the common law, by reasoning from basic “broad principles of law” and from “the various transactions and relations” of society. The sources from which they made law and from which they reasoned were “1
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Edinburgh, 1884).
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Belleville and there became a merchant before moving to Kingston in 1847. After attending the Hastings County grammar school, James began the study of law with C. O. Benson of Belleville. He continued his
sent to Placentia (Plaisance) as a lieutenant in the Compagnie de Villemarceau. By 1706 he had married the sister-in-law of the governor
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.
C. Ian Kyer
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Bowmanville. Then, for five years, he was a student-at-law in the office of George Duggan* in Toronto. He was called to the bar in 1840, and from 1846
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called to the bar of Lower Canada in October 1857, he practised law in Quebec City, first in the firm of a relative, Jean-Thomas
of 17 Sept. 1764 setting up the judicial organization of the province, maintained that the proclamation introduced English law, and the report of the Board of Trade on 2 Sept. 1765 indirectly
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son of John Miller, a lawyer; m. 8 June 1865 Henrietta Ranney of St Catharines, Canada West; d. 1 Nov. 1886 in Winnipeg, Man
eldest of their three sons and five daughters, attended Upper Canada College in 1842–45. In his mid twenties he began to study law: he was articled in Toronto to John Leys and attended lectures at Osgoode