Colonial justice
Subtitle: justice, morality, and crime in the Niagara district, 1791-1849
By: David Murray.
Contributors: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Publisher: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- Ontario -- Niagara Peninsula -- History -- 19th century.; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Ontario -- Niagara Peninsula -- History -- 18th century.
Description: "In 1791, when the Constitutional Act created a legislative assembly for Upper Canada, the colonists and their British rulers decreed that the operating criminal justice system in the area be adopted from England, to avoid any undue influence from the nearby United States. In this study of early Canadian law, David Murray delves into the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of criminal court records surviving from Upper Canada, to analyse the criminal justice system in the district during the first half of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-267) and index.