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6. Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes

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© 2016 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

© 2016 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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 ‘Out of Date in a Good Many Respects’: The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945–9 300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
Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IX
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https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442656994-010

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
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