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Kings County circuit records
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8.72 m of textual records
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In its first two decades of existence the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia functioned only in Halifax. In 1774 the legislature passed an act providing for the court to add two sessions a year in each of Kings, Annapolis and Cumberland Counties. These courts were invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court at Halifax. Meeting first at Horton, the Kings County circuit court had jurisdiction over present day Kings and Hants counties until 1781, when Hants became a separate county with its own court. In the 1841 legislation revising the courts of the province, Kentville became recognized as the court's seat.
Custodial history
Most of these records were transferred from the Kings County courthouse in 1975. Some records were acquired from the offices of Barry Roscoe, a long time Kings County barrister and County Court judge, while the Old Kings County Courthouse Museum transferred some judgment books which they had acquired from the descendants of a former prothonotary. Although a few case files predate the 1849 fire that destroyed the Kentville court house, the fire likely accounts for the lack of most early records.
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Series forms part of Supreme Court on county circuit sous-fonds and consists of official record books and case files of the court sitting in Kings County (predominantly Kentville).
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Formerly described as Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in Kings County fonds.