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LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Series
No.: GR0023.0003
TITLE: Inspector of Legal Offices series
DATE RANGE: 1906-1946
EXTENT: 27.21 m of textual records
ADMINISTRATIVE
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The series consists of files created by the Inspector of Legal Offices pertaining to its review and investigation of the operations of various judicial and government offices in Alberta. The files include correspondence, forms, circulars, inspection reports, financial audits, opinions, staff lists, statistics, lists of stock, recommendations of orders-in-council, returns of clerks and memoranda pertaining to:
  • Judicial officials, including judges, clerks and deputy clerks, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, masters in chambers, bailiffs, process issuers, shorthand writers, court reporters, judges and interpreters;
  • Courts, such as the Supreme and District Courts of Alberta;
  • Judicial districts and subdistricts, including Athabasca, Bassano, Calgary, Camrose, Drumheller, Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Hanna, Lethbridge, Macleod, Medicine Hat, Peace River, Red Deer, Stettler, Vegreville, and Wetaskiwin;
  • Land titles offices in Edmonton and Calgary;
  • Correspondence with the Attorney-General; and
  • Subjects including law libraries, small debt procedures, the Judicature Ordinance and other legislation, court houses, fees, foreclosures, Agents of the Attorney-General, divorce actions, fees, the Debt Adjustment Board, insanity, and estates of veterans of World War II.

The series also includes registers of letters received by the Office (1911-1914, 1920-1923).

RELATED RECORDS: Additional records pertaining to the work of the Inspector of Legal Offices can be found in the Central Registry series and the Court Services Division series of Alberta Justice (GR0023).
GENERAL NOTE: The original index card filing system is available in the Sandra Thomson Reading Room, but many files listed in the index were destroyed by the Office without an approved records schedule prior to the transfer of these files to the Provincial Archives.
RELATED FONDS: GR0023 (Alberta Justice fonds)


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