Lawyers and legal culture in British North America : Beamish Murdoch of Halifax /
"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 A...
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Published for the Osgoode Society for Legal History by University of Toronto Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttj0t |
Table of Contents:
- Antecedents
- Apprenticeship
- The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: Organization and Mobility
- The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-1827
- The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-1850
- The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer: Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government
- Law and Politics in the Colonial City: Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-1860
- Law, Identity and Improvement: Murdoch as Cultural Producer.