• About the Law Foundation
• Contact Information

• Foreward and Author's Preface
  
• Acknowledgements
  
• Characters
  
• Scene 1: Under a fish flake, 1763
  
• Scene 2: The Supreme Court, 1812
  
• Scene 3: Port de Grave, 1820
  
• Scene 4: The Supreme Court, 1820
  

• Administration of Law to 1729
  
  • Statutory Law and the Western Charter
    
  • Fishing Admirals
    
  • Royal Navy
    
• Naval Government 1729-1815
  
  • Magistrates
    
  • Judiciary
    
  • Statutory Law and Prerogative Writ
    
  • Surgeons and Criminal Justice
    
    • Case Study 1
      
    • Case Study 2
      
• Reform Era 1815-1832
  
  • Law Reform
    
  • Lundrigan Affair
    
  • Campain for Representative Government
    
• Primary Documents
  
  • Western Charter of 1634
    
  • King William's Act of 1699
    
  • Gov. Osborne's Commission, 1729
    
  • Palliser's Act, 1775
    
  • Judicature Act, 1791
    
  • Judicature Act, 1792
    
  • Judicature Act, 1824
    
  • Royal Charter, 1825
    

• Foreward
  
• Authors' Preface
  
• Acknowledgements
  
• Part I: Overview
  
• Part II: Rule of the Fishing Admirals
  
• Part III: King William's Act, 1699
  
• Part IV: Ignoring Statute
  
• Part V: Palliser's Act
  
• Part VI: The Judicature Act, 1791
  
• Part VII: Centrality of Law
  
• Endnotes
  

• Table of Contents
  
• Illustrations, Figures and Tables
  
• Opening
  
• Foreword
  
• A Note from the Author
  
• Preface
  
• Introduction
  
• The Effect of World Events on Newfoundland
  
• The Effect of World Events on Labrador
  
• The Legal System in Labrador
  
• The Legal System in Review
  
• Conclusion
  
• Appendix A
  
• Appendix B
  
• Endnotes
  

Updated July, 2005.