III.   Fund

The County Court of Middlesex, also known as the County Court, is a type of publicly mandated and privately owned form of legal administration fundamentally associated with a type of Assurance Fund as first created in 1750 (22Geo2. c.33) whereby assurance was offered to the historic county courts of sheriffs that for a fee, the cost of such proceedings, or the collection of debts and damages could be underwritten upon the transfer of the matter to the jurisdiction of the court. The Court as a Court of Record was then empowered to resolve the matter summarily, without the constraints of common law and formal proceedings as the first court of the land to introduce the “summary justice” model of Admiralty courts.