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Nova Scotia County Court, District Three (Annapolis County) fonds
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2 cm of textual records
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The legislation establishing the Nova Scotia County Courts was passed in 1874, although the courts did not come into operation until the Act was proclaimed in August 1876. The Act divided the province into judicial districts, each presided over by a federally appointed judge. Annapolis County formed District Three. The new Nova Scotia County Courts divested the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia of some of its original civil jurisdiction, which it had exclusively exercised since the statutory abolition, in 1841, of the Inferior Courts of Common Pleas county/district/township. The County Courts heard actions for debt not exceeding $400, tort actions for damages not exceeding $200, and appeals from the summary judgments of magistrates. In 1889, pursuant to the federal Speedy Trials Act, the Nova Scotia government also conferred a limited criminal jurisdiction on County Court judges with an act establishing County Judges' Criminal Courts (later County Court Judges' Criminal Courts), subject to a right of appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Book was found in the former home of Steven Sneden Ruggels, Bridgetown, and donated to the Society.
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Fonds consists of one Praecipe Book kept by the High Sheriff, who at this time was J.H. Edwards. The register recorded the case number, plaintiff and defendant's name, judgement, notes of monies received/paid and warrants/writs issued.
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94.20.02, MG100 vol. 2 172.