Judicial Reforms Proposed by the Commission for the Codification of the Statutes; First Report ... - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... other circumstances, do not require a similar change, in fact, are opposed to-such a change,) have the Superior Court held in all the districts in contested cases, by three judges. The Commission thinks so, and here are the reasons upon which it founds its opinion. There will be seven judges in Montreal and four in Quebec. With this number of judges, it seems easy to have at Montreal a court of three judges, sitting permanently, or even of two sections of the court sitting at the same time, as the Superior Court. At Quebec, one section of the court would be sufficient for contested cases; this would always leave a seventh judge at Montreal, and a fourth at Quebec, for cases by default, incidents of procedure, summary matters and proceedings in chambers. For the other districts, namely, the districts of Rimouski, Kamouraska, Montmagny, Beauce, Arthabaska, Three Rivers, Bedford, St. Francis, St. Hyacinthe, Richelieu, Iberville, Beauharnois, Ottawa, Terrebonne and Joliette, fifteen in number, there remain thirteen judges, to whom it would be necessary to add two others, one for the district of Beauce and one for that of Terreboune, so as to give one judge to each. It would be easy to divide these fifteen districts into five circuits arrondissements, of three districts each, and these fifteen judges into five groups of three, to administer justice in the circuits composed of the districts in which they reside. The above districts, divided into threes, would form these five circuits: C Rimouski, First circuit. Kamouraska, (Montmagny. If a special jurisdiction were created for the district of Gaspe, the two judges of that district might fill up the blanks in this plan for the districts of Terrebonne and Beauce.!Beauce, Arthabaska, Three...
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