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• Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2020), ed. by Lyndsay Campbell, Ted McCoy, and Mélanie Méthot (PDF with commentary at University of Calgary)
• The British Tradition in Canadian Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #21; London: Stevens and Sons, 1969), by Bora Laskin (PDF in the UK)
• Les origines du droit franco-canadien. (C. Theoret, 1901), by Rodolphe Lemieux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du droit canadien : depuis les origines de la colonie jusqu' a nos jours (A. Périard, 1888), by Edmond Lareau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Answer to an Introduction to the observations made by the judges of the Court of common pleas, for the district of Quebec, upon the oral and written testimony adduced upon the investigation, into the past administration of justice, ordered in consequence of an address to the Legislative council. With remarks on the laws and government of the province of Quebec. (University Microfilms, 1790), by P. Panet, Thomas Dunn, Adam Mabane, and Francis Maseres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamental principles of the laws of Canada, as they existed under the natives, as they were changed under the French kings, and as they were modified and altered under the domination of England. The general principles of the Custom of Paris, as laid down by the most eminent authors, with the text, and a literal translation of the text. The imperial and other statutes, changing the jurisprudence in either of the provinces of Canada at large. Prefaced by an historical sketch of the origin and rise of religious and political institutions, among the principal nations of the world ... of the origin, rise, and successive changes of the constitutional laws of France; of the common, canon, and statute laws of England, so far as they operate on the jurisprudence of Canada, and of the general government, religious, military, civil and criminal, laws of the natives, particularly of the Huron and Iroquois Indians, at the time the interior of the country was discovered by Cartier. ([Montreal?], 1841), by Nicolas Benjamin Doucet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du droit canadien (E. Senécal, 1869), by B. A. T. de Montigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de droit canadien (E. Senécal, 1869), by B. A. Testard de Montigny (page images at HathiTrust)

• [Reprints of articles on Canadian legal history ...]. ([Toronto?], 1913), by William Renwick Riddell and Matthew Leech (page images at HathiTrust)

• The humble petition of the undersigned the Honorable Elzéar Bédard one of the justices of the Court of Queen's Bench for the District of Montreal, in that part of the province of Canada which formerly constituted the province of Lower Canada. (s.n., 1848), by Elzéar Bédard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The first courts and early judges of New Brunswick (s.n., 1875), by Joseph Wilson Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Court of Chancery in Nova Scotia (Carswell, 1900), by Charles J. Townshend (page images at HathiTrust)

• [Reprints of articles on Canadian legal history ...]. ([Toronto?], 1913), by William Renwick Riddell and Matthew Leech (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first medical case in the province (s.n., 1800), by William Renwick Riddell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Upper Canada court records (Toronto, 1918) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The sheriff (A.T. Wilgress, 1916), by William Renwick Riddell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some early legislation and legislators in Upper Canada (The Carswell co., limited, 1913), by William Renwick Riddell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of the Chicago Society of Advocates ([Chicago Society of Advocates], 1915), by William Renwick Riddell and Chicago Society of Advocates (page images at HathiTrust)

• A sketch of the hard times!! and time after time!!!. (s.n., 1847), by Leonard Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)

• The sources and development of the law of the province of Quebec (The Gazette Printing Company, 1903), by W. J. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the juridical history of France, so far as it relates to the law of the Province of Lower-Canada read at a special meeting of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, the 31st day of May, 1824 (s.n.], 1824), by Jonathan Sewell and Literary and Historical Society of Quebec (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les origines du droit franco-canadien comprenant: I. L'histoire du droit français depuis l'époque gallo-romaine jusqu'à l'ère révolutionnaire inclusivement; II. L'histoire du droit canadien depuis la découverte du Canada jusqu'à la cession (domination française), et depuis le Traité de Paris (1763) jusqu'à la Confédération inclusivement (domination anglaise) (C. Theoret, 1900), by Rodolphe Lemieux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les édits et ordonnances royaux et le Conseil supérieur de Québec (s.n., 1869), by E. Lef. de Bellefeuille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice historique sur l'enseignement du droit en Canada (s.n.], 1862), by Maximilien Bibaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplément à la Notice historique sur l'enseignement du droit (L. Perrault, 1862), by Maximilien Bibaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sources and development of the law of the province of Quebec (s.n.], 1903), by W. J. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les origines du droit franco-canadien (C. Theoret, 1900), by Rodolphe Lemieux (page images at HathiTrust)

• Montréal sous le régime français : répertoire des arrêts, edits, mandements, ordonnances et reglements conservés dans les archives du Palais de justice de Montréal, 1640-1760 (G. Ducharme, 1919), by Montréal (Québec) and E.-Z. Massicotte (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Annual review of legal education. (New York city, 1928), by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Alfred Zantzinger Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statutes of Canada (Brown Chamberlin, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1873), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statutes of Canada (S. Derbishire & G. Desbarats, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1852), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statutes of Canada. (M. Cameron, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1867), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revised statutes of Canada, 1906, proclaimed and published under the authority of the act 3 Edward VII., chap. 61 (1903). (Printed by S. E. Dawson, from the roll of the said revised statutes deposited in the office of the clerk of the Parliaments, 1906), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules, regulations and forms under the Patent act ([J.O. Patenaude, printer to the King], 1935), by Canada and Canada. Patents Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exegese de jurisprudence ([Place of publication not identified], 1855), by Maximilien Bibaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The provincial justice or magistrate's manual : being a complete digest of the criminal law of Canada and a compendious and general view of the provincial law of upper Canada. (Henry Roswell, 1864), by W. C. Keele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Édits, ordonnances royaux, déclarations et arrêts du Conseil d'État du roi concernant Canada. (De la presse à vapeur de E. R. Fréchette, 1854), by New France, New France. Conseil supérieur de Québec, and France Conseil d'État (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian law times. (Carswell, 1881), by Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canada law journal. (Canada law book company, limited, 1855), by Canadian Bar Association and Law Society of Upper Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laws of the British Colonies in the West Indies and other parts of America, concerning real and personal property and manumission of slaves; with a view of the constitution of each colony. (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by John Henry Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ordonnances des intendants ... (Imprimés par P.E. Desbarats, 1803), by New France, France, Québec (Province), New France. Conseil supérieur de Québec, and France Conseil d'État (page images at HathiTrust)
• LC law journal. (J. Lovell, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian law times. (Carswell & co. [etc.], 1881), by Edward Douglas Armour, Edward B. Brown, Charles Elliott, Edward Gillis, A. H. F. Lefroy, A. T. Hunter, Bram Thompson, Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, and Canada. Courts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canada law journal : a magazine of jurisprudence. (Dawson Bros., 1865), by James Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magistrate's manual (Henry Roswell, 1864), by W. C. Keele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gazette du Canada. Partie I (Queen's Printer for Canada, 1947), by Canada. Royal Commission on the Law of Insanity as a Defence in Criminal Cases (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadian domestic lawyer : with plain and simple instructions for the merchant, farmer, & mechanic, to enable them to transact their business according to law (S. Vivian, 1865), by John Whitley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadian domestic lawyer with plain and simple instructions for the merchant, farmer, and mechanic, to enable them to transact their business according to law. (T. Maddocks, 1865), by John Whitley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Table of the statutes of the Dominion of Canada and the British North America Act, 1867, showing the Acts they amend or affect, or by which they are amended or affected (MacLean, Roger & Co., 1887), by Canada and R. J. Wicksteed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les statuts refondus du Canada. (Imprimés par S. Derbishire et G. Desbarats, 1859), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statuts provinciaux der Canada 1851 (S. Derbishire & G. Desbarats, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1841), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Statuts revisés du Canada. (Brown Chamberlin, 1887), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index to dominion and provincial statutes, from the earliest period down to 1st July, 1909. (J. Lovell & son, limited, 1910), by Canada and A. McNaughton Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statuts revisés du Canada. 1906. (S.E. Dawson, 1907), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada : actes non abrogés (B. Chamberlain, Imprimeur des lois de la reine, 1887), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gazette du Canada (Published by Authority, 1867), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perpetual ready reference guide to the Statutes of Canada viz. the revised statutes of 1886, and all subsequent amending, repealing, cognate and new acts (s.n.], 1891), by F. K. Blatch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ready reference manual of the statute laws of the states and territories in the United States along with national, international laws, and miscellaneous information : a plain, common sense synopsis of laws in daily use that every person wants to know (International Pub. Co., 1889), by E. E. Knott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada : its history, productions, and natural resources (Department of Agriculture of Canada, 1886), by George Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, an encyclopaedia of the country the Canadian Dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development (Linscott Pub. Co., 1900), by J. Castell Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Insolvent Act of 1875 and amending acts (R. Carswell, 1877), by Canada and S. R. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confederation law of Canada Privy Council cases on the British North America Act, 1867 and the practice on special leave to appeal : there being added appendices containing (1) the imperial statutes affecting Canada and the colonies in general; (2) the " Judicial Committee Acts" with notes; (3) the Canadian liquor prohibition case, 1895-6 &c. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1896), by Gerald John Wheeler and Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian lawyer a handy book of the laws and of legal information for the use of business men, farmers, mechanics and others in Canada : containing plain and simple instructions to all classes in transacting business according to law, with legal forms for drawing necessary papers (Carswell, 1887), by Edward Meek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some loose sugestions for the improvement of the criminal law, in its present state of transition (s.n.], 1867), by John Henry Willian (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Act respecting the qualification of justices of the peace = Acte concernant la qualification des juges de paix (S. Derbishire & G. Desbarats, 1862), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• The civil law and the common law in Canada (W. Green, 1899), by Frederick Parker Walton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadian domestic lawyer with plain and simple instructions for the merchant, farmer, & mechanic, to enable them to transact their business according to law (Vivian & Maddocks, 1864), by John Whitley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadian domestic lawyer with plain and simple instructions for the merchant, farmer, & mechanic, to enable them to transact their business according to law ; with an appendix, containing the new Insolvent Act, Statue Labor Act and Stamp Act (Samuel Vivian, 1865), by John Whitley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of legal forms for the legal transaction of business adapted to the use of merchants, clerks, mechanics, farmers, and all men retired to private life : also, the new currency act respecting protested notes and bills of exchange, profit and discount tables ... (s.n.], 1850), by Wellington Harrison Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial bills, North America return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 27 May 1864, for "the titles and dates of bills passed by the legislatures of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward's Island since the year 1836, which have been reserved by the governors of those colonies respestively for reference to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, and of the titles and dates of bills so referred to which the Royal Assent was ultimately refused; and copy or extracts of the terms in which such refusal was conveyed". (s.n., 1864), by Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• To be published, a book of legal forms, for the legal transaction of business adapted to the use of merchants, clerks, mechanics, farmers, and all men retired to private life; also profit and discount tables, interest at six and seven per cent., tables of exchange on England at the different rates, varying from nine to sixteen per cent. premium, currency converted into sterling, and sterling money into dollars and cents (s.n., 1849), by Wellington Harrison Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le barreau canadien au Conseil privé extraits d'une conférence prononcée le 14 mars 1889 devant le Club conservateur de Montréal (A. Periard, 1889), by J. L. Archambault and Club conservateur de Montréal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extraits des edits, declarations, ordonnances et reglemens de Sa Majesté très chrétienne des reglemens et jugemens des gouverneurs generaux et intendans concernans la justice, et des reglemens et ordonnances de police rendues par les intendans faisans partie de la legislature en force en la colonie du Canada aujourd'hui province de Québec : tiré des regîtres [sic] du Conseil supérieur et de ceux d'intendance (Chez Guillaume Brown, 1775), by François Joseph Cugnet and France (page images at HathiTrust)
• An abstract of those parts of the custom of the viscounty and provostship of Paris, which were received and practised in the province of Quebec, in the time of the French government (Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan ..., 1772), by Nouvelle-France (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exégèse de jurisprudence (s.n., 1855), by Maximilien Bibaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ordonnances des intendants et arrêts portant règlements du Conseil supérieur de Québec avec les commissions des gouverneurs et intendants agissant sous l'autorité des rois de France, et les commissions des autres officiers civils et de justice en Canada : divisés en cinq chapitres, et rangés dans chaque chapitre par ordre chronologique (Imprimés par P.E. Desbarats, imprimeur des loix de la Trè s Excellente Majesté du Roi, 1806), by Nouvelle-France, Nouvelle-France. Conseil supérieur de Québec, France Conseil d'État, and Bas-Canada. Législature. Chambre d'assemblée (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of the acts passed in the Parliament of Great Britain and of other public acts relative to Canada (P.E. Desbarats, 1824), by Great Britain and Great Britain Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian lawyer a handy book of the laws of legal information for the sue of business men, farmers, mechanics and others in Canada ... with legal forms for drawing necessary papers (Carswell, 1899), by John Whitley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canadian lawyer a handy book of the laws and of legal information for the use of business men, farmers, mechanics and others in Canada : containing plain and simple instructions to all classes in transacting business according to law, with legal forms for drawing necessary papers (Carswell, 1887), by Edward Meek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Long's compendium of legal information (Saskatchewan Print. & Pub. Co., 1908), by J. Robert Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• The careful man's guide (J.A. Hertel Co., 1914), by Edward Meek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, her law and lawyers the Hon. Mr. Justice William Renwick Riddell of Toronto ... in response to the toast at the annual dinner of the New York State Bar Association, Rochester, N.Y., January 21, 1910. (s.n., 1910), by William Renwick Riddell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses before the Canadian Bar Association delivered at the first annual meeting, Montreal, March 19th & 20th, 1915. (s.n., 1915), by Canadian Bar Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uniformity of laws in Canada address delivered by Eugene Lafleur, K.C., before the Canadian Club, Ottawa, December 7, 1912. (s.n., 1912), by E. Lafleur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendium of dominion laws of Canada, 1867-1883, in force on the first day of January, 1884, indicating amendments, repeals, &c., with index (A. Periard, 1884), by J. Fremont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why the "lawes of Virginia" ([Charlottesville], 1920), by J. M. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apices juris, and other legal essays in prose and verse (Canada law book company, 1906), by Charles Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statuts revisés du Canada, 1906 : Proclamés et publiés en conformité de la loi 3 Edouard VII, chap. 61 (1903) (S.E. Dawson, Imprimeur des lois du roi, 1907), by Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orders in council: proclamations, departmental regulations, &c. having force of law in the Dominion of Canada. (Ottawa, 1874), by Canada. Privy Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Table of the statutes of the Dominion of Canada, and the British North America act, 1867, shewing the acts they amend or by which they are amended; with an alphabetical index to the same, and an index to imperial statutes affecting Canada, and wholly or partly in force (Ottawa, 1874), by Canada and R. J. Wicksteed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ewart's index of the statutes; being an alphabetical index of all the public statutes passed by the Legislatures of the late province of Canada, the Dominion of Canada, and the province of Ontario subsequent to the consolidation, and down to, and inclusive of, the year 1871 (Rowsell, 1872), by Canada, John S. Ewart, and Ontario (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of proceedings of the preliminary conference and first meeting of the Canadian bar association held at Montreal September 15th and 16th, 1896. (Toronto, 1896), by Canadian Bar Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ready reference manual of the statute laws of the states and territories in the United States and the provinces of Canada, along with national, international laws, and miscellaneous information. A plain, common sense synopsis of laws in daily use that every person wants to know... (International publishing co., 1889), by E. E. Knott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handy book on property law (The Atkinson Book Co., Ltd., 1917), by Edward Burtenshaw Sugden and Walter S. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lovell's law annual ... (J. Lovell & Son, Limited, Printers., 1904), by Walter S. Johnson, John Delatre Falconbridge, and Albert Swindlehurst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Edits, ordonnances royaux et arrêts du Conseil d'Etat du roi, concernant le Canada (Imprimés par P.E. Desbarats ..., 1803), by New France, Frederick Griffin, New France. Conseil souverain, New France. Conseil supérieur de Québec, and France Conseil d'État (page images at HathiTrust)

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