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 The Supreme Court of Canada. diction given to that court. This jurisdiction the judges retained until 1886, when a sepa rate judge was appointed for the Exchequer Court, which is now presided over by the Hon. George Wheelock Burbidge, who for five or six years preceding his elevation to the bench filled with unusual ability the im portant position of Deputy of the Minister

of Justice of Canada. No writ is required for bringing any ap peal to the Supreme Court. In ordinary appeals security to the extent of $500 must be given by the appel lant within sixty days after the judgment it is desired to appeal from has been pro nounced or entered. The security may be given to the satisfac tion either of a judge of the court below or a judge of the Su preme Court of Can ada. Hut if the ap pellant fails to give the security within the sixty days he must apply to a judge of the court below for RORERT CASSELS, an extension of time, setting out the special circumstances upon which he relies. In some cases no security is required; e. g. criminal appeals and appeals by the Crown in Exchequer appeals. In election appeals the security to be given is only S100, and must be by deposit in the court below. In Exchequer appeals by parties other than the Crown, the security to be given is only $50. In all appeals under the Winding-up Act, and in appeals from the Exchequer Court when the amount in dis pute does not exceed $500, special leave must be obtained from a judge of the Su- 1

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preme Court of Canada. All applications for special leave, as well as all other applica tions in appeals which the various statutes or rules of practice assign to a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, are made to the registrar, who has been given by statute and rules all the powers of a judge of the court sitting in chambers, except in matters of habeas corpus and certiorari, and who sits every juridical day for the transac tion of such business. Parties dissatisfied with his decision may appeal to a judge, and thence to the full court. The practice is sim ple. The appeal is upon a case stated by the parties, or in the event of difference set tled by the court ap pealed from or a judge thereof. The case sets forth the judg ment objected to, and so much of the plead ings, evidence, affi davits, and documents as is necessary to raise the question for the decision of the court. Q. C. REGISTRAR. The case must also contain the reasons given by the judges of the court below for their judgments. After being settled, the case is printed in small pica type, in the form of a pamphlet eleven inches long by eight and a half inches wide, and on one side of the page only, with each tenth line numbered in the margin, and a full index. This is certified and transmitted by the clerk of the court appealed from to the registrar of the Su preme Court of Canada, and must be filed in that court within thirty days after the se curity has been allowed, and twenty days at least before the first day of the session at