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Old Court House Law Museum > Records

NOTEBOOK, ARCHIBALD PAULL BURT, SUPREME COURT CIVIL SITTINGS, 1861-1862

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Burt, Sir, Archibald Paull

1861

Overview

Notebook 1 of group of 13 containing Chief Justice Burt's handwritten notes during Supreme Court Civil trials.

Cardboard cover marbled green and yellow, with diagonal green stripes. Endpapers of blue grey paper. White paper label stuck across front cover with writing ‘Note Book No. 1. Civil Court. - 9th April - 11th June 1861. / Supreme Court - Civil Sittings./ 9th July 1861 - 4th June 1862.’

Index of case names and index of cases in alphabetical order on last page and back endpaper, handwritten in black ink. 96 pages hand numbered in black ink.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-46-1989.34a

Item type

Documents

Material

Card

Ink

Paper

Textiles

Width

203 mm

Height or length

314 mm

Depth

14 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Maker’s label inside front cover, top left corner: ‘PARKINS & GOTTO,/ MANUFACTURING/ STATIONERS,/ 25 OXFORD STREET.’

Keywords

Chief Justice

Supreme Court Western Australia

Supreme Court Civil Trials

Burt, Archibald Paull

Dewar, Ralph

Liddelow, John

Liddelow, Walter

Wellard, John

Marmion, Charlotte

Monger, John Henry

Cornwall, William

Andrews, William

Millard, Thomas

Von Bibra, Charles

Harwood

Nettle, Michael

Wood, Isaac

Hall, Frank

Hall, James Anderson

Moore, D.M.I

Connelly, Charles

Allnutt, John

Clifton, Marshall Waller

Smith, Thomas

Brown, James

Brown, George

Fitzgerald, John

Stone, Alfred Hawes

Padbury, Walter

Walcott, James Percy

Place made

Australia

Year

Last modified

Sunday, 18 May, 2025

Completeness

88

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