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FROM MICHAELMAS TERM, 1823, TO TRINITY TERM, 1824,

BOTH INCLUSIVE;

AND IN

The Court of Common Pleas,

FROM MICHAELMAS TERM, 1823, TO EASTER TERM, 1824,

BOTH INCLUSIVE.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY J. W. PAGET, 5, QUALITY COURT, CHANCERY LANE.

CODLEIAN

9 DEC 1959

BRARY

B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street.

THE LAW JOURNAL

IS A

MONTHLY PUBLICATION,

SOLD TO ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS ONLY:

CONTAINING

1. Reports of Cases in the Courts of Equity.

2. Reports of Cases in the Court of King's Bench.

3. Reports of Cases in the Court of Common Pleas.

4. Reports of Cases in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts.

5. A Digest of all the Reports in every Court of Justice in the Kingdom.

6. An Annual Supplement to Burn's Justice.

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IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

The Right Hon. Sir CHARLES ABBOTT, Knt. Lord Chief Justice.

The Hon. Sir JOHN BAYLEY, Knt.

The Hon. Sir GEORGE SOWLEY HOLROYD, Knt.

The Hon. Sir WILLIAM DRAPER BEST, Knt.

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The Right Hon. Sir JOHN NICHOLL, Knt. Official Principal of the Arches Court of Canter-
bury, Judge of the Prerogative Court and the Court of Peculiars of Canterbury.
The Right Hon. Lord STOWELL, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty of England.
The Right Hon. Sir CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, Knt. Chancellor of the Diocese of London.

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CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

COURT OF CHANCERY:

COMMENCING IN THE

SITTINGS

BEFORE

MICHAELMAS TERM, 1823.

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Demurrer to a bill filed by a creditor, against A. the executor, and his partners B., C., &c., alleging, that assets of the testator had come into the hands of the partnership, and that all the partners claimed to retain these assets, in satisfaction of a debt due from the testator to their firm, but not alleging in terms collusion between A. and the other defendants: the demurrer is overruled.

The bill was filed by the administratrix of a creditor of Napier, for payment of the debt out of Napier's assets. It stated, that Napier died in India, having appointed certain executors there, and other executors here; that the executors in India had proved the will there, and had remitted considerable sums to the defendant Traill, who was the sole personal representative of the testator in England. Traill was originally the only defendant, but, by amendment, it was alleged, that the assets had been remitted either to Traill, or to the house of Paxton and Co., in which he was a partner, and that they (meaning all the defendants) pretended that the testator

was indebted to Paxton and Co., and that Paxton and Co. were entitled to retain the assets in their possession in satisfaction of their own claim. All the partners in the house of Paxton and Co. were made defendants to the amended bill. There was no express specific allegation of collusion between Traill and his co-partners, except the common charge of confederacy.

All the partners of the house of Paxton and Co., except Traill, put in a general demurrer to the amended bill. The ground of demurrer was, that the creditor was entitled to proceed only against the executor, unless he made a special case, by charging collusion between the executor and the person having assets in his possession; and that the bill here contained no such charge.

Mr. Cockerell was for the demurrer :
Mr. Teed, contrà.

Vice Chancellor.-I am inclined to think, that this bill, though it does not charge collusion in terms, states on the face of it circumstances which amount to collusion. It charges, that the assets have been remitted either to Traill, or to the house of Paxton and Co., and that all the partners of that house claim to retain them in satis

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