Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Nova Scotia. Supreme Court (Digby County)
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1838-
History
In 1774, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia's circuit system was established by an act of the legislature. In this system, judges travelled to outlying areas to hold court. By 1834 the initial requirement to have cases heard in the presence of two or more judges was removed and a single judge hearing cases on circuit was invested with the full powers and jurisdiction of the court in Halifax. The supreme court sitting at Digby was established in 1838, a year after Digby became a separate county. Although in 1861 the county was divided into two districts, Digby and Clare, with each district holding one sitting, this did not result in separate record keeping systems.