Essays in the History of Canadian Law

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Essays in the History of Canadian Law is written by George Blain Baker and published by University of Toronto Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1442657804 (ISBN 10) and 9781442657809 (ISBN 13).

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were students of Professor Risk, and represent some of the best and most original work in the area of Canadian legal history. They cover a number of important topics that range from the form of the criminal trial in the eighteenth century, to debates over the meaning of property in the nineteenth, and to lawyer/poet Tom MacInnes's views on the law of aboriginal title in the twentieth century.