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Law, debt, and merchant power : the civil courts of eighteenth-century Halifax

In the early history of Halifax (1749-1766), debt litigation was extremely common. In Law, Debt, and Merchant Power, James Muir offers an extensive analysis of the civil cases of the time as well as the reasons behind their frequency

eBook, English, 2016
Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2016