Legislation by Concept: Natural Resources, Property Law, Justice System
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to provide for the more effectual prevention of Trespasses and protection of Timber growing on the Crown Lands within this Province. Passed 31st March 1840. | 3 Victoria Chapter 77 | 1840 | This act prohibits unauthorized harvesting of timber on crown lands, and establishes penalties for those who do so. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act relating to Wrecked Property. Passed 31st March 1840. | 3 Victoria Chapter 68 | 1840 | This act allows for the appointment of county officials to oversee the collection and distribution of goods salvaged from shipwrecks, spells out their duties and establishes penalties for violating their orders. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act to amend the Law of Evidence in regard to the proof of Records and Letters Patent. Passed 31st March 1840. | 3 Victoria Chapter 65 | 1840 | This act attempts to streamline the process by which evidence in certain cases is presented to certain courts. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act further to regulate proceedings in Replevin, by allowing damages in certain cases to the Defendant. Passed 31st March 1840. | 3 Victoria Chapter 63 | 1840 | This act creates regulations for the return of property subject to wrongful replevin lawsuits or other rewards where such property has already been returend before the suits were launched. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act in amendment of the Law relating to Wills, Legacies, Executors and Administrators, and for the settlement and distribution of the Estates of Intestates. Passed 31st March 1840. | 3 Victoria Chapter 61 | 1840 | This act creates a new a system for the creation, registry, and reading of wills | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act to authorize the Justices of the Peace for Queen’s County, to lease a certain Lot of Land in the Town Plat of Gagetown. Passed 25th March 1840. | 3 Victoria Chapter 49 | 1840 | This act allows for Queen's County officials to rent a parcel of land originally set aside for a court house for other uses and use the money to benefit the county. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Act to confirm and regulate certain Sales of Land for Taxes, in the District of Ottawa. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 46 | 1840 | This act validates the sale of lands in the district of Ottawa that have been sold to pay taxes. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to Incorporate the City and Town of Montreal. | 3 Victoria Chapter 36 (Session 5) | 1840 | This Ordinance establishes "The Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Montreal” as a body politic and corporate. Directions for the rights granted to the said corporation, and how it is to function, including how elections should take place, are outlined, including the authority that members of the Common Council and the Mayor have. Instructions for how these positions are to be elected are also outlined. The city of Montreal is to be divided into six wards, as outlined. This Ordinance is made permanent. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to Incorporate the City and Town of Quebec. | 3 Victoria Chapter 35 (Session 5) | 1840 | This Ordinance establishes "The Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Quebec,” as a body politic and corporate. Directions for the rights granted to the said corporation, and how it is to function, including how elections should take place, are outlined, including the authority that members of the Common Council and the Mayor have. Instructions for how these positions are to be elected are also outlined. The city of Quebec is to be divided into six wards, as outlined. This Ordinance is made permanent. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to incorporate the Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal, to confirm their Title to the Fief and Seigniory of the Island of Montreal, the Fief and Seigniory of the Lake of the Two Mountains, and the Fief and Seigniory of Saint Sulpice, in this Province; to provide for the gradual extinction of Seigniorial Rights and Dues, within the Seigniorial limits of the said Fiefs and Seigniories, and for other purposes. | 3 Victoria Chapter 30 (Session 5) | 1840 | This Ordinance establishes the Seminary of Saint Sulpice as an Ecclesiastical Corporation, under the name “The Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal" and under the provisions outlined. The Ordinance describes the obligations of, and rules, regulations, and exceptions for the said corporation. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Management of the Estate of William Handley, Esquire. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 30 | 1840 | This act appoints trustees to manage the estates of William Handley, who is being confined to the lunatic asylum. Since there is no such asylum in the province, his wife is taking him out of province for treatment in the hopes he will return to manage his own affairs. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue the Act relating to Landlord and Tenant. Passed 25th March 1840. | 3 Victoria Chapter 20 | 1840 | This act extends the terms of an 1827 governing landlord and tenant relations until 1845. | Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1840. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1840. |
| An Ordinance to render permanent the Ordinance therein mentioned relative to the Estates and Property, in this Province, occupied for the Ordnance Service. | 3 Victoria Chapter 18 (Session 5) | 1840 | This Ordinance makes the 1839 Ordinance “An Ordinance for vesting all the Estates and Property in the Province of Lower Canada, occupied for the Ordnance Service, in the Principal Officers of Her Majesty’s Ordnance, and for granting certain powers to the said Principal Officers, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” permanent. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to render permanent certain Ordinances therein mentioned, and to amend one of the said Ordinances. | 3 Victoria Chapter 16 (Session 5) | 1840 | This Ordinance makes various Ordinances, listed, permanent and amends certain sections of a number of them. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to authorise Her Majesty to take Possession of Lands for the erection of Fortifications in this Province, under certain restrictions. Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 16 | 1840 | This act makes it legal for the crown to acquire and/or appropriate privately-owned lands for the purpose of building fortifications. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance further to continue, for a limited time, certain Acts therein mentioned. | 3 Victoria Chapter 15 (Session 5) | 1840 | This Ordinance continues several Acts, listed, which are to remain in force until 1845. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to continue for a limited time, a certain Act therein mentioned, in relation to secret incumbrances on lands. | 3 Victoria Chapter 13 (Session 5) | 1840 | This Ordinance continues the 1829 Act, “An Act to provide for the more effectual extinction of Secret Incumbrances on Lands than was heretofore in use in this Province,” which is to remain in force until 1845. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and amend an Act passed during the third Session of the present Parliament, entitled, “An Act to authorise the Establishment of Boards of Boundary Line Commissioners, within the several Districts of this Province.” Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 11 | 1840 | This is an amendment to an act first passed in 1838, which establishes a board of boundary commissioners for each district within the province in order to help settle disputes caused by improper boundary surveys. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to revive, continue and make perpetual a certain Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, “An Act to continue and amend the Late for attaching the Property of Absconding Debtors, and for other purposes therein-mentioned." Passed 10th February, 1840. | 3 Victoria – Chapter 7 | 1840 | This act continues and makes perpetual an act passed in 1835, which described how the property of absconding debtors could be seized. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Ordinance to render permanent certain Acts therein mentioned. | 3 Victoria Chapter 6 (Session 5) | 1840 | This Ordinance makes several Acts, set to expire, permanent. | Early Canadiana Online |