Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume III: Nova Scotia

'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