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Inter-imperial riparian law

Posts based on my article, "Riparian Rights in Lower Canada and Canada East: Inter-Imperial Legal Influences", published as chapter 4 of Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930: Empires and Encounters (Roland Cvetkovski & Volker Barth eds., Bloomsbury, 2015).

I - Introduction: Inter-imperial law in an inter-imperial court

II -The Law in Miner v. Gilmour

III - American sources of French-Canadian water law

IV - The attraction of American law

V - Encounters of legal empires in Miner?

VI - Miner as an inter-imperial legal authority and Conclusion
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