Bøger i Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History serien
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- Prince Edward County, 1884
373,95 - 593,95 kr. The Lazier Murder explores a community's response to a crime, as well as the realization that it may have contributed to a miscarriage of justice.
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- 373,95 kr.
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- Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914
587,95 kr. The third volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines Canadian legal responses to real or perceived threats to the safety and security of the state from 1840 to 1914, a period of extensive challenges associated with fundamental political and socio-economic change.
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- 587,95 kr.
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- Judicial Power and the Shaping of Canadian Federalism
523,95 kr. Comprehensive, ambitious, and detailed, The Lawmakers will be the definitive work on the evolution of the law of Canadian federalism.
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- 523,95 kr.
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- Reuben Wells Leonard and the Leonard Foundation Trust
561,95 kr. An exploration of Canadian values and beliefs as filtered through the ideologies of Colonel Reuben Wells Leonard, the Leonard Trust, and the law governing private discriminatory action.
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- 561,95 kr.
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- Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
856,95 - 1.038,95 kr. The history of the foundations of modern carceral institutions in Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of previously unexplored primary material, Oliver provides a narrative and interpretative account of the penal system in 19th-century Ontario.
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- 856,95 kr.
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- Collected Essays
898,95 kr. Written over more than two decades, and covering the immediate post-Confederation period to the 1960s, these essays reveal a distinctive Canadian tradition of thinking about the nature and functions of law, one which Risk clearly takes pride in and urges us to celebrate.
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- 898,95 kr.
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- Historical Essays
898,95 kr. The African Canadian Legal Odyssey explores the history of African Canadians and the law from the era of slavery until the early twenty-first century.
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- 898,95 kr.
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- Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969
398,95 - 718,95 kr. Misconceptions argues that child welfare measures which simultaneously seek to rescue children and punish errant women will not, and cannot, succeed in alleviating child or maternal poverty.
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- 398,95 kr.
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- The Life of Justice Emmett Hall
708,95 kr. Aggressive in Pursuit traces Hall's career from his earliest days of private practice in Saskatchewan to the end of his career, and death, in 1994. It shows how one prairie lawyer made a difference in the life of Canada.
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- 708,95 kr.
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- From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle
993,95 kr. Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history.
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- 993,95 kr.
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- Seduction in Canadian Law
462,95 kr. Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century Canada - breaches of duty leading to liability for damages for seduction, breach of promise of marriage, and criminal conversation.
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- 462,95 kr.
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- Beamish Murdoch of Halifax
673,95 kr. Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history.
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- 673,95 kr.
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- A Biographical History
898,95 kr. This fascinating study offers an intimate look at personalities ranging from prime ministers to members of the bench and both senior levels of government.
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- 898,95 kr.
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- Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island
928,95 kr. This volume, which includes a number of essays examining women's legal status and access to the courts, is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of legal history in two Canadian provinces.
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- 928,95 kr.
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- The Diaries of Ontario Chief Justice Robert A. Harrison, 1856-1878
993,95 kr. Although unusual in his driving ambitions and his consuming need to accumulate a fortune, Harrison remained in most respects thoroughly conventional and Victorian, and his diary offers unrivalled insights into the voice of the mid-nineteenth century Toronto male.
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- 993,95 kr.
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- Law and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution
509,95 kr. Murray Greenwood is one of Canada's finest legal historians. In this work his wide perspective, supported by extensive documentation, brings new evidence and insight to a formative and somewhat neglected period in Canada's history.
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- 509,95 kr.
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974,95 kr. This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of "sex killers" while the death penalty was in effect in Canada.
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- 974,95 kr.
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- Law as Large as Life
693,95 kr. Supported with the warmth and generosity of Wilson?s numerous personal anecdotes, this work illuminates the life and throught of a woman who has left an extraordinary mark on Canada?s legal landscape.
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- 693,95 kr.
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- The Life of J.L. Cohen
479,95 kr. Though Cohen rose to the top of his profession, he had a difficult, complex private life that contributed to his personal disgrace and professional downfall.
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- 479,95 kr.
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- Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958
413,95 kr. This exploration of the complex and often contradictory web of racial attitudes and the values of white legal elites not only exposes how blackness was articulated in Canadian law but also offers a rare glimpse of black life as experienced in Canada's past.
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- 413,95 kr.
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- Quebec and the Canadas
1.013,95 kr. The essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and Lower Canada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederation of the British North America colonies in 1867.
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- 1.013,95 kr.
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- Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792-2013
598,95 kr. Christopher Moore's history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario traces the evolution of one of Canada's most influential courts from its origins to the post-Charter years.
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- 598,95 kr.
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- Low Law and the Sessions System in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867
800,95 kr. Petty Justice examines 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.
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- 800,95 kr.
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- An Autobiography
863,95 kr. Searching for Justice is Kaufman's remarkable story in his own words. It is the tale of adversity overcome in a crucial period of Canadian legal history.
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- 863,95 kr.
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- A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
513,95 kr. A richly textured narrative that seeks to capture the role played by the law in the definition of race and shoring up of racial repression in Canada.
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- 513,95 kr.
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- A History, 1875-1992
1.038,95 kr. This book is an authoritative history of the Federal Court of Canada. The judges' work in various areas of substantive law provides illustrations of the functioning of the Court in the adjudication of disputes.
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- 1.038,95 kr.
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378,95 - 783,95 kr. A meticulously researched and revisionist study of the nineteenth-century Ontario's Married Women's Property Acts. They were important landmarks in the legal emancipation of women.
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- 378,95 kr.
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- Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832
492,95 - 933,95 kr. The Rule of the Admirals sheds light on one of the most misunderstood chapters in Canadian and British colonial history.
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- 492,95 kr.
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- British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900
720,95 kr. Using the career histories of judges who challenged the system, Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered illuminates issues of judicial tenure, accountability, and independence throughout the British Empire.
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- 720,95 kr.
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- The Jury in Nineteenth-Century Canada
758,95 kr. A Trying Question traces the history of the jury in Canada and links its nineteenth-century decline to the rise of the professional class.
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- 758,95 kr.