Title The rule of the admirals : law, custom and naval government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 / Jerry Bannister.

Publication Info.	Toronto, Ont. : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	1 online resource (xix pages of plates, 4 unnumbered pages of plates, 423 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-397) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The fishing admirals system -- An unruly set of people: the struggle for judicial authority -- The establishment of naval government -- A fief of the admiralty: Newfoundland under naval rule -- Using mercy and terror: the patterns of criminal justice -- Enforcing the social order: punishment in a fishing society -- The fall of naval government -- Conclusion.
Summary	"The Rule of the Admirals sheds light on one of the most misunderstood chapters in Canadian and British colonial history. Drawing on extensive archival research as well as a broad range of secondary sources, Bannister provides a groundbreaking reinterpretation of a critical period in Newfoundland's colonial development."--Jacket.
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Subject	Law -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History.
	Law.
	Newfoundland and Labrador.
	History.
	Naval law -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History.
	Naval law.
	Justice, Administration of -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History.
	Justice, Administration of.
	Newfoundland and Labrador -- Politics and government.
	Politics and government.
	Canada -- History, Naval.
	Canada.
	Naval history.
	Canada -- History, Naval.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Naval history.
Subject	Law.
Added Author	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Other Form:	Print version: Bannister, Jerry, 1968- Rule of the admirals. Toronto ; Buffalo : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2004270651
ISBN	9781442682283 (electronic book)
	1442682280 (electronic book)
	0802088430 (bound)
	0802086136 (paperback)
	9780802088437
	9780802086136

Title The rule of the admirals : law, custom and naval government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 / Jerry Bannister.

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