Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One: Historiography
8. 1. The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland 19
9. 2. The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island 39
10. Part Two: The Administration of Justice
11. 3. Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769–1805 49
12. 4. Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland 79
13. 5. The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826–33 115
14. Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance
15. 6. Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes 147
16. 7. Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834 192
17. 8. ‘The Duty of Every Man’: Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828–1905 217
18. Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women
19. 9. ‘Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You’: Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860 237
20. 10. Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757–1823 272
21. 11. ‘Out of Date in a Good Many Respects’: The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945–9 300
22. Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law
23. 12. Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce 323
24. 13. The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947 357
25. Index 391