Back to Civil Cases - Suing and Being Sued in the Superior Court of Justice page. A civil case is a lawsuit that usually deals with contracts and/or torts. Torts, generally speaking, are wrongful (negligent) acts that result in damage or injury. Civil cases can occur by way of action or application.
Professor Chris Austin, of Louisiana State University, who discovered the frog on a three-month field trip to the Pacific island, said by contrast these creatures make their habitats on fallen leaves on the floor of tropical rainforests. The tiny creature was discovered in Amau, Papua New Guinea. His discovery of the creatures, named Paedophryne amanuensis after a village called Amau near where they were found, will help scientists understand more about extreme body size, he wrote in the journal PLoS One.
1606 Captain Willem Janszoon in the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) ship Duyfken landed on Australia's northern coast on the western side of Cape York Peninsula at Pennefather River and charted 300 kilometers of coastline.This was the first time Europeans had made contact with and mapped part of Australia.aptain Jan Carstenszoon in the VOC ship Pera and Captain Willem van Coolsteerd in the VOC ship Arnhem explored the south coast of New Guinea and the western side of Cape York Peninsula. Cartenszoon charted the Gulf of Carpentaria naming it in honour of Pieter de Carpentier, the Governor-General in Batavia.