Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Abbreviations xiii
7. Maps xiv
8. Part I: Introduction
9. 1. Introduction 3
10. 2. Origins: The Courts of Westminster Hall in the Eighteenth Century 13
11. 3. Colonial and Imperial Contexts 30
12. Part 2: Overviews
13. 4. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Origins to Confederation 53
14. 5. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Confederation to the Twenty-First Century 140
15. 6. A Collective Biography of the Supreme Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000 204
16. 7. Halifax Homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court 243
17. Part 3: Case Studies
18. 8. Michaelmas Term 1754: The Supreme Court's First Session 259
19. 9. Women as Litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830 294
20. 10. Her Majesty's Yankees: American Authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901 321
21. 11. Instrumentalism and the Law of Injuries in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia 361
22. 12. Confederation, Adjudicative Culture, and the Law of the Constitution: The Late Nineteenth-Century Persistence of Local Autonomy in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court 392
23. 13. 'To Err Is Human, to Forgive Divine': The Labour Relations Board and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965 449
24. Appendix: The Records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court 491
25. Illustration Credits 503
26. Index 507
27. Backmatter 540