Lawyers and legal culture in British North America : Beamish Murdoch of Halifax / Philip Girard.

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Girard, Philip

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Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : Published for the Osgoode Society for Legal History by University of Toronto Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : portrait, digital fileContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781442699212
1442699213
9781442644106
1442644109

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America : Beamish Murdoch of Halifax.DDC classification:

340.092 23

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KE411.M86 G57 2011eb

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Contents:

Antecedents -- Apprenticeship -- The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: Organization and Mobility -- The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-1827 -- The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-1850 -- The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer: Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government -- Law and Politics in the Colonial City: Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-1860 -- Law, Identity and Improvement: Murdoch as Cultural Producer.

Summary: "From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North American lawyers created a distinctive Canadian template for the profession by combining the strong collective governance of the English tradition with the high degree of creativity and client responsiveness characteristic of U.S. lawyers - a mix that forms the basis of the legal profession in Canada today. Girard provides a unique window on the interconnections between lawyers' roles as community leaders and as legal professionals. 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 America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history."--Pub. desc.

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"From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North American lawyers created a distinctive Canadian template for the profession by combining the strong collective governance of the English tradition with the high degree of creativity and client responsiveness characteristic of U.S. lawyers - a mix that forms the basis of the legal profession in Canada today. Girard provides a unique window on the interconnections between lawyers' roles as community leaders and as legal professionals. 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 America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history."--Pub. desc.

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