This series consists of notebooks used by Justice Sir Edmund Barton during cases heard in Melbourne.

The notebooks are small 'exercise' books, each with consecutively   numbered pages, some with alphabetical indexes at the front.  Those notebooks without indexes incorporated in them have a handwritten index on the frontispiece.  These indexes referred to a particular case by the surname of either the plaintiff or defendant and included the page number in the notebook where the notes to the case were  written.

The series is complete with no volumes missing and may provide some background to the decision given in a particular case.

There are no references made to the case number, only the names of the plaintiff and defendant, so it may be necessary to peruse the Victorian Full Court Book (A10220) around the date/s of the notebook entry to verify the case number before searching for the records of the case.