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Law, Debt, and Merchant Power: The Civil Courts of 18th Century Halifax
ISBN: 9781487512309
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Civil law -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History; Courts -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History;

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.

James Muir is an associate professor in the Department of History and Classics as well as the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta.