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Exchequer Division
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The Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice was established by statute in 1903, bringing the number of divisions in the High Court to four. It was presided over by a Chief Justice, as President of the Division, and consisted of an additional two junior judges. The reason for the establishment of a fourth division, was primarily to enlarge the High Court of Justice. The Exchequer Division, along with the other three divisions of the High Court of Justice, was abolished when the Law Reform Act of 1909 came into force in 1913. With this Act, the Supreme Court of Judicature for Ontario was renamed the Supreme Court of Ontario, and the four divisions of the High Court of Justice were merged to form the High Court Division of the new Supreme Court.
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The Exchequer Division, like the other divisions of the High Court of Justice, had jurisdiction over all manners of actions and causes, both criminal and civil, within Ontario.
Address
An Act to Amend the Judicature Act, Statutes of Ontario 1903, Chap. 83
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
Banks. Margaret A. Evolution of the Ontario Court 1788-1981 (1983)
Canadian Almanac, 1909
Maintenance notes
Agency not in Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12-24
Archivist(s):
R. Anger