Court Chancery

The Judiciary powers shall be exercised by county courts and such other inferior courts as the legislature shall think proper to continue or to erect, by three superior courts, to wit, a Court of Admiralty, a general Court of Common Law, and a High Court of Chancery and by one Supreme Court, to be called the Court of Appeals. 

All other officers of every kind shall continue in office as they would have done had their appointment been under this constitution, and new ones, where new are hereby called for, shall be appointed by the authority to which such appointment is referred. One of the present judges of the general court, he consenting thereto, shall by joint ballot of both houses of assembly, at their first meeting, be transferred to the High Court of Chancery. 

The Divisional Court hears application for judicial review and habeas corpus in contrast to the wider jurisdiction on case stated of the English court and the English Divisional Courts for Chancery and Family. 

A full account of the proceedings in the Court of Chancery is given by Higgins, 1924, 82-8 portr. of Tennant. 

It has been erroneously insinuated, with regard to the court of chancery, that this court generally tries disputed facts by a jury. The truth is, that references to a jury in that court rarely happen, and are in no case necessary, but where the vahdity of a devise of land comes into question. [The erroneous insinuation was made by Brutus xiv (521).]... 

Some of Hamond s wealth was used to subsidise scholarship and he was one of the many London merchants who acted as patrons of Thomas Fuller s Church History of Britain (1655), an ambitious work that has been called the first comprehensive English protestant account of Christianity in the island from the earliest times . Yet all the while he was embroiled in litigation in the court of Chancery—sometimes as defendant, sometimes as complainant—in cases over money and property... 

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