A trying question : the jury in nineteenth-century Canada / R. Blake Brown.
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- PART ONE : JUROR APATHY AND ALLEGATIONS OF JURY PACKING, 1820S-1848: Storms, roads, and harvest time : the jury system and attitudes towards jury service in Nova Scotia
- The jury system and attitudes towards jury service in Upper Canada
- 'The bean box' : reformers and the politicization of the jury system in Nova Scotia
- Reformers, rebellion, and the jury system of Upper Canada
- PART TWO : RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT AND THE JURY, 1848-1867: Responsible government, the magistrates' affair, and the breakdown of the Nova Scotia jury system
- Responsible government and the 1850 Upper Canada Jury Act
- PART THREE : THE DECLINE OF THE JURY IN POST-CONFEDERATION CANADA, 1867-1880S: 'We have now no fears of star chamber justice' : the decline of the jury in Nova Scotia
- 'The day has gone by for the worship of legal idols' : the decline of the jury in Ontario.