| Description |
1 online resource (355 pages) |
| Series |
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |
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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- Part One: Juror Apathy and Allegations of Jury Packing, 1820s-1848 -- 1 Storms, Roads, and Harvest Time: The Jury System and Attitudes towards Jury Service in Nova Scotia -- 2 The Jury System and Attitudes towards Jury Service in Upper Canada -- 3 'The Bean Box': Reformers and the Politicization of the Jury System in Nova Scotia -- 4 Reformers, Rebellion, and the Jury System of Upper Canada -- Part Two: Responsible Government and the Jury, 1848-1867 -- 5 Responsible Government, the Magistrates' Affair, and the Breakdown of the Nova Scotia Jury System -- 6 Responsible Government and the 1850 Upper Canada Jury Act -- Part Three: The Decline of the Jury in Post-Confederation Canada, 1867-1880s -- 7 'We Have Now No Fears of Star Chamber Justice': The Decline of the Jury in Nova Scotia -- 8 'The Day Has Gone By for the Worship of Legal Idols': The Decline of the Jury in Ontario -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y |
| Summary |
A Trying Question traces the history of the jury in Canada and links its nineteenth-century decline to the rise of the professional class |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jury -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
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Jury
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442685345 |
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1442685344 |
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