Object Type: Folder
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Collection consists of three scrapbooks pertaining to prominent British and Canadian (pre-Confederation) jurists from the 1500s to the 1800s, created and/or accumulated by an unknown source. The scrapbooks contain prints and other illustrations, biographies relating to these jurists, as well as a number of Quebec court documents.
Fonds consists of records relating to the personal life, and legal and business career, of Cyril F.H. Carson. Records in the fonds document his association with the Law Society of Upper Canada as Treasurer and later a life bencher, his work as a partner in the law firm of Tilley, Carson and Findlay, and his role as a director for a number of Canadian companies. Records also relate to his service as a lecturer in the Bar Admission Course, various Law Society matters, and the organization of personal and business trips. The fonds includes correspondence, invoices, case materials, docket ledgers, memoranda, lecture notes, notices, minutes of meetings, reports, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, a draft memoir written by Carson, and other textual material. Also included are photographs depicting Carson at various events, his trips by boat to England, Osgoode Hall Law School class of 1921 reunions, Canadian Bar Association dinners, business meetings and corporate dinners, and with friends during social gatherings. Several artifacts relating to Carson are also included with the fonds. The fonds also includes newspaper clippings, a photograph, a case notebook, and a sketch relating to William Norman Tilley, a senior partner at the firm of Tilley & Carson.
Fonds consists of a bench book maintained by Justice James Buchanan Macaulay during the trial for treason of suspects who were alleged to have participated in the December 1837 Duncombe Revolt.
1838-01-01
Fonds consists of a volume containing cross-examination questions and a draft speech prepared by John Maxwell for the murder trial defence of Frederick Mann in L'Orignal, Ontario.
1883-01-01
Records documenting the administration, proceedings, and debates of the Juvenile Advocate Society, a student society associated with the Law Society of Upper Canada, based in York, Upper Canada. In February of 1821, students-at-law met in York, Upper Canada, to form themselves into an association called the Juvenile Advocate Society. Only students-at-law of the Law Society of Upper Canada were admitted into the new society. The first executive consisted of Daniel Sullivan, Bencher; Richard Robison, Vice Bencher; and, Robert Baldwin, Secretary and Treasurer. The Society conducted discussion and debate on points of law, as well as encouraged reading on legal issues. The Society played an informal educational role for law students at a time when no formal law school existed. The Society appears to have disbanded around the year 1826.
Records maintained by Mary Constance McLean, relating to her legal career and that of her father, John Joseph Hunt.
Fonds consists of three letter books maintained by Newton Wesley Rowell while an articling student with the firm of Fraser and Fraser in London, Ontario. The volumes document Rowell's travels to Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon, Montana and Idaho to collect debts on behalf of the firm's client, Molson's Bank, who were attempting to recover the debts of two bankrupt London, Ontario, farm implement distributors.
Collection consists of records pertaining to William Douglas Bell, an Osgoode Hall Law School student killed during the First World War in Courcelette, France, on September 15th, 1916.
Collection consists of correspondence received and sent by William Osgoode, the first Chief Justice of Upper Canada. Included are two bound volumes of correspondence and a dozen loose letters. Few of the letters date from the years when Osgoode was in Canada, and almost none deal with affairs of law and state on which he was engaged as Chief Justice. Several of the correspondents are university or legal friends of Osgoode, including Joseph Jekyll (1754-1837), Richard Clerke, and Meyer Schomberg.
