Christopher English is an Honorary Research Professor in the Department of History at Memorial.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction CHRISTOPHER ENGLISHPart One: Historiography The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland CHRISTOPHER ENGLISHThe Legal Historiography of Prince Edward IslandJ.M. BUMSTEDPart Two: The Administration of Justice Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769–1805J.M. BUMSTEDSurgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland JERRY BANNISTERThe Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826–33NINA JANE GOUDIEPart Three: Property Law and Inheritance Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis ForbesBRUCE KERCHER AND JODIE YOUNGDefining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834TRUDI JOHNSON‘The Duty of Every Man’: Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828–1905MICHEL STAIRSPart Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women‘Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You’: Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860WILLEEN L. KEOUGHWomen in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757–1823 KRISTA L. SIMON‘Out of Date in a Good Many Respects’: The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945–9LAURA BROWNPart Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and JarndyceBAVID M. BULGER The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947CHRISTOPHER ENGLISHIndex

Christopher English is an Honorary Research Professor in the Department of History at Memorial.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction CHRISTOPHER ENGLISHPart One: Historiography The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland CHRISTOPHER ENGLISHThe Legal Historiography of Prince Edward IslandJ.M. BUMSTEDPart Two: The Administration of Justice Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769–1805J.M. BUMSTEDSurgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland JERRY BANNISTERThe Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826–33NINA JANE GOUDIEPart Three: Property Law and Inheritance Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis ForbesBRUCE KERCHER AND JODIE YOUNGDefining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834TRUDI JOHNSON‘The Duty of Every Man’: Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828–1905MICHEL STAIRSPart Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women‘Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You’: Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860WILLEEN L. KEOUGHWomen in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757–1823 KRISTA L. SIMON‘Out of Date in a Good Many Respects’: The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945–9LAURA BROWNPart Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and JarndyceBAVID M. BULGER The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947CHRISTOPHER ENGLISHIndex

Christopher English is an Honorary Research Professor in the Department of History at Memorial.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction CHRISTOPHER ENGLISHPart One: Historiography The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland CHRISTOPHER ENGLISHThe Legal Historiography of Prince Edward IslandJ.M. BUMSTEDPart Two: The Administration of Justice Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769–1805J.M. BUMSTEDSurgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland JERRY BANNISTERThe Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826–33NINA JANE GOUDIEPart Three: Property Law and Inheritance Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis ForbesBRUCE KERCHER AND JODIE YOUNGDefining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834TRUDI JOHNSON‘The Duty of Every Man’: Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828–1905MICHEL STAIRSPart Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women‘Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You’: Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860WILLEEN L. KEOUGHWomen in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757–1823 KRISTA L. SIMON‘Out of Date in a Good Many Respects’: The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945–9LAURA BROWNPart Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and JarndyceBAVID M. BULGER The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947CHRISTOPHER ENGLISHIndex