A history of law in Canada. Volume 1, Beginnings to 1866 / Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and R. Blake Brown.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1 Introduction -- 2 Roots: Indigenous Legal Traditions -- 3 Roots: French Legal Traditions -- 4 Roots: British Legal Traditions

PART TWO: EUROPEAN CHARTERED ENTERPRISE, NEW FRANCE, AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH INDIGENOUS LAW, 1500-1701. 5 Early Contacts, Early Charters -- 6 Law and Governance in the French Possessions: Public Law and the Growth of Institutions -- 7 Law and Governance in the English Possessions -- 8 The Interface of European and Indigenous Law -- 9 French Private Law -- 10 The Early Modern Legacy

PART THREE: THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701-1815. 11 Constitutional Law in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 12 New France/Quebec/Lower Canada: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples -- 13 The British Colonies of Settlement: Political Institutions, Courts, and Relations with Indigenous Peoples -- 14 The British Commercial Territories: Newfoundland and Rupert's Land -- 15 The Legal Professions -- 16 Criminal Law and Criminal Justice -- 17 Indigenous Law -- 18 Private Law: The Civil Law -- 19 Private Law: The Common Law -- 20 The Early Modern Legacy

PART FOUR: BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, 1815-1860s. 21 Law in British North America, 1815-1866: Introduction -- 22 Court Systems and Judicial Personnel -- 23 Sources of Law and Law ReformSources of Law in Common Law Jurisdictions -- 24 Indigenous Law in British North America -- 25 The Legal Professions -- 26 Constitutional Developments I: European-Indigenous Relations, the Old Colonial System, and the Rebellions, 1815-ca 1839 -- 27 Constitutional Developments II: The Act of Union, Responsible Government, and the Origins of Acculturation Policy, ca 1840-1866T -- 28 Criminal Justice I: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Policing -- 29 Criminal Justice II: The Criminal Trial -- 30 Land Law and Policy: Titles, Tenure, Squatters, Indigenous Dispossession, and the Rights and Obligations of Ownership -- 31 Law and the Economy I: Common Law, Statutes, and the Emergence of the CorporationJudges, Private Law, and the Economy -- 32 Law and the Economy II: Debtor-Creditor Law -- 33 Less Favoured by Law I: Blacks and Workers -- 34 Less Favoured by Law II: Women and the Law -- 35 Law and Legal Institutions on the Eve of Confederation: The British North American Legacy.

This volume presents a history of the development of three legal traditions in Canada - the Indigenous, the French, and the English.

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