KRAUS, FREDERICK, Weston super Mare, Baker. Bridgwater. Pet Sept 29. Ord Oct 7 LOVEGROVE, HENRY, Slough. Windsor Chair Manufacturer. Windsor. Pet Oct 7. Ord Oct 7 MILLER, EDWARD, Bishopston, Gloucester, Bank Clerk. Bristol. Pet Oct 7. Ord Oct 7 OGDEN. JOHN, Liversedge, Yorks, Innkeeper. Dewsbury. Pet Oct 6. Ord Oct 7 PALFREE, HENRY, Derby, Game Dealer. Derby. Pet Oct 7. Ord Oct 7 PARKINS, THOMAS, Green Market, Carlisle, Fish Hook Maker. Carlisle. Pet Oct 8. Ord Oct 8 PARRY, RICHARD WILLIAM, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Draper. Bangor. Pet Oct 7. Ord Oct 7 PROUDFOOT, DANIEL, Carlisle, Fish Dealer. Carlisle. Pet Oct 6. Ord Oct 6 ROBINSON, LEWIS, Barrow in Furness, Fishmonger. Ulverston and Barrow in Furness. Pet Oct 5. Ord Oct 5 Oct 8 SCRIVEN. HENRY, Womersley, Yorks, Farmer. Wakefield. Pet Oct 8. Ord SHIRLEY, WILLIAM EDWOOD, York Castle, Yorks, Solicitor. Sheffield. Pet Aug❘ 18. Ord Oct 6 SILVESTER, ERNEST F., Chancery lane, Barrister at Law. High Court. Pet Aug 5. Ord Oct 6 STAMMERS, ARTHUR, Folkestone, Tailor. Canterbury. Pet Oct 7. Ord Oct 7 STEAD, THOMAS, and RICHARD STEAD, Leeds, Tailors. Leeds. Pet Oct 6. Ord Oct 6 TAYLOR, WALTER JAMES, Westonzoyland, Somersetshire, General Shop Keeper. Bridgwater. Pet Oct 7. Ord Oct 7 THOMAS, JOHN, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, Builder. Pet Oct 5. Ord Oct 5 Pembroke Dock. TINGLE, WILLIAM HENRY, Ecclesfield, Yorks, Farmer. Sheffield. Pet Sept 22. Ord Oct 7 TOMLIN, THOMAS ARTHUR, Sheffield, Watchmaker. Sheffield. Pet Oct 7. Ord TOOBY. ALICK, Berrow, Worcestershire, Farmer. Worcester. Pet Oct 7. Ord PROUDFOOT, DANIEL, Carlisle, Fish Dealer. Oct 19 at 4. Off Rec, 34, Fish st, Carlisle READY, CHARLES, Sudbury, Grocer. Oct 22 at 12. 33, Carey st ROBINSON, GEORGE HARRY, Leeds, Bookseller. Oct 20 at 11. row, Leeds ROLFE, JAMES. Sheffield, Beerhouse Keeper. Oct 19 at 12. lane, Sheffield Off Rec, 22, Park Off Rec, Figtree Oct 22 at 11. Off ROSSITER, CHARLES JAMES, Bridgend, Licensed Victualler. STYLES, ELIZABSTH, Rugby, Licensed Victualler. Oct 20 at 10.45. E. C. Pea- TOOBY. ALICK, Berrow, Worcestershire, Farmer. Oct 21 at 11. Off Rec, WILSON, JOHN HENRY, Sutton Mill, nr Kildwick, Yorks, Tailor. Oct 19 at 11. ADJUDICATIONS. ALLONBY, JOHN, Liverpool, Team Owner. Liverpool. Pet Sept 29. Ord Oct 6 BEDINGHAM, BENJAMIN GEORGE, Sheffield, Cabinet Maker. Sheffield. Pet Sept 19 Ord Oct 6 BOLT, WILLIAM JOHN, Birkenhead, Clothier. Birkenhead. Pet Sept 2. Ord Oct 6 UPTON, WILLIAM, Narborough, Leicester, Coal Merchant. Leicester. Pet Sept BRAY, NICHOLAS, St Kew, Cornwall, Carpenter. Truro. Pet Sept 19. Ord Oct 8 24. Ord Oct 7 WHITEHEAD, SMITH, WILLIAM RENNIE WHITEHEAD, and VIRGIL WHITEHEAD, WYNDE, MARGARET, Dudley, Worcestershire, Fancy Goods Dealer. Dudley. FIRST MEETINGS. BARNARD, LOUISA HOPKINSON, Sheffield, Confectioner. Oct 19 at 11. Off Rec, BUTLER, THOMAS, Cranborne, Dorset, Farmer. Oct 20 at 2.30. Off Rec, Salisbury CAINE, CHARLES MADRELL, and GEORGE OSCAR CAINE, Liverpool, Pawnbrokers. FARRINGTON, THOMAS HENRY, Walsall, Auctioneer. Oct 20 at 11.15. Off Rec, GOSWIN, F W, Milton st. Wire Merchant. Oct 19 at 12. Bankruptcy bldgs, Portugal st. Lincoln's inn fields GRIFFITHS ROBERT JAMES, St Martin's lane, Jeweller. Oct 20 at 11. 33, Carey street, Lincoln's inn GREENWAY, KELYNGE, THOMAS GREENWAY, GEORGE CATTELL GREENWAY, and SAMUEL CLARK SMITH, Warwick, Bankers. Oct 27 at 11. Shirehall, Warwick HARDACRE, RICHARD, Keighley, Yorks, Bootmaker. Oct 19 at 12. Off Rec, 31, HAYHURST. HENRY JAMES, Hastings, Jeweller. Oct 18 at 12. Bankruptcy bldgs, HORNER. JAMES READ. Salterhebble, nr Halifax, Chemical Manufacturer. Oct 21 at 3.30. Off Rec, Halifax JACKSON, EBENEZER, Cheapside, Auctioneer. Oct 18 at 12. 33, Carey st, Lin- JAMES, STANLEY CARLYLE. Derby, Commission Agent. Oct 21 at 12 JESTER, ALFRED ALBERT THOMAS, Walsall, Corn Dealer. Oct 26 at JEWISON. ALFRED WILLIAM, Scarborough, Innkeeper. Oct 18 at 11. Off Rec, 74, JONES, EDMUND MATTHEW, Aberkenfig, nr Bridgend, Grocer. Oct 22 at 12. Off Rec, 3, Crock herbtown, Cardiff JONES, RICHARD JOHN, Llanynghenedl, Anglesey, Grocer. Oct 25 at 12. Off Rec, Crypt chmbrs, Chester KING, THOMAS BELLAMY, Grove lane, Camberwell, out of occupation. Oct 18 at 11. 33. Carey st. Lincoln's inn KNOWLES, MARK, Heckmondwike, Yorks, Draper. Oct 18 at 3. Off Rec, Bank chbrs. Batley LEVERITT. RICHARD, Clee, Lincolnshire, Master of Fishing Smack. Oct 20 at 12. LLOYD, JOHN EVAN, Porth, Glam, Provision Dealer. Oct 18 at 3. Off Rec, 3, MANLEY. EDWARD SAMUEL, Church, Lancs, Draper. Oct 19 at 3.30. Off Rec, Ogden's chbrs. Bridge st. Manchester MAYHEAD, JAMES WILLIAM. Well st, Hackney, Cheesemonger. Oct 19 at 11. 33 Carey st, Lincoln's inn NALL, MARK, Buxton, Derbyshire, Joiner. Oct 19 at 11.30. Off Rec, County chbis, Market pl. Stockport NETTLETON, JOHN, Wakefield, Builder. Oct 18 at 11. Off Rec, Bond terr, Wakefield PALFREE, HENRY, Derby, Game Dealer. Oct 21 at 11. Off Rec, St James's chbrs. Derby PEARCE, JOHN, Worksop, Notts, Grocer. Oct 19 at 1. Off Rec, Figtree lane, Sheffield BRIGHT, ALEXINA, Mildenhall, Suffolk, Milliner. Bury St Edmunds. Pet Sept 20. Ord Oct 8 BUTLER, THOMAS, Cranborne, Farmer. Poole. Pet Oct 6. Ord Oct 6 BUTTERWORTH, EDWARD JACKSON, Manchester, Bedding Manufacturer. Manchester. Pet Oct 8. Ord Oct 8 DAVIS. THOMAS HENRY, and GEORGE LISTER LAIRD, Liverpool, Paint Manufac- ENNEVER, WILLIAM, Woburn mews East, Russell sq. Carman. High Court. Pet Aug 20. Ord Oct 6 GLYNN, FREDERICK, Kidderminster, Builder. Kidderminster. Pet Sept 18. HUNT, CORNELIUS, Bournemouth, Provision Dealer. Poole. Pet Oct 8. Ord HUNT, JAMES, Barrow in Furness, Farmer. Ulverston and Barrow in Furness. ISAACSON, WILLIAM, jun, Depden, Suffolk, Farmer. Bury St Edmunds. Pet JONES, THOMAS, Trevor, Carnarvon, Settmaker. Bangor. Pet Oct 6. Ord Oct 6 OGDEN, JOHN, Liversedge, Yorks, Innkeeper. Dewsbury. Pet Oct 6. Ord PARKINS, THOMAS, Carlisle, Fish Hook Maker. Carlisle. Pet Oct 8. Ord Oct 8 PARRY. RICHARD WILLIAM, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Draper. Bangor. WALMSLEY, JOHN, Huddersfield, Cotton Spinner. Bolton. Pet Sept 20. Ord WELLS, STANDISH GRADY, Swansea, lonkeeper. Swansea. Pet Sept 28. Ord WIGFALL, WILLIAM, the younger, Sheffield, Brush Manufacturer. Sheffield. SALES OF ENSUING WEEK. Oct. 19.-Messrs. EDWIN FOX & BOUSFIELD, at the Mart, Tokenhouse-yard, at 2 pm.. Reversion (see advertisement this week, p. 789). Oct. 21.-Messrs. FAIRBAIRN, ROBERTS, & Co., at the Mart, Tokenhouse-yard, at 2 p.m., Freehold Schoolhouse and Premises (see advertisement this week, p. 789 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. DICKENS.-Oct. 11, at Tedworth-square, Chelsea, the wife of Henry Fielding FARQUHAR.—Oct 11, at Abergavenny, the wife of James Hervey Farquhar, soli- LANGDON.-Oct. 9, at Hastings, Augustin William Langdon, M.A., barrister-at- Where difficulty is experienced in procuring the Journal with regularity, in the Country, it is requested that application be made direct to the Publisher. FIRE!! BURGLARS!! JOHN TANN'S "ANCHOR RELIANCE" SAFES FOR JEWELLERY, PLATE, DEEDS, BOOKS, &c. FIRE RESISTING SAFES, £4 10s., £5 5s., and £8 5s. 11, NEWGATE ST., LONDON, E.C. A SOLICITOR, admitted 1882, is desirous of Purchasing a Practice or arranging for a Partnership.-Address, W. E. A., 166, Greshamhouse, Old Broad-street, E.C. SOLICITOR wishes to Purchase small London Practice bringing in about £300 per annum.-Apply, PURCHASE, Solicitors' Journal" Office, 27, Chancery-lane. WA ANTED, in the Country, by a thoroughly experienced Man of good education and address, a Situation as Accountant, Cashier, or in other responsible position, in a Solicitor's or Land Agent's Office, has had, both in London and Country, the entire management of House Property, Collection of Rents, Interest, Tithes, Insurance, &c., and the rendering of the Accounts relating thereto; first class testimonials and security.-K., 8, Coldstream-terrace, Cardiff. CASHIER, or other Confidential Position (not legal) in a Solicitor's or other office; long experience in the collection of rents and management of house property; thoroughly reliable in every way; varied business experience; well understands book-keeping; unexceptionable references.-Address, J. K., care of Coombes & Co., 10, Paternostersquare, E,C. HE WICK, Furze-hill, Brighton.-C. G. SOLICITORS' GOWNS. Law Wigs and Gowns for Registrars, Town Clerks, and Clerks of the Peace. CORPORATION ROBES, UNIVERSITY AND CLERGY GOWNS ESTABLISHED 1689. 94 CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. SALE DAYS FOR THE YEAR 1887. FAREBROTHER, ELLIS, CLARK, & CO. beg to announce that the and LEASEHOLD MESSES. following days have been fixed for their SALES, Ground-Rents, Reversions, and other Investments during the year 1887, to be held at the Auction Mart, Tokenhouse-yard, near the Bank of England, E.C.:Wed., Oct 19 Thurs., Dec 1 Wed., Dec 14 Wed., Nov 16 Other appointments for Special Sales will be arranged.-Nos. 29, Fleet-street, Temple Bar, E.C.; 18, Old Broad-street, E.C.; and No. 14, Fitzjohn's parade, Hampstead, N.W. CHANCERY LANE. An exceedingly important and valuable Investment in the handsome and substantial block of buildings distinguished as the Law Courts-chambers, and being Nos. 33 and 34, Chancery-lane. The premises Occupy the entire frontage between Bream'sbuildings and Church-passage, over an area of over 6,000it, and are finished with imposing elevations of red brick with stone dressings. They comprise basement, ground, and four upper floors, arranged as business premises, offices, and profes sional chambers, with a central entrance and two staircases running throughout. Mostly let on leases or agreements to old and responsible tenants, the principal portion of the ground floor frontage being occupied by the Royal Insurance Company and "Prosser's well-known restaurant, and the entirety produces a rental (including the estimated value of a few of the chambers at present unlet) of nearly £2,600 per annum. The property is held for an unexpired term of 60 years, at a moderate ground-rent. ELLIS, TALLUM, M.A., Scholar of Trinity Hall, Cam- M.A., of Stoke - house, Slough, and for 10 years HI ESSES. FAREBROTHER, Particulars TORNSEY (2,010).-To be SOLD, A HORN FREEHOLD detached FAMILY RESIDENCE, with stabling for three horses, and wellmatured garden; very pleasantly situated within ten minutes' walk of three railway stations. The house having been in the occupation of the owner for the last 25 years is replete with all modern conveniences, besides many special features and advantages, and offers an exceptional opportunity for the acquirement of a most comfortable and enjoyable home readily accessible.-Particulars and cards to view may be obtained from Mr. Farrer, the Broadway, Crouch-end, and 20, Finsbury pavement, E.C.; and of Prickett, Venables, & Co., Highgate, Barnet, and 60, Chancery. lane, W.C. CLARK, & CO. are instructed to Offer for SALE by AUCTION, at the MART. E.C., on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st, at TWO o'clock the above described, thoroughly sound LEASEHOLD INVESTMENT. (when ready) may be obtained of Messrs. Scadding & Bodkin, Solicitore, No. 23, Gordon-street, Gordon-square, W.C.; Mr. Robert Watson, No. 40. Chancery-lane, W.C.; and of Messrs. Fare brother, Ellis, Clark, & Co., 29, Fleetstreet, Temple-bar, and 18, Old Broad-street, E.C. For Peremptory Sale.-The Horton Estate. Northamptonshire, embracing an area of about 4,000 acres. It comprises a fine old country residence, erected by the celebrated Lord Halifax, standing in an extensive park of 200 acres, and having all the usual appurtenances for a large establishment, numerous high class farms, with capital farm-houses and buildings, and including some of the best land in the county; accommodation holdings, houses, cottages, &c. The property is situated six miles from Northampton, in a favoured district for residence and sporting, affording excellent shooting and fishing, and being in the neighbourhood of the Grafton and Pytchley Hunts, while a station on the estate brings it within two hours' journey of London. FAREBROTHER, MESSRS. | 500 Leaf Book, 3s. 6d. English made. THE BEST LETTER COPYING BOOK OUT. WODDERSPOON & CO., 7, SERLE STREET, AND 1, PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN'S INN, W.C. Preliminary Notice.-Valuable Freehold Properties at Hendon and Cricklewood, comprising two fully licensed taverns, with yards and stabling adjoining; 28 capital Dwelling-houses, all conveniently situated close to railway stations, and let to capital tenants at rents amounting to over £1,100 per annum; also a Leasehold Dwelling-house and Premises in Grovelane, Camberwell, and a Dwelling-house in Leighton-road, Kentish-town. likewise let to good tenants, presenting investments of a thoroughly sound and improving character. FAREBROTHER, ELLIS, By order of the Second Mortgagees.- Freehold Schoolhouse and Premises, of Modern Erection, and standing in two acres, suitable for an institution or college, beautifully situated on the high ground of Enfield Chase, one mile from two stations and only ten from London. In full working order, with accommodation for 60 residents, lofty dining hall, spacious schoolroom, class-rooms, three bath rooms, lavatories, workshops, and cement tennis court. MESSRS. FAIRBAIRN, ROBERTS, & CO. will SELL the above, subject to a mortgage of £3,800, at the AUCTION MART, Tokenhouseyard, Bank of England, on FRIDAY, the 21st inst., at TWO (unless an acceptable offer be previously made). Particulars at the Mart; of Messrs. Wilkinson & Howlett, Solicitors, 14, Bedford-street, Covent-garden, W.C.; and of the Auctioneers, 110, Cannon-street, City, and Enfield. ME Valuable Absolute and Contingent Reversion. ESSRS EDWIN FOX & BOUSFIELD will SELL, at the MART, on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19th, at TWO o'clock, valuable ABSOLUTE REVERSION to the sum of £700, on the death or re-marriage of a gentleman, aged 64 years, and now invested partly in Consols and partly in leasehold property; also the reversion to one-fourth share of two respective sums of £1,000, contingent on the death without issue attaining majority of two gentlemen. Particulars of Clarence Harcourt, Esq., Solicitor, 13, Moorgate street, E.C.; at the Mart; and of Messrs. Edwin Fox & Bousfield, 99, Gresham-street, Bank, E.C. Two Small Reversions. ELLIS, MESSRS. EDWIN FOX & BOUSFIELD CLARK, & Co. have received instructions to offer the above important FREEHOLD MANORIAL ESTATE for SALE by AUCTION, on WEDNESDAY, 16th NOVEMBER, 1887 (unless previously disposed of privately). Detailed advertisements will appear in due course, and particulars, plans, and conditions of sale may be obtained of Messrs. Fladgate & Fladgate, Solicitors, 40, Craven-street, Strand, W.C.; E. W. Trinder, Esq., Cirencester; or of Messrs. Farebrother, Ellis, Clarke, & Co, 29, Fleet-street, Temple Bar, and 18, Old Broad-street, E.C. will SELL, at the MART, on WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, at TWO o'clock, in Lots: 1. The Absolute Reversion to one moiety of a sum of £964 48. 6d. on mortgage and in cash, receivable on the death of a lady now in her 74th year. 2. The Absolute Reversion to a moiety of a sum of £765, invested on freehold property at Scarborough, receivable on the death of the above lady. Particulars of John Ellerton, Esq., Solicitor, 1. New inn, Strand, W.C.; at the Mart; and of Messrs. Edwin Fox & Bousfield, 99, Gresham-street, Bank, E.C. Auctions can also be held on other days. In order to nsure proper publicity, due notice should be given. The period between such notice and the proposed auction must considerably depend upon the nature of the property to be sold. A printed scale of terms can be had at 80, Cheapside, or will be forwarded. Telephone No. 1,503. ESSRS. DEBENHAM, MAYER'S FRENCH CODE OF COMMERCE. Just published, post 8vo., 9s. cloth. THE FRENCH CODE of COMMERCE, as revised to the end of 1886, and an Appendix containing later Statutes in connection therewith, rendered into English, with Explanatory Notes and Copious Index. By SYLVAIN MAYER, B.A., Ph.D., of the Middle Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. London: BUTTERWORTHS, 7, Fleet-street, Her Majesty's Law Publishers. OOKS BOUGHT.-To Executors, Solici Strand, and 36, Piccadilly, PURCHASE LIBRARIES or smaller collections of Books, in town or country, giving the utmost value in cash. Experienced valuers sent. Removals without trouble or expense to sellers. Established 1816. Telegraphic Address, Bookmen, London " R. F. W. HARDMAN (Gold Medallist at KENT FARMER, & BRIDGEWATER'S LIST of ESTATES and HOUSES to be SOLD or LET, including Landed Estates, Town and Country Residences, Hunting and Shooting Quarters, Farms, Ground Rents, Rent Charges, House Property and Investments generally, is published on the first day of each month, and may be obtained, free of charge, at their offices, 80, Cheapside, E.C., or will be sent by post in return for three stamps.Particulars for insertion should be received not later than four days previous to the end of the preceding month. TO LAW STATIONERS. To be SOLD, by Private Treaty, a first-class and old-established Law Stationer's Business in Liverpool, together with the Stock-in-Trade, Fixtures, and Fittings. Fame can be purchased with or without thes. The Debts, which are principally owing by the leading Liverpool solicitors.-For further information apply to BANNER, SPENCER, & Co., Chartered Accountants, 4, Cook-street, Liverpool. dent in Roman Law. Jurisprudence and International Law. Incorporated Law Society's Prizeman, Stephen Heelis Gold Medallist, 1882, &c., &c.) prepares Privately, in Class, and by Correspondence for all Law Examinations. Tuition for Solicitors' Intermediate and Final (Pass and Honours), Bar Roman Law and Bar Final, Studentships, Lecture Prizes, and all Scholarships given by the various Inns of Court and the Council of Legal Education. First and Second LL.B. and LL.D. Examinations at London University. Questions and Notes for Examinations supplied, and Translations of the Digest for Studentships and LL.B. - Apply, 2, Brick-court, Temple, E.C. BARRISTER-AT-LAW (LL.B., London, First in First-Class Honours in Jurisprudence and Roman Law, and Honoursman in Common Law and Equity) prepares for Legal Examinations. Tuition for the Bar, Solicitors' Intermediate and Final, and 1st and 2nd LL B. Examinations, privately or in class, at his Chambers. Correspondence Classes also for 1st and 2nd LL.B. are arranged to be conducted by 30 weekly letters.-For terms, &c., apply personally, or by letter, to "JURISCONSULTUS," care of Mr. Burnett. 9, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn. ADVOCATES and PUBLIC TSPEAKERS. A Graduate of Oxford (formerly Scholar of Trinity and Member of Lincoln's-inn), will commence Lectures the first week in November on the Production and Management of the Voice, with especial reference to Advocacy. Fee for the course, Five Guineas.-Address, ADVOCATE, care of the Manager, Bloomsbury Hall, Hart-street, W.C. OME for the TREATMENT and CURE of INEBRIETY and MORPHIA HABIT, High Shot House, Twickenham. Charmingly secluded. Gentlemen only. Limited number taken. HOM LINCOLN'S-INN-FIELDS.-A fine Pair Bar Tom, Tiered wh tennis court, bowls, &c. of large Rooms, on the ground floor, to be Let; suitable for solicitors, barristers, law stationers, and firms desiring to be near the Law Courts; splendid situation; moderate rent.-Apply to Attendant, on the premises, 3 and 4, Lincoln's-innfields; or at the Collector's Office, in the Hall of 63 and 64, Chancery-lane. INSURANCE COMPANIES, and Others. Tog TO COMPANY PROMOTERS, BANKERS, To be Let, an elegant Suite of Rooms of three, five, or more in a fine building near the Royal Courts of Justice and the Chancery-lane Safe Deposit; splendid situation; fitted throughout with every convenience and lighted by electricity. Large Hall can be hired in same building for occasional meetings on special terms; moderate rent.-Apply to view and for further particulars to the Collector, in the Hall of 63 and 64, Chancery-lane, W.C. OFFICES The whole staff pledged abstainers. Terms-2 to 5 guineas weekly. Particulars from the Medical Superintendent, H. BRANTHWAITE, F.R.C.S. Ed.; and reference is permitted to Messrs. MUNTON & MORRIS, Solicitors, 95A, Queen Victoria-street, London. INTEMPERANCE. THE MORPHIA HABIT AND THE ABUSE OF DRUGS. A PRIVATE HOME (Established 1864) for the Treatment and Cure of Ladies of the Upper and Higher Middle-classes suffering from the above. Highly successful results. Carriage kept. Private sitting-rooms if required. Medical attendant, Dr. J. St. T. Člarke. For terms, &c., apply to the Principal, Mrs. THEOBALD, Tower House, Leicester. M EDICAL CARE and SUPERVISION. -A married Physician Offers a comfortable Home near the Sea (cool in summer, warm in winter); pleasant grounds, tennis, sea baths; terms moderate. -Dr. HEELAS, Mountfield, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. and Well-lighted Offices and Chambers to be Let at Lonsdale Chambers, No. 27, Chancery-lane (opposite the New Law Courts). Also large, wellfurnished Rooms for Meetings, Arbitrations, &c.-DUCATION.-To Solicitors and other Apply to Messrs. LAUNDY & Co., Chartered Accountants, on the premises. Professional Men and Gentlemen of Limited Income.-A few boys, sons of the above, are admitted into a well-known School of high tone on greatly reduced fees.-For full particulars address, in strict confidence, "Mu," care of Messrs. Relfe Bros., 6, Charterhouse-buildings, Aldersgate, City, E.C. Branch 88, King William-street, E.C., and 8, Pall Mall East, S.W. H. JONES WILLIAMS, FIRE OFFICE-ESTD. IN 1802. LIFE OFFICE-ESTD. IN 1824. Chief Office-MAIDSTONE. LONDON, 124, Cannon-street, E.C. Offices MANCHESTER, 1, Cooper-street. One of the most recent claims upon the Company was under Life Policy No. 503, issued in 1833 for £800, and which had acquired Bonus additions amounting to £2,015, increasing the policy to £2,815. W. L. SEYFANG, Secretary and General Manager. MPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COM HE MORTGAGE INSURANCE COR- AMOUNT OF CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED, £710,000 These Policies will be of especial advantage to Trustees who may be held responsible for losses consequent upon their Investments. Mortgagors insuring with the Corporation will also be enabled to obtain Advances at the lowest possible rate of interest. The Corporation also grants Policies to Leaseholders insuring the return of the Amount invested at the expiration of their leases or at any fixed periods. For particulars and conditions of Insurance apply to the Secretary. By order, ACCIDENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD The Funds in hand and Capital Subscribed amount to THE SOCIETY of ACCOUNTANTS and MODERATE PREMIUMS — FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS THE STORY OForated INTANTS and and Associates of this Society practice in all parts of the United Kingdom, and are styled "Incorporated Accountants." Lists of the Members and all information may be obtained upon application to the Secretary. By order of the Council, JAMES MARTIN, Secretary. Offices: 3, Newgate-street, London, E.C. Prompt and Liberal Settlement of Claims. CHAIRMAN-HARVIE M. FARQUHAR, Esq. West-End Office:-8, Grand Hotel Buildings, W.C.; Head Office:-64, CORNHILL, LONDON, E.C. WILLIAM J. VIAN, Secretary. upwards of £1,900,000 sterling Chairman JAMES CUDDON, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Deputy-Chairman-CHARLES PEMBERTON, Esq. (Lee & Pembertons), Solicitor, 44, Lincoln's-inn-fields. The Directors invite attention to the New Form of Life Policy, which is free from all conditions. Policies of Insurance granted against the contingency of Issue at moderate rates of Premium. The Company ADVANCES Money on Mortgage of Life Interests and Reversions, whether absolute or contingent. The Company also purchases Reversions. Prospectuses, copies of the Directors' Report and Annual Balance Sheet, and every information, sent post-free on application to FRANK MCGEDY, Actuary and Secretary. MADEIRA-REID'S HOTELS. Splen did Climate; every comfort for Visitors; short sea passage. Santa Clara under new management.-Apply to WILLIAM REID. verdict being unsupported by the evidence. This apparently was on the ground that the coroner's inquisition is not final. As to .... 796 misconduct of the coroner, there are two good cases not quoted by Mr. STEPHEN. One is R. v. Wakefield (1 Strange, 68), where the coroner induced the jury, who were convinced that a man who had hanged himself was insane, to return a verdict of felo de se, ... 796 797 The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter. assuring them it would have the same effect. The other is R. LONDON, OCTOBER 22, 1887. CURRENT TOPICS. DURING THE MICHAELMAS SITTINGS, which extend over fifty-one working days, Mr. Justice CHITTY will only be able to devote nine days to the hearing of witness causes, and Mr. Justice NORTH eleven days. It cannot be said that this gives any great prospect of reducing the lists of these two learned judges. THE APPEAL LIST Contains 74 appeals from the Chancery Division; 7 from the County Palatine Court; 91 from the Queen's Bench Division; 5 from the Probate Division; and 11 Bankruptcy appeals, making a total of 188 appeals. The total number, a year ago, was 204. THE CAUSE LISTS of the Chancery Division, which we print elsewhere, contain 140 causes, &c., set down before Mr. Justice KAY, 198 before Mr. Justice CHITTY, 213 before Mr. Justice NORTH, 192 before Mr. Justice STIRLING, and 102 before Mr. Justice KEKEWICH—making a total of 845. Last sittings the total was 786; and a year ago, 795. Mr. FULTON'S Bill "to limit the powers of the water companies to cut off the tenants' water supply where the rate is paid by the landlord" became law last session (50 & 51 Vict. c. 21); and in spite of the appeal we made (ante, p. 247) to the lawyers in the House with regard to the proposal of the Bill to create charges on property practically undiscoverable, or discoverable only at much trouble, by a purchaser, nothing seems to have been done, and section 4 provides that "where the owner, and not the occupier, is liable by law or by agreement with the water company to the payment of the water rate arrears of water rate payable by the owner of a dwelling-house "shall, together with interest thereon at the rate of £5 per centum per annum, computed from the expiration of one month from the time when the same has been claimed by the company until receipt thereof by the company, be a charge on such dwelling-house in priority to all other charges affecting the premises." The result of this enactment will be that wherever a dwelling-house of not exceeding the annual value of £10 (in respect whereof the owner is, under the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, s. 72, liable to the water rate) is being purchased or mortgaged, inquiry will have to be made, on behalf of the purchaser or mortgagee, whether the vendor is in arrear with his water rate. The only effectual mode of making this inquiry will be to address it to the water company's collector, but it seems doubtful whether he will trouble to reply to a question which he is not bound to answer. What will a purchaser say if his solicitor should overlook the existence of section 4 of 50 & 51 Vict. c. 21, and after the completion of his purchase he finds that the water company are first mortgagees of the property for the amount of considerable arrears of water rate and interest thereon ? THE MITCHELSTOWN VERDICT, and the proceedings of which it was the climax, have drawn attention to the subject of setting aside coroners' inquisitions. We print elsewhere a letter which Mr. HERBERT STEPHEN has written on the subject, and which, it is not improbable, may express the views of a very high authority. We may add to what is there said, that the proceedings before a coroner are not invalidated by slight irregularities, provided these do not substantially affect the proceedings. Thus, in Reg. v. Ingham (5 B. & S. 257) the court declined to interfere on the ground that evidence not upon oath had been received, and also on the ground of misdirection of the coroner to the jury, and of the V. Stukely (12 Mod. 493), where the coroner, wishing to get a verdict of insanity, but, finding the evidence of felo de se very strong, excluded some of the jury. In this case a criminal information was granted against the coroner and a new inquest ordered. The difficulty about a new inquest is that it must be super visum corporis, and held by the coroner who has misconducted himself; but the difficulty is overcome by applying for a melius inquirendum. The best statement of the law upon this subject is contained in R. v. Bunney (1 Salk. 190): "If a coroner's inquest be quashed, the coroner must take a new inquest super visum corporis; but if a melius inquirendum be granted on a male se gessit of the coroner; the new inquiry must be before the sheriff or commissioners, not super visum corporis, but upon affidavits; for none but the coroner can inquire super visum corporis, and he is not to be trusted again.” THE PARTIAL ASSIMILATION of the law of real estate to that of personal estate proposed in the Lord Chancellor's Land Transfer Bill of last session forms the subject of an interesting article by Mr. M. H. Box in the current number of the Law Quarterly Review, in which he maintains that no change of the law in the above direction can be satisfactory unless it involves the effacement of the distinction between the two classes of property. In support of this he shews, by numerous examples, how the destination of property often depends upon artificial rules of law of which a testator has no suspicion, and how it may even be altered at the will of a third party after his death. This often happens in cases of vendors and purchasers by reason of the equitable effect of a eontract upon the nature of the property. Thus, if a vendor die pending the completion of the contract, and it subsequently appears that the contract can be enforced only against him and not by him, it depends solely upon the chaser whether the heir shall retain the property as land or whether it shall go to the personal representatives as money. So, too, there is much confusion as to the rights of the heir and the executor of a mortgagee who has foreclosed and then died, if the foreclosure should be subsequently opened at the instance of the mortgagor. Other examples are taken from the option to purchase often given to a lessee; from the relation of landlord and tenant; and from the rules as to partnership property; and it is shewn, too, how in the administration of estates both the creditors and the beneficiaries in the personal estate have much to complain of. It is very desirable that such changes in our law as were proposed by the Lord Chancellor's Bill should be worked out with minute attention to details, and we think that Mr. Box has done well in calling attention to the subject. pur THE STRANGE CONFUSION Which (as the recent case of Re Whistler, 35 Ch. D. 558, shews) has arisen with regard to the application of the rule in Re Tanqueray-Willaume and Landau (30 W. R. 801, 20 Ch. D. 465), is probably due in part to the insertion, in the last edition of Lewin on Trusts, in the midst of a paragraph relating to executors' receipts, of the statement "but the rule has been now adopted that after twenty years it is fair to presume that the debts have been paid, and the onus is on the executors to shew that such is not the case." The obvious meaning of this passage, considered in relation to its context, is that after twenty years from the testator's death a purchaser from executors of the leaseholds or other personal property of the testator is put upon inquiry as to whether any debts exist. This doctrine, which was boldly contended for in Re Whistler, would have been an inroad on the executor's power, for which, so far as we are aware, not a particle of support exists in the older authorities, and which is utterly opposed to the spirit of the modern cases. The general nature of the executor's power over the personal property of his testator was never better stated than by Lord MANSFIELD in Whale v. Booth (4 T. R. 625, note (a.)):— "The general rule both of law and equity is clear, that an executor That was a the con THE elementary rule as to the rights and liabilities of vendor and The doctrine that a vendor is liable for deterioration of the A CURIOUS QUESTION was raised in Re Jackson (35 W. R. 646) with regard to the old joint account clause inserted in mortgages. Does it operate only as between the mortgagor and the mortgagees, or does it alter the rights of the latter inter se? Three sisters advanced, cn various mortgages of real estate, moneys forming part of the proceeds of sale of their brother's residuary estate, to which they property sold, arising, not merely from his wilful waste, but also were entitled as tenants in common. The mortgages were taken from his negligence-as, for instance, from his allowing fences to (apparently for the convenience of the mortgagors) in the names of get out of repair or the land to remain uncultivated-was laid the sisters as joint tenants, and in each mortgage deed an ordinary down in Foster v. Deacon (3 Madd. 394), decided two years after joint account clause was inserted. After the death of all the Harford v. Purrier, and was fully established by subsequent sisters the question was raised, in an action for the administration cases (see Ferguson v. Tadman, 1 Sim. 530; Regent's Canal Co. v. of the estate of one of them, whether the insertion of the joint Ware, 23 Beav. 575; Thomas v. Buxton, 8 Eq. 120). The lanaccount clause was sufficient to countervail the equitable rule that guage of the earlier cases clearly implied that it was the duty of money jointly advanced belongs to the lenders as tenants in the vendor to re-let the land sold on a yearly tenancy, so common. The chief clerk held that it did; Mr. Justice NORTH as to prevent it from going out of cultivation; and this was held that it did not; but the decision of the learned judge appears subsequently expressly laid down by Jessel, M.R., in Earl of to have rested on the evidence which was adduced of the intention of Egmont v. Smith (6 Ch. D. 469). The duty of the vendor, he said, the lenders. The question would have been a serious one if the clause "is to let the farms from year to year in order to obtain a were still inserted or if any doubt were left on the subject in the sufficient rent and to keep the farms in a good state of cultivation. substituted provisions of the Conveyancing Act, 1881. Fortunately, Whether the vacancy happen in the ordinary course of however, section 61 expressly provides that "the mortgage-money determining the tenancy either by the landlord or the tenant, or shall be deemed to be and remain money belonging to whether the vacancy happens because the landlord gave the notice those persons on a joint account, as between them and the mort- at the request of the purchaser, appears to me, as regards the subgagor. And we apprehend that this is the true interpretation of sequent liability, wholly immaterial." But there is no hint to be the old clause, and that Mr. Justice NORTH might have found in found in the earlier cases of any liability on the vendor greater the general rule for the construction of deeds laid down in Bold v. than that resulting from an obligation to take reasonable care of Molineux (Dyer, 15a), and confirmed in Roe v. Hayley (12 East, 464) the property, so that the purchaser may obtain it in the condition. -viz., that "in every deed a reasonable intention shall be construed, in which he agreed to buy it. And it was considered to be also although the words sound to a contrary meaning -a reason for settled that this liability of the vendor was restricted to deterioraconstruing the clause as applying only as between mortgagor and tion occurring before the time fixed for completion or the time at mortgagees. which the title shewn was such that the purchaser ought to have taken possession: Binks v. Lord Rokeby (2 Swanst. 222); Minchin v. Nance (4 Beav. 332). "As to deterioration after he took possession, or after there was a title under which he might take possession," said Lord Eldon in Binks v. Lord Rokeby (p. 226), "the purchaser cannot have an allowance in respect of that." THE AUTHORITIES at the Treasury who compile the judicial statistics are not yet aware that petitions in the Chancery Division are no longer presented at "the Rolls." In their return it is stated |