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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1844

946 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 48

Sydney Court of Requests. £30 Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 August 1844 · page 2

SATURDAY being the day appointed for hearing applications for re-hearing causes, giving decision on reserved points and hearing adjourned cases, &c., the Court was opened…

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Law Intelligence. Court of Vice-admiralty. Saturday, August 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 August 1844 · page 4

THE following judgment was delivered by the Worshipful Commissary S. MILFORD, Esq.:— BOULTON v. THE SHIP "CAROLINE." In this case the libel which has been admitted…

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Law Intelligence Supreme Court.—civil Side. Saturday. Before His Honor Mr. Justice STEPHEN and a Special Jury. Solomon V: Elliott

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 August 1844 · page 2

This was an action brought by David Solomon, of Parramatta, against Gilbert Elliott, the Police Magistrate of that district, to recover damages for an alleged assault and false…

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Police, Gaols, and Penal Discipline

The Australian · Tuesday 27 August 1844 · page 2

The important motion of Mr. Robinson for an Address to the Queen, on tho subject of the Police and Gaol expenditure of this Colony, is sot down for Friday next, beyond…

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Law Intelligence. Court of Equity. Tuesday. Before His Honor Mr. Justice Stephen. New Magistrate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 August 1844 · page 2

John Lambie, Esq., of Maneroo, was sworn in as a magistrate of the territory in the usual form. WALKER AND OTHERS, TRUSTEES OF HUGHES AND…

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Supreme, Court.—civil Side

The Australian · Wednesday 28 August 1844 · page 3

In EQUITY.—Tuesday, 27th August. NEW MAGISTRATE.—John Lambie, ESQ., of Maneroo, was this day sworn in a Magistrate of the Territory, and took the usual oaths…

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English News. the State Trial. Court of Queen's Bench Dublin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 August 1844 · page 4

THE QUEEN v. O'CONNELL AND OTHERS. THE arguments in support of the application for a new trial in this case were resumed on Thursday by Mr. Fitzgibbon, who spoke the whole day. On Friday Mr…

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High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 29 August 1844 · page 172

BLASPHEMY.--Thomas Patterson, who was convicted in the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on the previous Wednesday, and charged with selling a number…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court. Insolvency Jurisdiction. Wednesday. Before His Honor Mr. Justice A'beckett. Plans Op Distribution

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 August 1844 · page 4

The plans of distribution filed in the following estates were confirmed by the Court, upon the motion of the Chief Commissioner, viz.:— In the estate of Bernard Aaron Phillips,…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, 28Th August. the Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. Court of Requests. (£30 JUEISDICTION.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 August 1844 · page 2

Mr. WINDEYER presented a petition from the inhabitants of Maitland in favour of the extension to their district, and also to Berrima and Bathurst, of the Thirty Pounds Courts of…

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Supreme Court.—civil Side

The Australian · Friday 30 August 1844 · page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28.—Before his Honor Mr. Justice a'Beckett. IN INSOLVENCY. Plans of Distribution The plans of distribution in the following estates were confirmed on…

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Legislative Council. Mr. Robinson's Motion on the Police and Gaol Expenditure of the Colony

The Australian · Saturday 31 August 1844 · page 2

Mr. Robinson's promised motion on this all-important subject was brought forward last evening, and, there being a call of the House, an unusually large attendance of…

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Local Intelligence. Police.--SATURDAY

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 31 August 1844 · page 2

An interesting gentleman, holding a ticket-of-leave for the district, and a chair-maker and carpenter by trade, was charged with being in a most gentlemanly state of elevation on the previous evening. The…

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Police Reports, by " Boz." Parramatta Bench--monday

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 31 August 1844 · page 3

THE LOADSTONE OF BEAUTY.--Two young damsels who delighted in the cognomina of Sheehan and Donahue were, this morning, charged with anything but decent conduct in the public streets. Inspector Fox,…

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British Extracts. Horrible Murder and Attempted Suicide of the Murderer

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 31 August 1844 · page 4
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

THE neighbourhood of Marylebone-street, was thrown into a state of great excitement in consequence of the perpetration of a frightful murder of a wife by her husband, who subsequently attempted to destroy himself…

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The State Trial. Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin

The Dispatch · Saturday 31 August 1844 · page 1

THE QUEEN v. O'CONNELL AND OTHERS. -- The arguments in support of the application for a new trial in this case was resumed on Thursday by Mr. Fitzgibbon, who spoke the…

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Court of Vice-admiralty. Saturday, August 24. BOULTON v. the Ship "Caroline."

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 31 August 1844 · page 162

THIS suit consisted of a claim by Boulton of £53 odd, due to him for his services as a carpenter on board the Caroline whaler, under and by virtue of a certain agreement entered…

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Literary Register. New Publication. a Second Letter to W. C. Wentworth, Esq., M. C., on the Subject of Police Administration, by J. R. WILSHIRE, Esq., Mayor. Sydney: 1844

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 31 August 1844 · page 110

IN this second publication the Mayor contends with considerable force that the control of the police, as a matter of constitutional right, belongs to the municipal corporations,…

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The Police Question

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 September 1844 · page 2

WE were much annoyed that the debate of Friday on the police question should have ended by the resolutions being handed over for interment to the General Grievance…

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