Author: SUTTOR, EDWIN C.
Title: Plunkett's Australian Magistrate A Guide To The Duties of a Justice Of The Peace, with Numerous Forms. New Edition. Also An Appendix containing the Rules and Regulations relating to Crown lands and Assessment upon Stock, the New Jury Act, a brief summary of the Law of Landlord and Tenant, with the Tenements Act, and Act for facilitating the Granting of Leases, and the Small Debts Recovery Act.
Description: Third Edition; Roy. 8vo; pp. viii, 596; bound in original maroon cloth, title label on spine, label worn, cloth worn and fadded, previous owne'rs name on title page, good sound copy. Sydney; W. A. Colman, 485, George Street; 1847. Ferguson. 4661. The first edition of this work appeared in 1835, the second edition by M. Murphy in 1840, then this New Edition by Sutton (substantial re-write) in 1847. John Hubert Plunkett (1802-1869), lawyer and politician, best known for the prosecution of the colonists who brutally murdered 28 Aboriginals in the Myall Creek Massacre of 1838, seven of whom were convicted and hanged. Page 4 of this work states "The Aboriginal Natives of this Colony are as much under the protection of and amenable to the law as the rest of Her Majesty's subjects".

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