{"product_id":"a-history-of-law-in-canada-volume-one-9781487547462","title":"A History of Law in Canada Volume One","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA History of Law in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada  the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[This] is the best synthesis of a field I have ever seen and should be required reading for all historians of Canada. It is astonishingly all-encompassing, examining not just the history of the evolution of the Canadian constitution, […] derived from France and Britain, but also the history of the Indigenous system of law.\" -- Philip Buckner, University of New Brunswick * \u003cem\u003eBritish Journal of Canadian Studies\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword Acknowledgments   PART ONE: INTRODUCTION   1 Introduction Legal Pluralism in Empires and Nations Indigenous Law in History: Methodological and Theoretical Issues Liberty and Order Overview: Historiography and Periodization   2 Roots: Indigenous Legal Traditions Indigenous Legal Traditions: Basic Features Indigenous Law: Process and Content   3 Roots: French Legal Traditions The Roman Legacy The Emergence of the French Customs Institutional Development Legal Education, the Legal Professions, and the Role of Doctrine The Constitution   4 Roots: British Legal Traditions The Anglo-Saxon Legacy Institutional Development after 1066 and the Emergence of the Common Law Legal Education, the Legal Professions, and the Role of Doctrine The Constitution   PART TWO: EUROPEAN CHARTERED ENTERPRISE, NEW FRANCE, AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH INDIGENOUS LAW, 1500–1701   5 Early Contacts, Early Charters   6 Law and Governance in the French Possessions: Public Law and the Growth of Institutions From Seigneurial Fief to Royal Colony: Institutional Development Seigneurial Law Notaries Civil Procedure Criminal Procedure   7 Law and Governance in the English Possessions Newfoundland: From Company to Proprietorship to Anti-Colony Rupert’s Land: The Emergence of a Company-State   8 The Interface of European and Indigenous Law   9 French Private Law The French Customs The Law of Marriage and the Family The Law of Family Property: Matrimonial Regimes and Succession The Law of Obligations   10 The Early Modern Legacy   PART THREE: THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701–1815   11 Constitutional Law in the Long Eighteenth Century The Politico-Military Context The Legal Contexts Slavery, Race, and the Constitution   12 New France\/Quebec\/Lower Canada: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples New France before 1760 Quebec\/Lower Canada after 1760 Relations with Indigenous Peoples   13 The British Colonies of Settlement: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island Upper Canada   14 The British Commercial Territories: Newfoundland and Rupert’s Land Justice beyond the Settlement Frontier: The Challenge of Remoteness Newfoundland Rupert’s Land   15 The Legal Professions   16 Criminal Law and Criminal Justice English Criminal Law in the Eighteenth Century The Reception of English Criminal Law in British North America Punishment in Practice Bringing an Offender to Court: Policing and Prosecution The Criminal Courts: Pretrial Procedures The Criminal Trial   17 Indigenous Law   18 Private Law: The Civil Law 320 The Civil Law to 1760: Canada, Acadia, Louisbourg 320 The Civil Law after 1760: The Emergence of a Mixed Legal Tradition 324   19 Private Law: The Common Law   20 The Early Modern Legacy   PART FOUR: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1815–1860s   21 Law in British North America, 1815–1866: Introduction   22 Court Systems and Judicial Personnel The Development of a British North American Judiciary Separation of Powers, Appointment and Removal of Judges, and Judicial Remuneration Circuit Systems: Bringing the Centre to the Hinterland Chancery Courts The Rise of Inferior Tribunals New Superior Courts and Professional Courts of Appeal in the Canadas Procedural Reform   23 Sources of Law and Law Reform Sources of Law in Common Law Jurisdictions Sources of Law: The Civil Law Sources of Law: The Civil Code of Lower Canada Statutes: Making and Remaking Local Laws and Societies   24 Indigenous Law in British North America Indigenous Governance in an Age of Settler Political Reform Legal Personality and Indigenous Agency Land Use and Citizenship   25 The Legal Professions Entry and Governance The Business of Lawyering The Emergence of University Legal Education Legal Literature Law Reporting   26 Constitutional Developments I: European-Indigenous Relations, the Old Colonial System, and the Rebellions, 1815–ca 1839 Indigenous Peoples, Treaties, and the Constitution in Eastern British North America The Settler Constitution: Executives, Councils, and Assemblies Rebellion and Repression in the Canadas   27 Constitutional Developments II: The Act of Union, Responsible Government, and the Origins of Acculturation Policy, ca 1840–1866 The Settler Constitution after the Rebellions: The Union of the Canadas and Responsible Government The Settler Constitutions and Responsible Government Indigenous Peoples and the ‘Civilizing Mission’ Settlement and Colonization in the West   28 Criminal Justice I: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Policing The Age of Reform: The Demise of Capital and Corporal Punishment Dissatisfaction with Physical Punishments The Search for Penal Reform and the Rise of the Penitentiary Policing   29 Criminal Justice II: The Criminal Trial The Criminal Process: Judges, Juries, and Procedure Prosecution by Counsel for the Crown Defence Counsel before the Mid-1830s The Prisoners’ Counsel Acts and Their Effect   30 Land Law and Policy: Titles, Tenure, Squatters, Indigenous Dispossession, and the Rights and Obligations of Ownership Upper Canada: Clergy Reserves and Aliens’ Titles Lower Canada: Competing Land Law Systems and Seigneuralism Prince Edward Island: Landlordism Land Titles and Squatters in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Newfoundland: The Formalization of Possessory Title Indigenous Peoples’ Continued Dispossession The Rights and Obligations of Land Ownership   31 Law and the Economy I: Common Law, Statutes, and the Emergence of the Corporation Judges, Private Law, and the Economy Colonial Statutes and the Market The Emergence and Growth of Corporations to 1850 The 1850s and 1860s: Corporate Growth and Sectoral Incorporation Limited Liability and the Morality of the Corporation   32 Law and the Economy II: Debtor-Creditor Law Imprisonment for Debt Bankruptcy Laws Insolvency: A Clash of Ideologies   33 Less Favoured by Law I: Blacks and Workers Blacks and the Law: Not Slaves, but Not Equal Segregated Schools Fugitive Former Slaves and Extradition Labour and the Law   34 Less Favoured by Law II: Women and the Law Common Law Married Women’s Property: Equity and Statutory Change The Common Law: Unmarried Parents Divorce The Civil Law: Married Women’s Property The Civil Law: Unmarried Parents   35 Law and Legal Institutions on the Eve of Confederation: The British North American Legacy   Abbreviations Notes Illustration Credits Statutory and Proclamation Index Name Index Topical Index history of law in canada\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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