VPRS 5548 County Court Journal

This series was created to record information about the issue of fines and other certificates issued in cases heard before local County Courts.The requirement to create this record was originally provided by Section 63 of An Act for the More Easy Recovery of Certain Debts and Dpcuments 1857. Under this section the Clerk of Courts was required to create two volumes pertaining to cases brought before it. One was the County Court Register which was to function as a minute of all [com]plaints, decrees and orders of the Court and the execution of any orders made. The County Court Journal was to document information about fines and all certificates filed in the course of the case.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, the date and time of the sitting of the Court, name of the deputy Judge, if he heard the matter, and the various documents which were issued or filed. Each of these documents that could be issued or filed is identified in separate columns within the folio and the [com]plaint number is recorded in the relevant columns if the document was so issued or filed . The names of both parties to an action is generally not recorded as this information was to be found in the Register.The requirement for the creation of the Journal was removed by Section 63 of the County Court Statute 1865 which simply stated that such a record was to be created in favor of the creation with the required information was to be made in "such books as shall be prescribed". Further research is required to establish the form of such books, although it would appear that some Clerks of Courts containued to use this volumes beyond this date.本数据集系列旨在记录地方郡法院（County Courts）审理案件中所开具的罚款及其他相关证明书的相关信息。该记录的编制要求最初源自1857年《关于更便捷追回特定债务与文件的法案》（An Act for the More Easy Recovery of Certain Debts and Documents 1857）第63条。根据该条款，法院书记官（Clerk of Courts）需编制两卷与提交至该法院的案件相关的卷宗：其一为郡法院登记册（County Court Register），用于记录法院全部申诉、判决与裁定，以及所有已作出裁定的执行情况；其二为郡法院日志（County Court Journal），用于记录案件审理过程中产生的罚款及所有归档证明书的相关信息。日志中记录的每起案件，均采用与登记册中记录的申诉案件相同的案号。日志记录的信息包括：申诉案号、法院开庭的日期与时间、主审代理法官的姓名（若该法官审理了此案），以及所有已开具或归档的各类文件。所有可开具或归档的文件，均在该页的单独栏目中进行标识；若某份文件已完成开具或归档，则将其对应的申诉案号记录至相关栏目中。案件双方当事人的姓名通常不予记录，因为此类信息可在登记册中查阅。1865年《郡法院法规》（County Court Statute 1865）第63条取消了编制该日志的强制要求，仅规定相关记录或所需信息需在‘规定的专用簿册’中留存。目前仍需进一步研究以明确此类簿册的具体格式，不过有迹象表明，部分法院书记官在该法规生效后仍继续使用该日志卷宗。