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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c d e 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. ^ a b c d Risk 1991, p. 308.

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Further reading

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