Open AccessUnpredictable and Uncertain: Criminal Law in the Canadian North West before 1886
Author(s) -
Desmond H. Brown
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
alberta law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-8356
pISSN - 0002-4821
DOI - 10.29173/alr2230
Subject(s) - criminal law , law , subject (documents) , political science , criminology , sociology , library science , computer science
The development of the Canadian west and the transition from trading territory to settled territory produced number ofjurisdictional and administrative problems. Focusing his attention on the subject of criminal law the author traces the process whereby welter of jurisdictions had, by 1876, become "a coherent body of criminal law".