TY  - BOOK
AU  - Telfer,Thomas G.W.
TI  - Ruin and Redemption: The Struggle for a Canadian Bankruptcy Law, 1867-1919 
T2  - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
SN  - 9780802093431
AV  - KE1499 .T44 2014eb
U1  - 346.7 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Bankruptcy
KW  - Canada
KW  - Debtor and creditor
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Law
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations, Figures and Tables --; Abbreviations --; Foreword --; Preface --; 1. Ideas, Interests and Institutions --; Part One. 1867–1880 --; 2. Constitutional and Legislative History 1867–1880 --; 3. The Rise and Fall of Bankruptcy Law 1867–1880: The Equitable Distribution of Assets --; 4. The Repeal of Bankruptcy Law 1867–1880: The Discharge --; 5. The Role of Institutions 1867–1880 --; Part TWO. 1880–1903 --; 6. Living with Repeal and the Failure of Federal Reform 1880–1903 --; 7. The Constitutional Question and the Impact of Federalism 1880–1903 --; 8. The Bankruptcy Law Debates 1880–1903 --; Part THREE. 1903–1919 --; 9. Reform Achieved: The Bankruptcy Act of 1919 --; 10. Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In 1880 the federal Parliament of Canada repealed the Insolvent Act of 1875, leaving debtor-creditor matters to be regulated by the provinces. Almost forty years later, Parliament finally passed new bankruptcy legislation, recognizing that what was once considered a moral evil had become a commercial necessity. In Ruin and Redemption, Thomas G.W. Telfer analyses the ideas, interests, and institutions that shaped the evolution of Canadian bankruptcy law in this era. Examining the vigorous public debates over the idea of bankruptcy, Telfer argues that the law was shaped by conflict over the morality of release from debts and by the divergence of interests between local and distant creditors. Ruin and Redemption is the first full-length study of the origins of Canadian bankruptcy law, thus making it an important contribution to the study of Canada’s commercial law
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442619685
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442619685
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442619685/original
ER  -