Legislation by Source Document: Early Canadiana Online
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| Title | Chapter | Date Passed | Legislative Summary | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| An Act For suppressing unlicensed Houses, and for Granting to His Majesty a duty on Persons hereafter to be Licensed. | 3 George III – Chapter 13 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act imposes penalties on those found to be selling wine, rum, beer, or other spirituous liquors without a licence. The Act also outlines how licences to sell the same can be obtained and certain rules about how and where they are permitted to sell spirituous liquors. This Act is to remain in force for two years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act for reviving an Act, made and pass’d in the Thirty Third Year of His late Majesty’s Reign, Intitled an Act for further Prolonging a Resolution of the Governor and Council, revived and put in Force by the General Assembly the Thirty Second Year of His Majesty’s Reign. | 3 George III – Chapter 12 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act revives the 1759 Act, “An Act for further prolonging a Resolution of the Governor and Council, revived and put in Force by the General Assembly in the 32d Year of His Majesty’s Reign,” which is to remain in force for three years. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act For Laying a Duty on Billiard Tables, and Shuffle Boards. | 3 George III – Chapter 11 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act imposes a duty on opening billiard tables or shuffle boards and requires persons keeping the same to obtain a licence in order to limit the number in the Province. The sums arising from this duty are to be used to repair or open roads in the Province. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an Act 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. | 3 George III – Chapter 10 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act amends and adds to an Act passed in the first Session of the General Assembly, 1763, “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,” relating to balancing stock accounts. | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act in Addition to an Act, intitled an Act, for regulating and maintaining an House of Correction or Work-House, within the Town of Halifax; and for Binding out poor Children, made and pass’d in the Thirty Third Year of His Late Majesty’s Reign. | 3 George III – Chapter 9 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act amends and explains the 1759 Act, “An Act for regulating and maintaining an House of Correction or Work-House within the Town of Halifax, and for binding out Poor Children.” | Early Canadiana Online |
| An Act to explain and amend an Act, made and pass’d in the 32d Year of His Late Majesty’s Reign, intitled, an Act for making Lands and Tenements Liable to the Payment of Debts. | 3 George III – Chapter 8 (Session 2) | 1763 | This Act explains and amends the 1758 Act, “An Act for making Lands and Tenements Liable to the Payment of Debts,” including by outlining how persons judged to wrongfully detain lands or tenements should be prosecuted and expanding on how rents can be collected. | Early Canadiana Online |