Essays in the history of Canadian law / Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Toronto : University of Toronto Press for The Osgoode Society, 1981-2005.

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Law -- Canada -- History.

Law -- Canada.

Lawyers -- Canada -- History.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- Canada -- History.

Volume 1.

1. Writing Canadian legal history: an introduction

2. Hudson's Bay company law: Adam Thom and the institution of order in Rupert's Land 1839-54

3. The law and the economy in mid-nineteenth-century Ontario: a perspective

4. William Hume Blake and the Judicature Acts of 1849: the process of legal reform at mid-century in upper Canada

5. The law of master and servant in mid-nineteenth-century Ontario

6. Shifting patterns in nineteenth-century Canadian custody law

7. The origins of the Canadian Criminal Code

8. Judicial conservatism in an age of innovation: comparative perspectives on Canadian nuisance law 1880-1950

9. Quebec's legal elite looks at women's rights: the Dorion Commission 1929-31

10. An annotated bibliography of statutes and related publications Upper Canada, the Province of Canada, and Ontario 1792-1980

Volume 2.

1. Instruments of commerce and authority: the Civil Courts in Upper Canada 1789-1812

2. Legal education in Upper Canada 1785-1889: the law society as educator

3. The ten thousand pound job': political corruption, equitable jurisdiction, and the public interest in Upper Canada 1852-6

4. Nineteenth-century Canadian rape law 1800-92

5. Law and ideology: the Toronto Police Court 1850-80

6. The Kamloops Outlaws and Commissions of Assize in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia

7. Private rights and public purposes in the lakes, rivers, and streams of Ontario 1870-1930

8. 'This nuisance of litigation': the origins of workers' compensation in Ontario

9. The evolution of the Ontario Courts 1788-1981

Volume 3. Nova Scotia

1. Introduction

The legal system: an overview

2. 'The Dayly cry for justice': The juridical failure of the Annapolis Royal Regime, 1713-1749

3. The Superior Court judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1754-1900: a collective biography

4. Married women's property, chancery abolition, and insolvency law: law reform in Nova Scotia, 1820-1867

The criminal law in society

5. Poverty, unemployment, and the administration of the criminal law: vagrancy laws in Halifax, 1864-1890

6. From Bridewell to Federal penitentiary: prisons and punishment in Nova Scotia before 1880

7. 'Raised in Rockhead. Died in the poor house': female petty criminals in Halifax, 1864-1890

Women, the family, and the law

8. Divorce in Nova Scotia, 1750-1890

9. Child custody and divorce: A Nova Scotia study, 1866-1910

Law and economy

10. The Mines Arbitration Act, 1888: compulsory arbitration in context

11. From private property to public resource: the emergence of administrative control of water in Nova Scotia

Volume 4. Beyond the law : lawyers and business in Canada, 1830-1930

1. Introduction: beyond the law - lawyers and business in Canada, 1830 to 1930

2. Law practice and statecraft in mid-nineteenth-century Montreal: The Torrance-Morris Firm, 1848 to 1868

3. Dimensions of a law practice: brokerage and ideology in the career of George-Étienne Cartier

4. Lawyers as members of urban business élites in Southern Ontario, 1860 to 1920

5. McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin, and Creelman, 1882 to 1902: establishing a reputation, building a practice

6. E. E. A DuVernet, Kc: lawyer, capitalist, 1866 to 1915

7. International corporate law from a maritime base: the Halifax firm of Harris, Henry, and Cahan

8. The lawyer as entrepreneur: Robert Home Smith in early-twentieth-century Toronto

9. 'It is every man for himself': Winnipeg lawyers and the law business, 1870 to 1903

10. Lawyers, finance, and economic development in Southwestern Alberta, 1884 to 1920

11. Richard 'Bonfire' Bennett: the legal practice of a prairie corporate lawyer, 1898 to 1913

12. Ideology, social capital, and entrepreneurship: lawyers and business in Red Deer, Alberta, 1900 to 1920

13. 'High-powered lawyers, veteran lobbyists, cunning propagandists': Canadian lawyers and the Beauharnois Scandal

14. A perspective from the United States

15. Lawyers and business in England, 1750 to 1950

Volume 5. Crime and criminal justice

1. Introduction

Native peoples and the criminal law

2. Native sovereignty and French justice in early Canada

3. 'The Queen's law is better than yours': international homicide in early British Columbia

4. The road from Bute Inlet: crime and colonial identity in British Columbia

5. Violence, marriage, and family honour: aspects of the legal regulation of marriage in New France

6. Women, crime, and criminal justice in early Halifax, 1750-1800

7. Patriarchy modified: the criminal prosecution of rape in York County, Ontario, 1880-1930

8. Prosecution of abortions under Canadian law, 1900-1950

Criminal justice institutions and state authority

9. Between the old order and modern times: poverty, criminality, and power in Quebec, 1791-1840

10. Rebel as magistrate: William Lyon Mackenzie and his enemies

11. Violence, law, and community in rural Upper Canada

12. Crime and punishment in Middlesex County, Ontario, 1871-1920

Canadian prisons in the nineteenth century

13. Prison as factory, convict as worker: a study of the mid-Victorian St John Penitentiary, 1841-1880

14. Prisoners for profit: convict labour in the Ontario Central Prison, 1874-1915

15. 'To govern by kindness': the first two decades of the Mercer Reformatory for Women

Volume 6. British Columbia and the Yukon

1. Hard choices and sharp edges: the legal history of British Columbia and the Yukon

Part I: Aboriginal people and the law

2. Letting go the bone: the idea of Indian title in British Columbia, 1849-1927

3. 'Where Is the justice, Mr Mills?': a case study of R. v. Nantuck

4. Tonto's due; law, culture, and colonization in British Columbia

Part II: Vice, crime, and policing

5. Swift justice and the decline of the criminal trial jury: the dynamics of law and authority in Victoria, BC, 1858-1905

6. A Distant edge of authority: capital punishment and the prerogative of mercy in British Columbia, 1872-1880

7. Vancouver vice: the police and the negotiation of morality, 1904-1935

8. The making of criminal insanity in British Columbia: Granby Farrant and the Provincial Mental Home, Colquitz, 1919-1933

Part III: Religion and education

9. Judgments of Solomon: law, doctrine, and the cridge controversy of 1872-1874

10. Creating 'slaves of satan' or 'new Canadians'?: the law, education, and the socialization of Doukhobor children, 1911-1935

Part IV: Labour and social welfare

11. After Union Colliery: law, race, and class in the coalmines of British Columbia

12. For God, country, and the public purse: 'liberal' politics and the campaign for Family Courts in British Columbia, 1939-1945

Part V: The legal profession

13. Fighting spirits: the Yukon legal profession, 1898-1912

14. Exclusionary tactics: the history of women and visible minorities in the legal profession in British Columbia

Volume 7. Inside the law

1. Introduction: inside the law - Canadian law firms in historical perspective

2. The making of a colonial lawyer: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax, 1822-1842

3. Aemilius Irving: solicitor to the Great Western Railway, 1855-1872

4. The Campbell, Meredith Firm of Montreal: a case-study of the role of Canadian business lawyers, 1895-1913

5. The transformation of an establishment firm: From Beatty Blackstock to Faskens, 1902-1915

6. Élite relationships, partnership arrangements, and nepotism at Blakes, a Toronto law firm, 1858-1942

7. The George F. Downes firm in the development of Edmonton and its region, 1903-1930

8. Corporate entrepreneurship in Atlantic Canada: The Stewart Law Firm, 1915-1955

9. Goodall and Cairns: commercial, corporate, and energy law in Alberta, 1920-1942

10. A family firm in transition: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt in the 1950s and 1960s

11. Dominant professionals: the role of large-firm lawyers in Manitoba

12. Raymond and Honsberger: a small firm that stayed small, 1889-1989

13. 'A small United Nations': The Hamilton firm of Millar, Alexander, Tokiwa, and Isaacs, 1962-1993

14. Law on the Pacific Coast: Bull, Housser and Tupper, 1945-1990

15. Hierarchy in practice: the significance of gender in Ontario law firms

Volume 8. In honour of R.C.B. Risk

1. Richard C.B. Risk: a tribute

2. R.C.B. Risk's Canadian legal history

3. 'Your conscience will be your own punishment': the racially motivated murder of Gus Ninham, Ontario, 1902

4. Ontario water quality, public health, and the law, 1880-1930

5. 'The modern spirit of the law': Blake, Mowat, and the Breaches of Contract Act, 1877

6. A romance of the lost: the role of Tom MacInnes in the history of the British Columbia Indian Land question

7. Taking litigation seriously: the Market Wharf controversy at Halifax, 1785-1820

8. 'Our Arctic brethren': Canadian Law and lawyers as portrayed in American legal periodicals, 1829-1911

9. Conservative insurrection: great strikes and deep law in Cleveland, Ohio, and London, Ontario, 1898-1899

10. Gooderham & Worts: a case study in business organization in nineteenth-century Ontario

11. The sacred rights of property: title, entitlement, and the land question in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island

12. Race and the criminal justice system in British Columbia, 1892-1920: constructing Chinese crimes

13. Power, politics, and the law: the place of the judiciary in the historiography of Upper Canada

14. The criminal trial in Nova Scotia, 1749-1815

15. The disquisitions of learned judges': making Manitoba lawyers, 1885-1931

16. The law of evolution and the evolution of the law: Mills, Darwin, and late-nineteenth-century legal thought

Volume 9. Two islands: Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island

Part One: historiography

1. The legal historiography of Newfoundland

2. The legal historiography of Prince Edward Island

Part Two: The administration of justice

3. Politics and the administration of justice on early Prince Edward Island, 1769-1805

4. Surgeons and criminal justice in eighteenth-century Newfoundland

5. The Supreme Court on circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826-33

Part Three: Property law and inheritance

6. Formal and informal law in two new lands: land law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes

7. Defining property for inheritance: the Chattels Real Act of 1834

8. 'The duty of every man': intestacy law and family-inheritance practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828-1905

Part Four: Legal status and access to the courts by women

9. Now you vagabond [w]hore I have you': plebeian women, assault cases, and gender relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860

10. Women in the courts of Placentia District, 1757-1823

11. 'Out of date in a good many respects': the legal status and judicial treatment of Newfoundland women, 1945

Part Five: Litigation in chancery and at common law

12. Bowley v. Cambridge: a colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce

13. The judges go to court: the Cashin libel trial of 1947.

Edited by David H. Flaherty (volume 1-2) ; Philip Girard and Jum Phillips (volume 3) ; Carol Wilton (volume 4) ; Jim Phillips, Tina Loo and Susan Lewthwaite (volume 5) ; Hamar Foster and John McLaren (volume 6) ; Carol Wilton (volume 7) ; G. Blaine Baker and Jim Phillips (volume 8) ; Christopher English (volume 9).

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9 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.