A trying question the jury in nineteenth-century Canada /
Brown, R. Blake.
A trying question the jury in nineteenth-century Canada / R. Blake Brown. - Toronto [Ont. : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (x, 335 pages : maps)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Storms, roads, and harvest time : the jury system and attitudes toward jury service in Nova Scotia -- The jury system and attitudes toward jury service in Upper Canada -- "The bean box" : reformers and the politicization of the jury system in Nova Scotia -- Reformers, rebellion, and the jury system of Upper Canada -- Responsible government, the magistrates' affair, and the breakdown of the Nova Scotia jury system -- Responsible government and the 1850 Upper Canada Jury Act -- "We have now no fears of star chamber justice" : the decline of the jury in Nova Scotia -- "The day has gone by for the worshop of legal idols" : the decline of the jury in Ontario -- Conclusion.
9781442685345
Jury--History--Canada--19th century.
Electronic Books.
KE8495 / .T795 2009
A trying question the jury in nineteenth-century Canada / R. Blake Brown. - Toronto [Ont. : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (x, 335 pages : maps)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Storms, roads, and harvest time : the jury system and attitudes toward jury service in Nova Scotia -- The jury system and attitudes toward jury service in Upper Canada -- "The bean box" : reformers and the politicization of the jury system in Nova Scotia -- Reformers, rebellion, and the jury system of Upper Canada -- Responsible government, the magistrates' affair, and the breakdown of the Nova Scotia jury system -- Responsible government and the 1850 Upper Canada Jury Act -- "We have now no fears of star chamber justice" : the decline of the jury in Nova Scotia -- "The day has gone by for the worshop of legal idols" : the decline of the jury in Ontario -- Conclusion.
9781442685345
Jury--History--Canada--19th century.
Electronic Books.
KE8495 / .T795 2009