A STUDY IN LEGAL ADMINISTRATION AND RECORDS SHARON ...

8. Michele Fitzgerald, A Research Guide To Court Records ln the Provincial
Archives of Manitoba (Winnipeg, 1994). For a cornplete listing of Court of
Queen's Bench in Equity records see Appendix A.
9. General Index, Equity (G 2410)) Court of Queen's Bench, PAM. The "G"
number is a location code at Provincial Archives of Manitoba.
10. Yogis, S.V. "pleadings." A civil suit is commenced in today's Court of
Queen's Bench with a statement of claim. Family suits are initiated with a
petition.
1 1. William Leggo, The Practice of the Court of Chancery, 1 : 1.
1 2. Bill taken "pro confesson is defined as "In equity practice, an order which the
court of chancery makes &en the defendant does not file an answer, that the
plaintiff may take such a decree as the case made by his bill warrants." Black,
S.V. "pro confesso."
f 3. The study of writing and documents from the past is called "paleography."
The study of the foms of documents is known as "diplomaties." Luciana Duranti
quotes the definition, "Diplomatics is the discipline which studies the genesis,
forrns, and transmission of archival documents, and their relationship with the
facts represented in them and with their creator, in order to identify, evaluate,
and communicate their true nature." Luciana Duranti, "Diplomatics: New Uses
for an Old Science," Archivana 28 (Summer 1989), 17, quoting Giorgio Cencetti,
"La Preparazione dell' Archivista," Antalogia di Scritti Archivistjci, ed. Romualdo
Giuffrida (Rome, 1985): 285.
14. The paucity of detail does not necessarily indicate laxity on Carey's part for
he had a good reputation both during and after his tenure with Equity. It is
possible that rewrds were lost or damaged during the moves experienced by
the court and, thus, information was not available from those records. (The
handwriting of suits 1 to 38 compares with that found on decrees, notated and
signed by Daniel Carey. Other handmitings may also be identified from
notations and signatures in the decree books.)
1 5. Consolidated Statutes of Manitoba, c.42, s.3.
16. Fitzgerald, "Court Series 3."
17. "Court of Queen's Bench en Banc, Le., the full court ... acted as an appellate
court from the judgment, decision, order or decree of a single judge (County
Court, Surrogate Court, Court of Queen's Bench) or verdict of a jury (County