Debt and Federalism

Landmark Cases in Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, 1894-1937

Thomas G.W. Telfer, Virginia Torrie (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2021
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6728-3 (ISBN)

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The legal meaning of bankruptcy and insolvency law has often remained elusive, even to practitioners and scholars in the field, despite having been enshrined in Canada's Constitution since Confederation. Federal jurisdiction in this area must be measured against provincial powers over property and civil rights, among others. Debt and Federalism traces changing conceptions of the bankruptcy and insolvency power through four landmark cases that form the constitutional foundation of the Canadian bankruptcy system: the 1894 Voluntary Assignments Case, Royal Bank of Canada v Larue in 1928, the 1934 Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act Reference Case, and the 1937 Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act Reference Case. Together, these decisions ultimately produced the bedrock for modern understandings of bankruptcy and insolvency law. Thomas G.W. Telfer and Virginia Torrie draw on archival and legal sources to analyze the decisions from a historical and doctrinal perspective. This astute book demonstrates that the legal changes introduced by these landmark cases underpin contemporary bankruptcy and insolvency law and scholarship.

Thomas G.W. Telfer is a professor and teaching fellow in the Faculty of Law at Western University. He is the author of Ruin and Redemption: A Struggle for a Canadian Bankruptcy Law, 1867–1919 and co-editor of Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law in Canada: Cases, Materials, and Problems. Virginia Torrie is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, as well as several articles on bankruptcy and insolvency law.

Introduction: An Untested Federal Power

1 The Voluntary Assignments Case (1894) and Lord Herschell's Dicta

2 Royal Bank of Canada v Larue and the Brave New World of Bankruptcy Law

3 The Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act Reference Case and the Debtor's Financial Condition

4 The Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act Reference Case and Rehabilitating Debtors

Conclusion: A Modern View of Bankruptcy and Insolvency

Notes; Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2022
Reihe/Serie	Landmark Cases in Canadian Law
Zusatzinfo	7 photographs, 3 tables
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht
ISBN-10	0-7748-6728-0 / 0774867280
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-6728-3 / 9780774867283
Zustand	Neuware