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- 1915-1935 (Creation)
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1 box
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Biographical history
Francis William Sutton Cumbrae-Stewart (1865-1938) was born on 27 January 1865 at Riversleigh, Canterbury, New Zealand to Francis Edward Stewart and Agnes (nee Park). By the time he took his Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.), with third-class honours in 1897 he had adopted the surname Cumbrae-Stewart. In 1910 he was appointed foundation registrar and librarian of the new University of Queensland. His thesis, ‘Actio Pauliana : its origin, development and nautre’ won an Oxford D.C.L. (Doctor of Civil Law) in 1922. In January 1926, he became the first Chair of Law at UQ, the James Francis Garrick Professorship of Law. Cumbrae-Stewart began lecturing in Roman law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence and Public International Law. He was appointed King’s Counsel in 1927. He is credited with laying the foundation for the full law faculty that was set up when he retired in 1936. He died on 24 March 1938.
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Folder 4 'Roman law, 1926 Mar 16-Oct 26 : lectures 1-53' previously catalogued at F2148.
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1915-1935.
Collection alternatively titled as: Francis William Sutton Cumbrae-Stewart Collection
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Lecture notes for first law courses at University of Queensland, correspondence, drafts, and diary notes with reminiscences of people migrating, settling and living in Queensland in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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Folder 1. Typescript drafts with emendations for ‘The Origin of Actio Pauliana I’ and ‘The origin of Actio Pauliana II’, 1926
Folder 2. Correspondence and notes, 1927
Folder 3. Diary titled ‘Adversaria 1916-1917’, with handwritten diary notes, reminiscences from people living in Queensland, excerpts copied from other unknown works, 30 Dec 1915 to 31 Dec 1917
Folder 4. Roman Law, 26 Mar-26Oct 1926, Lectures 1-53.
Folder 5. ‘Roman law 1932’, lecture notes, with handwritten emendations and notes for 1936 course, 166 leaves
Folder 6. ‘Jurisprudence 1932”, lecture notes, 135 leaves, with handwritten emendations and inserted notes, c1935
Folder 7. ‘Constitutional law’, 1934, lecture notes, 104 leaves
Folder 8. ‘Public International law 1933’, lecture notes, 116 leaves, with handwritten emendations and inserted notes, c1935
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Unrestricted access.
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Out of copyright. Able to be reproduced without permission. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
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- English
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Revised, Linda Justo, 22-Feb-2024. Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.