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Courts & crime, 1846

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Tables of Rates Upon Vessels at the Port of Sydney. Water Police

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 30 May 1846 · page 151

Coasters, 3d, per ton register, payable every 12 months. Every vessel registered at Sydney, and trading to Van Diemen's Land, 3d. per ton per…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—nis Paius Sittings. Friday. Before His Honor the Chief Justice and a Special Jury of twelve

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 May 1846 · page 2

This was an action of ejectment, and the declaration act forth two demises, one br Clark Irving, on the 1st of January, 1846, and the other by Clark Irving and William Samuel…

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Supreme Court. Tuesday, May 26. Civil Jurisdiction. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson and a Jury of four. SMITH V. MEARS

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 30 May 1846 · page 2

This was an action on promises, to recover the sum of £250, upon a bill of exchange, payable six months after date. Mr. Fisher appeared for the plaintiff and…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—nisi Prius Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 June 1846 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice DICKINSON and a special Jury of twelve. COOPER V. WELCH. This was an action of libel, in which Robert…

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Campbelltown. Police Office, Monday, May 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 June 1846 · page 3

BEFORE EDWARD HOWE, Esq., J. P., and [?] HOWS, Esq., J.P. Matthew Wheelan, aged about fifty years, [?] brought before the above magistrates on a…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court. Sittings in Nisi Prius

The Australian · Tuesday 2 June 1846 · page 3

SATURDAY, MAY 30.—Hefore His Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson, and a jury of twelve. Cooper, sonior v. Welch.—Tins was un action on the case for libel brought by the plaintiff…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—nisi [?] Sittings' Tuesday. Before His Honor the Chief Justice and a July of four

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 June 1846 · page 3

This was an action of [?], in which Janette Caroline Carrington, who was a minor, and [?] on the record through the medium of her mother, was the plaintiff; and Edward Coffey…

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Supreme Court. Friday, May 29. Civil Jurisdiction. Before his Honor the Chief Justice and a special Jury of twelve. Don Dem. Irving and Another V. Gannon and Another

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 3 June 1846 · page 3

This was an action of ejectment, and the declaration set forth two demises, one by Clark Irving, on the Ist of January, 1846, and the other by Clark Irving and William Samuel Deloitte, on the same…

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Police Protection in the Country Districts

The Sentinel · Thursday 4 June 1846 · page 2

OUR attention has repeatedly, been drawn, of late, to the number of suspicious and disorderly characters, who, under the pretext of seeking employment, are in the habit of committing robberies…

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Law Intelligence, Supreme Court.—nisi Prius Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 June 1846 · page 6

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice DICKINSON and a Jury of four. MELVILLE AND ANOTHER V. PENDRAY. This was an action of assumpsit, in which…

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Admiralty Court, Saturday, Jan. 17. the "Ocean."—bottomry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 June 1846 · page 3

THIS was an action to recover the amount of two bottomry bonds, one, dated in February, 1844, given at Sydney, New South Wales, for £800, bearing a premium…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—nisi Paivs Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 June 1846 · page 4

BEFORE his Honor Mr. Justice DICKIVSON, and a Jury of four AYRANE V. HELLY. This was an action for use and occupation…

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Central Criminal Court.—feb. 7. Old Court

The Australian · Saturday 6 June 1846 · page 1

(Before Mr. Baron Rolfe and Mr. Justice Cresswell.) The prisoners, George Green, 26, soldier, and James Thomas 50 [?]…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—equitt Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 June 1846 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Mr. Justice THERKY, Eleanor Dorothy Foreman, by James Pawsey, her next friend, plaintiff; and John Betts and others, defendants…

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The Debate on the Squatting and Border Police Act Continuation Bill

The Spectator · Saturday 6 June 1846 · page 229

"Moved that the following Resolution be adopted by this Council:-- " That the Act of the late Legislative Council, 2 Vic., No. 27, (the Squatting and Border Police Act) ought in the opinion of…

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Supreme Court. Tuesday, June 2. Civil Jurisdiction. Before his Honor the Chief Justice and a Jury of four. CARRINGTON V. COFFEY

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 6 June 1846 · page 2

This was an action of trover to recover possession of a pianoforte, in which the plaintiff was a minor, but sued through the medium of her mother. Messrs. Windeyer and Michie. appeared for the…

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Berrima Court of Quarter Sessions. Thursday, May 28 BEFORE the Chairman, and Samuel North, Esq., Police Magistrate, CHARLES [?], John Nicholson, and MATTHEW [?], Esqs., J.P.'s

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 June 1846 · page 2

The professional gentlemen in attendance besides the Crown Prosecutor and the Clerk the Peace, were Messrs. Purefoy and Holfoyd, barristers; and Messrs. Nichols and Ogle,…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—nisi Prius Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 June 1846 · page 3

BEFORE HIS Honor the CHIEF JUSTICE and a Jury of four. GROSE V. HARRIS. This was an action of trespass, in which the…

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Court of Quarter Sessions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 June 1846 · page 3

BEFORE the CHAIRMAN and JOHN HENDERSON, Esq., J.P. The CROWN PROSECUTOR conducted the following cases for the Crown…

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Government Gazette. Tuesday, June 9, 1846. Court of Claims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 June 1846 · page 3

COURT of Claims Office, June 6. Notice is hereby given, that the following claims for Deeds of Grant of Land and of a town allotment will be ready for examination of the…

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