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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

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

Risk, R. C. B. (1991). "A. H. F. Lefroy: Common Law Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada: On Burying One's Grandfather". University of Toronto Law Journal. 41 (3): 307–331. doi:10.2307/825838. JSTOR 825838.