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ON COUNTY COURTS BILL
Mr. Harris.
22 February,
1825.

common jury causes, 1s. 8d. a piece, and in criminal actions, 3s. that has been the
custom for some years.

On what the other part of the proceedings in civil actions do you receive any fee
besides the jury?—Upon special bails, upon affidavits, and upon some paper books,
that pass to the treasury, we receive a small fee from all those things.

A special bail never takes place in causes under 10l.?—It does not.

Supposing a cause under 10l. is decided without going to a jury, by default, do
you receive any fee?—No, it does not come to court ; where the cause is tried,
there we receive 1s, 6d. a piece upon common juries, and upon special juries, 3s.
the same as in Crown cases.

Is there any instance of a special jury being impannelled in a cause to be tried
under 10l.?—No.

the the only cases in which you would be affected by the passing of the County
Courts Bill, would be in common jury cases?—In common jury cases, and I do
not think we should be great sufferers if the Bill was to pass, because as far as
I recollect, from the beginning of a term till the settling down causes after term,
I do not suppose there are above twenty-five or thirty causes at most, under 10l.tried, therefore it would not hurt us more than that, and in special bails it would
not hurt us at all ; then the next thing, where it would hurt us is, in affidavits,
because there are a vast number of causes in different parts of the kingdom, where,

from the commencement of a suit till the end of it, a number of affidavits will arise,
which are sworn either at the judges chambers here, or in court ; they may go to
which they please, but it would lessen us in affidavits.

Could you make a return to the Committee of the amount of the fees you have
received upon common jury cases, and upon affidavits, during the last ten years?—
No, I could not ; I have kept no account myself, and there are none of us that can do that, but I have a pretty good guess, having been there nearly forty years.















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Date_1

1825-05-04

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Box

004

Main Headings

lord brougham displayed

Folio number

046

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

county courts bill / minutes of evidence / taken before the select committee on the / bill / for preventing delays and expenses in the proceedings of county courts, and for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts, in england and wales

Category

printed material

Number of Pages

36

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

(6-35)

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Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

1967

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