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'First Australian treatise on bankruptcy' (Sweet & Maxwell). Dedication copy by the author

BURTON, William Westbrooke.
The insolvent law of New South Wales, with practical directions and forms.





Sydney, published by W.F. Moffitt, 1842. 8vo. Original straight grained red roan, spine with title lettered in gold and pasted shelf number (W. MOFFITT, Sydney). VIII, 202 pp.

Rare first and only edition of the first Australian treatise on bankruptcy.
William Westbrook Burton (1794-1888) was appointed to the supreme court at Sydney in 1832, after having served for four years on the supreme court at the Cape of Good Hope. In 1844 he left New South Wales to serve on the bench at Madras. He returned to Sydney in 1857 and for several years presided over the legislative council before retiring to his native England.
While in Australia Burton attempted to ameliorate the harsh treatment of convicts at Norfold Island, where he was sent in 1834 'to try some convicts who had mutinied'. Many were sentenced to death, but as no clergy were on the island, Burton reprieved them until their cases could go before the executive council. He endeavoured also with some success to improve the miserable condition of the convicts.

Pencil note on recto first fly-leaf; spine rubbed. Fine dedication copy from the author to R.C. Burton, dated 1842.
Ferguson 3372; Sweet & Maxwell VI, p. 11.

Related Subjects: 19th Century  Australia & New Zealand  Economy  Politics 

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