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Assize record book, various locations, 1895-1907 [Atlin, Ashcroft, Cassiar, Chilliwack, Clinton, Donald, Fernie, Fort Steele, Glenora, Golden, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Kamloops, Kaslo, Lytton, Midway, Nanaimo, Nelson, New Westminster, Nicola, Osoyoos, Revelstoke, Rossland, Vancouver, Vernon, Victoria ] and Speedy Trials record book, 1895-1912. Index inside front cover. Possibly cases heard by Chief Justice Angus John McColl.

This series contains the following notes of proceedings: "Chief Justice Needham's record of Special Cariboo Circuit - Canada Co. v Grouse Flume Co. and other cases". This handwritten volume contains notes from September 16, 1867 to October 4, 1867.

Bench book of civil and criminal cases heard by Justice H.P.P. Crease on circuit at Yale, Clinton and Richfield, 1871.

Bill of sale register (indexed), nos. 1-107 for bills of sale, chattel mortgages, assignment of contract, transfer of estate, etc. Includes businesses and individuals for Vancouver Island and mainland.

The series consists of five minute books of cases heard in the Supreme Court of British Columbia before Mr. Justice William Alexander Macdonald. The indexed volumes 1 to 3 are from 1913 to 1923; volumes 5 and 6 are from 1925-1931. The original volume 4 in the series (1923-1925) is missing.

Orders (indexed).

Wills probated in British Columbia, numbers 46,022 - 236,339.

Wills probated in British Columbia, numbers 1-31,200.

Caveats in probate #1 - #358.

Series consists of sixteen commissions to Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia as well as its predecessors, the Supreme Court of Vancouver Island and the British Columbia Court of Civil Justice, made at Victoria and New Westminster. Also included is an official award of congratulations from the Law Society of British Columbia to John Foster McCreight, for his appointment to the position of Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Records are arranged chronologically.

The following documents are included in this series:
Commission to Begbie 22 Nov. 1865
Commission to Begbie 31 May 1867
Commission to Begbie 12 Nov. 1867
Commission to Begbie 16 Mar. 1870
Commission to Begbie and Crease 5 Jun. 1871
Commission to Begbie and Crease 5 Jun. 1871
Commission to Begbie and Crease 4 Dec. 1871
Commission to Begbie, Crease, and Gray 19 Nov. 1872
Commission to Begbie, Crease, and Gray 19 Nov. 1872
Commission to Crease and Gray 10 Jun. 1873
Commission to Begbie, Crease, and Gray 25 Apr. 1874
Commission to Begbie, Crease, and Gray 25 Apr. 1874
Commission to Begbie, Crease, and Gray 25 Apr. 1874
Commission to Begbie, Crease, and Gray 12 Aug. 1876
Commission to Begbie, Crease, and Gray 17 Aug. 1878
Commission to Begbie, Crease, and Gray 14 Nov. 1879
Congratulations to McKreight 14 Jan. 1881

This series consists of three volumes of fee books from the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Volume 1 covers January 1889 to Jul 1895; volume 2 July 1891 to March 1894; and volume 3 March 1894 to November 1895. Volumes record services by date but do not give the charge.

This series consists of 22 volumes of fee books, recording fees owing to the Supreme Court. Volume 1 and 2 are for New Westminster, under the Colony of British Columbia Supreme Court of Civil Justice. The third volume covers New Westminster and Victoria from the Vancouver Island Supreme Court of Civil Justice. Volumes 4 to 22 were created after 1870 when both courts merged into the Supreme Court of British Columbia, based in Victoria.

Item consists of one bound volume measuring 30 x 79 cm. It contains 11 blueprints of varying dimensions and one map of the Fraser River and Burrard Inlet, as surveyed by Captn G.H. Richards and the officers of H.M.S. Plumper in 1859-1860. Each plan/map is numbered using white, paper labels adhered in the top right corner. Pages have been bound with the front cover at the back. Handwritten inscriptions repeat an abridged version of the title on the back cover. "Martin -J" is also written on front cover.

Blueprints include: (1) Plan of the town of Granville, Burrard Inlet, BC, drawn by J.B. Launders at the Lands and Works Office, Victoria, March 1870; (2) Subdivision of Lot 541 Group I, New Westminster District, 1886; (3) Canadian Pacific Railway Plan of foreshore at Vancouver, 1893; (4) Canadian Pacific Railway Plan of foreshore at Vancouver, Burrard Inlet, 1886; (5) C.P.R. Vancouver waterfront plan showing filling completed to Feb 23rd 1904; (6) Plan shewing intended improvements on Vancouver waterfront, [1899]; (7) Plan of the town of Granville, Burrard Inlet, BC, drawn by J.B. Launders at the Lands and Works Office, Victoria, March 1870; (8) C.P.R. Vancouver waterfront plan showing filling completed to Feb 23rd 1904; (9) Plan showing head line of proposed piers and other improvements by the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. at Vancouver B.C., 1903; (10) Plan of Vancouver Front showing wharf head line, 1903; and (11) [False Creek and Burrard Inlet, 1904].

Index of bankruptcies and authorized assignments for British Columbia as published in the Canada Gazette. (1 vol.)

Suit papers index, 1858-1893; writs index, 1907-1919. (6 vol.)

Instructions to court officers regarding probate of estates.

Record book from Joseph Peter Keane vs. Clarence Cunningham Supreme Court Case, 1916.

Oath of allegiance to His Majesty, King George V, and an "oath to well and truly serve in the office of Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia..." sworn by the Hon. W.A. Macdonald.

Probate rules detailing the procedures to be taken by the registrar and the judge.

This series consists of evidence from the Supreme Court of British Columbia case Rex vs. Rose, 1902.

Minute book of cases heard under the Bankruptcy Act before Mr. Justice Denis Murphy, Sept 1920 - June 1922. (Cases indexed in index to vol. 1 of GR-1944.)

Minute book of cases heard before Mr. Justice Alexander Ingram Fisher, 1929-1931, with index.

The series consists of five volumes of minute books of cases heard in the British Columbia Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Denis Murphy, 1912-1931.

The series consists of six volumes of minute books of cases heard in the British Columbia Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Aulay MacAulay Morrison from 1912 to 1934.

Supreme Court of British Columbia Rules, 1971, including the following: Supreme Court rules, 1961; Court of Appeal rules, 1959; Probate rules, 1961; Divorce rules, 1971; criminal rules, 1961; criminal appeal rules, 1959; and Patient's Estate Act rules, n.d. (indexed). 1 binder.

This series consists of a Supreme Court record of cases heard at Vancouver, Nelson, Rossland, Greenwood, and Victoria, 1905-1907.

Wills probated in British Columbia, numbers 31,201 - 46,021.

Record book from the Supreme Court case Lyman Francis Williams vs. the British America Corporation, 1900.

Copies of original wills which can be found in GR-1052.