Legislation by Concept: Justice System
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
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| An Act for prolonging an Act, made and passed in the fifth year of His Majesty’s Reign, entitled, “An Act for the Summary Trial of Actions.” | 7 George III – Chapter 10 (Session 1) | 1767 | This Act continues the 1765 Act, "An Act for the Summary Trial of Actions," which is to remain in force for ten years. This Act also limits the costs allowable in cases brought before the Justices of the Peace. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for regulating the Times and Places for holding the several Courts of Justice therein named. | 7 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 1) | 1767 | This Act sets the times that the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and the Inferior Court of Common Pleas are to be held in Annapolis, Lunenburg, Liverpool, Horton, and Cumberland each year as well as when the Supreme Court will be held in Halifax. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further Addition to an Act, intitled An Act for regulating Petit Juries and declaring the Qualification of Jurors. | 7 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1767 | This Act outlines the qualifications required of persons obliged to serve on petit juries. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Establishment of Fees, as regulated by the Governor and Council, at the Request of the House of Assembly. | 6 George III – Chapter 11 (Session 1) | 1766 | This Act lists the fees that can be charged for services provided by Justices, Clerks, Attorneys, Provost Marshals, coroners, and in the courts in the province. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act Concerning Bail. | 6 George III – Chapter 10 (Session 1) | 1766 | This Act outlines the rates of bail for debtors, and the processes by which bail is to be taken. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to prevent the Multiplicity of Law Suits. | 6 George III – Chapter 9 (Session 1) | 1766 | Under this Act courts are empowered to rule jointly on the plaintiff and defendant in actions sued on book accounts. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for prescribing the Forms of Writs and the Manner of issuing the same. | 6 George III – Chapter 8 (Session 1) | 1766 | This Act outlines the processes by which writs and judicial issues are to be given, and includes the form of summons, attachment, execution, writ of capias ad respondendum, and writ of habere facias possessionem. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for impowering the Justices of the Peace for the County of Queen’s County to hold Courts of Special Sessions of the Peace, at Yarmouth and Barrington, in said County, for the said Townships of Yarmouth and Barrington. | 6 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 2) | 1766 | This Act makes it lawful for the Justices of the Peace to hold a Court of Special Sessions at Yarmouth and Barrington because want of roads makes it difficult for persons residing in those towns to attend court in Liverpool. The times at which court will be held are listed. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Summary Trial of Actions. | 5 George III – Chapter 11 | 1765 | This Act makes provision for the summary trial of causes of action with a sum total not more than ten pounds. The form of Writs to be issues to recover small debts is included. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Raising Money by presentment on the several Counties in this Province, for the Defraying Certain County Charges therein mention’d. | 5 George III – Chapter 6 | 1765 | This Act makes it lawful for the grand juries in each county to make presentment upon all sums necessary for the construction or repairing of jails, courts, session houses, stocks, pillories, or pounds, and for providing bolts, shackles, and the conveying of persons to the county goal. The processes by which these sums are to be raised are described. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for impowering the Justices of the Peace for the County of Halifax, to hold a Court of Special Sessions of the Peace at Windsor in said County, for the Townships of Windsor, Onslow, and Truro. | 5 George III – Chapter 3 | 1765 | This Act provides that the there will be a Special Court of General Sessions held in Windsor every year on the last Tuesday of June and the second Tuesday of October to hear all matters in the townships of Windsor, Onslow, and Truro. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the ascertaining the Times, and Places for the holding the General Sessions of the Peace & Inferior Courts of Common Pleas, for the several Counties in this Province. | 4 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 1) | 1764 | This Act sets the times in which the General Sessions of the Peace and Inferior Court of Common Pleas are to be held in each of the Province's counties and the place whereat the courts are to be held. This Act is to remain in force for three years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further Addition to an Act, made and passed in the XXXIII. Year of his late Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for regulating Petty Juries, and declaring the Qualification of Jurors.” | 4 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act makes addition to the 1759 Act, "An Act for regulating Petit Juries, and declaring the Qualification of Jurors," to extend the Act's provisions to all counties in the Province, whereas the former Act applied only to Halifax. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for preventing abatement and discontinuance of Suits. | 4 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1764 | Under this Act, in the event that a plaintiff dies before a final judgement is obtained on any action held or to be held in a Court of Record, the suit is to maintained by the executors or administrators of such plaintiff and if the defendant should die, prosecuted against their executors or administrators. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for Reformation of Jeofails and Mispleadings, and to prevent Arrests and Reversals of Judgments, and for the better Advancement of Justice. | 4 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act implements several measures to prevent reversal of judgments by Writ of Error or False Judgement, including that every person named as an attorney is a suit is required to deliver their Warrant of Attorney to the Clerk of the Court upon pain of a five pound fine. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for amending Defects in Pleas, Processes, and Records. | 4 George III – Chapter 1 (Session 1) | 1764 | Under this Act, judges are empowered to examine records and processes and, if deemed necessary, return them to their clerks to amend them and fix error, such as misspelled names. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in addition to an Act, made and passed in the Thirty third Year of His late Majesty’s Reign, Intitled, an Act for the Summary Trial of Actions. | 3 George III – Chapter 15 (Session 2) | 1763 | Under this Act, Justices of Common Pleas are permitted to hear and grant execution on cases of debts not exceeding ten pounds as if the same had been tried in the Inferior Court. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an Act, intitled, An Act for Regulating the Proceedings of the Courts of Judicature. | 3 George III – Chapter 6 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act outlines how creditors can collect on debts owing from insolvent persons and penalties for insolvent debtors. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. | 3 George III – Chapter 5 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act outlines how creditors can collect on debts owing from insolvent persons and penalties for insolvent debtors. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for regulating the Proceedings of the Courts of Judicature. | 3 George III – Chapter 2 (Session 1) | 1763 | This act clarifies procedures for seeking damages against debtors in the provincial court system. | Early Canadiana Online |