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Carter, Frances, Nottingham, Milliner. Dec 9 at 3 at offices of Richards, Weekday cross, Nottingham

Cohen, Morris, Chatham, Kent, Oil and Color and Hardware Man. Dec 14 at 3 at the King's Head Hotel, High st, Rochester, Kent. Shakespear, Newgate st

Cowburn, William, Pontefract, York, Farmer. Dec 9 at 11 at offices of Leatham, Corn Market, Pontefract. Baldwin, Pontefract

Cowie, David, Leadenhall st, Accountant. Dec 2 at 12 at the Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Rawlins, Poultry chmbrs

Cross, Thomas, Liverpool, Book-keeper. Dec 17 at 3 at offices of Lowe, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool

Daniels, Samuel George, Bristol, out of business. Dec 5 at 2 at offices of Clifton and Co, Broad st

Demetrius, Anatasius, Fish st hill, Tobaconist. Dec 12 at 2 at offices of Taylor and Co, Metropolitan chmbrs, New Broad st

Draper, Emmanuel Guppy, Bridport, Dorset, Grocer. Dec 1 at 2.30 at offices of Lock, High West st, Dorchester

Draper, George, Devizes, Wilts, Fishmonger. Dec 7 at 11 at the Crown Hotel, Devizes. Marshall, Devizes

Driver, Thomas Arthur, Leicester, Money Lender. Dec 16 at 3 at offices of Wright,
Belvoir st, Leicester

Duly, Charles Thomas, Burgess hill, Sussex, Grocer.
Brighton. Baxter, Lewes

Elder, Samuel, Oxford st, Manchester, Draper.
Elliott, Fountain st, Manchester

Evans, John. Plas Coedana, Anglesey, Farmer.
Dew, Anglesey

Dec 14 at 4 at Old Ship Hotel, Dec 8 at 3 at offices of Sutton and

Dec 9 at 1.30 at Ship Hotel, Llangefni.

Evans, John, Ystradfailog, Montgomery, Farmer. Broad st, Newtown

Evans, William, Dolgelly, Merioneth, Boot Maker. Dolgelly

Dec 12 at 11 at offices of Powell,

Dec 14 at 11 at offices of Davies,

Felmingham, Henry, Nottingham, Looking Glass Manhfacturer. Dec 2 at 3 at offices of Stevenson, Weekday cross, Nottingham

Finch, Jacob, Charleton, Devon, Farmer. Dec 9 at 2 at King's Arms Hotel, Kingsbridge. Windeatt and Windeatt

Fryer, Alfred, Chatteris, Nurseryman. Dec 8 at 12 at offices of Ruston, Chatteris, Cambridge

Galpin, William Henry, Devonport, Wholesale Grocer. Dec 2 at 12 at offices of Venning
and Goldsmith, Ker st, Devonport
Dec 7 at 1 at offices of Hoyle and

Gardner, Joseph, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Corn Dealer.
Co, Westgate rd. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Gedge, John, Reepham, Norfolk, Licensed Victualler. Dec 6 at 11 at King's Arms
Hotel, Reepham, Norfolk. Clabburn, Norwich

Gledhill, Joseph, Fenay Bridge, near Huddersfield, Brick and Tile Manufacturer. Dec
12 at 11 at offices of Whitley and Whitley, New st, Huddersfield
Gowland, Philip, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, Licensed Victualler.
Royal Hotel, High st, Stockton-on-Tees

Dec 10 at 11.30 at

Graham, Robert, Upperby, Cumberland, Blacksmith. Dec 7 at 3 at offices of Clutterbuck and Trevenen, Bank chmbrs, Bank st, Carlisle

Hale, Edward, Aspull, Wigan, Iron Manufacturer. Dec 7 at 3 at Victoria Hotel, Wallgate. Scott and Ellis, Wigan

Agent.

Dec 13 at 2 at offices of

Hales, Edward, jun., Horley, Surrey, Commission
Watney and Co, Clement's lane, Lombard st
Hamer, Henry, Penygloddfa, Motgomery, Grocer. Dec 8 at 12.20 at Bank, Newtown,
North Wales. Woosnam

Hardman, Alfred, Gloucester, Publican. Dec 7 at 12 at offices of Champney, College ct,
Gloucester

Harris, Solomon, Henry st, Hampstead rd. Dec 15 at 3 at offices of Bridger, Botolph lane, Eastcheap

Healey, Thomas Sheard, Hanging Heaton, York, Commission Agent. Dec 12 at 10.30 at office of Truewell, Bank chbrs, Commercial st, Batley. Parker

Hewitt, Mark Thomas, Lee, Carman. Nov 30 at 12 at offices of Hughes, Eastcheap Hill, William, Crewe, Chester, Auctioneer. Dec 7 at 2 at office of Warburton, Nantwich rd, Crewe

Howarth, Joseph, Cheetham, nr Manchester, Furniture Broker. Dec 12 at 3 at office of Leigh, Brown st, Manchester

Humphreys, John, Welshpool, Montgomery, Grocer. Dec 15 at 12 at offices of Jones, Welshpool

Humphris, Daniel, Cheltenham, Water Engineer. Dec 8 at 12 at Red Lion Inn, High st, Cheltenham

Jordan, Ann, Liverpool, out of business. Dec 9 at 3 at offices of Quinn and Sons, Lord st, Liverpool

Jordan, Henry Jacob, Finchley rd, St John's Wood, Gent. Dec 8 at 3 at office of Collings, Buckingham st, Strand

Kenyon, William Thomas, Wigan, Auctioneer's Clerk. Dec 12 at 11 at offices of Healy Acresfield, Bolton. Wall, Clarence chbrs, Wallgate

Kerry, William, Bridge st, Derby, Corn, Cake, and Flour Dealer. Dec 13 at 2 at offices of Moody, Corn Marset, Derby

Laver, Charles, Winchester, Hants, Provision Merchant. Dec 12 at 3 at the Royal Hotel, Winchester. Adams, Winchester

Law, Thomas, John Law, Raistrick Law, and George Law, Card Manufacturers, Brunswick Mills, Bradford, York. Dec 5 at 11 at offices of Watson and Co, Cheapside, Bradford, York

Lindley, Henry, Doncaster. York, Plumber. Dec 8 at 11 at offices of Verity and Co, Frenchgate, Doncaster

Littlehales, Richard, Hanwood, Salop, Grocer. Dec 8 at 11 at offices of Morris, Swan hill, Shrewsbury

Maxwell, John, South Harting, Sussex, Builder.

Petersfield, Hants. Walker and Co, Landport

Dec 8 at 2 at the Dolphin Hotel,

Metcalfe, Henry James, Wolverhampton, Music Publisher. Dec 8 at 11 at offices of Rhodes, Queen st, Wolverhampton

Morgan, John, Baker st, Islington, Coach Builder. Dec 9 at 3 at offices of Lamb, Southampton bidgs, Chancery lane

Morris, Edwin, Crewe, Chester, Shoemaker. Dec 6 at 11 at Albert chmbrs, Church side, Crewe. Pointon, Crewe

Murphy, Thomas, Sutton, Lancaster, Labourer. Dec 13 at 11 at offices of Massey, Hardshawe st, St Helen's

Myers, James Washington, Portsmouth, Circus Proprietor. Dec 8 at 2 at offices of Brandon, Essex st, Strand

Nichols, Joseph, Dewsbury, York, Innkeeper. Dec 9 at 10.30 at offices of Ridgway and Ridgway, Union st, Dewsbury

Nock, William, Blackheath, Rowley Regis, Stafford, Fruiterer's Labourer. Dec 7 at 3 at offices of Stokes and Hooper, Priory st, Dudley

O'Keeffe, Annie Sophia, and Mary Nettleton, Undercliffe, Bradford, Boot Dealers. Dec 7 at 3 at offices of Peel and Co, Chapel lane, Bradford

Ollerenshaw, Robert, Hanley, Stafford, Fruiterer. Dec 7 at 11 at offices of Ashmall, Albion st, Hanley

Paine, Thomas, Hastings, Shoemaker. Dec 2 at 12 at offices of Savery, Trinity st, Hastings

Payn, William John, Canterbury, Coal Merchant. Dec 16 at 3 at Foresters' Hall, High st, Canterbury. Collard, Canterbury

Pealing, Joseph, Heygate st, Walworth, Compositor. Dec 8 at 2 at offices of Armstrong, Chancery lane

Perrett, John, Yeovil, Somerset, Grocer. Dec 13 at 2 at 177, Fleet st. Bollen, Yeovil Perry, Vernal, Walsall, Stirrup Filer. Dec 16 at 12 at offices of Baker, Bridge street,

Walsall

Phelan, Thomas, Newgate st, Wholesale Watch Importer. Dec 3 at 11 at offices of Lindus and Becknall, Cheapside

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Powe, Walter Edward, and Elizabeth Ann Gregory, Swansea, Wholesale and Retail Lozenge Manufacturer. Dec 5 at 3 at offices of Evans and Davies, Wind st, Swansea Rogers, Peter, Tolleshunt D'Archy, Essex, Farmer. Dec 8 at 11 at offices of Crick and Freeman, Maldon

Seager, Francis, Coventry, Stone Mason. Dec 8 at 11 at offices of Hughes and Masser, Little Park st, Coventry

Shelley, George, Walsall, Stafford, Boot and Shoe Dealer. Dec 6 at 1 at Great Western Hotel, Birmingham. Bill, Walsall

Nov 29 at 12

Shergold, James, Yeovil, Somerset, Baker. Dec 12 at 3 at the Mermaid Hotel, Yeov
Davies, Sherborne
at offices of Black, Low
Dec 20 at 3 at offices of Mon-
at offices of Cranch, Poultry.
Dec 12 at 3 at offices of Wiles,

Sills, Joseph, Nottingham, Shoeing Smith.
ment, Nottingham
Smith, Edward Mason, Gresham st, Commission Agent.
tagu, Bucklersbury

Smith, George Alfred, Nottingham, Barman. Nov 29 at 3
arcade, Nottingham

Smith, James, Rochdale, Lancaster, Licensed Victualler.
Acker st chmbrs, Acker st. Rochdale

Story, Annie, Praed st, Paddington, Dealer in Berlin Wool. Dec 7 at 2 at offices
Spyer and Son, Old Broad st

Speller, Thomas, Lyon st, Caledonian rd, Islington, Contractor. Dec 15 at 3 at offices of Fenton, Kingsland-green

Spencer, Thomas, Heywood, Lancaster, Coach Proprietor. Dec 12 at 3 at offices of Weston and Co, Market pl, Heywood

Stibbards, David, Longton, Stafford, Confectioner. Dec 7 at 3 at offices of Welch, Caroline st, Longton

Stockings, Alfred, Norwich, Chemist. Dec 9 at 12 at offices of Emerson, Rampant
Horse st, Norwich

Sumners, John Henry, Lincoln, but now of Donington, out cf business. Nov 29 at 3 at
Fortescue Arms Inn, Billingborough. Deacon and Wilkins, Peterborough
Summersall, Walker, Heywood, Lancaster, Coach Proprietor. Dec 12 at 2.30 at Market
pl, Heywood. Weston and Co, Manchester

Swann, William, Scarborough, York, Sadler. Dec 7 at 3 at offices of Greenwood,
Huniriss-row, Scarborough

Temperley, Joseph, Tow Law, Durham, Joiner. Dec 7 at 12 at Graingerst, West, New castle-upon-Tyne. Gibson, Nrwcastle-upon-Tyne

Tilly, William Smith, Gateshead, Durham, Grocers. Dec 5 at 2 at offices of Aitchison, Collingwood st, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Todd, Levi, Fishergate, Preston, Chemist. Dec 9 at 10.30 at County Court Offices, Preston. Fryer, Preston

Townsend, Richard, Middlesborough, York, Pedlar. Dec 12 at 3 at offices of Lewis, Zetland rd, Middlesborough

Tunnicliff, Peter Jones, Ashton-under-Lynne, Lancaster, Tailor. Dec 7 at 3 at offices of Bradbury, Booth chmbrs, Beoth st, Ashton-under-Lynne

Turner, George, Longton, Stafford. Fishmonger. Dec 6 at 11 at offices of Stephenson, Cheapside, Hanley

Turrell, Abraham, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Grocer. Dec 16 at 2 at offices of Pollard, St Lawrence st, Ipswich

Vicary, Wiliam Augustus Webber, East Stonehouse, Devon, Stationer. Dec 7 at 12 at offices of Pearse, Princess sq, Plymouth

Walsh, Alexander, Bristol, out of business. Dec 7 at 10 at offices of Brown, Corn st-
Bristol

Ward, John, Battersea pk rd, Surrey, Boot Manufacturer.
Tavern, Masons' avenue. Young, Newgate st

Dec 7 at 3 at Masons' Hal

Wilkins, William, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcester, Farmer. Dec 10 at 10.15 at Star Hotel, Upton-upon-Severn. Meores and Romney, Tewkesbury

Wil is, Alfred Robert, Hale, Surrey, Clerk in Holy Orders. Dec 10 at 12 at offices of Knight and Ward, West st, Farnham

Willis, John, Wandsworth common, Government Clerk. Dec 2 at 3 at offices of Fawcett and Co, King st, Cheapside. Staniland

Williams, David, Connahs quay, Flint, Grocer. Dec 13 at 12 at Albion Hotel, Chester. Davies and Roberts, Holywell

Williams, Henry, Grosvenor st, Manchester, Artificial Flower Manufacturer. Dec 7 at 3 at offices of Fox, Princess st, Manchester

TUESDAY, Nov. 29, 1881.

Aylward, Arthur Octavius, Winchester, Farmer. Dec 12 at 12 at Eagle Hotel, Winchester. Killby, Southampton

Bambrough, James, Sunderland, Durham, Shipowner. Dec 14 at 11 at offices of Oliver, John st, Sunderland

Booth, Edward, Halifax, York, Butcher. Dec 12 at 4 at offices of Kerr, George st Halifax

Briggs, John, Ilkeston, Derby, Baker. Dec 12 at 11 at offices of Thurman and Slack, Bath st, Ilkeston

Brown, David, Grove rd, Holloway, Builder. Dec 8 at 10 at offices of Biggin, Chancery

lane

Brown, James Start, Pressland st, Westbourne pk, Builder's Foreman. Dec 8 at 12 at Liquidation Co, Finsbury pavement. Ede, Fore st

Browne, William, Maidstone, Kent, Saddler. Dec 10 at 11 at offices of Monckton and Co, King st, Maidstone

Bull, George, Gravel lane, Southwark, Floor Cloth Dealer. Dec 8 at 3 at offices of White, Queen st, Cheapside

Butterfield, Edwin, Tunstall, Stafford, Mining Engineer. Dec 12 at 3 at offices of Hollingshead and Moody, Tunstall

Cage, William, Framsden, Suffolk, Innkeeper. Dec 9 at 12 at office of Hill, St Nicholas st, Ipswich

Chapman, John, Walsall, Ale Merchant. Dec 9 at 11.30 at office of Bill, Bridge st, Walsall

Clegg, Edmund, and Hannah Clegg, Briggate, Leeds. Milliners. Dec 15 at 1.30 at offices of Bond and Barwick, Albion pl, Leeds

Cottrall, Benjamin Richard, Kingston-upon-Hull, Master Mariner. Dec 12 at 3 at Law Society's Hall, Lincoln's inn bldgs. Laverack, Hull

Courcha, John, Duke st, Bethnal Green, Cabinet Manufacturer. Dec 12 at 3 at office of Goldring, White Lion st, Norton Folgate

Cross, William. Allostock, Knutsford, Chester, Farmer. Dec 11 at 3 at Royal George Hotel, Knutsford. Brett and Craven, Manchester

Croxon, George, Vauxhall Bridge rd, Surrey, Baker. Dec 6 at 1 at 162, Fleet st. Draper, Vincent sq, Westminster

Daniels, Thomas, Manchester, Tin Trunk Manufacturer. Dec 19 at 3 at office of Southam Cross st. Manchester

Davies, Ellis, Waenfawr, Carnarvon, Builder. Dec 14 at 11 at Sportsman Hotel, Car narvon. Williams and Hughes, Carnarvon

Dawson, Thomas, and George Robert Dawson, Great Driffield, Coal Merchants. Dec 10 at 18 at offices of Jenings and Co, Gt Driffield

Dupree, George Alfred, Rye lane, Peckham, Merchant Tailor. Dec 7 at 2 at Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Sweepstone, Lime st

Eccles, Matthew, Wakefield, Builder. Dec 9 at 11 at offices of Lake and Lake, Southgate, Wakefield

Egerton, Stanley, Wellington, Salop, Watchmaker. Dec 10 at 12 at offices of Knowles, Wellington, Salop

Fingland, Robert Gree show, Hopton, Norfolk, Grocer. Dec 12 at 12 at Royal Hotel,

Norwich

Firth, Albert Luke, Sheffield, Cutlery Dealer. Dec 12 at 12 at offices of Ibbotson, Change alley, Sheffield

Foxton, Henry, and George Foxton, Sheffield, Joiners. Dec 12 at 4.30 at Law Society, Aldine ct, High st, Sheffield. Bell, Sheffield

Francis, David, Chryssell rd, North Brixton, Surrey, Grocer. Dec 8 at 10 at offices of Hulbert, Colmore row

Pitt, William, Millbridge, York, Machine Maker. Dec 7 at 3 at Wellington Hotel, Frost, Henry, Shading field, Suffolk, Farmer. Dec 15 at 1 at White Lion Hotel, Beccles. Dewsbury. Clough

Pollard, Ipswich

Fullwood, Frederick John, Handsworth, Stafford, Journeyman Jeweller. Dec 9 at 10.30 at offices of Huggins and Mallard, Newall chbrs, Newall st, Birmingham Gathercole, John Howlett, Birmingham, Glass Tablet Manufacturer. Dec 12 at 3 at offices of Hodgson and Price, Waterloo st, Birmingham

Godwin, John, Broadway, East Wharf, Cardiff, Grocer. Dec 8 at 11 at offices of Jacob, Church st, Cardiff

Goodchild, George, Kingsbury, Farmer. Dec 7 at 3 at offices of Taylor and Co, South st, Finsbury square

Gullet, John Berry, Plymouth, Ironmonger.

sq, Plymouth

Dec 10 at 12 at offices of Shelly, Princess

Gustard, John George, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, Grocer. Dec 9 at 3 at offices of Johnston, Mosely st, Newcastle upon Tyne

Hanson, Richard, Slaidburn, West Riding, York, Innkeeper. of Eastham, Church st, Clitheroe

Hervey, William, Kidderminster, Worcester, Commission Agent. of Corbet, Church st. Kidderminster

Dec 15 at 12 at offices

Dec 7 at 3.30 at office

Dec 9 at 2 at the

Hemins, Samuel, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Commission Agent.
Talbot Hotel, King st, Wolverhampton. Sargent, Birmingham
Hembrough, Richard, Goole, York, Grocer. Dec 9 at 2 at offices of Hind and Everatt,
Goole

Herrmann, Edward, Leyton rd, West Ham, Essex, Cheesemonger. Dec 7 at 2 at offices of Morphett, King st, Cheapside. Willis, Charles sq, Hoxton

Hewett, Samuel, Orlando rd, Clapham, of no occupation. Dec 12 at 2 at office of Blewitt and Co, Gracechurch st

Hilton, Thomas, Great Grimsby, Lincoln, Provision Dealer. Dec 13 at 2.30 at offices of Mason, Victoria st South, Great Grimsby

Holding, Thomas, Accrington, Joiner. Dec 13 at 3 at Mechanics' Institute, Willow st, Accrington.

Radcliffe, Blackburn

Jacobs, John, Banbury, Oxford, General Dealer. Dec 19 at 3 at Mullen's Hotel, Ironmonger lane, Cheapside. Wild and Co, Ironmonger lane

Lee, Frederick William Jackson, Hall green, Crigglestone, York, Licensed Victualler. Dec 9 at 1 at offices of Lake and Lake, Southgate, Wakefield

Jackson, Maria, Rochdale, Lancaster, Widow. Dec 23 at 3 at offices of Jackson, Lower gates, Rochdale

Jennings, Edwin, Birmingham, Butcher. Dec 12 at 11 at offices of Smith, Colmore row, Birmingham

Johnson, William, Sheffield, Clothier. Dec 12 at 11 at offices of Porrett, Bank st, Sheffield

Jordan, Thomas Salmon, Battersea pk rd, Surrey, Provision Merchant.
Mullen's Hotel, Ironmonger lane. Blelloch, Moorgate st

Dec 19 at 2 at

Kidson, Robert, Abbeygate st, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Tailor. Dec 12 at 2 at offices of Kearsey and Co, Old Jewry

Kingsbury, William John, and Augustus Moss, Colchester, Essex, Lemonade Manufacturers. Dec 14 at 2 at Fleece Hotel, Head st, Colchester. Evans, Maldon

Knapp, William Brush, Swindon, Wilts, Grocer. Dec 10 at 12 at Queen's Royal Hotel, New Swindon. Bradford and Foote, Swindon

Law, Joseph Frederick, Gt Dodford, Bromsgrove, Worcester, out of business. Dec 9 at 2.30 at Crown Hotel, Worcester. Huggins and Mallard

Lawson. Joseph, Chester, Baker, Dec 9 at 11 at oflices of Boydell and Co, Pepper st,

Chester

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Lowe, John, Leamington, Warwick, Wine and Spirit Merchant. Dec 20 at 2 at Bath Hotel, Bath st, Leamington. Abbott, Leamington

Le Maitre, Zante William, Walmer, Kent, Gent. Dec 13 at 2.30 at Black Horse Hotel, Deal. Herbert and Kent, Gracechurch st

Martin, Piers Edgcumb, Apiary, King's Somborne, Southampton, Bee Master, Hive Maker. Dec 8 at 3 at offices of Bell and Tayler, Portland st, Southampton

Mendoza, Alfred, Liverpool, Musician. Dec 12 at 3 at offices of Blackhurst and Fretson Dale et, Liverpool

Moore, Robert, Middlesborough, York, Gent. Dec 15 at 11.30 at offices of Garbutt and Fawcett, Finkle st, Stockton on Tees

Monk, William, Montagu terrace, Richmond, Fly and Cab Proprietor. Dec 16 at 3 at the Railway Hotel, Richmond. Seeley

Moncaster, Richard Sarginson, Hunslet, Leeds, York, Engineer. Dec 13 at 3 at the Law Institute, Albion pl, Leeds. Rider, Leeds

Morton, Sharpe, Huddersfield, Restaurant Keeper. Dec 12 at 11 at offices of Welsh, Victoria chmbrs, Queen st. Huddersfield

Mutch, William, Kemble rd, Waddon, Croydon, Surrey, Builder. Dec 15 at 3 at offices of Carter and Bell, Eastcheap

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Smith, Robert, Hessle Common, York, Farmer. Dec 13 at 3 at offices of Summers, Manor st, Kingston-upon-Hull

Steven, John, Strand, Bookseller. Dec 14 at 3 at Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Rooks and Co, King st, Cheapside

Sunderland, William, Colne Bridge, Huddersfield, Rag, Flock, and Shoddy Merchant. Dec 16 at 11 at offices of Whitley and Whitley, New st, Huddersfield

Varley, James, Bramley, Leeds, Cloth Manufacturer. Dec 14 at 3 at offices of Kirk and Co, Commercial bldgs, Park-row, Leeds

Vane, William, Old Orchard, Poole, Dorset, Fruit and Fish Salesman. Dec 13 at 11 at Crown Hotel, High st, Southampton

Wakefield, John, Rugby, Warwick, Brick, Tile, and Pipe Maker. Dec 15 at 12 at Three Horse Shoes Inn, Sheep st, Rugby. Homer, Coventry

Ward, Henry, Sheppenhall, Newhall, Chester, Farmer. Dec 15 at 2 at offices of Lisle,
Nantwich, Cheshire

Warner, Albert Samuel, Blackheath, Kent, Carpenter. Dec 9 at 3 at offices of Foreman
and Co, Gresham st. Cannon, Wool Exchange, Coleman st
Wells, George, Furze st, Bromley-by-Bow, Licensed Victualler.
Proctor and Andrews, Princess st, Spitalfields

Dec 8 at 3 at offices of

Webb, John Augustus, Stroud and Bisley, Gloucester, Farmer. Dec 9 at 10.30 at offices
of Smith and Stafford, Bedford st, Stroud
Westerdale, Henry, Owithorne, York, Butcher. Dec 13 at 2.30 at Incorporated Law
Society, Lincoln's inn bldgs, Kingston-upon-Hull. Middlemiss and Pearce
Whitaker, William Henry, Redcar, York, Fishmonger. Dec 15 at 1 at Red Lion Hotel,
Redcar. Fowle, Northallerton

Whittingham, George, Hanley, Stafford, Journeyman Tailor. Dec 10 at 11 at offices of
James, Newcastle-under-Lyme

Wysall, Robert, Ripley, Derby, Miller. Dec 14 at 11.30 at offices of Cursham, Market House chambers, Ripley

Williams, George, Plymouth, Grocer. Dec 10 at 11 at offices of Square and Co, Bank of England chambers, Plymouth

Williams, Robert Pritchard, Beddgelert, Carnarvon, Quarry Manager. Dec 15 at 22 at the Sportsman Hotel, Portmadoc. Roberts, Bangor.

Woolnough, Arthur George, Bury St. Edmgnd, Suffolk, Butcher. Dec 13 at 12 at the Guildhall, Bury St. Edmunds. Gross, Bury St, Edmunds

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94 CHANCERY LANE. LONDON. AMPTON & SONS make NO CHARGE for inserting particulars in their FREE MONTHLY REGISTER of ESTATES, TOWN and COUNTRY HOUSES, Furnished or Unfurnished, or for Sale, to be had GRATIS at their Offices, or post-free for two stamps. Published on the 1st of the month, and particulars for insertion should be sent not later than five days previous to end of preceding month.

Valuations for Probate and Transfer. Surveys.
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HE CHURCH PREFERMENT ticulars of Advowsous, Presentations, &c., for Sale, together with useful advice to purchasers, should be referred to by every purchaser. Edited by Mr. W. EMERY STARK (Associate Institute of Actuaries, F.R.G.S., &c ).-Address (enclosing six stamps), Messrs. W. EMERY STARK, 3, Bedford-street, Strand.

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THE DECISION of the Divisional Court, on re-consideration, to allow an appeal in the important case as to the right of an occupier of one or more rooms in a house, not structurally severed, to the franchise, as an occupier of a dwelling-house, affords an illustration of the justice of the observation we ventured to make a fortnight ago while discussing the Procedure Committee's Report, that it will probably be desirable to lay down in general terms the considerations which should guide judicial discretion in granting leave to appeal. Among these considerations is certainly to be reckoned that which Mr. Justice BOWEN described as "the numerical importance of the result of our judgment." The result of the decision in question will be to enfranchise thousands of persons, and substantially to affect the qualification for the parliamentary franchise. However confident the court may be as to the correctness of its ruling, there can be no doubt that the public will not be satisfied with the decision on a question of such importance of a tribunal of first instance.

ALTHOUGH THE PENALTY for the Dunecht outrage must, of course, depend on the Scottish criminal law, the event has given rise to some speculation as to the protection afforded to the grave by the law of this country. It seems to have been supposed in some quarters that the ancient maxim that the law recognizes no property in a corpse throws some doubt on the efficacy of our criminal law to punish violations of the sanctity of the grave. Whatever doubts may have prevailed on the subject in early times, there can now be no doubt that it is an indictable offence to remove a dead body from the grave. This was clearly established by the case of Rex v. Lynn (2 T. R. 733), where the court said that the offence was "cognizable in a criminal court as being highly indecent and contra bonos mores." And in the more recent case of Reg. v. Sharpe (D. & B. C. C. 160) the question was again discussed. A man had removed from a burial ground, for the purpose of re-interment, the bodies of some relatives (as the jury found) solely from motives of affection and religious

duty. He was indicted and convicted, and the Court for Crown Cases Reserved held that even relationship will not justify the taking of a corpse from the grave where it has been buried.

WE OBSERVE that one of the "society journals" falls foul of our recent article on the Legal Aspects of the Channel Tunnel in a tone indicative of some personal vexation. The substance of the statement is that in 1874 and 1875 certain papers were laid before Parliament containing the report of commissioners appointed to consider the subject of the Channel Tunnel, which report set forth the draft of a suggested treaty between the two nations with regard to such a tunnel. And that in 1876 an Act was passed, called the Channel Tunnel Company Act. It is suggested that the Bill now promoted is practically a Bill to extend the time allowed by the former Act for the proposed preliminary operations. We fail to perceive how all this affects the substance of our contention in the smallest degree. What we said was, in substance, that very difficult questions of jurisdiction and other legal questions might arise in connection with a Channel tunnel, which questions could only be solved by a carefully considered treaty, and would probably require legislation on the subject; that the consideration of these questions, and others of national importance also involved, ought not to be left till the tunnel is half made; and that private speculators ought not to be given facilities for proceeding with this enterprize, by means of private bill legislation, until the desirability or otherwise of the tunnel, having regard to these public questions, has been fully discussed as a matter of the highest public importance by the Legislature. We do not find in the facts paraded by the society journal, with a flippant assumption of superior wisdom, anything which in the least conflicts with our observations on the subject. We have perused the draft treaty to which we are referred. Its provisions are of a very sketchy nature; it, no doubt, provides that the tunnel shall be equally divided between the two realms, but it makes little or no provision for the practical difficulties that will arise; leaving the conditions under which the English side of the tunnel will be managed to be defined by Order in Council. In itself it certainly does not, to our mind, meet the difficulties of the case in anything like an adequate manner. The Channel Tunnel Act, 1876, is not a public general Act, and simply gives powers to the company to take land, and other powers for the purpose of preliminary operations, subject to certain restrictions. The society journal would appear to wish it to be inferred that the draft treaty and the Act together provide for everything that is necessary in connection with the subject. This does not appear to us to be by any means the case.

ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS of the age is the tendency to demand special tribunals to administer justice, or some substitute for justice, for the benefit of each class in the community. Law, as administered by the ordinary courts, we are told, is dilatory, doubtful, costly; let us then abandon the ordinary courts. Let us have a tribunal to deal with certain classes of controversies, with experts as judges and with a special procedure. Mr. Justice STEPHEN uttered at a recent meeting at the Society of Arts, and has since more fully developed in the columns of an evening contemporary, a well-timed and powerful protest against the most recent of these proposals. The Patents Bill prepared by the society provides that a board of commissioners of patents shall be appointed, consisting of three commissioners-namely, an engineer, a chemist, and a lawyer. They are to grant all patents and to permit them to be amended, and are also to be a court of first instance and a court of appeal for the trial of actions for the infringement of patents. Either the engineer or the chemist, assisted by a legal assessor (other than the legal commissioner) is to try

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IN the course of a recent series of articles we have reviewed most of those subjects comprised in the Conveyancing Act which are of common and everyday interest. We propose now to examine separately some other topics which lie more apart from the current of general practice, but are in themselves well worthy of consideration.

Section 65, though it may have for the present only a limited application to practice, seems to contain certain germs of development which may perhaps make it hardly less famous than the Statute of Uses. To sum it up shortly, the section enables certain persons, under certain circumstances, to enlarge a term of years into a fee simple without the concurrence of any person entitled in reversion upon the determination of the term.

the case in the first instance, and an appeal is to lie from the one commissioner to the three commissioners. Their decision is to be LONG TERMS AND THE CONVEYANCING final. They are to have power, amongst other things, to make rules of procedure, to compel the attendance of witnesses, and, generally, they may exercise all such jurisdiction and power, and make such orders as might have been made in a like case by any division or judge of the High Court of Justice in England.' Now, since actions for the infringement of patents are infrequent -about nine a year is stated to be the average the proposal is objectionable as creating a very expensive machinery to accomplish a very small result. But the most serious objection to the court is the proposed combination of executive and judicial duties. The admixture has been tried in the Railway Commission only with the result of bringing the commissioners to see that, unless they ignored their administrative functions, they could not obtain the confidence necessary to enable them efficiently to perform their judicial duties. How could the decisions of the proposed court be impartial? As Mr. Justice STEPHEN points out, when an action for infringement was brought they must have already formed an official opinion upon the patent said to have been infringed; and how could they try fairly a question as to its validity? The mistake which the originators of these schemes commit lies in assuming that legal procedure must necessarily remain dilatory, doubtful, and costly. Why not agitate for its amendment, instead of calling for its abolition? As regards patent cases for instance, why not ask for a very simple change, which would enable a judge to order that such cases shall be tried by a judge and assessors, and placed in a separate list?

A DIVISIONAL COURT, composed of GROVE and LOPES, JJ., gave judgment for the appellant, with costs, in McBride v. Richard on Wednesday last; being of opinion that the Sunday Closing (Wales) Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 61), s. 3, “grammatically construed, admitted of no doubt," so that the Act can have no operation till August, 1882. We are not a little surprised, not so much by the decision, as by the certainty with which the learned judges have arrived at it. The words of the section are, "This Act shall commence and come into operation, with respect to each division or place in Wales, on the day next appointed for the holding of the general annual licensing meeting for that division or place." If "next appointed" is to have the future sense, why were not the words "next to be appointed' used? May not, after all, the much-blamed draftsman have advisedly used an ambiguous term, in order that it might be equally available whether the Act passed early or late in the session? Could not "next" be rejected as "insensible"? All these and many more questions we should like to hear the decision of a court of appeal upon. But it is clear beyond doubt that no appeal lies. A case stated by justices upon a summary conviction is a criminal matter within section 47 of the Judicature Act, 1873, which provides that no appeal shall lie from any judgment of the High Court in any criminal cause or matter (Blake v. Beach, L. R. 2 Ex. D. 335).

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WE REFERRED last week to a regulation which has been made in the Chancery Division in order to check the practice of not giving notice when cases are settled or are kept out of the judges' daily papers by arrangement. It appears that strong complaints of this practice have recently also arisen in the Queen's Bench Division. Probably the application of a similar regulation to that Division might afford a partial remedy for the inconvenience complained of.

In a recent case Mr. Justice Hawkins observed :--"Pleadings are growing every day more shadowy and vague. What we shall do when they are abolished altogether and become oral goodness only knows!"

The first sub-section specifies certain requisites by which the term must be qualified, in order that it may be susceptible of enlargement.

"65.—(1.) Where a residue unexpired of not less than two hundred years of a term, which, as originally created, was for not less than three hundred years, is subsisting in land, whether being the whole land originally comprised in the term, or part only thereof, without any trust or right of redemption affecting the term in favour of the freeholder, or other person entitled in reversion expectant on the term, and without any rent, or with merely a peppercorn rent or other rent having no money value, incident to the reversion, or having had a rent, not being merely a peppercorn rent or other rent having no money value, originally so incident, which subsequently has been released, or has become barred by lapse of time, or has in any other way ceased to be payable, then the term may be enlarged into a fee simple in the manner, and subject to the restrictions, in this section provided."

We have by our first italics drawn attention to some remarkable words. Since the section speaks of "the freeholder or other person entitled in reversion expectant on the term," it plainly seems to contemplate terms upon which the reversion is other than a freehold; that is, sub-demises as distinguished from demises. Suppose an owner in fee simple to grant a long term, reserving a substantial rent with the express purpose of guarding against the loss of the reversion by enlargement of the term. His lessee will then, so far as sub-section (1) is concerned, be able to render this precaution futile. For he can sub-let at a peppercorn rent, in consideration of a large premium; and it appears to us that the sub-term so created will be a term capable of being Nor do we see how it can be denied that the sub-lessee, being enlarged into a fee simple within the meaning of sub-section (1). beneficially entitled, in right of that sub-term, to possession of the land comprised in it, might, by virtue of sub-section (2), enlarge it into a fee simple at his pleasure.

We have also by italics called attention to a phrase of which the meaning is not obvious. Rent reserved by a lease does not, by reason of the Statutes of Limitation, become barred by lapse of time during the continuance of the term. It is possible that the words were used in view of the fact that a long non-payment might be taken as evidence of a release of the reversion. But they are not well adapted to bear any such meaning; and, if the reversion has been released, there is no need to enlarge the term.

(2.) Each of the following persons (namely):

"(i.) Any person beneficially entitled in right of the term, whether sabject to any incumbrance or not, to possession of any land comprised in the term; but, in case of a married woman, with the concurrence of her husband, unless she is entitled for her separate use, whether with restraint on anticipation or not, and then without his concurrence;

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(ii.) Any person being in receipt of income as trustee, in right of the term, or having the term vested in him in trust for sale, whether subject to any incumbrance or not;

(iii.) Any person in whom, as personal representative of any deceased person, the term is vested, whether subject to any incumbrance or not;

shall, as far as regards the land to which he is entitled, or in which he is interested, in right of the term, in any such character as aforesaid, have power by deed to declare to the effect that, from and after the execution of the deed, the term shall be enlarged into a fee simple."

The three phrases here used-(i.) "entitled in right of the term to possession"; (ii.) "being in receipt of Refers to income

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or having the term vested in him"; and (iii.)," in whom . . the term is vested"-would naturally be supposed not all to mean the same thing. But it is difficult

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to say what are the distinctions (if there are any) between them. | words comprised in it, only two can be found admitting any For by section 2, sub-section (iii.), of the Act, "possession application to the matter-rights, and obligations. But these includes receipt of income." And, in what may be styled the coda expressions are not used generally: they are confined to such of the sub-section, we find all the three phrases apparently rights and obligations as "the term would have been subject to if Jumped together and identified in the single expression, "to which it had not been so enlarged." But in the case by us supposed, the he is entitled, or in which he is interested, in right of the term, "term" which has been enlarged is the sub-term; and the rights in any such character as aforesaid." of the freeholder to which we referred cannot be properly said to Moreover, the words, "beneficially entitled in be rights to which the sub-term aforesaid would have been subright of the term," seem to bear the meaning "beneficially ject. They are rights to which the land comprised in the subentitled .. by reason of the term being vested in him,' term would have been subject; but they have no relation to the more legitimately than any other. If it should be objected that sub-term, between which estate and the estate of the freeholder the latter words are not applicable to the case of a married there is no privity. The word "obligations" is, if possible, even woman, a ready answer is at hand;-the words "entitled to worse adapted to bear the needful burden than the word "rights." possession," even when extended by the interpretation clause, are But the consequences of this defect in the Act are so serious that not applicable to the case of a married woman when the term is the courts will probably think themselves compelled to squeeze not settled to her separate use; and therefore, since upon no the required meaning out of some part of sub-section (4). hypothesis can the language of the Act be made accurate, in- Even when that has been done, other consequences will remain accuracy of this particular kind is a very slight objection against of great gravity, from which we see no loophole of escape. Can a proposed interpretation. it be denied that sub-section (1) contemplates, as being within its scope, terms upon which the reversion is not a freehold? If this cannot be denied, it will follow that, in the case supposed by us, the sub-termor will be able to enlarge his sub-term into a fee simple, even though the "rights" of the original freeholder are saved by sub-section (4). The result of this will be the creation of one fee simple dependent upon another, burdened, by reason of this dependency, with most of the incidents commonly annexed to a leasehold estate.

If, upon these grounds, we conclude that the three phrases are used to mean the same thing, we shall be spared further inquiry; because the meaning of the third phrase, "in whom the term is vested," admits of no dispute. We may, then, sum up the effect of the sub-section by stating the characteristics which must be possessed by any person in order that he may be able to enlarge the term into a fee simple. These seem to be as follows:-(1) The term must be vested in that person. (2) Such person must be entitled thereto in one of the three following capacities (i.) beneficially; (ii.) as trustee; (iii.) as executor. (3) If such person is a married woman, either (i.) she must be entitled to her separate use, or (ii.) her husband must concur in the deed of enlargement.

The above sketch represents the view which on the whole we are inclined to to take of this sub-section's meaning. But a very different meaning not only might be, but actually has been, suggested for it. The language of sub-sub-section (i) is possibly susceptible of a wider scope than the language of the other two sub-sub-sections. The words are, "Any person beneficially entitled in right of the term,

Even if anyone should be found to deny that sub-terms are within the scope of sub-section (1), this denial would not avoid the consequences last indicated by us. It will still be within the power of a freeholder to create a term, having a freehold reversion, to the express intent that the termor or lessee may afterwards enlarge it into a fee simple by virtue of the Act. By adopting this device it will, in future, be possible legally to annex to estates of fee simple all those incidents which can now be annexed to them only in equity by means of the doctrine of Tulk v. Moxhay. It is probable that owners of building land will freely resort to the machinery thus provided for them.

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(5.) But where any land so held for the residue of a term has been settled in trust by reference to other land, being freehold land, so as to go along with that other land as far as the law permits, and, at the time of enlargement, the ultimate beneficial interest in the term, whether subject to any subsisting any person, then the estate in fee simple acquired as aforesaid shall, without particular estate or not, has not become absolutely and indefeasibly vested in prejudice to any conveyance for value previously made by a person having a contingent or defeasible interest in the term, be liable to be, and shall be, conveyed and settled in like manner as the other land, being freehold land, afore said, and until so conveyed and settled shall devolve beneficially as if it had been so conveyed and settled."

to possession of any land comprised in the term." And since "possession includes receipt of income," it might be contended that the words do not necessarily imply that the term is vested in the person so entitled, but that they might apply to any beneficiary receiving income under a settlement. Upon this hypothesis there might by possibility be many persons at the same time, each entitled independently of all the rest to enlarge the term into a fee simple. But we may observe that it is incorrect to say that a beneficiary under a settlement, the term being vested in a trustee, is entitled to possession of the land, or the receipt of income, " in When chattel estates are settled in the manner mentioned in right of the term." The trustee is entitled in right of the term; this sub-section, the operation upon them of the settlement under but the beneficiary is entitled in right of the trust. The opinion some circumstances differs from its operation upon the freeholds. of two eminent conveyancers seems nevertheless to be in favour Any person becoming entitled to the leaseholds for what, in the of the view lastly suggested; for in the latest edition of a well-case of freeholds, would be an estate tail, takes the leaseholds known collection, there is more than one precedent, purporting to enlarge a long term into a fee simple by virtue of the Act, in which the person making the declaration appears on the face of

the deed not to have the term vested in him.

(3.) Thereupon, by virtue of the deed and of this Act, the term shall become and be enlarged accordingly, and the person in whom the term was previously vested shall acquire and have in the land a fee simple instead of the term."

Under the view last suggested the somewhat strange consequence would follow, that one person can alter the estate of another person without his consent or concurrence.

The next sub-section is of the utmost importance :—

absolutely. The object of this sub-section seems to be to obliterate, as far as possible, the distinction whenever the leaseholds have been enlarged into fee simple estates by virtue of the Act.

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(6.) The estate in fee simple so acquired shall, whether the term was originally created without impeachment of waste or not, include the fee simple in all mines and minerals which at the time of enlargement have not been severed in right, or in fact, or have not been severed or reserved by an inclosure

Act or award."

If the term was originally subject to forfeiture for waste, this sub-section seems to contain nothing to relieve the fee simple into which it might be enlarged from the same liability. This "right" of the original freeholder in reversion is much more obviously within the scope of sub-section (4) than are those rights about

"(4.) The estate in fee simple so acquired by enlargement shall be subject which we spoke while referring to the possible enlargement of a

to all the same trusts, powers, executory limitations over, rights, and equities, and to all the same covenants and provisions relating to user and enjoy ment, and to all the same obligations of every kind, as the term would have been subject to if it had not been so enlarged."

sub-term.

A correspondent of the Times calls attention to the delay in printing the Acts of Parliament relating to railway companies which received the Royal assent during the last session, and the serious inconvenience that arises therefrom to those interested. He states that he has applied de die in diem for him are delayed owing to the fault of those responsible in the reading depart. some time past, but has failed to procure the Acts, which the printers assure

It will occur to the reader to ask whether this sub-section effects any saving of the rights of the freeholder, in the case above supposed by us, who, having demised at a substantial rent, learns that a sub-term, created by his lessee at a peppercorn rent, has been enlarged into a fee. The language of the sub-section is not well adapted to effect any such saving. Out of the many generalment of the Government.

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