Foreword

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Foreword

Dmade by Canadian legal history in recent decades,

we do not know as much as we should about the law of property, a cru

cial aspect of most peoples’ engagement with the law, past and present. The

Osgoode Society is thus especially pleased to publish this volume, which

deals with topics as varied as the Newfoundland seal hu nt in the nineteenth

century to the modern Vancouver planning process. Some cases are well

known, such as the Murdoch fami ly property controversy, others less so, but

the overall scope is very broad—Quebec nuisance law, restrictive covenants,

pollution control, rental housing and human rights, picketi ng, taking by eco

nomic regulation, the theft of information, and land use regulat ion. The au

thors employ the detailed case study approach, allowing them to investigate

not only the development of legal doctrine in particula r contexts, but also to

showtheeectonthelegalprocessoflitigantsdeterminationlawyering

skillsthebroaderpoliticalandsocialenvironmentandjudicialaitudes

The purpose of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History is to

encourage research and writing i n the history of Canadian law. The Society,

whichwasincorporatedinandisregisteredasacharitywasfounded

attheinitiativeoftheHonourableRRoyMcMurtryformerlyaorneygen

eralforOntarioandchiefjusticeoftheprovinceandocialsoftheLaw

Society of Upper Canada. The Society seeks to stimulate the study of legal

history in Canada by supporting researchers, collecting oral histories, and

publishingvolumesthatcontributetolegalhistoricalscholarshipinCanada