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Courts & crime, 1860

3,091 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 155

INSOLVENT COURT.—Wednesday

Empire · Thursday 26 April 1860 · page 3

BEFORE the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. Certificates of discharge were granted without opposition to Robert Fisher and John James…

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Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 April 1860 · page 2

BEFORE the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. Certificates of discharge were granted, without opposition, to Robert Fisher and John James. In the estate of Thomas Rogers, a single meeting…

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Law. Supreme COURT.—Wednesday

Empire · Thursday 26 April 1860 · page 3

BEFORE the foll Court. IN BANCO. EMERY V. HARDING. This was an action tried in November, 1858, before…

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Law. Supreme Court.—wednesday. Sittings in Banco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 April 1860 · page 2

BEFORE the full Court. EMERY V. HARDING. This was a motion for new trial in an action upon two promissory notes for £52 7s. 6d. and £30…

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Court of Queen's Bench—thursday, Feb. 16 (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a special Jury.) Scully, Mp. V. Ingram, M.p.—the Late John Sadleir's Frauds

Empire · Thursday 26 April 1860 · page 2

Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Milward, and Mr. Gordon Allen were counsel for the plaintiff. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Mr. Huddlestone, Q.C., and Mr. Prentice were counsel for the defendant…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1860 · page 5

BEFORE Captain M'T[?]n Mr. R. S. Ross, and Mr. H. Armitage. Mary Mu[?]y, found drunk in George-street, was fined 10[?] or to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1860 · page 5

BEFORE the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Smithers, Mr. G. Hill, Mr. E. S. Hill, Mr. Asher. Seven persons, convicted of having been found…

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Central Police COURT.—Thursday

Empire · Friday 27 April 1860 · page 3

BEFORE Messrs. E. S. Hill, (Smithers, Cohen, Asher, and the Mayor, Absent, Mr. Wilson. Three men and two women were punished for drunkenness in the usual way…

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Water Police COURT.—Thursday

Empire · Friday 27 April 1860 · page 3

BEFORE Captain McLean. Mary Murphy, found drank in George-street, was fined in the sum of 10s., with the alternative of twentyfour hours imprisonment…

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Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1860 · page 4

BEFORE the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of George T. Palmer, a third meeting. Insolvent, vho resides at or near Queanbeyan, was not present. Six debts were proved, and the…

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Law. Supreme COURT.—Thursday

Empire · Friday 27 April 1860 · page 3

BEFORE the full Court. IN BANCO. EMERY V. HARDING. This was an action tried in November, 1858, before…

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Grafton Quarter Sessions and District Court

Empire · Friday 27 April 1860 · page 3

THE Judge, Robert Owen, Esq., accompanied by W. Foster, Crown Prosecutor, arrived at the bar of the Clarenee, in the steamer Grafton, on Friday evening, too late to enter the river that evening. At…

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Law. Supreme Court—thursday. Sittings in Banco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 April 1860 · page 4

BEFORE the full Court. EMERY V. HARDING. The argument in this case, which had been commenced on Wednesday, was now resumed and…

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Water Police COURT.—Friday

Empire · Saturday 28 April 1860 · page 3

BEFORE M. M. Cohen, Esq. A seaman belonging to the ship Ellwood Walter, brought up on remand, charged with desertion, was sent to [?] for twelve weeks…

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Central Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1860 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. Sutheiland, Mr. Williams, Mr. Campbell, Mr. J. Hill, and Mr. Peden. Six persons were convicted of having been found drunk in the streets; one was sentenced to pay 20s.,…

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Water Police Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1860 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. M. M. Cohen, Samuel H. Walker, a seaman belonging to the United States ship Ellwood Walter was sentenced to three weeks' hard labour in gael, on conviction of…

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Insolvency Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1860 · page 4

BEFORE the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of William E. Potts, an adjourned Certificate meeting. Insolvent and Mr. Buttfey were examined at considerable length, and the meeting was…

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Law. Supreme COURT.—Friday

Empire · Saturday 28 April 1860 · page 3

BEFORE Chief Justice Dickinson, and Mr. Justice Wise. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION AGAINST DAVID LAWRENCE LEVY, SOLICITOR, &c. The Court gave judgment in this case, discharging the…

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Law. Supreme Court—friday. Sittings in Banco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 April 1860 · page 4

BEFORE Chief Justice Dickinson and Mr. Justice Wise. TOOTH v. FLEMING. This was a motion upon notice for the setting…

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A Very Oruel and Sehtimental, Breach of Promise. Harker V, Wituiam. (Court of Queen's BENCH.—Before Mr, Baron Martin.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 28 April 1860 · page 4

This was an action for breach of promise of marriage, The defendant'pleaded, first, that he did not make the promise and secondly, that the plaintiff had released him from it. The plaintiff is a young person of about…

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