EDMUNDS, CHARLES, Aberaman, Aberdare, Butcher Aberdare Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 Win FLOWERS, JAMES STEPHENS. New Swindon, Wilts, Hairdresser Swindon Pet Feb 9 Ord Feb 9 GRAY, HARRY, Alresford. Hants, Corn Merchant chester Pet Feb 9 Ord Feb 9 GREEN, JOHN GEORGE. Cheltenham, Dairy Farm Manager Cheltenham Pet Feb 8 Ord Feb 8 HANNETT, JOHN WILLIAM, West Bridgford, Notts, Timber Merchant Nottingham Pet Jan 17 Ord Feb S HARPER, NOAH, Wolverhampton, Coachbuilder Wolverhampton Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 HILL GEORGE, Skipton, Yorks, Commission Weaver Bradford Pet Jan 3 Ord Feb 8 HUGHES, THOMAS, Mountain Ash, Glams, Confectioner Aberdare Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 HUXLEY, JAMES THOMAS, Old Kent rd, Licensed Victualler High Court Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 9 JONES, JOHN, Mardy, Glam, Labourer Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 Pontypridd Pet KIBBY, HENRY, Aberystruth, Mon, Miller Newport, Mon Pet Feb 9 Ord Feb 9 LEACH, HARRY, Leeds, Flock Dealer Ord Feb 7 Leeds Pet Feb 7 MANN, THOMAS WILLIAM. Swinton, nr Rotherham, Glass Bottle Hand Sheffield Pet Feb 8 Ord Feb 8 MORGAN, JOHN AARON, Bridgend, Builder Cardiff Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 NASH, WILLIAM JOHN, Waltham Cross, Hertford, Licensed Victualler Edmonton Pet Dec 20 Ord Feb 7 OSBORNE. BENJAMIN JOHN, West Woodlands, nr Frome, Cattle Dealer Frome Pet Feb 8 Ord Feb 9 POLLARD, FREDERICK ABRAHAM, Treforest, Glam, Licensed Victualler Pontypridd Pet Feb 9 Ord Feb 9 FORTER, CHARLES, Long Eaton, Derbys, Farm Labourer Derby Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 PRICE, SAMUEL, Aberaman, Aberdare, Greengrocer Aberdare Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 PURDY, THOMAS, Clay Cross, Derby, Saddler Chesterfield Pet Feb 8 Ord Feb 8 ROBSON, ROBERT, Walmgate, York York Pet Feb 7 Ord ROESSLER, FREDERICK HENRY, Stratford, Essex, Cork SPAVEN, MARY, Sneaton, nr Whitby, York Stockton on SWAIN, WILLIAM, Hastings, Tailor Hastings Pet Feb 8 THOMAS, SAMUEL, Wrexham, Grocer Wrexham Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 THORNE, THOMAS WILLIAM, Gosport, Watchmaker Ports mouth Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 TRANT, WILLIAM EDWARD, Kingswear, Devon, Baker BARNES, SAMUEL, Andover, Hants, House Agent BUTTERFIELD, WILLIAM, New Wortley, Leeds, Baker Cox, EDWARD EDWIN, Redditch, Warehouseman Bir- CROSS, THOMAS WILLIAM, Heanor, Derbys, Licensed EDMONDSON, JAMES EDWARD, Leeds, Grocer Leeds Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 EFTON, JOSEPH, Gt Grimsby, Labourer Gt Grimsby Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 FRANCIS, STEPHEN Jons, Frome, Somerset, Fruiterer Frone Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 GARTSIDE, NEWLAND, Crewe, Restaurant Proprietor H1ley Pet Feb 8 Ord Feb 8 HorDAY, HENRY OSWALD, Bromyard, Hereford, Draper JOHNSON, WILLIAM HARRY, Mountsorrel, Grocer Leicester KNIGHT, HENRY WILLIAM, Chatham, Confectioner Rochester Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 LEWIS, JAMEs, Charles st, Blackfriars r3, Milk Carrier Pet MANN, WILLIAM, Penzance. Cornwall, Coal Merchant MINTY, WILLIAM HERBERT, and WALTER HENRY SKINNER, PARTRIDGE, HENRY WILLIAM, Bedminster, Boot Dealer PINCHBECK, GEORGE, Great Grimsby Great Grimsby Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 POWELL, JAMES, and JOHN SMITH, Ashington, Northumberland, Grocers Newcastle on Tyne Pet Feb 12 Ord Feb 12 RICHARDSON, ROBERT, Bielby, Yorks, Farmer York Pet Feb 9 Ord Feb 9 SANDERS, WILLIAM DAVIS, Cardiff, Grocer Cardiff Pet Feb 11 Ord Feb 11 SEYD, JULIUS ARTHUR, Old Broad st, Clerk Wandsworth Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 SMITH, WALTER, Wellington. Hereford, Innkeeper ford Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 Here STACEY, WILLIAM GEORGE, Cardiff, Grccer Cardiff Pet Jan 24 Ord Feb 10 STRAHAN, R E, Southport, Commission Broker Liverpool Pet Dec 22 Ord Feb 10 THOMAS, JOHN, Gowerton, Lougher, Glam, Builder Carmarthen Pet Feb 11 Ord Feb 11 TOOTH, ARTEMUS, Queen Victoria st, Picture Dealer High Court Pet Nov 29 Ord Feb 10' TURNER, JOHN, Heywood, Lancs, General Contractor Belton Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 WALTERS, WILLIAM JOSEPII, Pimlico Pet High Court Jan 12 Ord Feb 10 WHEATLEY, WILLIAM ROBINSON, Gloucester, Piano Tuner Cheltenham Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 WINDSOR, ALFRED ERNEST, Stramshall, nr Uttoxeter, Confectioner Burton on Trent Pet Feb 12 Ord Feb 12 Amended notice substituted for that published in the London Gazette of Dec. 14: MARTIN, GEORGE HENRY, Twickenham Brentford Pet Amended notice substituted for that published in the CLOUGH, JOSEPH, Castleton, nr Manchester, Tanner Rochdale Pet Jan 25 Crd Feb 7 FIRST MEETINGS. ALLIN, SAMUEL SEALY, Garlick Hill, Cannon st Feb 22 at ATCHERLEY, Jons, Wellington, Salop Feb 24 at 11.30 Feb JAMES, Old Lindley, nr Halifax, Farmer Mar 1 at 11 Off Rec, Townball chmbrs, Halifax BIVEN, WILLIAM JAMES, Bristol, Leather Merchant 23 at 12.30 Off Rec, Baldwin st, Bristol BLYTH, HARRY COLEMAN, Buxted, Sussex Feb 22 at 3.15 17, High st, Lewes BOALER, BERNARD, Walworth, Shopkeeper Feb 22 at 2.30 BRUNTON, ARTHUR JOHN, Fakenham, Norfolk, Boot Maker DE L'ISLE AND DUDLEY, Lord, Knightsbridge Feb 25 at 12 DIXON, WILLIAM HOLMES, South Shields March 1 at 11.30 EVANS, JOHN, Pontypridd, Commission Agent Feb 24 at dresser Feb 23 at 3 Off Rec, 46, Cricklade st, Swindon FRANCIS, STEPHEN JOHN, Frome, Somersets, Fruiterer Feb 23 at 3 Off Rec, Baldwin st, Bristol GEORGE, CHARLES ALBERT, Gt Yarmouth, Fisherman Feb 26 at 12 Off Rec, 8, King st, Norwich HAWORTH, JOHN ALFRED, Accrington, Grocer Feb 23 at 11 County Court house, Blackburn JONES, RICHARD, Llanfynydd, Carmarthens Feb 22 at 12 Off Rec, 4, Queen st, Carmarthen JONES, WALTER ROBINSON, Aberdare, Grocer Feb 23 at 2 65, High st, Merthyr Tydfil KNIGHT, HENRY WILLIAM, Chatham, Confectioner Feb 23 LEWIS, JAMES, Charles st, Blackfriars rd, Milk Carrier Feb Feb 23 at 12 Off Rec, 30, Mosley st, Newcastle on Tyne PARTRIDGE, HENRY WILLIAM. Bedminster, Bristol, Boot at 11 174, Corporation st. Birmingham SIMCOX, BENJAMIN, West Bromwich, Dairyman Mar 4 at TURNER, JOHN, Heywood, Lancs, General Contractor Feb WATT, GEORGE MUTERER, Shincliffe, Durham, Printer BUTTERFIELD, WILLIAM, New Wortley, Leels, Baker Leeds Pet Feb 12 Ord Feb 12 CALVERT, WILLIAM FRANCIS, Liverpool, Tailor Liverpool Pet Sept 20 Ord Feb 12 CLARKE, THOMAS WILLIAM, Ludborough, Lincs, Drape: Gt Grimsby Pet Jan 13 Ord Feb 12 CLOUGH, JOSEPH, Castleton, nr Manchester, Tanner Rochdale Pet Jan 24 Ord Feb 10 Cox, EDWARD EDWIN, Redditch, Warehouseman Birmingham Pet Feb 11 Ord Feb 11 CROSS, THOMAS WILLIAM, Heanor, Derby, Licensed Vietualler Derby Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 11 CURRY, WILLIAM, Buxton, Butcher Stockport Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 DEAKIN, GEORGE, Wakefield, Draper Wakefield Pet Feb 11 Ord Feb 11 DENTON, FLORENCE BEATRICE, Bradford Bradford Pet Feb 11 Ord Feb 11 DUNNE, JOHN JOSEPH, Liverpool, Grocer Liverpool Pet Jan 5 Ord Feb 10 EDMONDSON, JAMES EDWARD, Leeds, Grocer Leeds Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 EPTON, JOSEPH, Great Grimsby, Labourer Great Grimsby Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 FRANCIS, STEPHEN JOHN, Frome, Somersets, Fruiterer Froine Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 HALLORAN, JOHN, Bedminster, Boot Dealer Bristol Pet Jan 31 Ord Feb 10 HAWKSLEY, WILLIAM, Sheffield, Butcher Sheffield Pet Dec 30 Ord Feb 12 HOBDAY, HENRY OSWALD, Bromyard, Hereford, Draper Worcester Pet Feb 12 Ord Feb 12 ISWORTH, WILLIAM BERNARD, Brighton, Jeweller Brighton Pet Jan 14 Ord Feb 12 JEPHCOTE, RUFUS, Leicester Leicester Pet Feb 11 Ord Feb 11 JOHNSON, WILLIAM HARRY, Mountsorrel, Grocer Leicester Pet Feb 11 Ord Feb 11 KNIGHT, HENRY WILLIAM, Chatham, Confectioner Rochester Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 LEWIS, JAMES, Charles st, Blackfriars rd, Milk Carrier MANN, WILLIAM, Penzance, Cornwall, Coal Merchant MASON, WILLIAM JAMES, Leytonstone, Provision Dealer High Court Pet Jan 22 Örd Feb 10 MINTY, WILLIAM HERBEBT, and WALTER HENRY SKINNER, Trowbridge, Builders Bath Pet Feb 12 Ord Feb 12 MORGAN, GILDARS OWEN, Ammanford, Llandebie, Carmarthens, Cabinet maker Carmarthen Pet Feb 11 Ord Feb 11 MORPHET, ROBERT, and JOHN WILLIAM MORPHET, Earby, Yorks, Stone Merchants Bradford Pet Feb 12 Ord Feb 12 PAYNE, JESSE, Birmingham, Licensed Victualler Birmingham Pet Feb 3 Örd Feb 10 PINCHBECK, GEORGE, Gt Grimsby Gt Grimsby Pet Feb 7 Ord Feb 7 POWELL, JAMES, and JOHN SMITH, Ashington, Northumberland, Grocers Newcastle on Tyne Pet Feb 12 Ord Feb 12 RAMSHAW, FREDERICK CHARLES, Aldermanbury, Commission Agent High Court Pet Dec 16 Ord Feb 10 RAY, ALFRED JAMES, West Norwood, Builder High Court Pet Dec 10 Ord Feb 9 RICHARDS, ARTHUR EDWIN, Leicester Leicester Pet Jan 25 Ord Feb 11 RICHARDSON, ROBERT, Bielby, Yorks, Farmer York Pet Feb 9 Ord Feb 9 ROBERTS, JAMES NASMYTH, Edward st. Hampstead rd, Bamboo Furniture Manufacturer High Court Pet Nov 18 Ord Feb 10 SMITH, WALTER. Wellington, Innkeeper Hereford Pct Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 STACEY, WILLIAM GEORGE, Canton, Cardiff, Grocer Cardiff Pet Jan 26 Ord Feb 10 SUTHERST, THOMAS, Victoria st High Court Pet April 14 Ord Feb 11 TATTERSFIELD, JOSEPH SENIOR, Batley, York. Blanket Manufacturer Dewsbury Pet Jan 18 Ord Feb 3 THOMAS, JOHN, Loughor, Glam, Builder Carmarthen Pet Feb 11 Ord Feb 11 TOMKINS, JOHN, Walton on Thames, Bargeowner Kingston, Surrey Pet Jan 3 Ord Feb 12 VIALL, JOSEPH HENRY, North Shields, Commission Agent Newcastle on Tyne Pet Jan 29 Ord Feb 8 WHEATLEY, WILLIAM ROBINSON, Cheltenham, Piano Tuner Cheltenham Pet Feb 10 Ord Feb 10 WILDMAN, E, Hammersmith High Court Pet Dec 8 Ord Feb 10 WILKES, WILLIAM HENRY GRIFFIN, Birmingham, Surgeon Birmingham Pet Jan 27 Ord Feb 11 1, Old Broad-street, E.C., 22, Pall Mall, 8.W., and 47, Chancery-lang, W.C. Subscribed Capital, £1,200,000; Paid-up, £300,000. E. 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As people become more intelligent, THE COMPANIES ACTS, 1862 TO 1890. It they see that they should try and prevent disease. seems strange, when one comes to consider it, that the efforts of medical science are directed to curing, when preventing would seem to be a more rational proceeding. Now it is dawning on the public to try and prevent, or at least to arrest disease. It is in prevention that Dr. Tibbles' Vi-Cocoa plays an important part, acting solely as a firstclass nourishing food. It strength as the sys'em, to resist, oppose, and overcome the attacks of disease. You'll hear someone say, "Soand-so bas a strong constitution"; follow that up, and you'll fird that So-and-so follows the golden rule of being temperate in all things, and pays attention to diet and exercise. Does he or she keep up this strong constitution by taking medicines or swallowing pills? No, indeed! They have discovered that prevention is better than cure. Dr. Tibbles' Vi-Cocoa places a means in the hands of everyone to build up and maintain a sound constitution, which enables its possessor to travel his life's journey without the aches and pains which are in many cases preventable. Thus we come round again to sound common sense based on experience. Dr. Tibbles' Vi-Cocoa is pleasant and palatable, and mbodying, as it does, the numerous principles contained in Malt, Hops, Kola, and Cocoa, it imparts nourishment and builds up strength. As a Food Beverage it is invaluable. MEMORANDA and ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION speedily printed in the proper form for registration and distribution. SHARE CERTIFICATES, DEBENTURES, CHEQUES, &c., engraved and printed. OFFICIAL SEALS designed and executed. No Charge for Sketche Solicitors' Account Books. RICHARD FLINT & CO., Stationers, Printers, Engravers, Registration Agents, 49, FLEET-STREET, LONDON, E.C. (corner of Serjeants'-inn). Annual and other Returns Stamped and Filed. TREATMENT OF INEBRIETY. 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WE PRINT elsewhere a further transfer of witness actions Special forms of Policies have been prepared to provide for payment of ESTATE DUTIES. twenty-eight witness actions were similarly transferred. THE REMARKS which the Lord Chief Justice is reported to have recently made on R. S. C. ord. 22, r. 22, ought to insure for the rule a speedy reconsideration. The rule provides that where an action is tried by a judge with a jury no communication shall be made to the jury until after verdict, either of the fact that money has been paid into court, or of the amount paid in. The jury are required to find the amount of the debt or damages, as the case may be, without reference to any payment into court. In Williams v. Goose (45 W. R. 308; 1897, 1 Q. B. 473) an attempt was made to shew that the rule was ultra vires. Under section 22 of the Judicature Act, 1875, no rule made to have the issues for trial submitted and left by the judge to under the Judicature Acts is to prejudice the right of any party the jury with a proper and complete direction to the jury about the law, and as to the evidence applicable to the issues. It was argued that when money is paid into court the only issue is whether the money so paid in is sufficient to satisfy the plaintiff's claim, and this issue, consequently, either party who desires it is entitled to have left to the jury. In that case £30 was paid in by the defendant; the jury returned a verdict of £15, and the plaintiff urged that the non-communication of the amount paid in was in effect a misdirection. The Court of Appeal held, however, that the rule was a rule for regulating procedure which could properly be made under section 17 of the Judicature Act, 1875, and hence, if it is to be got rid of, this can only be done through the instrumentality of the Rule Committee. The idea of the rule, apparently, is that the jury ought to give their verdict purely on the merits of the case without regard to the sum at which the defendant has estimated his liability. The payment, however, is one of the facts of the litigation which in the natural course should be communicated to the persons who have the issue of the proceedings in their hands, and it may be doubted whether there is any real advantage in concealment. Damages are at best an uncertain matter, and it is more just to the defendant for the jury to have to consider whether the sum he has tendered is, under the circumstances, sufficient, than to make the result depend on whether the sum which they fix more or less arbitrarily happens to be greater or less than the money paid into court. 66 THE LORD CHANCELLOR appropriately devoted the main part of his address at the Hardwicke Society dinner to the discussion of a Moot Point-namely, "That lawyers are the really disinterested class of the community, and are the most liberalminded and candid listeners and speakers in the community." Possibly the "opener in the affirmative" was more or less jocular, but if he was not, it was perhaps fortunate that there were no speakers on the other side. His argument" in support of his first proposition was limited to a statement of the great Lord HARDWICKE's refusal of office and to a general reference to "the records of British history." He might have cited two or three comparatively recent refusals on the part of distinguished members of the profession to sacrifice principle to position, of which all lawyers are proud; but do two or three swallows make a summer? We do not think that lawyers, as a body, can claim the credit for disinterestedness which the Lord Chancellor ascribes to them, though they are probably neither better nor worse in this respect than other people of similar station in society. Upon the second proposition the Lord Chancellor dwelt at some length; but even as to this, he could apparently say no more than that lawyers are taught to recognize the fact of there being two sides to a questior, and that while most people thought they were certainly in the right, lawyers were apt to remember that they might possibly be in the wrong. The "opener in the negative" (if there had been one) might have asked whether litigants have not the fact of there being two sides to a question even more forcibly impressed upon them than it is upon the lawyers who conduct their litigation, yet there is nothing to shew that litigants are a specially fair-minded body. It might also be asked whether the success of a lawyer (off the bench) does not depend in great measure in his belief, or apparent belief, in his own case. Certainly his influence upon judges and juries depends largely on this. We imagine the truth is that the constant endeavour of the lawyer to do the best he can for his client is not very conducive to the habit of appreciating both sides of a question, and that it needs rather a rare combination of qualities for him, while energetically enforcing his client's view, to give full weight to what may be urged against it. On the whole, we are afraid we must not lay the Lord Chancellor's "flattering unction" to our souls. IN THE CASE of Re Lord Monson's Settled Estates (reported elsewhere) ROMER, J., has given a useful construction to the powers of a tenant for life to treat as a single settled estate properties which have been brought into the settlement by different instruments. It has been established that, under the definition of "settlement" contained in section 2 (1) of the Settled Land Act, 1882, two or more instruments are admissible as forming the settlement (see Re Byng's Settled Estates, 1892, 2 Ch. 219); and, in general, the different properties are treated, for the purposes of the "compound settlement," as a single property, so that, for instance, capital money coming into the settlement under one instrument is applicable for the purpose of effecting improvements on land brought in under another instrument. Upon this principle it seems to follow that if an estate in the settlement is subject to mortgage, and a free estate is subsequently brought in, upon any rearrangement of the mortgage it can be extended to both estates. Thus, if tho mortgage money was called in, and a new mortgage had to be effected, the trustees or the tenant for life would be entitled to take advantage of the additional facilities for raising money which the possession of the unincumbered estate would give them. In Re Lord Monson's Settled Estates the case was the reverse of this. The unincumbered estate was already in the settlement, and the mortgaged estate had been subsequently brought in by the tenant for life. The mortgage-money had been called in, and the tenant for life desired to raise a fresh mortgage upon the security of the whole of the settled estates. In principle the case is the same as in the former instance. The mortgage on one estate is to be extended to both, and in theory the order in which the estates have been brought in does not seem to be material. But practically there is the possibility, where the incumbered estate has been subsequently brought in by the tenant for life, that the equity of redemption may be worthless, and that the tenant for life may be using the settlement as machinery for getting rid of his own personal liability. ROMER, J., held, however, that the possibility of such a fraud being perpetrated was no ground for denying to the tenant for life a power which on principle was exercisable; the fraud, if attempted, could be checked by the intervention of the trustees; and he sanctioned the raising of the fresh advance in the way proposed. A LESSEE who assigns his term remains, of course, personally liable on the covenants, and to protect himself against this liability he can rely either on the implied or express liability of the successive holders of the leasehold premises. Where no express arrangement is made for passing on the liability, the law imposes upon each successive assignee the duty of indemnifying the original lessee during the period of his ownership. But the more usual course is to make the first assignee give the lessee an express covenant of indemnity, and then in turn to take a corresponding covenant from the next assignee, and so on through the whole chain of assignments. By this means the lessee is not left to his remedy against the holder of the term for the time being, who may be unable to pay, but can look at all times to his own immediate assignee, as to whose solvency he has had the chance of satisfying himself. Does this arrangement for successive indemnification break down, however, in case of the bankruptcy of any of the assignees? In the recent case of Re Perkins, before NORTH, J., it appeared that in 1891 COSIER granted a lease to POYSER for nine years. In 1893 POYSER assigned to PLAISTOW, who gave a covenant of indemnity. In 1895 PLAISTOW assigned to PERKINS, who in turn gave a corresponding covenant. In the same year, 1895, PERKINS died and PLAISTOW became bankrupt. Subsequently PERKINS' executors assigned, as they were entitled to do, to a man of straw, and so put an end to their personal liability; POYSER, the original lessee, was called upon to pay the rent, and had there been no express covenants for indemnity, he would have been abandoned to the worthless implied liability of the last assignee. On the other hand, the value of his express covenant had become doubtful owing to PLAISTOw's bankruptcy. However, he carried in a claim in the bankruptcy, and this was compromised by his accepting a nominal payment and an assignment of the benefit of the covenant of indemnity by PERKINS. The question thereupon arose what the value of this covenant in the hands of the lessee. might be. On behalf of PERKINS' estate, it was contended that since his contract was only one of indemnity, it was limited to the loss actually sustained by PLAISTOW's estate, which, under the circumstances, was nothing, NORTH, J., however, declined to take this view, and held that the lessee was entitled to be paid out of PERKINS' estate the rent which he had already paid, and also to a declaration of indemnity against future payments of rent and breaches of covenant. The result is that the chain of indemnity does not fail in consequence of the bankruptcy of an assignee. The gap can be mended by carrying on the liability undiminished to the next covenantor. And an assignment by the executors of the last covenantor, though it saves themselves personally, has no effect in terminating the liability of his estate. SOME FEW months ago we commented on the case of Hatton v. Treeby (46 W. R. 6; 1897, 2 Q. B. 452), in which it was decided by the High Court that a constable has no right to stop a person whom he sees riding a bicycle at night without a light. The offence is governed by section 85 of the Local Government Act, 1888, which declares bicycles to be " carriages within the meaning of the Highway Act, 1835, and also makes it an offence to ride at night without a proper light, but does not give constables any power of arrest for such offence. A case came recently before Mr. HANNAY at the Marlborough-street police |