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Courts & crime, 1845

1,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 55

News From the Interior. (From our various Correspondents.) Parramatta. Police Office, Saturday, April 19. BEFORE Dr. ANDERSON, J. P., and G. B. SUTTOR, Esq,, J.P. the Castle Hill Distillery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1845 · page 2

Christopher Crane, publican, of Castle Hill, in this district, was summoned to answer an information preferred against him by John Ryan, Inspector of Distilleries, for a breach of…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court. Sittings in Banco

The Australian · Tuesday 22 April 1845 · page 3

MONDAY, APRIL 21—Before their Honors the three Judges; who took their seats on the Bench at a quarter before eleven o'clock in full judicial costume, it being the first day of Term…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Side

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1845 · page 2

BEFORE their Honors the three JUDGES in Banco. [This being the first day of term their Honors took their seats on the Bench at a quarter to…

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Local Intelligence. Police Office.—friday, April 18. Before His Worship the Mayor

The Australian · Tuesday 22 April 1845 · page 4

There were three drunkards on the list this morning, two of whom being men were sent to the mill for twelve hours, and one, a woman, to the cells for twelve hours…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court. Nisi Prius Sittings. Thursday, March 27. BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson. the Bank of Australasia v. Thomas Chaplin Breillat, Chairman of the Bank of Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1845 · page 1

THE trial of the above cause having been specially fixed for this day, the Court almost immediately after its opening (at ten o'clock,) was crowded with spectators,…

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The Spital, or the Gaol

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 23 April 1845 · page 3

"Get as much as you can!" A pretty harvest has been reaped by the apostles of this doctrine! It has been given to many of them to study their institutes of natural law by the light of their…

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Police Incidents

Commercial Journal and General Advertiser · Wednesday 23 April 1845 · page 2

CHARGE OF PERJURY.--Henry Wineberg appeared on warrant before the Mayor and Colonel Shadforth, the sitting magistrates, at the Police Office, yesterday, to answer the charge of wilful and…

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Law Intelligence. Central Criminal Court. Tuesday, April 15. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson. Assault and Robbery

The Sentinel · Wednesday 23 April 1845 · page 2

Aaron Gainsborg was indicted for having, on the 2th March last, assaulted one Henry Wineberg, on the Parramatta Road, and robbed him of a watch and chain, value £5…

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Supreme Court. Equity Jurisdiction.—friday, April 18. Before their Honors the three Judges. GORE v. Pendray and Others

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 23 April 1845 · page 2

This was an appeal from an order of the Primary Judge in Equity, made on the 7th January last, whereby a motion made by two of the defendants for the dismissal of the plaintiff's bill for want of…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Siee. Tuesday. Before their HONORS the three Judges, in Banco. wood v. SPENCE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 April 1845 · page 2

In this case the Judges delivered their opinions seriatim. The CHIEF JUSTICE.—This was a motion to set aside a nonsuit, and to grant a new trial…

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Court of Vice Admiralty

The Australian · Thursday 24 April 1845 · page 3
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Wednesday, APRIAL 23.—Before the Worshipful S, F. Milford, Deputy Judge and Commissary. Manning v. the ship Terror.—A. decree having been pronounced in this matter, directing the…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court Sittings in Banco

The Australian · Thursday 24 April 1845 · page 2

TUESDAY, APRIL 22—Before their Honors the three Judges. Blamey v. Mallard.—Mr. Foster moved for a commission to examine witnesses in New…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—sittings in Term

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 April 1845 · page 2

BEFORE his Honor Mr. Justice DICKINSON, and a Jury of four. BOSSLEY AND OTHERS v. GUISE…

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Local Intelligence. Police Office.—monday, April 31. Before his Worship the Mayor

The Australian · Thursday 24 April 1845 · page 4

There were sixteen drunkards on the list, three of Whom were discharged, being first offences, and the rest were fined or confined according to their state of their finances…

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Regulae De Gustibus. In the Sublime Court of New South Wales. To wit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 April 1845 · page 2

ON the application and representation of Raffaelle Metastasio Rossini Jones, of the city of Sydney, Amateur, Vertuoso, and Cognoscente, lawfully admitted, and of Carlo Dolce Farmiente,…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—civil Side

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 April 1845 · page 2

BEFORE their Honors the three JUDGES, in Banco. THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA V. THOMAS CHAPLIN BREILLAT, CHAIRMAN OF THE BANK OF…

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Parramatta Police

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 26 April 1845 · page 2

Sarah Fogarty, (ticket-of-leave), was accused of practices wholly unbecoming a steady married female. The dame, it seemed, in addition to being part of the flesh of a respectable inhabitant of Windsor,…

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Police Intelligence

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1845 · page 2

Joseph Johnson (bond) was charged with robbing the till of Mr. Hurd, of Macquarie-street. It appeared that about ten o'clock this day, Johnson was discovered by a lad in Mr. H's. employ, making a very minute…

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News From the Interior. (From our various Correspondents.) Parramatta. Police Court, Thursday, April 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 April 1845 · page 3

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—A man named Clarke, his son, a boy of about eight or nine years of age, and a little girl named Ballard, about seven years of age, were placed at the…

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