Petty Justice

Petty Justice
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 562
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ISBN-10 : 9781442649910
ISBN-13 : 1442649917
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Book Synopsis Petty Justice by : Paul Craven

Download or read book Petty Justice written by Paul Craven and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the late nineteenth-century, the most common form of local government in rural England and the British Empire was administration by amateur justices of the peace: the sessions system. Petty Justice uses an unusually well-documented example of the colonial sessions system in Loyalist New Brunswick to examine the role of justices of the peace and other front-line low law officials like customs officers and deputy land surveyors in colonial local government. Using the rich archival resources of Charlotte County, Paul Craven discusses issues such as the impact of commercial rivalries on local administration, the role of low law officials in resolving civil and criminal disputes and keeping the peace, their management of public works, social welfare, and liquor regulation, and the efforts of grand juries, high court judges, colonial governors, and elected governments to supervise them. A concluding chapter explains the demise of the sessions system in Charlotte County in the decade of Confederation.


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