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Courts & crime, 1844

946 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 48

Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—equity Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 December 1844 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice A'BECKETT. WALKER AND OTHERE V. WEBB. The arguments of counsel in this case were terminated, and his HONOR reserved judgment…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Side

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 December 1844 · page 3

BEFORE their Honors the three JUDGES in Banco. The Court sat at a little after eleven o'clock, for the purpose of delivering judgment in…

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General Grievances Report. (Concluded from yesterday's publication.) Police and GAOLS.-Continued

The Australian · Saturday 14 December 1844 · page 4

Your Committee, while they concur in this,—His Excellency's first interpretation of the meaning of the compact—have certainly not been able to arrive at His…

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Court of Vice-admiralty. Monday. Before the Worshipful S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary. Rankin and Another V. THE " PROTEUS."

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 14 December 1844 · page 252

Mr. BROADHURST having moved the admission of the libel in this case on behalf of the promovent, Mr. FISHER, on the part of the respondent,…

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Supreme Court.—(in Banco.)

The Australian · Monday 16 December 1844 · page 4

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13.—Before their Honors the three Judges, who appeared in Court in their robes. The Right Worshipful the Mayor, George…

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Sydney Intermediate Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 December 1844 · page 2

THIS Court commenced its sittings with a list of forty-five prisoners; viz.:—eighteen females and twenty-seven men. Thirty-seven of the prisoners were freed people, namely, twenty…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Side

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 December 1844 · page 4

Before then Honor's the three JUDGES in Banco JUDGEMENTS. The CHIEF JUSTICE pronounced the judgment of the Court in the following cases:—…

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Original Correspondence. the Court of Requests and Its £30 JURISDICTION. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 December 1844 · page 4

GENTLEMEN,—In the letter of your correspondent O.P.Q., on the above subject, which appeared in your journal of Tuesday, it is stated as a circumstance very much to be…

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Court of Vice Admiralty

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 December 1844 · page 4

BEFORE the Worshipful S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Deputy Judge mill Commissary. Monitions were ordered to issue in suits against the ships Poitius and June, for payment…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Side. F[?]day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 December 1844 · page 4

BEFORE their Honors the three JUDGES in Banco. JUDGMENTS. The CHIEF JUSTICF pronounced the judgment of the Court in the following cases:—…

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Supreme Court—civil Side. Friday, December 13

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 18 December 1844 · page 4

Before their Honors the three Judges, who appeared in court in their robes.. The Right Worshipful the Mayor, George Allen Esq., having been duly sworn in as a magistrate of…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Side

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 December 1844 · page 3

BEFORE their Honors the three JUDGES in Banco JUDGMENTS. The CHIEF JUSTICE pronounced the judgement of the Court in the following cases:—…

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The Court of Requests and Its £30 JURISDICTION. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 December 1844 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—I have no doubt but some of your readers have one or, perhaps, two, attorneys' bills of costs for the recovery of £30 in the Supreme Court, which would furnish very…

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The Police Court. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 December 1844 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—It rarely happens that I venture to trouble you with complaints on "public grievances," but I cannot refrain from protesting against the inconvenience to suitors, and…

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Horrible Murder and Attempt at Suicide by the Murderer

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1844 · page 4

SALFORD.--Great consternation was excited here this morning, by the circulation of a report that a barbarous murder had been committed on the person of a young woman, in a lonely part of the town, named…

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Supreme Court.—civil Side. Friday. December 13

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 21 December 1844 · page 259

Before their Honors the three Judges, in Banco. The Chief Justice pronounced the judgment of the Court in the following case:— EX PARTE HUNTER…

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Court of Vice Admiralty. Monday. Before the Worshipful S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 21 December 1844 · page 259

Monitions were ordered to issue in suits against the ships Porteus and Jane, for payment of costs, within the period of six days. In the latter case, service upon the Proctor was ordered…

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Extraordinary Trial of the Rt. Hon. Sir James Graham, for a Misdemeanour. Central Criminal Court, Aug. 2, 1844

The Dispatch · Saturday 21 December 1844 · page 2

In consequence of the loud public disapprobation expressed generally throughout the country, of the conduct of the Home Secretary, in opening, or causing to be opened, at the General…

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The Wollombi Police Magistrate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 December 1844 · page 2

WE have received from our usual correspondent a lengthy report of the proceednigs of a meeting held at the Wollombi, for the purpose of considering the conduct…

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Law Intelligence. Court of Vice Admiralty

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 December 1844 · page 2

BEFORE the Worshipful S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary. RANKIN AND ANOTHER v. THE "PROTEUS." Mr. HART, from the office of Mr. Dillon, the…

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