The Impact of the Change in Legal Metropolis on the Development of Lower Canada's Legal System: Judicial Chaos and Legislative Paralysis in the Civil Law, 1791-1838

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The Impact of the Change in Legal Metropolis on the Development of Lower Canada's Legal System: Judicial Chaos and Legislative Paralysis in the Civil Law, 1791-1838
Abstract
An examination of the post-Conquest change in legal metropolis (from France to Britain) on the process of transfer and adaptation of a European legal system to the colony of Lower Canada. The author also examines the ethnic conflict between French- and English-speaking Lower Canadians which prevented any modernization of the law not inspired by British legal principles.
Publication
Canadian Journal of Law and Society
Volume
Vol. 3
Pages
1-25
Date
1988
Language
en
Citation
Kolish, Evelyn. “The Impact of the Change in Legal Metropolis on the Development of Lower Canada’s Legal System: Judicial Chaos and Legislative Paralysis in the Civil Law, 1791-1838.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society Vol. 3 (1988): 1–25.
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