George Blaine Baker is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.Donald Fyson is a professor in the Department of Historical Sciences at l’UniversitÉ Laval.

• Foreword Preface Introduction: Quebec and the Canadas, 1760 to 1867: A Legal Historiography G. BLAINE BAKER Les débuts de la littérature juridique québécoise, 1767-1840 SYLVIO NORMANDLes revendications des nouveaux sujets, francophones et catholiques, de la Province de Québec, 1764-1774MICHEL MORIN“A just and obvious distinction”: The Meaning of Imprisonment for Debt and the Criminal Law in Upper Canada’s Age of ReformJEFFREY L. M CNAIRNThe Law of Nations in the Borderlands: Sovereignty and Self-Defence in the Rebellion Period, 1837-1842BRADLEY MILLERMinority Groups and the Law in Quebec, 1760-1867DONALD FYSONÊtre « demanderesse » en Justice: Permanences civilistes dans la Province de Québec, de la Juridiction royale de Montréal (1740-1760) à la Cour des plaids communs de Montréal (1760-1791)DAVID GILLES“To shudder at the bare recital of those acts”: Child Abuse, Family, and Montreal Courts in the Early Nineteenth CenturyIAN C. PILAR CZYKMarried Women’s Property Law Reform, Couples, and Fraud in Canada West / Ontario, 1859-1900LORI CHAMBERSFrom Shaved Horses to Aggressive Churchwardens: Social and Legal Aspects of Moral Injury in Lower CanadaERIC H. REITER“Possession of arms among these men ... might lead to serious consequences”: Regulating Firearms in the Canadas, 1760-1867R. BLAKE BROWNGrand Juries and “Proper Authorities”: Low Law, Soft Law, and Local Governance in Canada West / Ontario, 1850-1880MARY STOKESContributors Index

George Blaine Baker is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.Donald Fyson is a professor in the Department of Historical Sciences at l’UniversitÉ Laval.

• Foreword Preface Introduction: Quebec and the Canadas, 1760 to 1867: A Legal Historiography G. BLAINE BAKER Les débuts de la littérature juridique québécoise, 1767-1840 SYLVIO NORMANDLes revendications des nouveaux sujets, francophones et catholiques, de la Province de Québec, 1764-1774MICHEL MORIN“A just and obvious distinction”: The Meaning of Imprisonment for Debt and the Criminal Law in Upper Canada’s Age of ReformJEFFREY L. M CNAIRNThe Law of Nations in the Borderlands: Sovereignty and Self-Defence in the Rebellion Period, 1837-1842BRADLEY MILLERMinority Groups and the Law in Quebec, 1760-1867DONALD FYSONÊtre « demanderesse » en Justice: Permanences civilistes dans la Province de Québec, de la Juridiction royale de Montréal (1740-1760) à la Cour des plaids communs de Montréal (1760-1791)DAVID GILLES“To shudder at the bare recital of those acts”: Child Abuse, Family, and Montreal Courts in the Early Nineteenth CenturyIAN C. PILAR CZYKMarried Women’s Property Law Reform, Couples, and Fraud in Canada West / Ontario, 1859-1900LORI CHAMBERSFrom Shaved Horses to Aggressive Churchwardens: Social and Legal Aspects of Moral Injury in Lower CanadaERIC H. REITER“Possession of arms among these men ... might lead to serious consequences”: Regulating Firearms in the Canadas, 1760-1867R. BLAKE BROWNGrand Juries and “Proper Authorities”: Low Law, Soft Law, and Local Governance in Canada West / Ontario, 1850-1880MARY STOKESContributors Index