108 THE PROVINCIAL JUDICATURE. 
Every Judge is authorized to hold a Court at such times 
and places as he thinks proper and to decide any claim or 
dispute in a summary manner, except in actions of debt or 
contract where the claim exceeds $1000, and in actions of 
tort where the amount claimed exceeds $500, in which 
cases either party may demand a jury 
Courts OF CRIMINAL JURISDICTION. 
Justices, 
Sessions. 
By section 91 of the British North America Act 1867, 
the Criminal law including Criminal procedure was placed 
within the legislative jurisdiction of the Dominion whilst 
the Constitution of Courts of Criminal jurisdiction was 
handed over to the province. 
A uniform code of Criminal law and procedure has 
been for some years in force in the Dominion, 
Justices of the Peace. Justices of the Peace and Sti- 
pendiary magistrates have by various statutes jurisdiction 
bo try in a summary manner minor offences. They are also 
authorized to try summarily certain indictable offences such 
as larceny, embezzlement, obtaining money under false pre- 
tences, aggravated assaults, assaults on children or magis- 
trates, using premises for betting, provided the accused 
consent to be so tried. Persons under 16 years of age charged 
with larceny may be tried before one stipendiary magistrate 
or two justices’. An appeal from any conviction of justices 
lies in Ontario to the Sessions, in Quebec to the Queen’s 
Bench, in Prince Edward's Island and North-West Territories 
to the Supreme Court, and in the other provinces to the 
County Court? 
General or Quarter Sessions, Recorder's Court. These 
courts sit at least four times a year and have as a rule power 
I R. 8. C. c. 50, s. 88. 2 Ib. ce. 174, 176. 3 Ib. ec. 178, 5. 76.