The series consists of records created by the Office of the Clerk for courts in Calgary. The records include clerk’s oaths of office (1887-1889); fee books, cash books, suitor’s account ledgers, receipt books and other accounting records (1885-1970); index ledgers for writs issued by the courts; postage accounts (1915-1948); specimen appeal books and transcripts of various trials and depositions (1922-1943), staff attendance ledger (1915-1919); and ledgers pertaining to the transfers and receipts of case files and court exhibits.

The series consists ledgers, documents and artifacts submitted to the Clerk of the Court in Calgary as evidence in court cases but which were subsequently separated from their original case files. The series comprises account books from unidentified businesses as well as those of Jesse Stewart, the Canmore Coal Company, the Merchants Bank of Canada, Globe Savings and Loan, the Alexander Hotel, as well as the estate of M.G. McLean. The series also includes correspondence, lists, account books, cheques, stock certificates, agreements, racing tickets, drivers licenses, photographs, receipts, promissory notes, prescription forms, counterfeit currency, dice, and a deck of cards.

The fonds consists of records ertaining to legal matters heard by the District Court of Alberta based in Calgary. The fonds consists of the following series:

• Civil case files
• Criminal case files
• Probate and surrogate case files
• Chamber books
• Workers Compensation Act case files
• Bankruptcy files
• Maintenance enforcement case files
• Orderly payment of debt case files

The fonds consists of the records of the Magistrate’s Court in Calgary. The fonds consists of the following series:

• Criminal information and complaints records
• Small debt records
• Magistrate's Court Clerk (Calgary) records

The fonds consists of conviction ledgers (1908-1925, 1910-1912, 1935-1936), summary trial (indictable) files (1934-1936), and information and complaints (1922-1936) from the Magistrates’ Court in Wetaskiwin. The files contain documents known as “information” or “complaints” pertaining to alleged criminal activities, as well as annotations of the justice of the peace or police magistrate pertaining to the result of the trial. The files may also include information pertaining to warrants as well as committals to prisons or jails.

The series consists of records of the Sheriff of Medicine Hat pertaining to civil enforcement activities. The records include a fee book (1907-1913), operational files pertaining to jury panels, auctions, and writs of execution (1907-1932), search fee receipt book (1924-1925), returns and files pertaining to debt adjustment (1929-1931), and writs of execution (1965-1974).

The fonds consists of files pertaining to legal matters heard by the Supreme Court of Alberta based in Calgary. It consists of the following series:

• Civil case files
• Criminal case files
• Divorce files
• Chamber books
• Cases set down ledgers
• Trial docket books
• Surrogate and estates files

The fonds consists of files pertaining to legal matters heard by the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories based in Calgary. It consists of the following series:

• Civil case files
• Criminal case files
• Docket books
• Probate and surrogate case files
• Inquest case files