378 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV
35. (1) The appellate jurisdiction of the High Court with
respect to judgements of the Supreme Court of a state, or of
any other Court of a state from which at the establishment
of the Commonwealth an appeal lay to the Queen in Council,
shall extend to the following judgements whether given or
pronounced in the exercise of federal jurisdiction or other-
wise and to no others, namely :
(@ Every judgement, whether final or interlocutory,
~vhich—
(1) is given or pronounced for or in respect of any
sum or matter at issue amounting to or of the value of Three
hundred pounds ;?! or
(2) involves directly or indirectly any claim, demand,
or question, to or respecting any property or any civil right
amounting to or of the value of Three hundred pounds ; * or
(3) affects the status of any person under the laws
relating to aliens, marriage, divorce, bankruptcy, or in-
solvency ;—but so that an appeal may not be brought from
an interlocutory judgment except by leave of the Supreme
Court or the High Court—
(6) Any judgement, whether final or interlocutory, and
whether in a civil or criminal matter, with respect to
which the High Court thinks fit to give special leave to
appeal ;
(c) Any judgement of the Supreme Court of a State given
or pronounced in the exercise of federal jurisdiction in a
matter pending in the High Court ;—including respectively
every or any such judgement which has been given or
made before the commencement of this Act. and as to
hich—_
(1) leave to appeal to the King in Council might at
the commencement of this Act be granted by the Court
appealed from ; or
(2) leave to appeal to the King in Council has before
the commencement of this Act been granted by the Court
appealed from, and up to the commencement of this Act the
conditions of appeal have been complied with within the
periods limited ; or
(3) a petition for special leave to appeal to the King
in Council has been lodged and is pending at the commence-
ment of this Act.
' In all the new Orders in Council issued in 1909, 1910 and 1911 for the
Australian States the limit is £500 (as in the old orders of 1850 and 1860),
save for Tasmania, where it is accidentally £1,000, as in the order of 1851.
t In the case of the Order in Council £500 for Tasmania also.
