The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter X. The Provincial Judicature

Collection:: Economics Books

Admiralty Court. Probate Court. Divorce Court. Supreme Cort. ie THE PROVINCIAL JUDICATURE. The Courts have jurisdiction in appeals from Justices, Stipendiary Magistrates, City and Municipal Courts. The Admiralty Court exercises jurisdiction in all Ad- miralty matters, Probate Court. This Court has jurisdiction in all matters relating to the probates of wills and the administration of agtates ! Court of Matrimonial Causes and Divorce. This Court is presided over by the Equity Judge and has jurisdiction over all matters relating to prohibited marriages and divorce; an appeal lying to the Supreme Court in banc’. The Supreme Court. The Supreme Court resembles in organization and jurisdiction the Supreme Court of Judi- cature in England. It is composed of a Chief Justice and six Puisne Judges. Circuits of the Court are held twice a year in each county and extra sittings are in the summer held in certain towns. The Court is invested with the powers that were formerly exercised by the Courts of Queen’s Bench, Common Pleas, Chancery and Exchequer in England and also with all the powers, except those relating to Probate and Surrogate Courts, that are now exercised in England by the Supreme Court of Judicature® It also exercises an appellate jurisdiction in cases from County Courts. NEw BRUNSWICK. Justices. Justices’ Civil Courts. Justices of the Peace have in the Counties in which they reside and for which they have been appointed Justices, jurisdiction in the following actions: 1 N. 8., R. 8. 1884, e. 100. 2 N. 8., R. 8. 1873, e. 126, 8. 10, N. 8. 49 Vic. c. 49. 2 N. S., BR. 8. ¢, 104.

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