Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. PART ONE Introduction
6. 1. Introduction 3
7. 2. Roots: Indigenous Legal Traditions 26
8. 3. Roots: French Legal Traditions 42
9. 4. Roots: British Legal Traditions 60
10. PART TWO: European Chartered Enterprise, New France, and the Encounter with Indigenous Law, 1500–1701
11. 5. Early Contacts, Early Charters 83
12. 6. Law and Governance in the French Possessions: Public Law and the Growth of Institutions 92
13. 7. Law and Governance in the English Possessions 129
14. 8. The Interface of European and Indigenous Law 139
15. 9. French Private Law 150
16. 10. The Early Modern Legacy 167
17. PART THREE: The Long Eighteenth Century, 1701–1815
18. 11. Constitutional Law in the Long Eighteenth Century 175
19. 12. New France/Quebec/Lower Canada: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples 216
20. 13. The British Colonies of Settlement: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples 227
21. 14. The British Commercial Territories: Newfoundland and Rupert’s Land 252
22. 15. The Legal Professions 267
23. 16. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 275
24. 17. Indigenous Law 303
25. 18. Private Law: The Civil Law 320
26. 19. Private Law: The Common Law 338
27. 20. The Early Modern Legacy 364
28. PART FOUR: British North America, 1815–1860s
29. 21. Law in British North America, 1815–1866: Introduction 373
30. 22. Court Systems and Judicial Personnel 379
31. 23. Sources of Law and Law Reform 411
32. 24. Indigenous Law in British North America 447
33. 25. The Legal Professions 466
34. 26. Constitutional Developments I: European-Indigenous Relations, the Old Colonial System, and the Rebellions, 1815–ca 1839 488
35. 27. Constitutional Developments II: The Act of Union, Responsible Government, and the Origins of Acculturation Policy, ca 1840–1866 515
36. 28. Criminal Justice I: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Policing 543
37. 29. Criminal Justice II: The Criminal Trial 565
38. 30. Land Law and Policy: Titles, Tenure, Squatters, Indigenous Dispossession, and the Rights and Obligations of Ownership 587
39. 31. Law and the Economy I: Common Law, Statutes, and the Emergence of the Corporation 618
40. 32. Law and the Economy II: Debtor-Creditor Law 646
41. 33. Less Favoured by Law I: Blacks and Workers 662
42. 34. Less Favoured by Law II: Women and the Law 683
43. 35. Law and Legal Institutions on the Eve of Confederation: The British North American Legacy 702
44. Abbreviations 707
45. Notes 711
46. Illustration Credits 887
47. Statutory and Proclamation Index 889
48. Name Index 891
49. Topical Index 895