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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IX
Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island
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2005
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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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English Christopher :
Christopher English is an Honorary Research Professor in the Department of History at Memorial.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Contributors
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Introduction
1 - Part One: Historiography
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1. The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland
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2. The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island
39 - Part Two: The Administration of Justice
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3. Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769–1805
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4. Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland
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5. The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826–33
115 - Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance
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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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7. Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834
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8. ‘The Duty of Every Man’: Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828–1905
217 - Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women
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9. ‘Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You’: Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860
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10. Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757–1823
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11. ‘Out of Date in a Good Many Respects’: The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945–9
300 - Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law
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12. Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce
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13. The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947
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Index
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December 15, 2005
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