The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47
Parish Courts
Parish Courts.
Chap. 31.—A Plaintiff or Defendant must be resident in the Comr's parish, and the plaintiff or defendant, non-resident in a case to allow of trial by a Comr. under Con. Stat. c. 59.
Chap. 32.—Enacts that the Parish Court Commissioner of the Parish of Newcastle in the Co. of Northumberland, appointed under Act of Assembly 39 Vict. Chap. 5, shall continue to exercise during his continuance in such office the powers granted by such Act or by Chap. 59, of Consol. Stat., notwithstanding that there is a Police or Stipendiary Magistrate resident in said Parish. The Civil Court of the said Parish Commissioner shall hereafter be called "The Newcastle Civil Court."