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The Commission and Royal Instructions to Governor Edward Cornwallis in 1749 required that a court of vice-admiralty be set up. The Nova Scotia Court of Vice-Admiralty was established three months after the founding of Halifax. The court had jurisdiction over disputes and offences that took place at sea and heard causes relating to seamen's and masters' wages, pilotage, salvage, collisions, wrecks, abandoned ships, beatings or assault at sea, piracy, letters of marque, naval prize money, security for the safe return of a ship, bottomry and respondentia bonds, contraband, possession, and actions for necessaries supplied and/or repairs affected. The court also heard causes relating to breaches of the Customs Act and the Inland Revenue Act, as well as to breaches of navigation, fisheries, trade, and slave trade abolition laws. In 1891 the court was replaced by the District of Nova Scotia Admiralty Side of the Exchequer Court of Canada.
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2015-09-18 Inherited with only minor changes from BosaNova record