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A trying question the jury in nineteenth-century Canada / R. Blake Brown.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: 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).Description: 1 online resource (x, 335 pages : maps)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442685345
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KE8495 .T795 2009
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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