Philip Girard is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.Jim Phillips is a professor emeritus of law and history at the University of Toronto.

'The appearance of Volume III with its focus on the legal history of Nova Scotia represents an important new contribution, both because of its differing perspectives from eastern Canada and because the new volume aptly demonstrates the increasing scope of legal history that has occurred over the past decade in Canada ... As a series of essays on the regional legal history of Nova Scotia, this volume is exceptional; as a microcosm of the issues that need to be researched and analysed — questions about law reform, about criminal law and punishment, about families and family life, and about law and the economy — this volume is a contribution to a more textured understanding of Canadian legal history as a whole.' - Mary Jane Mossman (The Canadian Bar Review) 'The essays are thus an important manifestation of the "new" legal history and open up many insights and avenues for both the Canadian legal historian and the comparativist. Most striking, however, is the coherent picture of the scope and role of the legal order in nineteenth century Nova Scotia that begins to emerge.' - L. Kinvin Wroth (American Review of Canadian Studies) 'A major contribution to both regional and national historiography.' - Greg Marquis (Acadiensis)

• Table of Contents ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsAbbreviations1.Introduction The Legal System: An Overview2.'The Dayly Cry for Justics': The Juridical Failure of the Annapolis Royal Regime, 1713-1749 3.The Superior Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1754- 1900: A Collective Biography 4.Married Women's Property, Chancery Abolition, and Insolvency Law: Law Reform in Nova Scotia, 1820-1867 The Criminal Law in Society5.Poverty, Unemployment, and the Administration of the Criminal Law: Vagrancy Laws in Halifax, 1864-1890 6.From Bridewell to Federal Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Nova Scotia before 1880 7.Raised in Rockhead. Died in the Poor House': Female Petty Criminals in Halifax, 1864-1890Woman, The Family, and the Law8.Divorce in Nova Scotia, 1750-1890 9.Child Custody and Divorce: A Nova Scotia Study, 1866-1910Law and Economy10.The Mines Arbitration Act, 1888: Compulsory Arbitration in Context 11.From Private Property to Public Resource: The Emergence of Administration Control of Water in Nova ScotiaIndex

Philip Girard is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.Jim Phillips is a professor emeritus of law and history at the University of Toronto.

'The appearance of Volume III with its focus on the legal history of Nova Scotia represents an important new contribution, both because of its differing perspectives from eastern Canada and because the new volume aptly demonstrates the increasing scope of legal history that has occurred over the past decade in Canada ... As a series of essays on the regional legal history of Nova Scotia, this volume is exceptional; as a microcosm of the issues that need to be researched and analysed — questions about law reform, about criminal law and punishment, about families and family life, and about law and the economy — this volume is a contribution to a more textured understanding of Canadian legal history as a whole.' - Mary Jane Mossman (The Canadian Bar Review) 'The essays are thus an important manifestation of the "new" legal history and open up many insights and avenues for both the Canadian legal historian and the comparativist. Most striking, however, is the coherent picture of the scope and role of the legal order in nineteenth century Nova Scotia that begins to emerge.' - L. Kinvin Wroth (American Review of Canadian Studies) 'A major contribution to both regional and national historiography.' - Greg Marquis (Acadiensis)

• Table of Contents ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsAbbreviations1.Introduction The Legal System: An Overview2.'The Dayly Cry for Justics': The Juridical Failure of the Annapolis Royal Regime, 1713-1749 3.The Superior Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1754- 1900: A Collective Biography 4.Married Women's Property, Chancery Abolition, and Insolvency Law: Law Reform in Nova Scotia, 1820-1867 The Criminal Law in Society5.Poverty, Unemployment, and the Administration of the Criminal Law: Vagrancy Laws in Halifax, 1864-1890 6.From Bridewell to Federal Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Nova Scotia before 1880 7.Raised in Rockhead. Died in the Poor House': Female Petty Criminals in Halifax, 1864-1890Woman, The Family, and the Law8.Divorce in Nova Scotia, 1750-1890 9.Child Custody and Divorce: A Nova Scotia Study, 1866-1910Law and Economy10.The Mines Arbitration Act, 1888: Compulsory Arbitration in Context 11.From Private Property to Public Resource: The Emergence of Administration Control of Water in Nova ScotiaIndex

Philip Girard is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.Jim Phillips is a professor emeritus of law and history at the University of Toronto.

'The appearance of Volume III with its focus on the legal history of Nova Scotia represents an important new contribution, both because of its differing perspectives from eastern Canada and because the new volume aptly demonstrates the increasing scope of legal history that has occurred over the past decade in Canada ... As a series of essays on the regional legal history of Nova Scotia, this volume is exceptional; as a microcosm of the issues that need to be researched and analysed — questions about law reform, about criminal law and punishment, about families and family life, and about law and the economy — this volume is a contribution to a more textured understanding of Canadian legal history as a whole.' - Mary Jane Mossman (The Canadian Bar Review) 'The essays are thus an important manifestation of the "new" legal history and open up many insights and avenues for both the Canadian legal historian and the comparativist. Most striking, however, is the coherent picture of the scope and role of the legal order in nineteenth century Nova Scotia that begins to emerge.' - L. Kinvin Wroth (American Review of Canadian Studies) 'A major contribution to both regional and national historiography.' - Greg Marquis (Acadiensis)

• Table of Contents ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsAbbreviations1.Introduction The Legal System: An Overview2.'The Dayly Cry for Justics': The Juridical Failure of the Annapolis Royal Regime, 1713-1749 3.The Superior Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1754- 1900: A Collective Biography 4.Married Women's Property, Chancery Abolition, and Insolvency Law: Law Reform in Nova Scotia, 1820-1867 The Criminal Law in Society5.Poverty, Unemployment, and the Administration of the Criminal Law: Vagrancy Laws in Halifax, 1864-1890 6.From Bridewell to Federal Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Nova Scotia before 1880 7.Raised in Rockhead. Died in the Poor House': Female Petty Criminals in Halifax, 1864-1890Woman, The Family, and the Law8.Divorce in Nova Scotia, 1750-1890 9.Child Custody and Divorce: A Nova Scotia Study, 1866-1910Law and Economy10.The Mines Arbitration Act, 1888: Compulsory Arbitration in Context 11.From Private Property to Public Resource: The Emergence of Administration Control of Water in Nova ScotiaIndex