David H. Flaherty is a professor emeritus in the Department of History and the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He now specializes in the management of privacy and information issues.

'This well researched and lucidly written collection is placed extremely well in the social, economic and political history of the subject.' - Albert Kiralfy (The International and Comparative Law Quarterly) 'Both the Osgoode Society and Professor Flaherty are to be commended for their parts in fostering and publishing these works of significant quality.' - John P.S. McLaren (The Canadian Bar Review) 'From almost every standpoint it is an exceptional accomplishment. The mature scholarship in this volume testifies again to the careful and insistent hand of editor Flaherty.' - Bradley Adams (Ontario History)

• Table of Contents Foreword Preface Contributors1.Instruments of Commerce and Authority: The Civil Courts in Upper Canada 1789-1812 2.Legal Education in Upper Canada 1785-1889: The law Society as Educator 3.'The Ten Thousand Pound Job': Political Corruption, Equitable Jurisdiction, and the Public Interest in Upper Canada 1852-6 4.Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape-Law 1800-92 5.Law and Ideology: The Toronto Police Court 1850-80 6.The Kamloops Outlaws and Commissions of Assize in Nineteenth-Century British Colombia 7.Private Rights and Public Purposes in the Lakes, Rivers, and Streams of Ontario 1870-1930 8.'The Nuisance of Litigation': The Origins of Workers' Compensation in Ontario 9.The Evolution of the Ontario Courts 1788-1981Table of CasesIndex

David H. Flaherty is a professor emeritus in the Department of History and the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He now specializes in the management of privacy and information issues.

'This well researched and lucidly written collection is placed extremely well in the social, economic and political history of the subject.' - Albert Kiralfy (The International and Comparative Law Quarterly) 'Both the Osgoode Society and Professor Flaherty are to be commended for their parts in fostering and publishing these works of significant quality.' - John P.S. McLaren (The Canadian Bar Review) 'From almost every standpoint it is an exceptional accomplishment. The mature scholarship in this volume testifies again to the careful and insistent hand of editor Flaherty.' - Bradley Adams (Ontario History)

• Table of Contents Foreword Preface Contributors1.Instruments of Commerce and Authority: The Civil Courts in Upper Canada 1789-1812 2.Legal Education in Upper Canada 1785-1889: The law Society as Educator 3.'The Ten Thousand Pound Job': Political Corruption, Equitable Jurisdiction, and the Public Interest in Upper Canada 1852-6 4.Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape-Law 1800-92 5.Law and Ideology: The Toronto Police Court 1850-80 6.The Kamloops Outlaws and Commissions of Assize in Nineteenth-Century British Colombia 7.Private Rights and Public Purposes in the Lakes, Rivers, and Streams of Ontario 1870-1930 8.'The Nuisance of Litigation': The Origins of Workers' Compensation in Ontario 9.The Evolution of the Ontario Courts 1788-1981Table of CasesIndex

David H. Flaherty is a professor emeritus in the Department of History and the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario. He now specializes in the management of privacy and information issues.

'This well researched and lucidly written collection is placed extremely well in the social, economic and political history of the subject.' - Albert Kiralfy (The International and Comparative Law Quarterly) 'Both the Osgoode Society and Professor Flaherty are to be commended for their parts in fostering and publishing these works of significant quality.' - John P.S. McLaren (The Canadian Bar Review) 'From almost every standpoint it is an exceptional accomplishment. The mature scholarship in this volume testifies again to the careful and insistent hand of editor Flaherty.' - Bradley Adams (Ontario History)

• Table of Contents Foreword Preface Contributors1.Instruments of Commerce and Authority: The Civil Courts in Upper Canada 1789-1812 2.Legal Education in Upper Canada 1785-1889: The law Society as Educator 3.'The Ten Thousand Pound Job': Political Corruption, Equitable Jurisdiction, and the Public Interest in Upper Canada 1852-6 4.Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape-Law 1800-92 5.Law and Ideology: The Toronto Police Court 1850-80 6.The Kamloops Outlaws and Commissions of Assize in Nineteenth-Century British Colombia 7.Private Rights and Public Purposes in the Lakes, Rivers, and Streams of Ontario 1870-1930 8.'The Nuisance of Litigation': The Origins of Workers' Compensation in Ontario 9.The Evolution of the Ontario Courts 1788-1981Table of CasesIndex