Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Act for affording relief, during a limited time, to Insolvent Debtors. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 7 | 1827 | Under this Act, debtors arrested under the Writs of Capias ad satisfaciendum are permitted to be at large (so long as they do not leave the limits) within the City, Town, Borough, or Village where they are situated. This Act is to remain in force until 1832. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for move effectually preventing trivial and vexatious Law-Suits, and for restricting the Costs thereupon. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 6 | 1827 | Under this Act, Plaintiffs are not to recover more costs of suit than damages when the Court or Jury finds the damages to be under forty shillings. This is meant to prevent vexatious suits. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to establish the manner of issuing Licences on which Duties are imposed by any Laws in force in this Province. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 5 | 1827 | Under this Act, all Licences with imposed duties to be granted by the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Person administering the Government of this Province, under any former Act in force Province, shall be issued under the Seal at Arms of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor or Person administering the Government of the Province. The manner in which these licences are to be certified and signed are explained. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act relating to the Wardens of the House of Industry in the City of Montreal. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 4 | 1827 | An Act to allow that four Wardens for the House of Industry in the City of Montreal are to annually retire and be replaced by equal number. The process by which these retirements should take place are explained. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act more effectually to provide for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places of Public Worship, and for other purposes therein mentioned. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 3 | 1827 | An Act to repeal and replace former Acts from 1821 “An Act for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places used for Public Worship, and for repealing an Act therein mentioned,” and 1825, “An Act to continue for a limited time, and amend an Act passed in the first year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, ‘An Act for the maintenance of good order in Churches, Chapels and other places used for Public Worship, and for repealing an Act therein mentioned.’” This Act is to remain in force until 1830. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for removing doubts respecting the construction of a certain part of the Act of the thirty-fifth year of the Reign of His late Majesty, George the Third, chap. 4, intituled, “An Act to establish the form of Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, to confirm and make valid in law the Register of the Protestant Congregation of Christ-Church, Montreal, and others which may have been informally kept, and to afford the means of remedying omissions in former Registers,” as also for removing doubts about the validity of certain Marriages herein mentioned. (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 2 | 1827 | An Act to clarify the intention of certain word choices within an Act passed in 1795, “An Act to establish the form of Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, to confirm and make valid in law the Register of the Protestant Congregation of Christ-Church, Montreal, and others which may have been informally kept, and to afford the means of remedying omissions in former Registers.” The Act also makes marriages performed by ministers within the Church of Scotland legal and valid under the law. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to continue, for a limited time, certain provisions of an Act therein mentioned, passed in the fourth year of His Majesty’s Reign, intituled, “An Act to render valid certain Acts, Agreements in writing and Contracts of Marriage, (Contrats de Manage sous Seing prive,) heretofore executed in the Inferior District of Gaspe, and to provide for the want of Notaries in the said Inferior District.” (7th March, 1827.) | 7 George IV Chapter 1 | 1827 | Under this Act, the provisions made under the tenth article of an Act passed in 1824 are to remain in force until 1827. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to amend so much of an Act of the Thirty-first Year of His late Majesty, as relates to the Election of Members to service in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada. 26th May, 1826. | 7 George IV – Chapter 68 (1826) | 1826 | An amendment to a past act relating to elections of representatives to the Legislative Assembly. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to alter and ament the several Laws relating to the Customs. 26th May, 1826. | 7 George IV – Chapter 48 (1826) | 1826 | Section of an act passed by the British parliament in 1826 pertaining to customs in British colonies. Adopted by Upper Canada Legislative assembly in 1827. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to secure to William Hague, and his Assigns, for a definite period, the exclusive use of the Cast Metal Patent Machine or Weigh-Bridge, for the purpose of Public Weighing in the Town of Halifax. | 7 George IV – Chapter 38 | 1826 | This act grants a monopoly to William Hague on the operation of a weigh-bridge in Halifax in return for the trouble and expense undertaken by the said William Hague in purchasing, transporting, and installing a weigh-bridge for the use of the residents of Halifax. | Early Canadiana Online |