TY  - GEN
T1  - Lawyers and legal culture in British North America : Beamish Murdoch of Halifax
T2  - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
A1  - Girard, Philip
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto Ont.
PB  - Published for the Osgoode Society for Legal History by University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2011
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn793385416
AB  - "From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North American lawyers created a distinctive Canadian template for the profession by combining the strong collective governance of the English tradition with the high degree of creativity and client responsiveness characteristic of U.S. lawyers - a mix that forms the basis of the legal profession in Canada today. Girard provides a unique window on the interconnections between lawyers' roles as community leaders and as legal professionals. Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history."--Pub. desc.
OP  - 279
CN  - KE411.M86 G57 2011eb
SN  - 9781442699212
SN  - 1442699213
SN  - 9781442644106
SN  - 1442644109
KW  - Murdoch, Beamish, : 1800?-1876.
KW  - Murdoch, Beamish, : 1800?-1876
KW  - Lawyers : Nova Scotia : Biography.
KW  - Practice of law : Nova Scotia : History : 19th century.
KW  - Halifax (N.S.) : Biography.
KW  - Droit : Pratique : Nouvelle-Écosse : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Lawyers & Judges.
KW  - LAW : Legal History.
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Practice of law
KW  - Nova Scotia
KW  - Nova Scotia : Halifax
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
ER  -