An Act to continue the 1826 Act “An Act to provide for the Summary Trial of certain Small Causes,” as amended by the 1827 Act “An Act to amend an Act passed in the sixth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled ‘An Act to provide for the Summary trial of certain Small Causes.’” These Acts are to remain in force until 1833. This Act also amends how commissioners are to be appointed and their jurisdictions are defined for the purposes stated in these former Acts.
This Act extends the option of a trial by jury to all cases in which a remedy is sought in compensation of damages sustained to moveable property, as described, whereas the 1785 Act “An Ordinance to regulate the proceedings in the Courts of Civil Judicature, and to establish Trials by Juries in actions of a commercial nature and personal wrongs to be compensated in damages,” was more restrictive.
This Act explains the processes by which two Commissioners (Commissaires Enqueteurs) are to be appointed in order to receive evidence in causes pending in the Superior Terms of the Court of the King’s Bench for the District of Montreal, for one year from the passing of this Act. Their duties and function and the provisions to be supplied to these Commissaires Enqueteurs are described.
And Act to revive and continue an Act from 1825, the term of which was limited to 1827, “An Act still further to continue, for a limited time, certain Acts therein-mentioned, relating to Houses of Correction in the several Districts of this Province.” This Act is to remain in force until 1832. Under this Act, the Houses of Correction are under the superintendence of the District Sheriff.
This Act makes it illegal for any Sheriff or officer carrying out a Writ of Execution against a debtor to seize necessary wearing apparel, bed or bedding, from the debtor or their family. This Act is to remain in force until 1833.
This act continues an 1823 act concerning when accussed can surrender themselves to courts until 1835, and, in the event of the absence of a justice from court at the time of a surrender, amends it to give commissioners the same authority as a justice.
This act allows for Saint John officials to borrow money to complete the construction of the city's court house and stipulates how it will be paid out and what the interest rate on it will be.
An amendment to an act passed in 1823, which allows for the division of Cape Breton into three separate districts which will each have its own inferior court and general sessions of the peace. The times at which the court will be held in the southern district are changed to the second Tuesday of March and the second Tuesday of November.