sentences:  The court had jurisdiction to hear and determine actions summarily relating to land, houses, debt, contract, trespass, and just about any other common law or equitable cases up to £50 sterling in value.One defect in the Court was the ability for a governor to possibly “stack” the court.Sir John Wylde, the last judge-advocate for the colony, and the last judge-advocate to preside, noted in a report to the British authorities that there was such a possibility of appointing laymen with no legal knowledge to the court  and R. J. Mckay suggests that Governor Thomas Brisbane had in fact attempted to do this.