|
Showing 1 - 6 of
6 matches in All Departments
Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and
episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to
legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to
locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined
bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering
and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for
scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts-and why we
study them. Telling new stories-about a fishing vessel that became
the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young
Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of
police discipline and criminal procedure, and more-this book
presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition.
Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archive
records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in
interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details
of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details
of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized
people, show the many different ways of researching and
understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as
you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new
topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical
approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and
emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all
levels.
Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and
episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to
legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to
locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined
bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering
and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for
scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts-and why we
study them.Telling new stories-about a fishing vessel that became
the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young
Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of
police discipline and criminal procedure, and more-this book
presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition.
Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archival
records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in
interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details
of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details
of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized
people, show the many different ways of researching and
understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as
you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new
topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical
approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and
emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all
levels.
It is a matter of some difficulty for the English lawyer to predict
the effect of a misapprehension upon the formation of a contract.
The common law doctrine of mistake is a confused one, with
contradictory theoretical underpinnings and seemingly
irreconcilable cases. This book - now in paperback - explains the
common law doctrine through an examination of the historical
development of the doctrine in English law. Beginning with an
overview of contractual mistakes in Roman law, the book examines
how theories of mistake were received at various points into
English contract law, from Roman and civil law sources. These
transplants, made for pragmatic rather than principled reasons,
were combined in an uneasy manner with the pre-existing English
contract law. The book also examines the substantive changes
brought about in contractual mistake by the Judicature Act 1873 and
the fusion of law and equity. Through its historical examination of
mistake in contract law, the book provides not only insights into
the nature of innovation and continuity within the common law, but
also the fate of legal transplants.
It is a matter of some difficulty for the English lawyer to predict
the effect of a misapprehension upon the formation of a contract.
The common law doctrine of mistake is a confused one, with
contradictory theoretical underpinnings and seemingly
irreconcilable cases. This book explains the common law doctrine
through an examination of the historical development of the
doctrine in English law. Beginning with an overview of contractual
mistakes in Roman law, the book examines how theories of mistake
were received at various points into English contract law from
Roman and civil law sources. These transplants, made for pragmatic
rather than principled reasons, combined in an uneasy manner with
the pre-existing English contract law. The book also examines the
substantive changes brought about in contractual mistake by the
Judicature Act 1873 and the fusion of law and equity. Through its
historical examination of mistake in contract law, the book
provides not only insights into the nature of innovation and
continuity within the common law but also the fate of legal
transplants.
While challenges to authority are generally perceived as
destructive to legal order, this original collection of essays,
with Magna Carta at its heart, questions this assumption. In a
series of chapters concerned with different forms of challenges to
legal authority - over time, geographical place, and subject
matters both public and private - this volume demonstrates that
challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights
actually change the existing legal order rather than destroying it.
The chapters further explore how the myth of Magna Carta emerged
and its role in the pre-modern world; how challenges to authority
formed the basis of the recognition of rights in particular areas
within England; and how challenges to authority resulted in the
recognition of particular rights in the United States, Canada,
Australia and Germany. This is a uniquely insightful thematic
collection which proposes a new view into the processes of legal
change.
While challenges to authority are generally perceived as
destructive to legal order, this original collection of essays,
with Magna Carta at its heart, questions this assumption. In a
series of chapters concerned with different forms of challenges to
legal authority - over time, geographical place, and subject
matters both public and private - this volume demonstrates that
challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights
actually change the existing legal order rather than destroying it.
The chapters further explore how the myth of Magna Carta emerged
and its role in the pre-modern world; how challenges to authority
formed the basis of the recognition of rights in particular areas
within England; and how challenges to authority resulted in the
recognition of particular rights in the United States, Canada,
Australia and Germany. This is a uniquely insightful thematic
collection which proposes a new view into the processes of legal
change.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|