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Courts & crime, 1841

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—tuesday

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 12 August 1841 · page 2

THIRD CIVIL TERM.—SITTINGS AT NISI PRIUS. BEFORE MR. JUSTICE BURTON and a Special Jury. DOE ON THE DEMISE OF HOLT V. W. C…

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Government Gazette. Tuesday, August 1[?], 1841. Police

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 12 August 1841 · page 4

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, August [?]th, 1841.—His Excellency the Governor directs [?] to be notified, that on the unanimous recommendation of the Magistrates of the present…

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Original Correspondence. Police and Gaols. to the Editor of the Free Press. August 6

Sydney Free Press · Thursday 12 August 1841 · page 2

SIR,--Since I wrote to you last, I read the debate on the Police and Gaol question and I confess I was gratified to see the honourable part taken in the Council in support of the…

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From the Government Gazette. Tuesday, August 10, 1841, Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 26th July, 1841. POLICE

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 12 August 1841 · page 4

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that on the unanimous recommendation of the Magistrates of the present Districts of Campbel[?]own and…

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Supreme Court. Civil Side.—tuesday, August 10. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Burton and a special jury.)

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 12 August 1841 · page 2

Doe dem. Holt v. Wentworth.—In this case Mr. Foster stated, for the defendant, that the plaintiff had not complied with the rule of court, and he should not file his rule of consent…

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Water Police Court. Wednesday, 11Th August, 1841. Before H. H. Brown. and W. S. Deloitte, Esquires

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1841 · page 2

Raymond v. Wright.—This was an information filed for the breach of the 18th Clause of 5 Wm. IV., usually known as the Colonial Amended Post Office Act…

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Supreme Court. Before Mr. Justice Burton and a Special Jury. WEDNESDAY.—Nisi Prius Sittings

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1841 · page 2

Doe Dem Holt v. Francis.—The Plaintiff not having complied with the rule of Court, the defendant refused to file his consent rule, and the Plaintiff was therefore nonsuited…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court—thursday. Third Civil Term—sittings at Nisi Prius. Before Mr. Justice STEPHEN and a Special Jury. Singular Case. George Wentworth V. Thomas Macquoid

The Sydney Herald · Friday 13 August 1841 · page 2

This was an action on the case against the sheriff: the first count was for a false return to a writ of fieri facias, issued by the plaintiff upon a judgment against two persons of the name of…

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Supreme Court. Civil Side.—thursday, August 12. (Before His Honor Mr. Justice Stephen, and a special jury.)

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 14 August 1841 · page 2

Wentworth v. Macquoid.—This was an action on the case, and the declaration charged that the defendant had made a false return to a writ of…

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Law Intelligence Supreme Court.—friday. Sittings in BANCO.—Before the CHIEF-JUSTICE, Mr. Justice Burton, and Mr. Justice Stephen. Lyons v. LEFEVRE

The Sydney Herald · Saturday 14 August 1841 · page 2

This was an action upon the defendant's promissory note, for £90 2s. 3d., in favor of the plaintiff, payable in six months after date. The plea was, that the note was made through fraud…

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Water Police Court.—saturday. Before H. H. BROWNE and W. S. DELOITTE, Esqrs

The Sydney Herald · Monday 16 August 1841 · page 2

James Burgess, a shoemaker, from-Barbican, London, was brought before the Bench by the Captain of the Her[?], on a charge of having stowed himself away on board that vessel when…

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Supreme Court—friday. in Banco Sittings. Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Burton, and Mr. Justice Stephen

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 16 August 1841 · page 2

Lyons v. Lefevre.—In this case which was an action upon a promissory note, for £90 2s. 3d. in favour of the plaintiff, and made payable six months after date, a verdict had been returned for…

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Law Intelligence Supreme Court.—saturday. Sittings in Banco. Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Burton, and Mr. Justice Stephen. Admission of At[?]ornies

The Sydney Herald · Monday 16 August 1841 · page 2

The ATTORNEY GENERAL, moved the admission of Mr. Charles S. Macdonagh, who had been admitted in Ireland on Attorney of the Court of Exchequer in Trinity Term, 1830, and…

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Colonial Politics. the Governor's Speech on the Police and Gaol Question

Sydney Free Press · Tuesday 17 August 1841 · page 2

IN our paper of the 7th instant, we commenced something in shape of a critical review of the debate in Council on the Police and Gaol question; and our first…

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Doings of the Parramatta Magistrate and Police Corps. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1841 · page 4

SIR, Knowing that your columns are open to the complaints of the oppressed, without reference to the quarter from whence the arbitary or…

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Rolls' Court,—march 22

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 17 August 1841 · page 4

THE KING OF HANOVER v. SIR H. WHEATLEY. —The bill in this case was filed by his Majesty the King of Hanover against the defendants, Sir H. Wheatley and T. Wood, the executors…

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Insolvent Debtors' Court. MONDAY.—Before Mr. Justice Stephen, Jones v. Ha Den

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 17 August 1841 · page 2

Peter Hayden, the insolvent in this case, had been several times discharged within the last few weeks, and was now in execution for £156 4s. 5d., being the amount and costs for which the…

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Court of Quarter Sessions. Monday, August 10. (Before the Chairman and Mr. John Campbell)

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 17 August 1841 · page 2

Francis William Blend and Henry Richard Bowen Tripe pleaded guilty to an assault on Mr. E. B. W. Sandwell, and were each fined £5 to the Queen, which they paid, and were discharged…

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Supreme Court. Civil Side.—friday, August 13. (Sittings in banco, before their Honors the three Judges.)

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 17 August 1841 · page 2

Lyons v. Lefevre.—This was an action on the defendant's promissory note for £90 2s. 3d., pay able six months after date, which had been given in payment of certain allotments of land purchased at…

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Law Intelligence Supreme Court.—monday. Sittings After Term. Before Mr. Justice Burton, and Messrs. Brown and STEELE, Assessors. Ranulph Dacre v. Rees Jones and Andrew Liddell

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 17 August 1841 · page 2

This was an action upon three Bills of Exchange, drawn in London by Thomas Hubbock and Son, accepted by Andrew Liddell and Co., and indorsed by Hubbock and Son to the…

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