THE

LAW MAGAZINE AND REVIEW.

No. CCCV.-AUGUST, 1897.

Obiter Dicta.

HER MAJESTY'S Diamond Jubilee, to celebrate the

sixtieth year of Her glorious reign, was kept on the 22nd day of June. The Inns of Court celebrated the event in various ways. Lincoln's Inn gave a Dinner to the Colonial Premiers on the 5th July; the Inner Temple entertained about 2,000 children at a Garden Party on the 8th July; Gray's Inn did the same on 26th June, besides giving a grand Ball on the 25th June. The Middle Temple probably excelled the three other Inns, by giving a Banquet on the 6th July, a Ball on the 9th July, and a Garden Party to distinguished guests on the 13th July.

The Council of the Incorporated Law Society gave a Jubilee Ball on the 30th June in their Hall in Chancery Lane.

In the case of Bendall v. Lofthouse, tried at the Skipton County Court, Mr. Bompas, Q.C., seems to have negatived the elementary proposition that a solicitor has a lien on papers which he deals with as such. But on appeal to the Divisional Court, Mr. Justice Cave explained that "the plaintiff (a solicitor) has a lien, for preparing the deeds, on the parchment, and writing of the re-conveyance and conveyance," while Mr. Justice Ridley remarked: “I have considerable difficulty in following either of the County Court Judge's reasons why there should be no lien."