Digests or summaries of court cases were reported continuously in The New
South Wales Weekly Notes from 1884 to 1970 - and subsequently under a
different title. Though a digest or summary, many cases are reported in
considerable detail.
You will find any case here that may have come before the courts. Some examples
are: bankruptcy, violence, murder, probate and claims under wills or cases of
intestacy, restraining injunctions, right of custody, divorce, criminal cases,
assault, libel, a business or institution against an individual, and vice versa,
and much more.
Any of our forebears could have been involved in many of these cases, either as
a plaintiff or defendant - or simply as a witness or a person affected by the
outcome. Other family members may be mentioned, sometimes by date of birth,
marriage and death and other events in a person's life. While some reports are
quite brief, others run to several pages.
Anyone could be a party to any of these cases. A great deal of personal and
genealogical information appears. Fill in some details of your families’ lives
with information you may not find anywhere else.
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