A History of Law in Canada, Volume One: Beginnings to 1866
Files
Available in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library
Description
This book is the first of two volumes devoted to the history of law in Canada. This volume begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, while volume two will start with Confederation and end at approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors and legal culture. The book assumes that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods.
The history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated and mediated by inter-cultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including family law, constitutional, commercial, land settlement and tenure, and criminal.
ISBN
9781487504632
Publication Date
2018
Publisher
Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press
City
Toronto
Disciplines
Law | Legal History
Repository Citation
Girard, Philip; Phillips, Jim; and Brown, R. Blake, "A History of Law in Canada, Volume One: Beginnings to 1866" (2018). Books. 374.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/374