Legislation by Province: Nova Scotia (1758-1825**)
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act to repeal Part of an Act made and passed in the IIId. Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act to prevent Frauds in the selling of Beef, Pork, Flour and Biscuit or Ship bread in Casks.” | 4 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act repeals the first clause of the 1763 Act, "An Act to prevent Frauds in selling of Beef, Pork, Flour, and Biscuit, or Ship-Bread in Casks." | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in further addition to an Act, made and pass’d in the Third Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for altering and amending several Acts of this Province, relating to the duties of Excise on Wines, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, sold within this Province.” | 4 George III – Chapter 4 (Session 1) | 1764 | This Act makes provision that, if the owner be absent, the foreman is to act in their stead to fulfill to terms of a former Act, “An Act for altering and amending several Acts of this Province, relating to the duties of Excise on Wines, Rum, and other distilled Spirituous Liquors, sold within this Province.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impower the Province Treasurer, to issue small Notes for discharging the Loans made in Virtue of an Act, made and passed in the first Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act for the Relief of the Poor of the Town of Halifax, and indigent Persons in the New Settlements;” and of an Act made and passed in the IId. Year of His Majesty’s Reign, intitled, “An Act to enable the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander in Chief, to borrow the Sum of £4,500 for paying off the Public Debts, and to postpone the Payment of Bounties and Premiums." | 4 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 2) | 1764 | This Act empowers the Treasurer of the province to receive warrants for money borrowed under the 1764 Act, "An Act to impower the Province Treasurer to borrow a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Two Thousand Nine Hundred Pounds, for paying off Bounties, Premiums, and other Debts, payable by the Laws of this Province." All receipts issued by the Treasurer are to bear interest at a rate of six pounds per centum per annum. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to impower the Province Treasurer to borrow a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Two Thousand Nine Hundred Pounds, for paying off Bounties, Premiums, and other Debts, payable by the Laws of this Province. | 4 George III – Chapter 3 (Session 1) | 1764 | This Act provides a sum not exceeding two thousand nine hundred pounds to pay off the debts not covered under the Act, “An Act to impower the province treasurer to borrow a sum not exceeding the sum of four thousand pounds, for paying off bounties, and premiums, and other debts payable by the laws of this province." The processes by which this sum is to be distributed and accounted for are outlined. | 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 for Granting to His Majesty a Duty of Impost, on Load Sugar, Bricks, and Lumber. | 3 George III – Chapter 14 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act imposes duties on lumber, sugar loaf, and bricks to supplement the duties imposed on beer, wine, rum, and other spirituous liquors, which were found insufficient for the purposes for which they were intended. The rates of duty set on these goods are listed. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |