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James Dowling (1787-1844) was the third judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1828, and became its second Chief Justice in 1837, following the retirement of Sir Francis Forbes. Dowling was knighted in 1838 and died in office at the age of 56.
Dowling was a barrister and law reporter in London, prior to assuming judicial office. From the many thousands of cases heard by him during his sixteen years on the New South Wales Court, Dowling had planned to publish 465 as Australia's first set of law reports. Nine manuscript notebooks containing these cases, which Dowling called his 'Select Cases', have remained in state archives relatively untouched since Dowling's death in 1844.
The present volume completes the task begun by Dowling over 161 years ago. It is a scholarly edition of the Dowling cases published by the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History, with the assistance of the Council of Law Reporting for New South Wales, Macquarie University, the New South Wales Bar Association and the Maitland Fund.
CONTENTS
Foreword, by the Hon J J Spigelman, AC, Chief Justice of New South Wales
Introduction / Editors' Notes / Acknowledgments / Table of Cases / Table of Statutes Considered / Cases Judicially Considered
Aboriginals Animals Contract Convicts Courts Criminal - General Criminal - Murder Criminal - Stealing Currency Damages Debtors and Execution Equity Family Government Insolvency Jury Land Legal Practitioners Liquor Newspapers Partnership Procedure - Costs Procedure - General Procedure - Trial Shipping and Vice Admiralty Wills, Probate and Administration
Glossary / Index
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Published January 2005
Publisher The Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History
Hardback/1120pp
ISBN 9780975110331
Australian RRP $100.00
International Price $95.00
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