The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

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

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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

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PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND. 105 Island. After the union of the Island with British Columbia the two Courts were merged in one Court called the Supreme Court of British Columbia’, such Court to possess all the powers of the two previously existing Courts. Subsequently the Legislature passed an Act ? constituting a Provincial Supreme Court under the name of the Court of Queen’s Bench to be composed of the same J udges as the Supreme Court, and to have all the powers and jurisdiction of that Court. The Supreme Court now consists of a Chief Justice and four Puisne Judges. Courts of Assize are held in different towns throughout the Province on fixed davs®. PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND. Civil Jurisdiction of Justices. Where a debt does not Justices. exceed $32 a debtor may be arrested and brought before a Justice of the Peace, and unless he gives security for appearing at the County Court to answer the plaintiff's suit, two Justices may try the cause, an appeal lying to the County Court*, Courts for trial of Small Debts to be held before Com- small missioners were in 1860 established throughout the province. Des Jurisdiction was conferred in matters of debt and trover for the recovery of sums not exceeding £20, except where a question of title was involved, or the action was for a gambling debt. Actions for rent were also excluded unless no distress could be found on the premises®, County Courts. The County Courts have jurisdiction, County (@) in all actions ex contractu and ex delicto where the ’ debt or damages claimed do not exceed $150: ! B. C. Ordinances, 1st March, 1869, 22nd April, 1870. 2 B. C. 45 Vic. ¢. 8. 8 B. C. 48 Vie. o. 6; 49 Vie, c. 3; 50 Vie. ¢. 8. tP.E.L 37 Vic.c. 1, 5 P. E. I 23 Vie. c. 16.

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