Acting for the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Bank of Montreal at the time of Confederation, and involved in both the political and legal steps that led to the creation of the country, the firm has also represented commercial enterprises such as the Hudson's Bay Company, and hospitals such as the Montreal General and the Royal Victoria for over a century. [...] From the seventeenth century, Montreal had been the economic centre of Canada, 4 The History of Mc Master Meighen for, as a French observer sagely noted in 1651, "it is a very advantageous place for all the Upper Nations who wish to trade with us."3 The defeat of the French, the passing of the Quebec Act, and the division of the country into Lower and Upper Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791 [...] One of the first acts of the Lafontaine-Baldwin government, elected in 1848, was to pro- pose a Rebellion Losses Bill, to compensate the people of Lower Canada for damages done by Sir John Colborne and the Montreal militiamen during the campaign to quash the 1837 rebellion. [...] The bar of Lower Canada had been incorporated in 1849, ^or the maintenance of the discipline and honour of the body." The act of incorporation gave officially for the first time the title of Batonnier to the president of the bar or of a section thereof. [...] In the Superior Court, Badgley's case for the defence was that the jurors had been acting as public officers of the court and there- fore merited the protection of the court; this was largely ac- cepted by the judge who ruled that the jurors had acted in accordance with their duties (4 L.C.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography: p. [127]-130
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 338.7/6134/00971428
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-qu
- ISBN
- 0969365101 9780773560918
- LCCN
- KE417.M36
- LCCN Item number
- M584 1989eb
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- 1 electronic text (x, 133 p., [10] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200919 (OCoLC)243576012 (CaOOCEL)400221
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Illustrations 43
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 12
- 1 William Badgley - Founder of the Firm 16
- 2 Badgley and Abbott 30
- 3 Sir John Abbott - Law, Business, and Politics 50
- 4 Into the Twentieth Century 68
- 5 Through War and Depression 82
- 6 War, Reconstruction, and Expansion 98
- 7 The Modern Law Firm 116
- 8 Past, Present, and Future 130
- Appendix A: List of Partners 136
- Appendix B: List of Firm's Names 140
- Appendix C: List of Supreme Court Cases to 1984 142
- Notes 148
- Bibliography 154
- Index 158
- A 158
- B 158
- C 158
- D 158
- E 159
- F 159
- G 159
- H 159
- K 159
- L 159
- M 159
- N 159
- O 159
- P 160
- R 160
- S 160
- T 160
- V 160
- W 160
- Y 160
