Devine V. Murphy
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Release : 1997
Category : Legal briefs
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Legal briefs
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Legal briefs
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Author : Horace Gay Wood
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Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Limitation of actions
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Author : Frederick Carroll Brewster
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Page : 980 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Civil procedure
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Author : Charles Hastings Wiltsie
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Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Foreclosure
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Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
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Author : James Patterson McBaine
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Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Civil procedure
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Author : Matt Murphy
Publisher : The GHR Press/Hale & Iremonger
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 086806923X
In 1794 and 1799 Superintendent of Convicts Nicholas Devine was granted 210 acres on the edge of the current CBD of Sydney. After the demise of Governor Bligh (to whom he was closely allied) Devine reluctantly retired to his estate where, as an old man living alone, he was constantly beaten and robbed. An Irish convict named Bernard Rochford befriended the old man in 1825 and upon his death in 1830 forged a Will and seized control of the estate and proceeded to subdivide it and sell it off. Many of the purchasers (and others, including the Governor) knew Rochford was in no position to sell the land as even if the will he had was authentic, he was a nonetheless a convict and therefore was prohibited from holding property, let alone profit from its sale. Rochford sold much of the land in exchange for grog and was continually in court over a variety of issues. As devious as Rochford was, he proved no match for his wife whose deceit landed him in jail where he died in 1839. The 30 new landowners included judges, mayors, magistrates, aldermen, newspaper editors, solicitors and other Sydney luminaries. They believed that with Rochford’s death all suspicions regarding their ownership of the land would also die but that was not to be. In 1848 Nicholas Devine’s heir John Devine arrived to lay claim to the entire estate.
Author : David Shephard Garland
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Page : 1244 pages
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Release : 1901
Category : Law
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Author : James Cockcroft
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Page : 1374 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Law
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