VPRS 5667 County Court Ledgers

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.The volumes in this series were originally registered by PROV as VPRS 718, units 22 and 23.

本系列数据集旨在记录与当地郡法院（County Court）审理案件的管理相关的财务信息。该记录的创制要求最初源自1857年《更便捷追偿特定债务与债权法案》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、罚款与资金悉数记入法院所属的总账簿（ledger）中"。该总账簿应为1857年法案规定的至少三卷案件记录卷宗之一，另外两卷分别为郡法院登记册（County Court Register）以及直至约1865年仍在使用的郡法院日志（County Court Journal）。日志中记录的每起案件均与登记册中记录的诉状（complaint）享有同一案号。记录的信息包括诉状编号以及与诸多法院诉讼程序相关的收支金额，这些程序涵盖传票（summons）开具、命令下达、文件归档、宣誓证词（affidavits）提交、担保书出具、担保品管理、法警费（Bailiff's fees）收缴、罚款缴纳以及从法院获取资金的授权等。上述每一项诉讼程序均在该对开页（folio）的单独栏目中予以标识。诉讼双方当事人的姓名未予记录，此类信息可于登记册中查询。1857年法案中的相关条款已被1865年《郡法院法规》（County Courts Statute 1865）第12条取代，该条款仅规定书记员需在指定簿册中记录所有罚款及法院其他诉讼程序事项。所规定的记录格式尚待进一步研究，但部分书记员似乎仍沿用了1865年之前的总账簿。本系列卷宗最初由公共档案馆（Public Record Office，PROV）以VPRS 718编号进行登记，分为单元22与单元23。