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Law-in-spacing : geographies of territorialization and resistance Stewart, Lynn Alison
Abstract
My thesis revolves around the extension of Anglo-American common law to the newly acquired territories of the Old Northwest and Louisiana. Both of these territories had French-speaking populations with traditions of European Civil law systems. I suggest that the extension of common law to these territories highlighted a process of law-in-spacing, a process by which the private law principles of common law became increasingly visible in the context of these traditionally Civil law populations. I also show that the common law had specific and unforeseen consequences for these French-speaking populations. I use concrete issues such as land and slavery to suggest that there are not only geographies of law, but geographies of custom. I also discuss the production of space as it relates to slavery.
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Law-in-spacing : geographies of territorialization and resistance
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University of British Columbia
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1993
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My thesis revolves around the extension of Anglo-American common law to the newly acquired territories of the Old Northwest and Louisiana. Both of these territories had French-speaking populations with traditions of European Civil law systems. I suggest that the extension of common law to these territories highlighted a process of law-in-spacing, a process by which the private law principles of common law became increasingly visible in the context of these traditionally Civil law populations. I also show that the common law had specific and unforeseen consequences for these French-speaking populations. I use concrete issues such as land and slavery to suggest that there are not only geographies of law, but geographies of custom. I also discuss the production of space as it relates to slavery.
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eng
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2008-08-21
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0086307
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University of British Columbia
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1993-11
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Graduate
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