III with its focus on the legal history of Nova Scotia represents an

important new contribution, both because of its differing perspectives from eastern Canada and

because the new volume aptly demonstrates the increasing scope of legal history that has occurred

over the past decade in Canada ... As a series of essays on the regional legal history of Nova

Scotia, this volume is exceptional; as a microcosm of the issues that need to be researched and

analysed - questions about law reform, about criminal law and punishment, about families and family

life, and about law and the economy—this volume is a contribution to a more textured

understanding of Canadian legal history as a whole.'

The Canadian Bar Review - Mary Jane Mossman