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Courts & crime, 1853

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—monday. First Day of Term

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 October 1853 · page 2

BEFORE the full COURT. ACOUNTS AND FINES. The accounts of the Sheriff and the Prothonotary were presented and ordered to be filed…

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Law Intelligenge. Supreme Court.—monday. First Day of Term

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 October 1853 · page 4

BEFORE the full COURT. ACCOUNTS AND FINES. The accounts of the Sheriff and the Prothonotary were presented and ordered to be filed…

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Domestic Intelligence. Insolvent Court. Monday. (Before S. F. Milferd, Esq., Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates.)

Empire · Tuesday 11 October 1853 · page 2

In the estate of John M'Kinnon, a single meeting was held. Insolvent did not appear, no business was done, and the meeting terminated…

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Sydney Police Court.—tuesday. (Before the Mayor, George Hill, and C. H.Chambers, Esqrs., and the Police Magistrate.)

Empire · Wednesday 12 October 1853 · page 3

DRUNKARD'S LIST.—Ten unfortunate victims to this demoralizing vice were brought into Court this morning and dealt with in the usual manner. NEGIECTING A CHILD.—Mary Ann Doyle…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—tuesday. Sittings in Banco. Before the full Court. Doe Dem, Evans v. LANG

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 October 1853 · page 5

This was a motion for new trial and upon leave reserved. The action, which was tried at the last Maitland Circuit Court, before Sir Alfred Stephen, was brought to recover a…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—tuesday. Sittings in Banco. (Before the full Court.) Doe Dem. Evans v. LANG

Empire · Wednesday 12 October 1853 · page 3

This was a motion for a new trial. The action was one of ojectment, to recover twenty-nine acres of land, on the Hunter River, and was tried before the Chief Justice, at the last Maitland…

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Sydney Police Court.—wednesday. (Before the Mayor, Alderman Allen, the Police Magistrate, and Mr. C. H Chambers.)

Empire · Thursday 13 October 1853 · page 2

STEALING.—Mary Rogers, a very respectable looking young woman, was charged by Mr. Clarke with stealing two bracelets and other small articles, her property, of the value of 30s…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—wednesday. Sittings in Banco. (Before the full Court.) Insolvency Jurisdiction

Empire · Thursday 13 October 1853 · page 2

The COURT, on the motion of the Chief Commissioner, confirmed his allowance of the certificate of Francis Hemmings. EQUITY…

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Law Intelligenge. Supreme Court.—wednesday. Insolvency Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 October 1853 · page 2

BEFORE the full COURT. CERTIFICATE. The certificate of discharge granted by the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates to…

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Supreme Court.—thursday. Sittings in Banco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 October 1853 · page 2

BEFORE the full Court. EXPARTE CLEEVE IN RE THE JUSTICES OF SYDNEY. This was a rule nisi for a prohibition, the object being to stay proceedings under a…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—thursday. Sittings in Banco. (Before the full Court.) Ex Parte Cleeve

Empire · Friday 14 October 1853 · page 2

A rule had been obtained at the instance of this party, calling upon Messrs. Charles Henry Chambers and Thomas Winder Campbell, Justices of the Peace, and Mr. Frederick Oatley,…

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The Police. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 October 1853 · page 3

SIR,—Much has been said about an efficient police force for the city of Sydney. That there is not one is evident from a case heard at the police office this day, and it is not a…

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Police Comicalities

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 15 October 1853 · page 5

"THE TWA DOGS." -- No sooner had the stentorian lungs of Inspector Singleton, on Saturday last, expressed the order of "Call Number Three on the Free List," than one of the lions of the George-street den shook his mane -- (which, by the way, in…

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The Police Register

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 15 October 1853 · page 3

AN AUSTRALIAN NELSON.—John Leggett, a fair-haired, handsome sailor-boy, was charged by Dawley, 17 A. with creating a terrible hullabooloo, by boarding several oun-boats in…

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Court of Requests.—friday. [?] Jurisdiction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 October 1853 · page 4

BEFORE the COMMISSIONER. Assesors—Captain DELOITTE and Mr. F. ENSWORTH. NEWTON v. BERGIN,—This was an action brought by Mr. Charles Newton, auctioneer,…

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Sydney Police Court—friday. (Before the Mayor, Mr. Alderman Allen, Mr. C. H. Chambers, Captain Wingate, the Potmaster-General, and Mr. Josephson.)

Empire · Saturday 15 October 1853 · page 2

DESERTER.—Thomas Warrens, who was apprehended by the police as a deserter from the XI Regiment, was given into the custody of the serjoint in attendance, to be dealt with by the…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—friday. Sittings in Banco. (Before the full Court.) the Queen v. BARKER

Empire · Saturday 15 October 1853 · page 2

This was a special case reserved from the last Maitland Circuit Court. The defendant was indicted for manslaughter under the following circumstances. While in charge of the ship Tory,…

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Law Intelligence. Supreme Court.—friday. Sittings in Banco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 October 1853 · page 4

BEFORE the full Court. THE QUEEN v. BARKER. This was a special case from the Maitland Circuit Court. Prisoner was the mate of the…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, October 15, 1853. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Business of the Police Office

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 October 1853 · page 4

ONE of the most interesting tests of the social state of the city may be found in the amount and character of the business transacted at the Sydney Police Office…

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Sydney Police Court—saturday. (Before the Mayor and C. H. Chambers, Esq.)

Empire · Monday 17 October 1853 · page 2

ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE.—Michael Finucane was sentenced to pay a fine of 20s. or be imprisoned for fourteen days, for assaulting Constable G[?]llicuddy in the execution of his duty…

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