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Civil And Common Law: A Historical Analysis Of Colonial And Postcolonial Canada, Patrick S. Stroud
Civil And Common Law: A Historical Analysis Of Colonial And Postcolonial Canada, Patrick S. Stroud
Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research
Legal historians divide European law into two principal families: common law (British law) and civil law (continental European law). Common law judges favor cases; courts “discover” law on a case-by-case basis and those cases make precedents for future ruling. Civil law courts favor codes; courts compare cases to existing laws and those laws control judges’ rulings. The two rarely interact, save one prominent example: Canada. British common law supposedly superseded French legal traditions in colonial Canada. But is history so binary? Did British common law truly “conquer” French civil law? Through analysis of Canadian legal history, this article demonstrates how …
Development And Preservation, George W. Geib
Development And Preservation, George W. Geib
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Details the history of two Marion County Courthouses.
Benjamin Harrison, George W. Geib
Benjamin Harrison, George W. Geib
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
An account of Benjamin Harrison's rise to the presidency beginning with his successful career during the Civil War.
Conrad Baker, Former Governor Of Indiana, Arnold Ernst R. Muelller
Conrad Baker, Former Governor Of Indiana, Arnold Ernst R. Muelller
Graduate Thesis Collection
This thesis was assigned by the Department of German principally to learn through the study of the German newspapers of the day what influence the German-American population of Indiana might have had upon the election of Governor Conrad baker and also upon his whole administration as such; since Governor Baker was of German descent and the act, August 16, 1859, which provided when the German language should be taught in the common schools, also took effect when Baker was Governor of Indiana.
The Social Effects Of The Norman Conquest Upon England, Anson Harvey Washburn
The Social Effects Of The Norman Conquest Upon England, Anson Harvey Washburn
Manuscript Thesis Collection
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The Political History Of Cuba, Frank T. Brown
The Political History Of Cuba, Frank T. Brown
Manuscript Thesis Collection
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