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Author Young, Brian J., 1940-

Title The politics of codification : the Lower Canadian Civil Code of 1866 / Brian Young
Published [Montreal?] : McGill-Queen's University Press [for] the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies on the history of Quebec
Studies on the history of Quebec.
Contents 1. The Legal Landscape -- 2. Attitudes to Codification before the Rebellions -- 3. The Political Will to Codify, 1838-57 -- 4. The Codifiers -- 5. Politics of the Codification Commission, 1857-66 -- 6. The Commission at Work -- 7. The Persistence of Customary Law: Married Women as Traders -- 8. 'Wittingly and Willingly': The Law of Obligations -- 9. Conclusion
Summary Brian Young interprets codification as part of a larger process that included the collapse of the Lower Canadian rebellions, the decline of seigneurialism, expansion of bourgeois democracy in central Canada, professionalization of the bar, and formation of the institutional state. Central to codification was a profound ideological shift in Lower Canadian society that gave priority to exchange and individual property rights. Young examines the evolution of codification from its nationalist origins in the 1820s and 1830s into a Civil Code that was integral to Confederation and became a flagship of bilingualism in Quebec. The formation of the commission, the work of the codifiers, and the reaction of the anglophone minority and the Roman Catholic hierarchy are considered, as is the Code's meticulous blending of a conservative social vision with the principles of freedom of property
The Politics of Codification will be of great interest to students of law, members of the legal professions, and Canadian social and legal historians
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Québec (Province). Civil Code of Lower Canada -- History
SUBJECT Civil Code of Lower Canada (Québec (Province)) fast
Zivilgesetzbuch <1866> swd
Subject Civil law -- Political aspects -- Québec (Province)
Civil law -- Québec (Province) -- Codification
Civil law -- Québec (Province) -- History
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LAW -- Civil Law.
Civil law
Civil law -- Codification
Civil law -- Political aspects
Politics and government
Geschichte.
Kodifikation.
SUBJECT Québec (Province) -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85109777
Subject Québec
Québec Provinz
Kanada.
Québec.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94900701
ISBN 9780773565043
0773565043
1282857177
9781282857179
9786612857171
661285717X