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This series consists of 19 volumes of Victoria Supreme Court daily diaries, 1907, 1910-1912, 1916-1919, 1923-1932, 1934. Volume 1 includes weather reports as well as matters of the court.

This series consists of record books from the Victoria County Court, 1879-1888. Records include journals, ledgers, and a letterbook of correspondence outward, written by A.F. Pemberton, County Court Judge, Dec. 1879 - Dec. 1880; Edwin Leigh, Registrar, Feb. 1883 - Nov. 1884; and Harvey Combe, Acting Registrar, Jan. 1885 - Nov. 1886.

This series consists of Victoria Police Court record books, 1890-1924; magistrate's cash books, 1865-1871, recording fines and trade and liquor licenses; and a transcript of Regina vs. Lawrence, ca. 1896.

This series consists of records November 1893 New Westminster Supreme Court case Regina v. Stroebel and Eyerly. Records include inquest, information, depositions and transcripts of the trial of Albert Stroebel and Franklin Eyerly for the murder of John Marshall, Upper Sumas, April 1893. The series also includes minutes of evidence from Regina v. Albert Stroebel for the same murder at the Victoria Fall Assizes, December 1893.

This series consists of civil cause books from the Supreme Court of Vancouver Island, 1858-1870 and Supreme Court of British Columbia (Victoria), 1870-1882. All volumes are indexed. From 29 October 1866 fees relating to these cases are entered in the mainland fees book.

This series consists of 7 volumes of Vancouver Island Supreme Court fee books maintained by the Registrar, 1859-1870. The volumes record fees owing to the Supreme Court. Volume 2 also includes the registrar's office diary.

Although the colonies of Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia were united in 1866, the Supreme Court of each Colony remained as two separate Supreme Courts until they were merged in 1870 as the Supreme Court of British Columbia, based in Victoria.

This series consists of cash book, 1863-1864, 1865-1873, 1865-1867. Also a partial duplicate volume November 20, 1866 - December 1870

This series consists of copies of telegrams sent by registrar of the Victoria Supreme Court, 1899-1912.

This series consists of 46 volumes of the Victoria County Court Registrar's daily diaries, 1906-1935.

This series contains certified copies of the Grand and Petit Jury Lists for Nanaimo district, 1900.

This series contains cause books and indexes from Victoria Supreme Court.

This series contains criminal case files under the "Speedy Trials Act". May include transcripts and Police Court proceedings.

The series consists of 11 volumes of a bills of sale indexes and registers created by the Victoria Supreme Court between 1861 and 1956. The registers list bills of sale for chattel mortgages and conditional sales and related volumes of nominal indexes. Most of the volumes relate to bills of sale in Victoria but one volume is an index to bills of sale on the mainland.

Minute books for civil and criminal cases. There are a few actions involving ships marked Vice-Admiralty Court and Exchequer Court, B.C. Admiralty Division.

The series consists of cause books for bankruptcies tried in the Victoria Supreme Court between 1920 and 1981. Entries are arranged chronologically by the date the case commenced, and provide a list of proceedings in the case. Entries also provide the date of the final order. Orders are found in GR-2876, and an index to the cause books can be found in GR-3743

Suitors' fund record books.

County Courts had jurisdiction in criminal cases held without a jury under the provision of the federal Speedy Trials Act, first enacted in 1888.

Register and index for assignments of book debts.

Cumberland Supreme Court civil case files with the exception of probate/estate files (GR-2208) divorce and matrimonial files (GR-2328) and adoption files (GR-2329) which have been removed from this series and are filed separately.

Civil case files under the Landlord and Tenant Act. These are records generated when Wellington Colliery Co. Ltd. evicted tenants from their homes in Union in 1903 and Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir), Ltd. evicted tenants from homes in Union, "Japtown", Puntledge (Comox Lake), Union Bay, and Cumberland in 1912-1913.

Correspondence files includes some dockets, copies of various court records, by-law correspondence, inquiries, appointments, etc. Court correspondence 1925-1940; Clerk of the Peace correspondence.

County Court civil case files from Union, 1897, and from Cumberland, 1897-1941.

Declarations of partnership (Nos. 115-378).

Declarations of partnership (Nos. 379-877).

Series consists of one bench book for Colony of Vancouver Island Supreme Court of Civil Justice civil and criminal cases heard by Judge David Cameron at Fort Victoria from November 1853 to January 1856 and one criminal case at Nanaimo in May 1854. It also includes civil cases heard at Victoria in the Inferior Court of Civil Justice in 1856. The volume additionally served as a criminal record book for 1853, a cause book for 1856, and a Registrar's record book for 1853. It opens with a notation that Judge Cameron's commission was read and that he took his seat on 6 October 1853. The Registrar also notes that he received the court seal from Judge Cameron.

The series consists of a record book volume created by the Police Court at Alert Bay between 1905 and 1910. The entries in the volume show the date, full description of the charge, and the sentence. Entries are handwritten by Walter Woollacott (Provincial Constable), George Ward de Beck (Indian Agent), William May Halliday (Indian Agent/Justice of the Peace) and Arthur William Corker (Justice of the Peace). During this period Alert Bay was part of the County of Vancouver for court purposes.

Administrative record books kept by the Official Administrator, Mr. McAloney (to 1908) and Frederick L. Leighton (after 1908). Volume 1 begins as a Nanaimo City Police record book and has the pages prior to July 1908 glued together at the top.

Civil case files with the exception of probate, divorce and adoption files which have been removed from this series and are filed separately.

Personal and official papers of Victor C. Fawcett, Official Administrator of Nanaimo, ca. 1900-1940. Official papers (Files 1-10) include court documents, police records; the personal papers (Files 11-13) relate to Edgar and Myra Fawcett.

Orders and judgements.