| Description |
1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : portrait, digital file |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Murdoch, Beamish, 1800?-1876.
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| SUBJECT |
Murdoch, Beamish, 1800?-1876 fast |
| Subject |
Lawyers -- Nova Scotia -- Biography
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Practice of law -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 19th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
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LAW -- Legal History.
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Lawyers
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Practice of law
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| SUBJECT |
Halifax (N.S.) -- Biography
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| Subject |
Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia -- Halifax
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
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| LC no. |
2011290960 |
| ISBN |
9781442699212 |
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1442699213 |
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9781442644106 |
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1442644109 |
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