Perrault*, known as Perrault l’aîné, and sister-in-law Charlotte Boucher de Boucherville. The children were sent as boarders to the Ursulines and the seminary in Quebec, and thus received the

teachings, issued on 12 Aug. 1868. At the university Pâquet taught various courses including one on natural law and the law of nations in 1871–72. The last five lectures in the course (published in 1872

property to one of their sons in return for maintenance for himself and his wife for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately Susanna and Dunbar did not get along well with their daughter-in-law, and when the

in 1808. His sons Ruggles and Tiberius and his sons-in-law became officers in this unit around 1822. The same phenomenon occurred when the responsibilities of justice of the peace had to be entrusted

impudence and perseverence,” he succeeded in early April in having the two points referred to the law officers of the crown. Three months later they responded: the crown had the right to take both actions

. Armstrong replied that British law prevented Roman Catholics from serving in the army in any event, “His Majesty having so many faithful Protestant subjects first to provide for “J. B. Brebner suggests

he might succeed his father as protonotary, he began studying law, but continued to work the family farm; he was called to the bar in 1867

. From 1875 to 1881 Brodeur studied at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, where his marks ranked him as one of the best students of his year. He then enrolled in the faculty of law at the Université Laval

commercial college and was given a position in Joseph Read and Company, his grandfather’s firm of quarrymen and stonecutters. Three years later he went to Dorchester, where he read law with Albert James

Academy. After his schooling, he read law in the Brantford office of his uncle, Henry A. Hardy, and with the Toronto firm of Robert Alexander

bring about numerous reforms. He found a number of laws intolerable, and in his letters often took exception to a “wretched Code of Civil justice made up of a medley of the worst parts of the french

, supporters of Pius IX and of the Syllabus of Errors; the friendship between them would be renewed, particularly when the question of undue influence arose. It did arise with the new federal electoral law

Ralston Langmuir and Jane Woodburn; m. first 1 June 1858 Emma Lucretia Fairfield, and they had five sons and two daughters; m. secondly 7 July 1874 Elizabeth Harriet Ridout, and they had

Trust for Scotland) and the needs of rural and domestic labourers. With her husband’s support, she built upon the practical philanthropic programs initiated by her mother-in-law. Her respectful

with Britain and the empire, for example, American friendship could not be relied upon forever and the law of domination might some day come into play. Accordingly, Merritt believed, Canada could not

. 1 March 1873 at Gifford, Staten Island, N.Y. William Nelson, the son of a commissary in the Royal Navy, and originally from Nesham

had been appointed puisne judge and where, with two brothers already lawyers, he grew up in a family wedded to the law. But late-18th-century Montreal was a city which derived much of its atmosphere

unrecognized in law and hence unpaid. To almost everyone’s surprise it chose the 32-year-old Pipes, who had never sat in a legislature. In so doing it put him in an impossible situation by not according him a

then at the Collegiate Grammar School, Hereford. In 1813 he was commissioned a lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Herefordshire militia but left the regiment in 1815 to begin the study of law. He was

in civil law for the university. The university awarded him a bcl in 1879 and would confer honorary degrees of dcl in 1884 and