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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Vol. IX, Two Islands: Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island,
edited by Christopher English, Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland. 2005
Published for the Osgoode Society by the University of Toronto Press
Cost: $57.75
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Voices from the East beyond the Northumberland and Cabot Straits. This volume of essays on the legal histories of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland opens with innovative essays on the historiography of two 'island' jurisdictions of Atlantic Canada. Eleven essays -seven by female scholars - examine legal themes, developments and disputes drawn from the distinctive jurisdictions they investigate. The essays offer a framework for comparison of the administration of justice through the courts or examine contested cases in Common Law (criminal, libel, property and inheritance), and in Chancery, with a comparative excursion into New South Wales. Several pose intriguing questions about women's legal status and their access to the courts and reach revisionist conclusions.

Reviews
This ninth volume of the ... [Essays in the History of Canadian Law] adds to our understanding of the history of Canadian law.... A solid contribution to the legal historiography of Atlantic Canada. Sean Cadigan, Canadian Historical Review, vol 87, 2006

The authors of these essays are opening up previously unexamined avenues of inquiry .... [T]his volume contributes to our understanding of the law's place in ...key social developments.... Nearly all of them ... set out specific instances in which British common law and imperial statutes are modified by local practice. Jeff Webb, American Journal of Legal History, vol 48, 2006.