(Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada, second son of James Macaulay* and Elizabeth Tuck Hayter; m. 1 Dec. 1821 Rachel Crookshank Gamble in
Stewart. Bulmer participated in a discussion group, the Halifax Law Society [see Robert Sedgewick
Oct. 1852. Two years later, while in practice, he founded the Law Reporter, with Louis-Siméon Morin*. In 1857 he was, according
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After graduating from Yale College in 1763, Amos Botsford studied law under the prominent New Haven attorney Jared Ingersoll, was admitted to the bar, and, in 1768–69, lectured in law at Yale. At the
survived their father; d. 30 July 1916 in Montreal and was buried 1 August in Sorel.
Michel Mathieu entered the Séminaire de Saint
council the following November. Pettit was a justice of the peace from 19 June 1789; his last commission was dated 1 April 1803, several weeks after his death. He was named to the first
jailer, the jail being in his own house. There were no proper schools and so young James had a limited opportunity for education. When his brother-in-law, William Alexander Rind, king’s printer of the
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As a judge, Boyd sat on a wide variety of cases, tried under criminal law (where he was relatively inexperienced), common law (with which he was more familiar), and equity (where his roots were); some
and 1871–72 he attended Yale College in New Haven, Conn., following in the footsteps of his eldest brother. There he studied constitutional and international law under Richard Henry Dana and Theodore
v. Minister of National Revenue, [1949] Dominion Law Reports (Toronto), 1: 810-39. Alexander Fraser, A history of Ontario: its resources and development (2v
-century in Upper Canada,” Essays in the history of Canadian law, 1: 132–74. Lucy Booth Martyn, Toronto: 100 years of grandeur: the inside stories of Toronto’s great homes and the people who
Hart* of Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada; d. 1 Feb. 1887 at Coaticook, Que.
Eleazar David David, whose parents belonged to two of the
Brunswick, or the date. He studied law with William Botsford* in Dorchester and became an attorney on 20 Feb. 1823. He worked first in
must have continued his studies, however, for on 26 May 1858 he was examined as a candidate for ordination; on 1 Aug. 1858 he was ordained deacon and on 27 Dec. 1859 he was
study and practice of law, he studied medicine at Victoria College in Cobourg, Upper Canada, the Albany Medical College in New York State, and McGill College in Montreal; McGill, from which he graduated
Ferland* and which later became known as the Académie. After studying law under Pierre-Benjamin Dumoulin
; d. 1 Jan. 1892 in Calgary.
William Macauley Herchmer came from a prominent loyalist family; his great-grandfather Johan Jost Herkimer
the same legal and social basis as law and medicine. From 1870 to 1872 and 1885 to 1887 he was an external examiner in civil engineering at the University of Toronto. He was also a staunch advocate of a
. Brown, Robert Laird Borden: a biography (2v., Toronto, 1975–80), 2. O’Connor v. Waldron [1935], Dominion Law Reports (Toronto), 1: 260–63.
), Territories Law Reports (Toronto), 1: 211–16. H. A. Robson, “Edward Ludlow Wetmore,” Canadian Bar Rev. (Ottawa), 22 (1944): 442–49. Who’s who and why, 1917–18.