Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IX: Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction
CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH

Part One: Historiography

1. The Legal Historiography of Newfoundland
   CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH
2. The Legal Historiography of Prince Edward Island
   J.M. BUMSTED

Part Two: The Administration of Justice

3. Politics and the Administration of Justice on Early Prince Edward Island, 1769–1805
   J.M. BUMSTED
4. Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland
   JERRY BANNISTER
5. The Supreme Court on Circuit: Northern District, Newfoundland, 1826–33
   NINA JANE GOUDIE

Part Three: Property Law and Inheritance

6. Formal and Informal Law in Two New Lands: Land Law in Newfoundland and New South Wales under Francis Forbes
   BRUCE KERCHER AND JODIE YOUNG
7. Defining Property for Inheritance: The Chattels Real Act of 1834
   TRUDI JOHNSON
8. ‘The Duty of Every Man’: Intestacy Law and Family-Inheritance Practice in Prince Edward Island, 1828–1905
   MICHEL STAIRS

Part Four: Legal Status and Access to the Courts by Women

‘Now You Vagabond [W]hore I Have You’: Plebeian Women, Assault Cases, and Gender Relationships on the Southern Avalon, 1750–1860
WILLEEN L. KEOUGH

Women in the Courts of Placentia District, 1757–1823
KRISTA L. SIMON

‘Out of Date in a Good Many Respects’: The Legal Status and Judicial Treatment of Newfoundland Women, 1945–9
LAURA BROWN

Part Five: Litigation in Chancery and at Common Law

12. Bowley v. Cambridge: A Colonial Jarndyce and Jarndyce
    BAVID M. BULGER
13. The Judges Go to Court: The Cashin Libel Trial of 1947
    CHRISTOPHER ENGLISH

Index