The custom of the country, justice and the colonial state in eighteenth-century Newfoundland
grantor: University of Toronto This thesis examines governance in Newfoundland from 1699 to 1832. It explores the formation of a colonial state--from the rule of the fishing admirals to the establishment of representative government--and focuses primarily on the customary legal institutions that aro...
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1999
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/15008 http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/NQ53908.pdf |