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present, counsel present, witnesses swom and examined, exhibits entered, and
a summary of the judgment.16
Only one volume of Equity minutes of proceedings is extant. Created
during 1 894-95, the record book is entitled No. 4, R-rar in E u
From March
1894, To July 31*, 1895. The volume is indexed by style of cause. ln the
alphabet letter section 'En is the entry "Equity sittings 15, 40, 76, 1 16 ...." The
notation is somewhat misleading; corresponding pages actually list equity sui&
slated for the next court tem. Listings are followed by minutes of proceedings
for the listed suits, always with the addition of more suits heard during the same
term. All actions in the volume are in Equity, except possibly the last four, which
are not numbered and are not found in General Index, Equity. (Other
unnumbered cases, and there are rnany, can be found in the index through style
of cause.) No.4, Reqistrar in Eaum contains the records for the last cases heard
in Equity (the last minute is dated July 31, 1895) sa it might be expected that it
would include al1 the suits filed in the last register of pleadings. That is not so.
Many of the actions filed in 1 894-95 never reached hearing in Equity. Instead,
they were heard as civil actions in the amalgamated Court of Queen's Bench.
The first suit recorded in No.4, Reaistrar in F- was minuted thus:
Wednesday, Mar.7*, 1 894
Killam J[ustice].
Baker
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