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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
in that case the debtor is at liberty to try to gain exemption in a court
of law.
Sweden has accepted the articles of the Hague Conventions of Nov. 14
1896 and July 17 1905 respecting international legal assistance, as it is
termed, and has negotiated with Germany and Norway regarding the
introduction of certain simplifications in the carrying out of the second
of the conventions named. A special convention had long before been
entered into with Denmark, whereby the execution of sentences was
assured for the two countries commutatively.
Of the three Courts of Appeal, the Svea Hovrätt embraces within its
jurisdiction Svealand, Norrland, and the island of Gottland; the Hovrätt for Skåne
and Blekinge, those two provinces; and the Göta Hovrätt, the remaining
provinces in Götaland. The areas and populations of the country under the
jurisdiction of each of the three in 1911 were:
Hovrätt Läns Sq.km Population
Svea......... 14 349 300 2 761322
Göta......... 8 75 200 1960 317
Skåne and Blekinge . . 3 14 300 840160
(To obtain the total area of Sweden, 9 100 sq.km must be added on for the
four large lakes in Central Sweden.)
Some of the more important items in the Swedish Judicial Statistics for past
decades may be here given by way of conclusion to this survey; the statistics
go back a longish way, though certain alterations effected in some particulars
render their continuity not quite complete and consequently impair their value
(for criminal statistics see an earlier chapter pp. 163 foil.). The annual number
of cases of dispute brought before the courts of the first instance is as follows
(for the sake of comparison the figures of the population are appended):
Annuallv Jlean Popu- No. of Cases Per 1000
lation of Dispute Inhab.
1831-40 ........ 3 013 722 80 440 2669
1841-50 ........ 3 306 269 70 835 21-42
1851-60 ........ 3 642 321 54 593 14 99
1861—70 ........ 4 079 233 43 710 10 72
1871-80 ........ 4 386 953 31 780 7-24
1881—90 ........ 4 673 225 39 700 8 50
1891—00 ........ 4 931 944 40 601 8-23
1901—10 ........ 5 310120 53 269 10 03
Out of every thousand of the civil actions brought before the lower tribunals
each year, 93, on an average for the years 1901—10, were carried forward to
the Courts of Appeal, while in 20 cases proceedings were continued to the High
Court of Justice, whereas in one thousand criminal cases only 20 were carried
forward to the Court of Appeal and not more than 7 to the High Court. The
inclination to appeal to the Hovrätt appears to have been on the increase from
1861 to 1875, but to have declined again since the latter date.
Administration of Justice.
The principal statutes dealing with the administration of justice in
Sweden are the Court-of-Law-Proceedings Section of the 1734 Code, the
Bankruptcy Act of 1S62, and the Executions Act of 1877. In addition
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