Adultery trial over Marlborough marriage case verdict
A jury awards damages to a Marlborough businessman in a disputed adultery case. Evidence centers on alleged loans and visits to London with the defendant and the wife, including claims of intimate conduct at Gray's Inn coffee-house and a church recognition episode. The trial weighs damages for loss of companionship and business partnership.
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Tana Hs
Marlborough
London
Gray’s Inn
Faringdon
Mr. Reed
Duck
Gray’s-inn
Devizes
Cockburn
Q.C
Pilinics
Gray's-inn
Crown Court
Justice Cresswell
Robert Rawlings
Henry Bone
Mr. Slade
Hodges
Justice Wightman
John Noble
Noble
Imprisoned Plaintiff In Blind House After Insulting Affair
A plaintiff faced insult and public disgrace when a nobleman Noble ordered his confinement in a blind house after a disturbance at his front door. The case moved through petty sessions with a later agreement leading to damages of one shilling, amid tension over the warrant and oath requirement.
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Delage Noble
Mr. Noble
London
Trowbridge
Anud
Noble
Erle
Justice Cresswell
Leyden
Pietur Adrianzoun Vander Werf
Surplus in bankrupt estate raises interest calculation dispute
In a bankruptcy case presided by Commissioner Holroyd, the surplus after a 30 shilling dividend prompts review of interest method under the 6 Geo IV. c. 16. The court reconsiders Higginbotham versus Bower v Maris, favoring dividends paid against accruing interest and treating the surplus as belonging to the creditors until fully paid.
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Court OF Bankruptcy
Tresmay
Imromrvast
Expante
Desparte Higginbotham
Lord Chancelor Cottenham
Bower
Maris
I Craig and Phillips
Higginbotham
Bayley
Stromilly
Bower v. Maris
Romilly
Exparte Higginbotham
Lord Cottenham
Ward Cottenham
Lord Eldon
Exparte Mills
Vesey
Dividends as Ordinary Payments in Bankrupt Estates
A court opinion urges creditors' benefit in bankruptcy from surplus dividends. Dividends should first cover accrued interest, then reduce principal, following Bower v. Maris. An August 1842 Court of Bankruptcy order closes accountant books Aug 20 to Oct 4, allowing urgent dividend orders.
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Bower
Court of Bankruptcy
Lynxpuvunist
Earth
Police Reports from the Guildhall and London Courts
A long, detail filled record of Aldermanic hearing at Guildhall, police cases in Stepney and Clerkenwell, covering a shipping dispute about despatch charges, riotous street activity, placard prosecutions, kitten hunting inquiry, a rape remand, public disturbances at a theatre, assault on omnibus drivers, public notices, and an extraordinary case of arson by a father endangering his two children.
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Oxford
Jesus Christ
Alexander
Thomson
Hey
Tuard
Hollyoak
Cheltenham
Mechanics’ Institution
Justice Erskine
Remaxp
Parswoer
Tur Lang Turner
Mary Robertson
Robertson
Newgate
Old Bailey Sessions
Holden, &c
Dickson
Hoxton
V Division of Police
Ann Carter
John Blackson
Scotland
Scuth
V Division
Police
Jewin-street
Mr. Jardine
William Chillingworth
Joseph Palmer
Frederick Cartwright
Stepney-green
Islington-green
Stutter
Church_tow
Bethnal-green Road
Ands
Stream Navigation Company
Prince CastendgaLa
Clarkson
Wire
Commercial Steam Navigation Company
J. Cowan
T. Wood
Prince Castelciala
Prince Castelobcala
Bianchi
Boulogne
London
Commercial Steam Company
Prince
Wood
Mr. Clarkson
Dprince Castelcicalea
Hun Fuage
Prince Castelchi
England
General Steam Navigation Company
Sir John Cowan
Petittes
Newell
Metropolis
Alderman Humphery
Manchester
Miss Newell
Mr. Alderman Humphery
Jn. Bell’s Square
New Broad Street
Alexander Brockleway
Peace Society
Alderman Humphery: What Society Is that’--Mr. Brockleway
Brockleway
Chillingworth
Carpenters’ Arms Beershop
Bricklane
Jardine
Shaw
Palmer
End-Road
Gaid
Carpenters’ Arms
Withees
Griffiths
M 169
Cartwright
High Street
Southwark
Brick Lane
Wpulmer
Leicester
Jeadine
Ierder
Inspector Rawley
St. Pancras
Thomas Craven
George Atkins
Charles Jeans
Snow’s Fields
Central Criminal Court
William Thou
Mary Fitzgerald
Rawlinson
Southampton Place
Newroad
Roe
Rue
Harrow-road
Fitzgerald
Burrianty
George Gage
Ganey
Henry Thomas
John Morris
Edw. Barnes
Grantham
Lissongrove
Turner
Gage
Witness
Thomas
Oni
3Th Regiment
Ian
Manning
Gege
House of Correction
Islington
Thatcher
N Division
John Wright
White Lion-street
Pentonville
Mr. Combe
White Lion Street
Combe
William Edwards
Southampton-street
John Hillier
Kentish Town
Mary Avene Baker
Breanicourt
Paramill Street
Clerkenwell
Edwards
Baker
Edward
Hillier
Mr. Wakeling
Bingham
Henry Smith
Percy Freedy
Tash-street
Gray’s-inn-lane
Clerkenwell-close
Duke-street
Manchester Square
Union Hall
Stephen Aldhouse
Allhallows
Lombard
Street
City
Paynter
Hephzibah Roberts
Frances Aldhouse
Frances Moss
Montague
St. Leonard's
Shoreditch
Holy Orders
St. James's
Greenwich
John Mijimer
St. George’s Row
Woolwich Road
Arthur Ward
James
Mary Ward
Harvey
Jeremy
Ward
Lad of the Mountain and Other Light Verse Fragments
A mixed selection of poems and quips from Punch style wit. Pieces include A Column for the Curious by Ludwig Ubland translated verse about the lad of the mountain, humorous vignettes on Nelson and sailors, and witty parlor selections like Classic Pedants and Canning’s Wit.
Fragmented British items and science notes in 19th century column
A collage of period snippets covers political quips in the House of Commons, a soldier tale of bomb-proof courage, a boyish moral from Montaigne, a New York hackney anecdote about the Duke of Saxe Weimar, and a long science piece on earth’s history.
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Duke of Saxe Weimar
New York
A Pleasing State of Things in 1841 Barcelona
In 1841 Barcelona recorded 2614 civil actions 565 criminal prosecutions 19 assassinations or parricide attempts 6 infanticides 2 poisonings 49 wilful fires and only 1 percent death sentences with 12 in default. Also 23 political accusations before tribunals. DEW DROPS poem reflects on heavenly drops and martyred mercy as warning to cherish compassion.
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Barcelona
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Newington
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New Bunhill Fields
Wandsworth
Ludwig Ubland
Lad
Julie
Nelson
Royal Naval Hospital
Yarmouth
Copenhagen
Sailor
Jack
Enelishmen
Sydney Smith
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Thomas Smith
University of Cambridge
Ben Jonson
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Canning
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Dick Baldwin
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
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Tenterden
Joseph Surface
Sheridan
Joseph the 1St
Lady Sneerwell
Peels
Affghanistan
Joseph
Lord Palmerston
House of Commons
Rory Our
Picquet
Palmeran
Costello
Montaigne
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