This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, gives local officials the power to raise money to build jails and courts houses and oversee their construction.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, sets limits to when someone can be arrested due to being sued, based upon the value of damages sought.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, one of several to deal with debt, allows for the payment out of province debt to be legally enforceable in New Brunswick.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, one of several dealing with trials, allows for depositions of people unable to attend trials to be presented in court.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, allows for Quakers to, for legal matters, give affirmations instead of oaths, which violate their religious beliefs.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, one of seveal dealing with property law, makes clear the legal terms under which property or goods can change hands.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, stipulates how officials will collect debts and how any property confiscated in debt collection will be disposed of.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, sets up terms for the conduct of the clerk's courts for trials worth at least 40 shillings, for the judges, jurors, and defendents.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, prevents lawsuits over disputes worth less than 40 shillings to be brought before any courts save the county clerk's courts, or any disputes worth less than 10 pounds to any but the county inferior courts.
This Act makes provision for debtors of sums under three pounds to be arrested in the manner practised for debts of greater sums instead of the process formerly used.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, gives the New Brunswick supreme court the power to hear circuit cases, and for attornies of the supreme court to defend their clients in any inferior courts.
This act, passed in the first year of the assembly, allows for grand jury foremans to issue oaths to witnesses and to punish those who give false testimony.
This Act changes the times at which court will be held in Windsor, in the county of Hants, to the first Tuesday of April and last Tuesday of October to better accommodate the harvest and planting seasons.
Under this Act, Justices of the Peace are empowered to call special courts or courts of sessions to try and determine criminal offences that do not extend to life and limb in order to reduce the time persons committed to jail are held in confinement.
This Act describes when the courts of justice are to be held in Amherst each year. The Act also specifies the terms allowable between the issue of judgements, writs, and other process and when they are to be returnable.