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    A trying question : the jury in nineteenth-century Canada / R. Blake Brown.

    • Title:A trying question : the jury in nineteenth-century Canada / R. Blake Brown.
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    • Author/Creator:Brown, R. Blake.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
    • Published/Created:Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, ©2009.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Jury--Canada--History--19th century.
    • Description:x, 335 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781442640382
      1442640383
    • Contents:1. Storms, roads, and harvest time : the jury system and attitudes towards jury services in Nova Scotia
      2. jury system and attitudes towards jury service in Upper Canada
      3. 'The bean box' : reformers and the politicization of the jury system in Nova Scotia
      4. Reformers, rebellion, and the jury system of Upper Canada
      5. Responsible government, the magistrates' affair, and the breakdown of the Nova Scotia jury system
      6. Responsible government and the 1850 Upper Canada Jury Act
      7. 'We have now no fears of star chamber justice' : the decline of the jury in Nova Scotia
      8. 'The day has gone by for the worship of legal idols' : the decline of the jury in Ontario.
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