| An Act further to amend the Law relating to offences against the person. Passed 11th April, 1864. |
27 Victoria – Chapter 4 |
1864 |
This Act details the laws on child abandonment, abortion, and divorce and remarriage. |
Acts of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1864. Fredericton: G. E. Fenety, 1864. |
| An Act to incorporate the Sisters of Charity of Quebec. Assented to 14ih June, 1853. |
16 Victoria – Chapter 264 |
1852 |
This act incorporates the Sisters of Charity of Quebec, allowing them to buy and hold property. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to incorporate The Orphans' Home and Female Aid Society, Toronto. 2d August, 1851. |
14 & 15 Victoria – Chapter 34 |
1851 |
This act incorporates the Orphans Home and Female Aid Society, which is established to help pregnant women without families, and to offer them religious instruction. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the local government of Counties, Towns and Parishes in this Province. Passed 26th April 1850. |
13 Victoria Chapter 30 |
1850 |
This act consolidates and amends prior legislation concerning county, town, and parish governments. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1850. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1850. |
| An Act to consolidate and improve the Laws relative to the administration of Criminal Justice. Passed 27th March 1849.
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12 Victoria Chapter 30 |
1849 |
This act consolidates and improves laws relative to the administration of criminal justice. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1849. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1849. |
| An Act to consolidate and amend the several Acts of Assembly relating to the Criminal Law of this Province, so far as relates to the definition of certain indictable offences, and the punishment thereof. Passed 27th March 1849. |
12 Victoria Chapter 29 |
1849 |
This act consolidates and amends various acts of assembly relating to the criminal law of the province. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1849. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1849. |
| An Act further to amend the Law relating to Bastardy. Passed 27th March 1845. |
8 Victoria Chapter 75 |
1845 |
This act amends a 1792 act relating to bastardry to allow overseers of the poor or commissioners of alms houses to seek compensation for certain damages before local courts. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1845. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1845. |
| An Act to incorporate the Ladies of the Committee of Management of the Montreal Lying-in Hospital. 16th November, 1843. |
7 Victoria – Chapter 53 |
1843 |
An act to incorporate the Ladies of the Committee of Management of the Montreal Lying-in Hospital, who managed a hospital for impoverished women and their children. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to amend the Law relating to Offences against the Person. Passed 4th April 1842. |
5 Victoria Chapter 33 |
1842 |
This act creates new punishments for certain violent crimes. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1842. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1842. |
| An Act further to amend the Law relating to Bastardy. Passed 19th March 1841. |
4 Victoria Chapter 28 |
1841 |
This act further to amends the law relating to bastardy. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1841. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1841. |
| An Act to Incorporate the Montreal Asylum for aged and Infirm Women. 18th September, 1841. |
4 & 5 Victoria – Chapter 67 |
1841 |
An Act to incorporate "The Montreal Asylum for Aged and Infirm Women" who provide aid and care for destitute aged, infirm,and decrepit women in the city. The act also outlines how the corporation will run and exempts the women involved from needing their husbands' permission to make decisions. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend the Law relating to Bastardy. Passed 23d March 1839. |
2 Victoria Chapter 42 |
1839 |
This act amends the law governing the care of illegitimate children, creating new stipulations for fatherly support of any such children. |
Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1839. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1839. |
| An Act to make the remedy in cases of Seduction more effectual, and to render the Fathers of illegitimate Children liable for their support. Passed 4th March, 1837. |
7 William IV – Chapter 8 |
1837 |
This act provides financial protection for the child of an unwed mother in the case of a "seduction," that is to say, in the case of a man having pre-marital sex with a young woman after having promised to marry her but without actually intending to do so. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to provide for the Maintenance of Bastard Children. (12th June, 1834.) |
4 William IV Chapter 7 (Session 1) |
1834 |
This act allows women who should become pregnant out of wedlock to sue the fathers of those babies for support. The act specifies that the men will only be except of this charge if the woman in question dies or gets married before the baby is born, or if she miscarries. The court also reserves the right to place the child in alternate care. If the woman is of "ill-repute" or a "common whore," the case will be referred to a higher court. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act further to amend the Laws relative to Offences against the Person. Passed 15th March 1831. |
1 William IV Chapter 17 |
1831 |
This act creates new punishments for women who commit infanticide or attempt to conceal births, and against violent offences in general. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1831. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1831. |
| An Act for improving the Administration of Justice in Criminal Cases. Passed 25th March 1831. |
1 William IV Chapter 14 |
1831 |
This act repeals several laws in New Brunswick that have been repealed in London, and creates new regulations for the administration of criminal cases. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1831. Fredericton: John Simpson, 1831. |
| An Act to amend the Statute Law, relative to offences against the Person, and to provide for the more effectual punishment of such offences. Passed 10th February, 1829. |
9 & 10 George IV Chapter 21 |
1829 |
This act repeals several acts on the books in New Brunswick that were recently repealed by the Imperial Parliament. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick passed in the year 1829. Fredericton: George K. Lugrin, 1829. |
| An Act for repealing so much of an Act, made in the thirty-second year of the late King, George the Second, entitled, “An Act relating to Treasons and Felonies,” as respects the privately murdering, or concealment of the death, of Bastard Children, and for making other provisions in lieu thereof. |
53 George III – Chapter 11 |
1813 |
This act repeals and amends the fifth section of an act first passed in 1758, which categorizes various types of crimes as felonies. The clause in question regards the punishment of mothers who attempt to hide the death of bastard children; it is amended so that women who are charged with murdering any children born of them who would be considered bastard children are to be tried by rule of evidence. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to repeal an Act made in England, in the twenty first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King James the First, Chapter twenty seventh, intituled, “An Act to prevent the destroying and murthering of Bastard Children, as to this Province of Lower Canada,” and for making provisions for the Trials of Women charged with the murder of any issue of their Bodies, male or female, which being born alive, would, by Law, be Bastard: (19th May, 1812.) |
52 George III Chapter 3 (S1) |
1812 |
An act to repeal the former act respecting the murder of bastard children, which had been found inconvenient to put into practice. This act dictates that women charged with murdering "any issue of their bodies" will be tried as any other murder would be handled. Women convicted of murdering their bastards in order to conceal their birth are to be sentenced a period of hard labour not exceeding two years. |
Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for making further provisions to prevent the destroying and murdering of Bastard Children, and for the further prevention of the malicious using of means to procure the miscarriage of women. Passed the 14th March, 1810. |
50 George III Chapter 2 |
1810 |
This act expands and strengthens the restrictions preventing the abortion on 'bastard' children. |
Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick; Passed in the Year 1810. Saint John: Jacob Mott, 1810 |