Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy (21 June 1852  7 March 1919) was a Canadian legal scholar.

Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy was born on 21 June 1852 in Toronto, then in Canada West.[1] He attended Rugby School and New College, Oxford, receiving an honours BA in 1875 and a MA in 1880.[1][2]

Lefroy was called to the bars of England and Ontario in 1877 and 1878, respectively.[1] He became a professor of law at the University of Toronto in 1900.[1] He wrote four texts on Canadian constitutional law, published between 1897 and 1920.[3] Lefroy was a legal positivist who endorsed the views of John Austin.[4]

He died on 7 March 1919 in Ottawa.[1]

Books

  • The Law of Legislative Power in Canada (1897/1898)[5]
  • Canada's Federal System (1913)[5]
  • Leading Cases in Canadian Constitutional Law (1914)[5]
  • A Short Treatise on Canadian Constitutional Law (1918)[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Wallace, W. Stewart; McKay, William Angus, eds. (1978). The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography (4th ed.). Macmillan Publishers. p. 452. OCLC 1150276320.
  2. Risk, Richard C. B. (1998). "Lefroy, Augustus Henry Frazer". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 14. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  3. Oliver, Peter C. (28 June 2018). "Parliamentary Sovereignty, Federalism, and the Commonwealth". In Schütze, Robert; Tierney, Stephen (eds.). The United Kingdom and the Federal Idea. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5099-0715-1. SSRN 3000600. Archived from the original on 30 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  4. Walters, Mark D. (12 November 2020). A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition: A Legal Turn of Mind. Cambridge University Press. p. 156. doi:10.1017/9781139236249. ISBN 978-1-139-23624-9. S2CID 227317358.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Risk 1991, p. 308.

Sources

Further reading

  • O'Brien, Henry, ed. (1919). "A. H. F. Lefroy, K.C., M.A.". Canada Law Journal. Carswell. 55: 157–158.


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