This act repeals the Quebec Act's provision allowing for resort to French civil law in matters relative to property and civil rights and establishes English common law as the rule for such decisions in Upper Canada.
Un acte qui continue deux ordinances; "Ordonnace relative aux causes en appel à la Cour du Gouverneur et Conseil Exécutif," et "Ordonnance pour faciliter la production des preuves vocales dans les causes civiles," qui perdraient leur force sans provisions pour les continués.
This Act amends that the inferior court of common pleas and general sessions for the county of Cumberland will be held in June and October instead of the former times in April which were found inconvenient.
This Act alters the times at which court is to be in the counties of Annapolis, Hants, and King's County in the months of May and September and specifies when writs and other process issued from the clerk's office are returnable in each county.
This addition to a 1786 act stipulates that local sheriffs are to annually make a lists of qualified jurors in their districts, and shall recieve compensation for their efforts.
This Act explains that court for the district of Colchester is to take place at Onslow every first Tuesday of April and every first Tuesday of January at Walmsley. The Act outlines the bounds of the district and makes provision for the court house and jail to be erected within it.
Under this Act, it is made lawful for witnesses residing outside of the province to be heard in court and for Justices of the Supreme Court to regulate prisons and those working in them.
This act takes away the power to enforce small debts from county clerks and gives it to Justices of the Peace, and stipulates how the Justice shall conduct trials on this matter.
This Act lists several recently expired acts, largely relating to the justice system or infrastructure, which are to be revived and remain in force until July 1791.
This Act outlines how commissioners should be appointed to oversee the leasing of a building near the Government House to serve as a court house to replace the building destroyed by a recent fire. Allowable sums for furnishing the building and the processes by which the lease is to be executed are outlined.
This Act amends the 1765 Act, "An Act for the Raising Money by presentment on the several Counties in this Province, for the Defraying Certain County Charges therein mention’d," to define how Clerks of the Peace should be paid for certain services.