REGISTERS - BANKRUPTCY FILES TRANSMITTED TO THE OFFICIAL RECEIVER
Bankruptcy Act 1892Register of files transmitted to the Official Receiver, recording date transmitted and date returned.This is an office register, entries being recorded in order of transmission, there is no index and it appears to have little va...
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DIARIES - REGISTRAR OF SUPREME COURT
Daily diary kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court. Gives date and brief notes of daily business, court sittings etc.
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General documents may be described as evidentiary material sourced both externally and internally for the Royal Commission into the Commercial Activities of Government and Other Matters. Externally sourced documents were gathered from public offic...
ROYAL COMMISSION INTO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES OF GOVERNMENT AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Bankruptcy Act 1892Personal bankruptcy files contain documents filed in compliance with the Bankruptcy Act 1892. In 1928 bankruptcy became a Commonwealth jurisdiction, hence the date range of this series.This Act gave the Supreme Court jurisdictio...
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INDEXES - BANKRUPTCY ACT AMENDMENT ACT 1898
The Bankruptcy Act Amendment Act 1898 made provision for debtors to enter into compositions, schemes of arrangement or deeds of assignment outside of bankruptcy. It is the first comprehensive code for these types of proceedings and matters could p...
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REGISTERS - PROCEEDINGS UNDER BANKRUPTCY ACT AMENDMENT ACT 1898
Bankruptcy Amendment Act 1898.Register of proceedings relating to debtors (not bankrupts) under Amendment Act 1898. Shows name and file number of debtor and proceedings relating to resolution and deeds etc.This register and register of proceedings...
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Each Supreme Court judge and certain court officials kept notes during the course of proceedings. The court officials who kept records of proceedings included: 1. The Master of the Supreme Court, who was also the Registrar and the Keeper of...
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REGISTERS - COMPANIES PETITION FILES
The registers contain an index at the front of each volume to companies which have petitioned the Supreme Court over a specific matter. A number on year is allocated which refers to files in WAS 2242, Cons 5802.
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NOTEBOOKS - CIVIL SITTINGS [JUSTICE WALKER]
Notebooks of Justice Walker presiding over civil cases of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
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REGISTERS - OFFICIAL RECEIVER IN BANKRUPTCY
Bankruptcy Act Amendment Act 1898. Record book of the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy. It was the Official Receiver's duty to enforce observance of duties by trustees. The Official Receiver was given responsibility for trustees' accounts...
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Cause Books record civil action from its generation to the end of the action, including the judgement given, unless the case has been discontinued, abandoned or dismissed, in which case that will be stated. If subsequent to the judgement, an appea...
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REGISTERS - CRIMINAL CALENDARS
Criminal calendars for the Supreme Court Perth and Circuit Courts, being registers of cases heard in the criminal sessions. Cases are given a running number for each sitting Volume 1 shows the name, charge, district, and witnesses, with the plea, ...
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Index of people tried at criminal sessions of the Supreme Court. Gives name of person and date of hearing, no other information. However, it is a useful index to Vol 1 of the Criminal Registers (WAS 49) from 1861.
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Policy files relating to reviews of the Companies Code and possible amendments and regulations relating to companies and corporations.
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FILES - BUILDING SOCIETIES AND CREDIT UNIONS
Files maintained to register the details of building societies and credit unions.
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Register of Protection orders under the Tenants, Purchasers and Mortgagors Relief Act of 1930 to comply with S.29 of the Bills of Sale Act 1899. Listed chronologically and numerically and providing the names of the mortgagor and mortgagee.
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NOTEBOOKS - BANKRUPTCY [JUSTICE WALKER]
Notebook of Justice Walker presiding over bankruptcy cases of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
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NOTEBOOKS - CIVIL AND DIVORCE SITTINGS [P.K. HAZLITT, ASSOCIATE TO JUSTICE WALKER]
Notebook of P.K. Hazlitt, Associate to Justice Walker, in civil and divorce cases of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
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The Supreme Court of W.A. has wide appellate jurisdiction - everything dealt with elsewhere has a final appeal to the Supreme Court. Registers of Full Court Orders record orders handed down by the Full Court which fulfills the appeal function of t...
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REGISTERS - CRIMINAL RECORD BOOKS
Registers of Calendar of Prisoners at various Court sittings in the Supreme Court and country centres. Registers for each sitting of the Supreme Court criminal sittings, also some quarter sessions for country areas. Shows case number, name, crime ...
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Nominal index to appellants in appeals from lower courts, orders to review and cases started. Volume shows appeal number, names of appellant and respondent, nature of proceedings (whether appeal, order to review or case stated etc), court appealed...
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These volumes record the registration particulars of State owned companies under the Companies Act 1893 (56 Vict., No. 8). The registers provide information on: the name of the company, the company registration number, the date any document relati...
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NOMINAL INDEX TO PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION RECORDS
Nominal (name-based) indexes to Probate and Administration Records.Volume 1 indexes Probate records, 1832 - August 1920. This volume records:i. name of deceased,ii. page number of volume containing copy of will & grant of probate (Record Series No...
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This series of civil writs continues on from WAS 201. From 1881 the various documents (warrants, writs, affidavits etc) relating to each case are collected together into files with a single annual number system of arrangement (1/1881 - ). These ar...
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Letterbook of Fremantle merchant Anthony Curtis who died in 1853, allegedly with debts of 5,000 pounds. Curtis' estate was not wound up until 1860 and it is likely that this volume was submitted as evidence following the death of the executor...
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