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Courts & crime, 1845

1,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 55

At the Police Office, Hartley. Upset price £5 per tectum of 640 acres

The Australian · Saturday 15 February 1845 · page 4

1. Westmoreland, 640 acres, parish unnamed, at the Fish River. 2 Georglana, 640 acres, parish unnamed, about five miles outh-west of Mount Werong…

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Supreme Court. Civil Side.—thursday, Feb 13. Before His Honor the Chief Justice and a Jury of four

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1845 · page 2

Collins v. Doddery.—In this case Mr. Windeyer on the part of the defendant, moved on notice for leave to amend the plea, by inserting in the margin a reference to the statute under which the defendant…

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Supreme Court. Civil Side.—monday, Feb. 10. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson and a'Jury of four

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1845 · page 4

Hopkins v. Mann.—This was an action for goods sold and delivered between Richard John Hopkins and Samuel Furneaux Mann, viz.: a quantity of tea alleged to have been sold by John Alanwaring,…

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Court of Vice-admiralty. Monday. Before the Worshipful S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Deputy Judge and Commissary. the Queen v. the Schooner "Shamrock."

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 15 February 1845 · page 45

His Worship gave Judgment in this case as follows:— By the 65th section of the Act of Council, 2 Vic., No. 3, it is enacted, That if any vessel…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—nisi Prius Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 February 1845 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice DICKINSON, and a Jury of four. JURORS FINED. Mesrs. George Greensill Old, and John…

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Supreme Court. Sittings in Nisi Prius

The Australian · Tuesday 18 February 1845 · page 3

SATURDAY, FEB. 15.—Before His Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson, and a Jury of four. JURORS FINED. George Greensill Old, of Sydney, and John…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—nisi Prius Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 February 1845 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice DICKINSON, and a Jury of four. CLARKE v. ALEXANDER. This was an action of trespass brought by…

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Local Intelligence. Police Office.—friday, February 14. Before his Worship the Mayor

The Australian · Tuesday 18 February 1845 · page 4

There were eight drunkards on the list, six of whom were dealt with under the Police Act, arid two were discharged. Catherine Morris was sent to gaol for two…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—equity Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 February 1845 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice A'BECKETT. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND ANOTHER v. CAMPBELL AND OTHERS. His HONOR delivered judgment in this case…

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Supreme Court. Civil Side.—friday, Feb. 14. Before His Honor the Chief Justice and a Jury of four

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 19 February 1845 · page 2

Parbury and another v. Harrison. This was an action for goods sold and delivered, brought by the plaintiffs as trustees in the insolvent estate of Peek and Campbell, the goods in question being…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court. Insolvency Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 February 1845 · page 2

BEFORE their Honors the CHIEF JUSTICE and Mr. Justice DICKINSON. PLANS OF DISTRIBUTION. Plans of distribution were confirmed in the…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court. Sittings in Nisi Prius

The Australian · Thursday 20 February 1845 · page 3

TUESDAY, FEB. 18.—Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson, and a Jury of four. NEW MAGISTRATE. John Hay, Esq. was duly sworn in a…

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Police Office.—(monday, Feb. 17.) Before His Worship the Mayor

The Australian · Thursday 20 February 1845 · page 4

There were twelve cases on the list of drunkards, eight of whom were dealt with under the Police Act, and four discharged, it being a first offence…

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Master's Report of Accounts of Committees of Lunatics, Receivers, and Guardians, for the Year 1844. in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, in Equity. in the matter of the Committees of the persons and estates of lunatics, of the receivers of the

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 February 1845 · page 2

In pursuance of an order made by their Honors the Chief Justice and the Puisne Judges of this Court, in the 3rd term, in the year 1841, whereby it is ordered that the guardians of the…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—nisi Prius Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1845 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor the CHIEF JUSTICE, and a Jury of four. JORDAN v. BOWLES. This was an action brought by John Jordan…

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Police Intelligence

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 22 February 1845 · page 2

Wm. Lackey, an individual whose dress betokened the extreme negligent character of its wearer, and whose personal appearance gave strong evidence that the processes of ablution, hair-cutting, and shaving…

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Parramatta Police

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 22 February 1845 · page 2

Ann Flinn (or now, as her husband said, unfortunately) Cahill (bond), appeared as respondent to a devorce, which her husband was endeavouring to obtain through the aid of the Bench. It appeared, years…

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British Extracts. Extraordinary Piracy and Murder

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 22 February 1845 · page 4
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

THE following details show that an act of piracy and murder, perhaps unexampled in atrocity, has been committed, by which the lives of no less than eight individuals have been sacrificed. The Saladin was a…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—equity Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1845 · page 2

BEFORE their Honors the three JUDGES. NEW MAGISTRATE. Alexander Imlay, Esq., was sworn in as s magistrate of the territory, in the usual form…

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