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