A history of law in Canada, volume 1: beginnings to 1866

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 320
• 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 Reform
• 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 1840–1866
• 28 Criminal Justice I: Criminal Law, Punishment, and Policing The Age of Reform: The Demise of Capital and Corporal Punishment
• 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 Corporation
• 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 LegacyAbbreviations
• Notes
• Illustration Credits
• Statutory and Proclamation Index
• Name Index
• Topical Index