Colonial justice: justice, morality and crime in the Niagara district, 1791-1849
"In 1791, when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this study of early Canadian law, David Murray delves into the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of criminal court records surviving from Upper Canada, to analyse the criminal justice system in…
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- Full title :Colonial justice : justice, morality and crime in the Niagara district, 1791-1849 / David Murray.
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"In 1791, when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this study of early Canadian law, David Murray delves into the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of criminal court records surviving from Upper Canada, to analyse the criminal justice system in the district during the first half of the nineteenth century."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2002
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto [Ontario]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2002
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : : maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781442623408, 1442623403
- oclc:ocn903968111
- LC Classification:KEO176
- Dewey Decimal:364/.09713/38
Table of Contents
Introduction -- 1 The Paradise of Upper Canada -- Part One: Justice. 2 Courts, District Rulers, and Crown Servants -- 3 Servants of the Court.
Part Two: Morality. 4 Enforcing a Christian Moral Order -- 5 Intruders upon the Precincts of Crime -- 6 The Cold Hand of Charity.
Part Three: Crime. 7 Crimes and Punishments -- 8 Criminal Victims -- 9 Criminal Boundaries -- 10 Hands Across the Border.
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