A STUDY IN LEGAL ADMINISTRATION AND RECORDS SHARON ...

Equity accounts begun in the latter part of the volume, and still continuing,
were transferred to Court of Queen's Bench Money Leâger No.2. The first
section of this volume accounted for Equity business from January 10, 1893,
until June 28, 1895. All accounts remaining open were then transferred to
Queen's Bench, Common Law.
The cash book, entitled Cash, was maintained as a ninning account of
court debits and credits. Created between July 23, 1883, and Febnrary 27,
1902, the volume records Equity, and, later, Queen's Bench transactions. Early
pages are headed with the title "Court of Queen's Bench In Equity." The ledger
wnsists entirely of figures; there are no styles of cause.
Administration of Queen's Bench business required a considerable
correspondence with officials within and extemal to the court. Outgoing
correspondence was wpied into letter books, using a complicated letterpress
rneth~d.~' Created under the auspices of the registrar, outgoing correspondence
bore the signatures of the prothonotary, deputy prothonotary, clerk of records
and writs, clerks of the crown and peace, master in Equity, and registrar in
Equity. Addressees of letters were usually department officials or administrative
officials of judicial districts and county courts of the province.
Two letter books are extant for the period during which Equity functioned,
and a third may be mentioned for its related information? Letten in these
books are not exclusive to Equity but reflect outgoing communication generated
by al1 divisions of Queen's Bench.