Politics of Codification
The Lower Canadian Civil Code of 1866
1st Edition
Published on 17. November 1994
216 pages
978-0-7735-6504-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this study of a pivotal event in the evolution of Quebec's legal culture, Brian Young shows that codification of the Civil law was an intensely political act as well as a legal phenomenon.
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11/1994
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Young Brian:
Brian Young is James McGill Professor (emeritus) of Canadian history at McGill University.
Brian Young is James McGill Professor (emeritus) of Canadian history at McGill University.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- TABLES
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- 1 The Legal Landscape
- 2 Attitudes to Codification before the Rebellions
- 3 The Political Will to Codify, 1838-57
- 4 The Codifiers
- 5 Politics of the Codification Commission, 1857-66
- 6 The Commission at Work
- 7 The Persistence of Customary Law: Married Women as Traders
- 8 'Wittingly and Willingly': The Law of Obligations
- 9 Conclusion
- CHRONOLOGY
- ABBREVIATIONS
- NOTES
- ESSAY ON SOURCES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- PICTURE CREDITS AND SOURCES
