From Higher Morality to Autonomous Will: The Transformation of Quebec's Civil Law, 1774-1866

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Title
From Higher Morality to Autonomous Will: The Transformation of Quebec's Civil Law, 1774-1866
Abstract
An investigation of the conflicting European values in Quebec's political and legal arenas from 1774 and 1866 between the feudal French civil laws, which the author argues subordinated individual desire to higher morality, and the British legal principles espoused by the English-speaking merchant class which placed an overriding emphasis on individual autonomy in fostering entrepreneurship.
Place
Winnipeg, MB
Publisher
University of Manitoba, Canadian Legal History Project
Date
1992
Language
en
Notes

Later version published in: Manitoba Law Journal, Vol. 23(no. 1-2), 132–182, under title "Lower Canada (Quebec): Transformation of Civil Law, from Higher Morality to Autonomous Will, 1774-1866."

Citation
Greenwood, F. Murray. From Higher Morality to Autonomous Will: The Transformation of Quebec’s Civil Law, 1774-1866. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba, Canadian Legal History Project, 1992.
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