Nicollet (who shortly thereafter became his brother-in-law), the tract called Belleborne on the outskirts of Quebec (a commoner’s grant of 160 acres). In April 1646 he acquired one-eighth of
seigneury, which had been granted to his father-in-law Dugué de Boisbriand in 1683, had been attached to the king’s domain a few days before, that is on 1 March 1714. The grant was confirmed on 5
-law, Thomas and Emma Deighton. The hotel was advertised as a resort for invalids and sportsmen.
Deighton’s success is explained by the increasing
Denys* de Fronsac’s children, a fief measuring three leagues by six in the seigneury of Miramichi; he sold this land again in February 1699, The same year his brother-in-law Charles-François Bissot
during the American Civil War. In 1865, in response to the appointment of a royal commission on capital punishment, he published The law on its trial, an account of the personalities, events, and
. Gloucester (16), subdist. Bathurst (Parish) (A): 1. PANB, MC288 (Law Society of New Brunswick fonds), MS4, B2, Byrne, James P., 7 Oct. 1890; RS141B7, code B4/1902, no.1355. Univ. of N.B. Library
; m. 1 May 1841 Emma Dalton, daughter of Thomas Dalton*, and they adopted a daughter; d. 28 Dec. 1891 in Toronto
Claude-Sébastien de Villieu on behalf of his father-in-law, Michel
Louis Dunière and Marguerite Durand; m. there 1 July 1748 Élisabeth Trefflé, dit Rottot, and they had 17 children; d. 31 May 1806 at Berthier (Berthier-sur-Mer
had one daughter; d. 1 Jan. 1828 in Saint-Ambroise (Loretteville), Lower Canada, where he was buried four days later.
When he was
. de Sailly lived for some time in Martinique, where he represented his father-in-law.
After taking up residence at Montreal, he made several more or
([Toronto], 1984), 106–7. Leon Radzinowicz, A history of English criminal law and its administration from 1750 (4v., London, 1948–68), 1: 86, 251. R. B. Splane, Social welfare in Ontario
McCarthy*’s law firm in Toronto, subsequently known as McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin, and Creelman. He became a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada in Easter term 1880, and a founding member and first
Law Soc. of Upper Can. Arch. (Toronto), PF 189 (Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP fonds), 1-3 (letter agreement signed by Sedgewick), 2-1 (J. B. Robinson memoirs). Daily Mail and Empire, 17
positive rejuvenation of Dalhousie’s prospects. In 1881 Forrest was prevailed upon to accept the chair of history and political economy offered by his brother-in-law. It was given on condition he step down
bishop. On one occasion Plessis reproached him for not always having scrupulously respected the requirements of civil law concerning the consent of parents or guardians to the marriage of minors. Another
officer of the 49th regiment and employee of the Crown Lands Department, Quebec. His mother was related to the Ponsonby family. He was educated at the Petit Séminaire of Quebec and studied law in Montreal
of Richmond County, N.S., and Mary Oakley, and brother of Hyacinth Huden Fuller, Nova Scotia mlc; m. 1 Feb. 1849 at Arichat to Margaret Lanigan, and they were
, Lemieux studied law in the office of the future judge Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Bacquet. He was called to the bar on 1 April 1839, and from then on practised at Quebec, dividing his time between law and