An Act to continue for a limited time, an Act passed in the fifty-eighth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the thirty-fourth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘An Act for the division of the Province of Lower-Canada for amending the Judicature thereof, and for repealing certain Laws therein-mentioned,’ and to provide more effectually for the administration of Justice in this Province.” (24th April, 1819.)

  • Province
    Lower Canada (1792-1841)
  • Chapter
    59 George III Chapter 13
  • Year
    1819
  • Concepts
    Justice System
  • Jurisdictional Relevance
    Provincial/Provinciale
  • Number of Articles
    1
  • Description
    An Act to extend a former act from 1818 that extended the provisions of an Act passed in 1793 which divided Lower Canada into three districts and established a court of King's Bench in each. By the 1818 Act, any Judge in the province is authorised to preside over the duties of the Chief Justice of Puisne Justices of their district in the event that they are unable to perform these duties due to illness. This Act is to expire in 1820.
  • Source
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