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Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America : Beamish Murdoch of Halifax.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442699212
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North AmericaDDC classification:
  • 340.092
LOC classification:
  • KE411.M79 G573 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Antecedents -- 3 Apprenticeship -- 4 The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: Organization and Mobility -- 5 The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-7 -- 6 The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-50 -- 7 The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer: Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government -- 8 Law and Politics in the Colonial City: Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-60 -- 9 Law, Identity, and Improvement: Murdoch as Cultural Producer -- 10 Epilogue -- 11 Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: 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 Americamakes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history.
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Antecedents -- 3 Apprenticeship -- 4 The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: Organization and Mobility -- 5 The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-7 -- 6 The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-50 -- 7 The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer: Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government -- 8 Law and Politics in the Colonial City: Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-60 -- 9 Law, Identity, and Improvement: Murdoch as Cultural Producer -- 10 Epilogue -- 11 Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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 Americamakes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history.

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