Lot 4442

Description

Colony of Victoria. Conveyance on vellum, between Theyre Weigall, Curator of Deceased Estates to Mrs Catherine Odrick, wife of Gustav F.W.Odrich (deceased) of two hundred and fifty nine acres and thirty nine perches in the County of Dalhousie, Parish of Metcalfe, signed and sealed by Theyre Weigall, 27th September 1889, with a Queen Victoria seven pound and a fifteen shillings duty stamp affixed. Stamps fiscally used, document very fine.

Theyre a Beckett Weigall, barrister and judge. Born 1860, Elsternwick, Melbourne. Educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and University of Melbourne (LL.B., 1880). Weigall specialised in equity work, procedure and company law and the administration of trusts. In 1906 he was appointed a K.C. and practised in the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Victoria accepting the appointment of acting judge in 1923. He died in 1926.