HIST 434 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bloody Assizes, British Subject, International Development

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 434
• Professor: Elsbeth Heaman

Document Summary

The problem of jurisdiction on the humanitarian frontier: sovereignty through district courts! How to create a recognition of sovereignty in frontier areas, rhetoric of lawlessness -**zones of competing/overlapping forms of law -lawlessness as reason to create jurisdiction, empire etc*** Execution, quartered and displayed* traitors to the crown will be punished ! Quebec, local justice -legal centralization -justice at special sessions int he country side: - continuation of the civil code -no diffusion of local courts, travel to montreal quebec, trois. Riveries, -no hinterland justice lacking historical sources -contests and participation of local inhabitants in the justice system! The northwest, law and necessity -1670 company charter to appoint magistrates -1803 canada jurisdiction act extends to nw frontier -adam thom 1840 reforms: civilization and humanity requires local courts, jury reform, written codes, 1841, sentencing capinessweet? for murder - Guillaume sayer trial -1849 saulteaux/sioux he carries out law where he has no jurisdiction -