Law-in-spacing : geographies of territorialization and resistance

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts - MA

Level thesis:degree_level

master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Grantor dc:publisher

University of British Columbia

Year dc:date

1993

Author dc:creator

• Stewart, Lynn Alison

Statement dc:rights

• 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.

Language dc:language

eng

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1474

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/1474