VPRS 3261 County Court Ledger

This series was created to record financial information connected with management of cases heard before local County Courts. The requirement to create this record was originally provided by Section 11 of An Act for the More Easy Recovery of Certain Debts and Demands 1857. Under this section the Clerk of Courts was required to "keep an account of all court fees and fines payable or paid into court and of all moneys paid into and out of court and shall enter an account of all such fees fines and moneys in a ledger belonging to the court..". The ledger appears to have been one of at least three volumes established under the 1857 Act to record information about cases brought before it, the other two being the County Court Register and, until c.1865, the County Court Journal. Each case recorded in the journal was given the same case number as that for the com[plaint] recorded in the Register. Information recorded included the [com]plaint number and amounts paid or received relating to a large number of court processes including the issuing of summons, orders, document filing, affidavits, bonds, securities, Bailiff's fees, fines and authorities to obtain money from the Court. Each of these processes is identified in separate columns within the folio. The names of the parties to an action are not recorded as this information was to be found in the Register. The provisions in the 1857 Act were replaced by s12 of the County Courts Statute 1865 which simply stated clerks needed to make a minute of all fines and other proceedings of the court in such books as shall be prescribed. The form of record prescribed is subject to research but it appears that some Clerks continued to use the pre 1865 ledgers.

本数据集系列旨在记录与地方郡法院审理案件管理相关的财务信息。此类记录的创制要求最初源自《1857年更便捷收回特定债务与求偿款法案》第11条。根据该条款，法院书记员需“留存所有应缴、已缴至法院的诉讼费与罚款，以及所有进出法院的资金账目，并将此类费用、罚款及资金悉数登记至法院所属的分类账中”。该分类账应为1857年法案设立的至少三册案件记录档案之一，其余两册分别为《郡法院登记册》，以及截至1865年前后的《郡法院日志》。日志中记录的每起案件，均使用与登记册中投诉记录相同的案件编号。记录的信息包括投诉编号，以及与大量司法程序相关的收付金额，具体涵盖传票开具、命令下达、文件归档、宣誓书、担保书、保证金、执达员费用、罚款以及从法院获取资金的授权书等。在对开页中，上述每类司法程序均通过单独的栏目进行标识。诉讼双方当事人的姓名不予记录，此类信息可在登记册中查询获取。1857年法案中的相关条款由《1865年郡法院法规》第12条取代，该条款仅要求书记员在规定簿册中记录所有罚款及法院其他审理程序的纪要。规定的记录格式仍有待进一步研究，但部分书记员似乎仍在沿用1865年之前的分类账册。