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THE RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURTS EXTENSION
OF JURISDICTION ACT, 1856.
IN THE TWENTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN
VICTORIA.
SESSION 4, No. 29.
ANALYSIS.
Title.
Preamble.
- Governor to bring act into operation.
- Superintendent to fix times of sitting.
- Jurisdiction to extend to £100.
- Cases to be heard before Resident Magis-
trate. - Cases above £5 may be tried by jury.
- Party demanding jury to give notice.
- Clerk to summon twelve jurors.
- Summons when to be served.
- Jury to be reduced to four by challenge.
- When jury cannot agree in verdict.
- Penalty for non-attendance to summons.
- Appeal to Supreme Court in certain cases.
- Notice to be given in case of appeal.
- Execution when to be stayed.
- Presiding Judge may reserve points of
law. - Additional fees.
- Native cases excepted.
- Governor may make rules, &c.
- Interpretation of word "Governor."
- Short title.
Title.
Preamble.
AN ACT to extend the Jurisdiction of Resident Magistrates' Courts in Civil
Cases.
(Assented to 15th August, 1856.)
WHEREAS it is expedient that the jurisdiction of the Resident
Magistrates' Courts in the Colony of New Zealand should be
extended in civil matters,
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New
Zealand as follows :-
Governor to bring Act
into operation.
- It shall be lawful for the Governor, upon the request of the
Superintendent of any Province, by Proclamation in the Government
Gazette, to bring this Act into operation in respect to any Resident
Magistrate's Court having jurisdiction within such Province, from
and after a certain day to be named in such Proclamation, and to
define the districts within which cases may be heard in such Court,
under the provisions of this Act.
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NZ Gazette 1856, No 32
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Legislation, Resident Magistrate, Jurisdiction, Civil Cases, Jury, Act 1856