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The Sovereign Council acted as the court of appeal for decisions made in the lower courts in New France. Any criminal conviction could be appealed to the Council. [22] There was some hope in a more favourable outcome, as the attorney general who sat on the Council was the only official in New France required having formal university legal training.
Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, second seignor of Bic. The maritime site of Bic became a ships mooring location as soon as first French explorers came to North America. [1]The seignory was granted on May 6, 1675, to Charles Denys de Vitré who belonged to an important French family and who was a member of the Sovereign Council of New France since 1673. [2]
Although the Onondaga had ceased their attacks against New France, the Mohawk had continued staging small-scale raids against Montreal in 1662 and 1663. [7] Arguments over the appointment of members of the Sovereign Council continued. In September 1664, Mezy expelled four members of the Council, including Jean Bourdon, the attorney general.
René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière (French pronunciation: [ʁəne lwi ʃaʁtje də lɔtbinjɛʁ]; 1641–1709) was a French-Canadian Poet, 1st Seigneur de Lotbinière in New France (1672), Judge of the Provost and Admiralty Courts and Chief Councillor of the Sovereign Council of New France.
As opposed to France which required its judges to be university law graduates, there was no requirement for judges to have formal legal training in New France. [3] Few judges in New France had formal training and only the attorney-general of the Sovereign Council was legally required to be a member of the Paris bar. [8]
In 1719, his cousin, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, put his name forward to be Chief Councillor of the Sovereign Council of New France, but the Intendant, Michel Bégon de la Picardière, withdrew his support as on more than one occasion de Lotbinière had opposed attempts to interfere with decrees which the ...
With the new royal administration of 1663, the title of governor general was given to the person responsible for the military and diplomatic relations. The duties of administration of justice, police and finance were given to the Intendant , who presided over the Sovereign Council.
Louis-Guillaume Verrier (October 19, 1690 – September 13, 1758) was a lawyer in the parliament of Paris and attorney general of the Sovereign Council of New France. [1]The son of Guillaume Verrier, king's attorney, and Marie-Madeleine Thibault, he was born in Paris, studied law and was admitted to the bar of Paris in August 1712.