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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1852

1,458 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 73

Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

Empire · Friday 29 October 1852 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

In the estate of George Catheart Hayes, a certificate meeting. The insolvent's certificate was granted. MEETING FOR MONDAY…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—thursday. Sittings in EQUITY.—(Before the Primary Judge.) PERRY v. Macalister and Others

Empire · Friday 29 October 1852 · page 2

The heaving of this case was resumed, but it was not concluded when the Court rose. The case will be resumed this day after the business previously appointed shall have been…

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Sydney Police Court.—friday. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Empire · Saturday 30 October 1852 · page 2

COMMITTAL.—John M'Dowell, a shoemaker, was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions, for stealing a pair of boots, the properly of his employer, Robert Wright, a master shoemaker…

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Water Police Office, Wednesday. Before the Water Police Magistrate, the Port Master, and Mr. C. H. Chambers

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 30 October 1852 · page 3

THE FORMOSA, William Byron, John Worthy, W. S. Wakenham, Thomas White, William Keats, William Faulkner, George Weight, John Bartlett, Charles E. Stubbs,…

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The Police Register

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 October 1852 · page 3

A. LITTLR SERVANTS' FREAK.—James Lee, one of the spiciest personages of his order, that is to say, "Groom and whip," appeared on Wednesday to answer a charge preferred against him by…

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The Court of Requests

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 30 October 1852 · page 9

THIS hopeful shop may be shut up. It is unable to find men to enforce the payment of its decrees. Suitors may therefore remain content, and debtors take their own convenience to pay when they…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court. Compulsory Sequestration

Empire · Saturday 30 October 1852 · page 2

On the petition of William Branch Campbell, his Honor Mr. Justice Therry granted a rule nisi, calling on Robert Blake, of Sydney, to show cause why his estate should not be adjudged to be…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—friday. Equity Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 October 1852 · page 2

BEFORE the Primary Judge. PERRY v. M'ALISTER AND OTHERS. This was a suit to set aside, as fraudulent, a marriage settlement, and to compel certain…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court.—friday. in Re R Blake

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 October 1852 · page 2

On reading the petition of William Branch Campbell, of Sydney, gentleman, praying that the estate of Robert Blake, of Sydney, Inspector of Distilleries, might be sequestrated…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—friday. Sittings in EQUITY.—(Before the Primary Judge.) PERRY v. Macalister and Others

Empire · Saturday 30 October 1852 · page 2

The bill in this case was filed by Mr. William Perry, as assignee of the estate of Lachlan Macalister, an insolvent, against the Australian Trust Company, as mortgagees of certain real estates,…

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Sydney Police Court.—saturday. (Before the Police Magistrate and Alderman Egan.)

Empire · Monday 1 November 1852 · page 2

HOUSBAND AND WIFE.—A young married couple named John and Matilda Taylor, came before the Court on Saturday, the husband being charged with cutting and maining his wife, whose right…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court.—saturday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 November 1852 · page 2

SCHEDULE FIELD.—Thomas Gottens, of Kent-street, Sydney, blacksmith. Liabilities, £49; value of assets, £12; deficiency, £37. Official assignee, Mr. W. Perry…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court.—saturday. New Insolvent

Empire · Monday 1 November 1852 · page 2

Thomas Gettens, of Kent-street, in Sydney, blacksmith. Liabilities, £49. Assets—value of personal properly, and moneys, £12. Amount of deficiency, £37. Offical assignee, Mr. W…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—saturday. Banco Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 November 1852 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. Justice DICKINSON and Mr. Justice THERRY. FINES. The schedules of fines were gone through,…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—saturday. Sittings in Banco. (Before Mr. Justice Dickinson and Mr. Justice Therry.)

Empire · Monday 1 November 1852 · page 2

The Sheriff's and Prothonotary's lists of persons in default as jurors and witnesses were taken by their Honors at the sittings of the Court…

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Sydney Police Court.—monday

Empire · Tuesday 2 November 1852 · page 4

(Before the Police Magistrate, Alderman Egan, and S. Peek, Esq., J.P.) FURIOUS DRIVING AND ASSAULT.—Mr. C. Lush surrendered to his bail, charged on the separate…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, November 2, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 November 1852 · page 2

BEFORE S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of Alexander Waddell, an adjourned special meeting, for examination…

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Sydney Police Court.—tuesday. (Defore the Police Magistrate, Alderman Egan, and C. H. Chambers, Esq., J. P.)

Empire · Wednesday 3 November 1852 · page 2

FRAUD—Ellen Smith, and her daughter, Mary Smith, aged 12 years, wero charged with obtaining the sum of iOs. by falso representations from the wife of a publican named Blake, on the South…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 November 1852 · page 2

BEFORE S. F. MILFORD, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of Thomas Henry Nutt, a single meeting was held, at which claims…

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