The Authorship of Certain Papers in the Lower Canada Jurist
Author: Seaman Morley Scott
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 342
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Author: Seaman Morley Scott
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank M. Greenwood
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1993-12-15
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1442655542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provides the answer. Greenwood re-creates a Quebec in which trust between French and English Canadians was an early casualty of the execution of Louis XVI and the descent of the French Revolution through terror into war. Fearing invasion, the English community, through the law officers of the crown, drafted draconian legislation and established an efficient counter-intelligence service. Lower Canada in these years was a hotbed of spies and counter-intelligence, highlighted by the trial for high treason of an American undercover agent for revolutionary France. Placing the legal history of Quebec in the foreground of these dangerous and dramatic events, Greenwood reveals this period as a turning point that altered not only French-English relations but Canada's legal and constitutional inheritance. While the focus is on legal and political history, the narrative also details intellectual, military, social, and economic developments. The author pursues many dynamic themes of the period including the riots among working people in the 1790s; the differences in judicial behaviour when security matters were at stake; the setting up of the first formal counter-intelligence service, and issues related to the suspension of habeas corpus. 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.
Author: University of Michigan. Office of Research Administration
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 1464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Strachan Bethune
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A view of the civil government and administration of justice in the province of Canada while it was subject to the crown of France," by William Hey: 48 p. at end of v. 1.
Author: A. L. Burt
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1968-01-15
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780771097379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough two volumes, Professor Burt traces events leading to old Quebec's collapse: the influx of the Loyalists; the troubled and often brilliant administrations of a succession of British governors; and finally the extinction, by constitutional act, of the old province of Quebec.
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Published: 1933
Total Pages: 424
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hilda Neatby
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Louis Knafla
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1554581575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow is modern-day thinking about crime different from that of previous centuries? What are the similarities and differences in attitudes and systems between the civil and common law societies of Europe and North America? These and other questions were addressed at an international conference on crime and criminal justice at The University of Calgary attended by historians, professors of law, judges, and criminologists. The essays in Part I consider the evolution of criminal law doctrine, and those in Part II analyse the theory and measurement of crime in the past and at present. Parts III and IV examine the courts and prosecution, and Part V assesses the historical roots of the insanity defence and the theory and practice of punishment. The volume will be of interest, across national boundaries, to historians, sociologists, social workers, lawyers, and persons involved in the administration of justice as well as the general reader concerned about civil rights, social values, and justice. The eighteen contributors include F.H. Baker, J.M. Beattie, W.A. Calder, T.C. Curtis, D. Hay, H. Diederiks, A. Lachance, His Honour W.G. Morrow, A. Soman, and S. Verdun-Jones.