Debt, Seduction, and Other Disasters: The Birth of Civil Law in Convict New South WalesFederation Press, 1996 - 238 lappuses Based on a detailed study of Australia's earliest civil court records - a million handwritten words about daily life and trade - Debt, Seduction and Other Disasters covers the turbulent years in the penal colony. This was a period when starvation was barely averted, emancipated convicts contended with one another to become wealthy through trade, and Aborigines fought for their land. Soldiers and governors struggled for power, culminating in the overthrow of Governor Bligh, the only military coup on Australian soil. In this important and entertaining book, Kercher: shows the remarkable egalitarianism of life in the colony, even for serving convicts and married women discusses the invention and legal consequences of tickets of leave and the central role of law in creating the local version of freedom reveals details of daily social and economic life unavailable elsewhere: the seduction cases and sexual scandals; details of the wheat farm at Woolloomooloo; the problems of the grain growers at the Hawkesbury provides unique information about working conditions of: convicts the seal killers in New Zealand and Macquarie Island sailors the very few Aborigines who worked alongside Europeans details:the first case in Australia in which an Aborigine sued (he lost) the first recorded sale of a wife (at Windsor in 1811; sale void) the case in which Mary Reibey was alleged to have blown up the bakery next door (she won) the sharp practices of Tommy the Banker, Dick the Needle and the petty bankers who deliberately wrote their documents in fading ink describes the lives of the convict women who lived with officers but were abandoned explodes the myth that rum was a major currency and explains the use of alternative currencies, such as wheat, and establishes the crucial role of pigs in town life. |
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... defendant died and his widow and executrix failed to meet the judgment debt . Again the civil court ordered her to pay the debt immediately , and again she appealed , this time to the newly arrived Governor Macquarie . Although he did ...
... defendant died and his widow and executrix failed to meet the judgment debt . Again the civil court ordered her to pay the debt immediately , and again she appealed , this time to the newly arrived Governor Macquarie . Although he did ...
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... defendants failed . 10 The Court of Civil Jurisdiction which tried the case was headed by Collins but it included a soldier , Captain George Johnston , as one of its lay members . The court refused the defendant's suggestion that the ...
... defendants failed . 10 The Court of Civil Jurisdiction which tried the case was headed by Collins but it included a soldier , Captain George Johnston , as one of its lay members . The court refused the defendant's suggestion that the ...
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The Birth of Civil Law in Convict New South Wales Bruce Kercher. The defendant soldiers appealed to Governor Hunter in the Court of Appeal , but he dismissed their appeal . Hunter remarked that the assault was fully proved and that he ...
The Birth of Civil Law in Convict New South Wales Bruce Kercher. The defendant soldiers appealed to Governor Hunter in the Court of Appeal , but he dismissed their appeal . Hunter remarked that the assault was fully proved and that he ...
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Freedom in an Unfree Colony | 49 |
From Honour to Wealth | 91 |
Pigs Storms and Fires | 108 |
Chaotic Land Titles Strange Currencies and | 122 |
The Birth of Contract | 148 |
Deceit and Debtors Prison | 180 |
Transferring Law to the Bush | 214 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 235 |
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