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1.

Sherlock Holmes in Australian Reasons for Judgment or Decision

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 05 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 04 May 2012
Leslie Katz
Independent
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literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment or decision, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bradshaw's Railway Guide, Holmes's knowledge of literature

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Bleak House in Australian Reasons for Judgment

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 15 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 05 May 2022
Leslie Katz
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literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, blacking, Charles Day

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John Keats's Attitude to Lawyers

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2020
Leslie Katz
Independent
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John Keats, lawyers, William Walton, medical profession, apothecaries, surgeons, physicians, clergy

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The Studious Mr. Holmes: Sherlock Holmes and the British Museum

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 May 2012 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2022
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, British Museum, British Museum Reading Room, British Museum (Natural History), London Library, libraries in the Sherlock Holmes Canon

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Dickens and Product Placement: Did He Refuse an Offer from 'Professor' Holloway?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 May 2009 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2017
Leslie Katz
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Charles Dickens, Edmund Yates, Thomas Holloway, Holloway's Pills and Ointment, product placement

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Lord Byron, Copyright and the Demons of the Law

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2022
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Lord Byron, John Murray, John Hunt, James Cawthorn, Joseph Onwhyn, William Hodgson, William Sherwin, William Benbow, William Dugdale, John Limbird, Pirated Literary Works, Copyright in Literary Works, Exception for Immoral Literary Works, Lord Chancellor Eldon, Vice-Chancellor Leach

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'The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration': The Accounts in the Public Press of Sherlock Holmes's Death in 1891

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2020
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sherlock Holmes Canon, Sherlock Holmes's apparent death in 1891, the Journal de Geneve, Reuters

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Conan Doyle's Real-Life Model for the Photographer of Charles Augustus Milverton's Killer

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2022
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Herbert Rose Barraud, real-life models for fictional characters, nineteenth century London photographers

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The Testamentary Condition in Restraint of Marriage Essential to the Plot of Our Mutual Friend

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2023
Leslie Katz
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Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, wills, conditions in restraint of marriage, condition that a beneficiary marry a named individual

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The Good Oil on Lord Byron and 'Thine 'Incomparable Oil,' Macassar!'

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2020
Leslie Katz
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Byron, Rowland's Macassar Oil, Advertising, Lorenzo Bartolini, Count D'Orsay

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'Each Picture Told a Story:' Photography in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2021
Leslie Katz
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Photography

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'Sell in May and Go Away': Real-Life Listed Securities in the Sherlock Holmes Canon

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 19 May 2023
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sherlock Holmes Canon, London Stock Exchange History

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'Who Ya Gonna Call?': District Messengers in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2021
Leslie Katz
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Sherlock Holmes, District Messenger Service, Express Messenger Service, Victorian Telegraphic and Telephonic Services

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Conan Doyle's Real-Life Model for Jonas Oldacre's Tailor

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2020
Leslie Katz
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Hyam & Co Limited, anti-semitism in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, Sam Brewer, Sam Lewis

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'Keepin' the Door in a Bloomsbury Square': Commissionaires in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2020
Leslie Katz
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Sherlock Holmes Canon, commissionaires, Corps of Commissionaires

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Plunging into 'The Full Tide of Human Existence': The Charing Cross Neighbourhood in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 May 2014 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2020
Leslie Katz
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Sherlock Holmes, places in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, Charing Cross

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A Detective Calls: Sherlock Holmes's Card

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2021
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, the Canon, visiting cards, business cards

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Tony Weller, 'Potry' Queller: Why, in Pickwick Papers, Did Dickens Have Him Mention 'Warren’s Blackin' and 'Rowland’s Oil'?

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2017
Leslie Katz
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Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers, Robert Warren, Warren's Blacking, Alexander Rowland the younger, Rowland's Macassar Oil

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Dr. Watson's Lighthouse Reflections

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2019
Leslie Katz
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Sherlock Holmes Canon, lighthouses, Dr. Watson's marriage, Winston Churchill

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‘[A]t Any Time, Day or Night, a Telegram Would Bring Me … to Your Help’: Sherlock Holmes and the Telegraph

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sherlock Holmes, Telegraph

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'The Game Is a Hand': Traditional Tabletop Games in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2020
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Canon, Tabletop Games, Backgammon, Draughts, Chess, Poker, Écarté, Whist, Bridge

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The Fatal Flaw in The Fatal Three: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Treatment of the Law Relating to Marriage between a Widower and His Deceased Wife’s Sister

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 02 May 2023
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Fatal Three, widower's ability to marry deceased wife's sister, effect of illegitimacy

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John Watson's School Days

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 19 May 2018
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson's secondary education, Board schools

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Homer in Australian Reasons for Judgment or Decision

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 01 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2023
Leslie Katz
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Homer, literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment or decision

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Aesop in Australian Reasons for Judgment

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 05 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Aesop, fables, literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment

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The Introduction of Jury Sentencing in the Commonwealth of Virginia

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2023
Leslie Katz
Independent
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jury sentencing, Virginia history, legal history

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll, his English Wills and Scottish Law

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2023
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, English law of wills, Scottish law of wills

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'The Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man': Railway Employees in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2020
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney Paget, Sherlock Holmes, long-distance railway employees, uniforms

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'Wall' from A Midsummer Night's Dream in Australian Reasons for Judgment

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 16 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Leslie Katz
Independent
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literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare

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'A Map Is Not the Territory'; Sherlock Holmes’s Use of Maps

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2022
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sherlock Holmes, maps, Ordnance Survey

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'But Where Shall We Get the Ring?' Finger Rings in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2023
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Finger Rings

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Reward Is Its Own Virtue: Rewards in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2023
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sherlock Holmes, rewards

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Out of Wedlock, Out of Luck; What Happened to Andrew Vanstone’s Estate in Wilkie Collins’s No Name

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2023
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Wilkie Collins, No Name, Succession Law, Illegitimacy

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'Box About, 'Twill Come to My Father Anon' Lord Byron on Sir Francis Bacon

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2022
Leslie Katz
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Lord Byron, Don Juan, Sir Francis Bacon, Apophthegmes New and Old, Voltaire, Wordsworth

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Mr Rochester's Reason for Not Trying to Divorce the First Mrs Rochester

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2023
Leslie Katz
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Charlotte Brontё, Jane Eyre, Rochester, effect of madness on divorce proceedings

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Was Someone Who Possessed Both a Copy of David Copperfield and a Letter Written by Dickens as Sharp as Brooks of Sheffield?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2022
Leslie Katz
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Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, false association copy

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Psalms in Australian Reasons for Judgment or Decision

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 05 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2020
Leslie Katz
Independent
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psalms, the bible, parody, literary allusions in Australian reasons for judgment or decisions

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Thrills and Chills and Postage and Wills; a Look at a Few Aspects of 'The Five Orange Pips'

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2022
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, "The Five Orange Pips", French possessions in India, law of wills

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‘That Sty for Fattening Lawyers In | On the Bones of Honest Men’: The Palace Court in Little Dorrit

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2022
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Dickens, Little Dorrit, Palace Court, legal history

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David Copperfield’s Legally Incorrect Account of a Suit to Annul a Marriage

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2023
Leslie Katz
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Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, ecclesiastical courts, annulment suit, standing, partial variation of name in licence

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Wilkie Collins’s Flawed Treatment of Life Estates in The Woman In White

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Wilkie Collins, The Woman In White, James Fitzjames Stephen, life estates, entails, curtesy

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“[A] Very Sweet Little Problem”: Sugar in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2022
Leslie Katz
Independent
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Sherlock Holmes, sugar

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Puzzling Acquisitions of Property by Death in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Sep 2023
Leslie Katz
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Bram Stoker, Dracula, succession to property on death, entail, dower, minors