TABLE No. 48., A Return of the Business conducted in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, from 1861 to 1869, under its several Jurisdictions.
| Jurisdiction. |
Particulars of Business. |
1861 |
1862 |
1863 |
1864 |
1865 |
1866 |
1867 |
1868 |
1869 |
| No. |
Value. |
No. |
Value. |
No. |
Value. |
No. |
Value. |
No. |
Value. |
No. |
Value. |
No. |
Value. |
No. |
Value. |
No. |
Value. |
|
|
|
£ |
|
£ |
|
£ |
|
£ |
|
£ |
|
£ |
|
£ |
|
£ |
|
£ |
| Common Law. |
Summons on Commencing Actions, Signed, &c. |
5 |
|
123 |
|
145 |
|
72 |
|
63 |
|
81 |
|
69 |
|
81 |
|
148 |
|
| Common Law. |
Summons before Judge in Chambers |
|
|
19 |
|
29 |
|
48 |
|
19 |
|
18 |
|
4 |
|
33 |
|
44 |
|
| Common Law. |
Writs of other Descriptions |
|
|
39 |
|
31 |
|
18 |
|
16 |
|
21 |
|
11 |
|
19 |
|
62 |
|
| Common Law. |
Causes tried before the Chief Justice |
21 |
|
7 |
|
3 |
|
4 |
|
3 |
|
2 |
|
3 |
|
3 |
|
9 |
|
| Common Law. |
Causes tried with Juries |
|
|
2 |
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
2 |
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
3 |
|
| Common Law. |
Amount in value of Judgments in Court |
|
747 |
|
703 |
|
58 |
|
198 |
|
176 |
|
385 |
|
1,239 |
|
71 |
|
141 |
| Common Law. |
Amount in Attorney's costs therein |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
92 |
|
208 |
|
179 |
|
94 |
|
210 |
| Common Law. |
Judgments signed in Office |
7 |
|
45 |
|
62 |
|
49 |
|
29 |
|
31 |
|
17 |
|
22 |
|
44 |
|
| Common Law. |
Amount in Value |
|
257 |
|
3,100 |
|
4,429 |
|
4,387 |
|
6,741 |
|
3,808 |
|
1,440 |
|
1,169 |
|
4,728 |
| Common Law. |
Amount in Attorney's costs therein |
|
111 |
|
368 |
|
267 |
|
285 |
|
161 |
|
122 |
|
73 |
|
73 |
|
179 |
| Equity. |
Bills filed |
|
|
5 |
|
2 |
|
2 |
|
3 |
|
3 |
|
3 |
|
3 |
|
2 |
|
| Equity. |
Decrees passed |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
2 |
|
2 |
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
3 |
|
1 |
|
| Ecclesiastical. |
Wills admitted to Proof |
4 |
|
4 |
|
9 |
|
6 |
|
4 |
|
10 |
|
12 |
|
7 |
|
11 |
|
| Ecclesiastical. |
Administration Letters granted |
1 |
|
2 |
|
6 |
|
2 |
|
8 |
|
8 |
|
7 |
|
6 |
|
14 |
|
| Motions. |
In Court and at Chambers |
10 |
|
20 |
|
36 |
|
5 |
|
19 |
|
17 |
|
15 |
|
14 |
|
15 |
|
| Motions. |
Sittings every month |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Motions. |
Fees collected by Registrar of Court |
|
|
|
136 |
|
142 |
|
127 |
|
102 |
|
179 |
|
131 |
|
150 |
|
259 |
| Insolvency. |
Number of Insolvents |
2 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
3 |
|
7 |
|
12 |
|
6 |
|
12 |
|
7 |
|
| Insolvency. |
Debts proved before Judge |
|
310 |
|
|
|
1,523 |
|
4,678 |
|
4,180 |
|
2,646 |
|
4,985 |
|
3,843 |
|
1,375 |
| Insolvency. |
Dividends declared upon Assets collected |
|
163 |
|
|
|
462 |
|
967 |
|
1,559 |
|
439 |
|
1,393 |
|
2,236 |
|
180 |
| Insolvency. |
Fees paid to Colonial Treasurer |
|
108 |
|
|
|
43 |
|
98 |
|
100 |
|
107 |
|
150 |
|
197 |
|
131 |
| Divorce. |
Petitions filed |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
5 |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
4 |
|
| Divorce. |
Decreees made |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
| Divorce. |
Registration of Bills of Sale& Preferential Liens. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Divorce. |
Bills of Sale Registered in Supreme Court |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
56 |
|
21 |
|
29 |
|
| Divorce. |
Preferential Liens on Wool, &c. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
37 |
|
40 |
|
36 |
|
| Divorce. |
Consideration on Bills of Sale |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13,862 |
|
2,584 |
|
6,084 |
| Divorce. |
Consideration on Liens on Wool |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10,822 |
|
28,814 |
|
11,028 |
| Divorce. |
Fees paid thereon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
2 |
|
3 |
|
13 |
|
|
|
|