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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

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Author

Craven, Paul

Publisher

Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442649910

Category

history

Subjects

Law, True Crime, Crime

Updated

2026-03-25