Fyson (Donald), Magistrates, Police, and People. Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada (1764-1837)

The sub-title of this book describes effectively its contents: a study exclusively of the lower courts of magistrates from the establishment of common law courts in the 1760s down to the revolutionary reform years of the 1840s. Fyson draws his evidence primarily from the manuscript court records th...

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出版年:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chs,
第一著者: Knafla, Louis S.
フォーマット: Article ou chapitre numérique
言語:Anglais
出版事項: Crime, Histoire & Sociétés 2009
オンライン・アクセス:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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要約:The sub-title of this book describes effectively its contents: a study exclusively of the lower courts of magistrates from the establishment of common law courts in the 1760s down to the revolutionary reform years of the 1840s. Fyson draws his evidence primarily from the manuscript court records themselves. These include the records of the Clerk of the Peace and of the Crown for the Montreal Quarter and Weekly Sessions of the Peace from 1785; the Quebec Quarter, Weekly and Special Sessions f...