Articles liés à The Division Courts ACT, Rules and Forms
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Division Court system, may shortly be given as follows :I n1792, Courts of Request were established by 32 Geo. III., cap. 6, which gave power to two or more justices of the peace to decide matters of debt up to forty shillings. This A ct was amended in several particulars in 1816 by 56 Geo. III., cap. 5, which also increased the jurisdiction of the Courts to 5. By the 3W m. FV., cap. 1, the jurisdiction was further increased to 10 ;commissioners were appointed to preside in the Courts in the place of justices of the peace ;a clerk and bailiff were appointed for each Court, and the commissioners, clerks and bailiffs were a Upaid by fees. In course of time, the large majority of the commissioners proved to be utterly unworthy of the confidence of the Government or of the people, and the evil was so great that a commission was issued in October, 1839, to investigate the subject generally, and, if possible, suggest a better mode of recovering small debts. The statute of 45 Vict., cap. 53, was the result of this inquiry. The Bill was introduced by the then A ttorney-G eneral, Mr. Draper, and was based upon the report of the commissioners, of which he was one. To the sagacity and energy, therefore, of the present gifted Chief Justice of Upper Canada do we owe the establishment of our present admirable system of local Courts. This A ct abolished the old Courts of Bequest, and in their stead established what we now call Division Courts. The District Court Judges were appointed to preside over these Courts in each district and were authorized to make rules of practice in their own Courts; the jurisdiction was further increased, and various other improvements effected. This A ct, however, with others passed from time to time on the subject, was repealed by 13 14 Vict.,
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