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rabbit holes ;" and yet he does employ them out of rabbit holes, and insists that the Act of Parliament does not apply to him. It is not for this or any other court to question the wisdom of the Legislature; their duty is to interpret and apply the law. A case of hardship is easy to conceive where the rabbit holes are within plantations which the farmer has no right to enter. But even in such a case the farmer could not be justified in setting the plain terms of the Act of Parliament quite at defiance. It is undeniable, on the other hand, that the setting of spring traps in open ground conduces to the destruction both of winged and ground game; and this consideration is of importance in judg ing of another of the defender's pleas, to the effect that the Ground Game Act gave the pursuer more extensive rights than he had under this lease which was entered into before it passed. It is true that it gave him no more extensive rights-it even limited them, as it did those of the defender, by prohibiting him from taking game in certain ways and at certain times, in regard to which he was quite at liberty before. But it made an enactment-that now in question-plainly meant to prevent the injurious destruction of game by the laying down of traps in places where creatures more valuable than rabbits are certain to go. If that provision be favourable to the interests of the pursuer, the fact that it did not exist when he entered into his lease does not derogate from his right to call for its enforcement as the law of the land. The defender finally states as a ground of resistance that, before the passing of the Act in question, he let his right to trap rabbits from 31st of August, 1880, to 31st of March, 1881. If the person to whom he let that right thinks proper to take steps in due form to prove that the enactment in question had made it impossible for him to exercise his right to any advantage, his claim for damages may be considered. But in the meantime it cannot be entertained in a question between the pursuer and defender.

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LAW STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY. Tuesday, February 8, 1881.-Mr. Bower in the chair.Mr. P. T. Rhys and Mr. J. E. Fox were elected members. The following question was discussed:-"A married woman, having a life estate in property settled to her separate use with remainder as she shall by deed or will appoint, dies without having exercised her power. Is the property liable to satisfy a sum of money due on a bond given by the married woman?" The debate was opened by Mr. J. W. Evans in the affirmative, and was continued by Mr. Heppell in the negative. The following members also addressed the society:-Messrs. Gregson, R. Mossop, Bartlett, Kirk, and Sargeant on the affirmative side, and Messrs. Green, Woodhouse, Claremont, and H. Mossop on the negative. The opener having replied, the president summed up, and the question, on being put to the meeting, was decided in the negative by a majority of five votes. The subject for discussion on the 15th inst. will be, "Is the Government Bill with regard to corrupt practices at elections satisfactory?"

UNITED LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. A meeting of this society was held at the Law Institution, Chancery-lane, on Monday, February 7, Mr. A. D

Maclaren in the chair. The moot, "Was the case of Angus v. Dalton rightly decided ?" (L. R. 4 Q. B. D. 192, 40 L. J. N. S. 615, 48 L. J. N. S.) was opened by Mr. Wade in the negative, and he was supported by Mr. Jenks and opposed by Messrs. Rosher and Shera. The opener replied, and after the chairman had summed up, the question was, upon a division, decided in the affirmative by the casting vote.

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The usual weekly meeting was held at Clement's-inn on Wednesday, the 9th inst., Mr. F. O. Edlin in the chair. The subject of debate, "That the conduct of the Home Rule party has rendered indispensable the adoption of a measure restricting liberty of debate in the House of Commons, was opened by Mr. Parsons, who was supported by Messrs. Dowson, Warburton, Symes, Brown, Le Breton, Harvey, Shera, Perkins, and Newman, and opposed by Messrs. Trotter, Hutton, Tillotson, and Maclaren. The opener replied, and upon a division the motion was carried by a large majority. On Wednesday, February 16, the inaugural meeting will be held, at which Mr. McIntyre, Q.C., M.P., will take the chair, and a debate will then be held on the subject "That our land laws require remodelling for the purpose of restraining the accumulation of landed property in the hands of the few."

LORD JUSTICE BRAMWELL ON

JUDICATURE REFORM.

UNDER the signature "B." Lord Justice Bramwell writes to the Times :

I cannot agree with Mr. Justice Stephen's opinions as expressed in the article in the Nineteenth Century on the Jadicature Act. They seem to me beside the questions to be considered. He objects to the present Court of Appeal, and would re-establish the Exchequer Chamber, as I think. Be it so. I never saw anything very bad in that court or the principle of it. But it is not the question or one of the questions whether what he proposes should be done. Then he objects to what he calls the "one-judge system." That also is not now a question. It is established by the law of the land. But, says the learned judge, the changes proposed are "isolated changes, the effect of which can hardly be estimated unless a full statement is given of the scheme of which they are to form part." But a full statement is given. We know entirely what is the scheme of which they will be part. To use his own simile, we have a plan of the entire building of which this part, when repaired, is to be part. His argument is as though you could not repair one wing of a building without pulling the whole down and re-building. I will not be tempted to discuss the "one-judge system" at length. It is the law, and we must act on that while it so continues. But I wholly approve it. As far as cases before judge and jury are concerned, it is old. The statement that it will "subordinate the judges of the common law division to the Court of Appeal and make them mere commissioners to take evidence" is, in my opinion, wholly unfounded. Indeed, it is to me unintelligible, and, were it possible, I should say proceeded from a jealousy of that court. Where the case is not a jury case, but one for the judge only, there should be but one judge at common law, unless there should be more in chancery, and that no one contends for. But, I repeat, we must deal with the law as we find it.

I now address myself to what are the questions. They are two-First, shall the three common law divisions (as they are called for preciseness) be made into one? To this Mr. Justice Stephen does not object much, if at all. He

doubts if three divisions of five men each could not more easily arrange what each five should do than one division of fifteen what that division should do. Very likely. But the three divisions would not only have each to agree within itself, but each to arrange with the two others; and it is to me manifest that the fifteen could arrange better if not first divided into three parts. But, as Mr. Justice Stephen says nothing much, if anything, against this proposal, I will say no more about it.

He does object more, though, to the abolition of the offices of the two chiefs. He says the money is of no consequence. I agree, though it may be observed it would nearly pay for another judge-quite if the salary of the Master of the Rolls is reduced. He says that even if the divisions are abolished names could be found for the two; and, following an argument which appears a favourite one now-a-days, he says, Why, if other officers have wrong names, should not judges, and a

person be called Chief Baron though there are no barons ? There is nothing in a name, certainly. If the thing were desirable, a reasonable name could be found -viz., as suggested by Mr. Justice Stephen, first vice-president, second vice-president. But I now come to the substance of the objection, which is remarkable. He says, as I understand him, there is a class of barristers who are great advocates-I suppose he means before a jury. These men get into Parliament and in time become Solicitor-General, and AttorneyGeneral, and eventually Chief Justice or Master of the Rolls. He leaves out the Chancellorship. These men, says he, would not be tempted to leave the bar to be puisne judges, nor even to be Lords of Appeal, or Lords Justices. For which latter offices, indeed, says he, their fitness may be doubted. The consequence is the greatest advocates would cease to be judges, to the great disparagement of the bench. Moreover, the most important cases are tried before judges; men's lives are at stake, public attention is fixed on such cases, and you adopt a system which prevents the fittest men from trying them! Wonderful! This is an argument which, if good for anything, is good for having, not three, but fifteen Chief Justices. Surely Mr. Justice Stephen forgets that the puisne judges try these remarkable cases as much or nearly as much as the chiefs. On circuit fourteen judges go, only two of whom were chiefs, so that six-sevenths of the cases, great and small, are tried

on circuit by the puisnes. So in London. The chiefs never go to the Old Bailey. I can only remember three or four occasions in the last twenty-five years. There have been others when it suited a chief to go, or when he had to go the North Wales or Norfolk Circuit, and it fell to him to go. So of the cases at Westminster and Guildhall, they are tried almost indifferently by chiefs and puisnes. Chief Justice Cockburn, indeed, who liked a page of the Times daily devoted to him and his performances, picked out of the general lists cases which would afford him that gratification, but no other chief ever did. There really seems to me no foundation for this argument. The first year I was a judge I was sent on circuit to try a murder which lasted four days. No chief volunteered to go. I always went to the Old Bailey whatever the cases were. No chief, though on the rota, did. The same is true of other judges. But it is not true that we should not get such men as Mr. Justice Stephen mentions to be judges. When they found they could neither be Chancellor nor Chief Justice, and were not made Lords of Appeal nor Lords Justices, because "the public interest did not require men of that class to be placed there," they would quietly take their seats as puisne judges after they had saved a good sum of money by their large practice. There are many things I should like to notice in Mr. Justice Stephen's article, some to agree with and some to dissent from, but they are beside the questions to be discussed, and I refrain. I entirely agree that appeals are allowed where they ought not to be. I am surprised at the objection (page 79) "that two judges may overrule four;" of course, so it always must be. In the Lords two may overrule seven. am the more convinced the changes proposed should be made in that such a man as Mr. Justice Stephen can say so little against them.

LEGAL APPOINTMENTS.

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Mr. JAMES ALLON TUCKER, solicitor, of Bath and Calne, has been appointed a Commissioner to administer Oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature.

Mr. HENRY FOX BRISTOWE, Q.C., has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, in succession to the late Mr. George Little, Q.C. Mr. Bristowe is the second son of the late Mr. Samuel Ellis Bristowe, of Beesthorpe Hall, Nottinghamshire, and was born in 1824. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in Trinity Term, 1847. He practised for many years as an equity draftsman and conveyancer, and was for several years one of the editors of the WEEKLY REPORTER. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1869, and has since practised in the court of Vice-Chancellor Malins. Mr. Bristowe is a bencher of the Middle Temple.

Mr. EDWARD HENRY BIGGIN, solicitor, of 61, Chancerylane, has been appointed a Commissioner to administer Oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature.

Mr. WILLIAM BANTOFT, jun., solicitor (of the firm of Birkett & Bantoft), of Ipswich, has been appointed a Commissioner to administer Oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature.

Mr. FREDERICK DUTTON, Solicitor, of 3, Drapers-gardens, Throgmorton-street, London, has been appointed a Commis sioner to take Acknowledgments of Married Women for the Colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, and New Zealand, and also a Commissioner to take Affidavits in the Supreme Courts of the Colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, New Zealand, and Tasmania. Mr. Dutton has also been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Province of South Australia.

Mr. PATRICK FRASER, LL.D., Q.C., has been appointed a Judge of the Court of Session in Scotland, in succession to the late Lord Ormidale. The new judge was called to the bar in Scotland in 1843, and he was appointed sheriff of Renfrewshire in 1862. He has been for several years dean of the Faculty of Advocates, and he was last year appointed a Queen's Counsel for Scotland. He is the author of a treatise on "The Law of Personal and Domestic Relations."

Mr. H. L. W. GODWIN, solicitor, of 64, Moorgate-street and New Southgate (of the firm of H. S. Harris & Godwin), has been appointed Solicitor to the School Board for Edmonton. Mr. Godwin was admitted in Hilary Term, 1868.

Mr. HENRY GRIFFITH has been elected Treasurer of the Honourable Society of Gray's-inn for the ensuing year.

Mr. RICHARD CLARENCE HALSE, solicitor, of 61, Cheapside, has been elected Chairman of the Law and City Courts Committee in the Common Council. Mr. Halse was admitted a solicitor in 1860, and he is a common councilman for Cheap Ward.

Mr. RICHARD HART, solicitor, of Folkestone, has been appointed a Magistrate for that borough. Mr. Hart was admitted a solicitor in 1829. He is vestry clerk of Folkestone parish, and clerk to the Folkestone Burial Board, and was for several years clerk to the borough magistrates.

Mr. MARK SHEPHARD, solicitor, of 27, College-street, College-bill, has been elected Chairman of the Epping Forest Committee in the Common Council. Mr. Shephard was admitted a solicitor in 1840, and he is deputy for Vintry Ward.

Mr. CHARLES ALFRED WOOLLEY, solicitor (of the firm of Hill, Fitzhugh, Woolley, & Griffith), of Brighton, has been elected Town Clerk of Hove, in succession to Mr. William Packwood, deceased. Mr. Woolley was admitted a solicitor

in 1856.

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP. WILLIAM HENRY BROOK and PERCY DAVIES, Warrington, solicitors. Jan. 31. [Gazette, Jan. 8, 1881.]

COMPANIES.

WINDING-UP NOTICES.

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.

LIMITED IN CHANCERY.

EDISON TELEPHONE COMPANY OF LONDON, LIMITED.-The M. R. has fixed Feb 12 at 11 at his chambers for the appointment of an official liquidator

ELDORADO GOLD MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.-Petition for winding up presented Jan 8 directed to be heard before the M. K. on Feb 19. Randall and Angier, Gray's inn pl, solicitors, petitioners in person ENGLISH YEAST COMPANY, LIMITED.-The V.C.M. has fixed Feb 15 at 12 at his chambers for the appointment of an official liquidator GENERAL FIREWOOD COMPANY, LIMITED.-The V C.H. has fixed Feb 14 at 12 at his chambers for the appointment of an official liquidator

HOPE IRON, STEEL, AND WIRE COMPANY, LIMITED.-Petition for winding up presented Feb 3 directed to be heard before the M. R. on Feb 12. Field and Co, Lincoln's inn fields, agents for Buckton and Greenall, Warrington, solicitors for the petitioners MERCANTILE MUTUAL MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, LIMITED. -Petition for winding up, presented Feb 1, directed to be heard before the M. R. on Feb 12. Greenop and Sons, St Peter's alley, Cornhill, solicitors for the petitioner [Gazette, Feb. 4.J

ANGLO-FRENCH PORCELAIN COMPANY, LIMITED.-The M.R. has, by an order dated Dec 20, appointed Samuel Lovelock, 19, Coleman st, to be official liquidator, in the place and stead of George Scott EXCHANGE BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED.- By an order of the V.C.B. dated Jan 29, it was ordered that the company be wound up. Clarke and Co, Lincoln's inn fields, solicitors for the petitioner COTTAGES AND VILLAS BUILDING AND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. By an order made by the M.R. dated Jan 29 it was ordered that the company be wound up. Bryden, Bennett's hill, Doctor's Commons, solicitor for the petitioner FLAGSTAFF SILVER MINING COMPANY OF UTAH, LIMITED.-The M.R. has by an order dated Dec 14 appointed James Waddell, Queen Victoria st, to be official liquidator. Creditors are required on or before Apr 4 to send their names and addresses to the above. Apr 26 at 11 is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims

LIBERIA COFFEE COMPANY, LIMITED.-Petition for winding up presented Feb 3 directed to be heard before the V.C.H. on Feb 18. Vandercom and Co. Cannon st, solicitors for the petitioner. LOMBARD LOAN AND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.-Petition for winding up, presented Feb 2, directed to be heard before the V.C.M. on Feb 18. Jourdain, Ludgate hill, solicitor for the petitioners

MARINE AQUARIUM COMPANY, SCARBOROUGH, LIMITED.-By an order of the M.R., dated Jan 29, it was ordered that the voluntary winding up of the company should be continued. Taylor, Hoare, and Taylor, Gt James st, Bedford row, solicitors for the petitioner.

MERSEY STEEL AND IRON COMPANY, LIMITED.-Petition for winding up, presented Feb 4, directed to be heard before the V.C.M. on Feb 18. Wynne and Son, Chancery lane, solicitors for the pe

titioners.

MOSAIC TILE COMPANY, LIMITED.-The M. R. has by an order dated Jan 10 appointed Frederick Hooper Harvey, Sandford place, Stoke Newington, and James Alexander Croft, Ashley, Putney, to be official liquidators, Creditors are required, on or before March 10, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to the above. Friday, March 25, at 12, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims

REVENUE MINERAL COMPANY. LIMITED.-Petition for winding up presented Feb 4 directed to be heard before the M.R. on Feb 19. Bolton, Smith, and Co, Temple gardens, Temple, Solicitors for the petitioners

SOUTH KENSINGTON CO-OPERATIVE STORES, LIMITED.-Creditors are required, on or before March 1, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Henry John Leslie, Frederick's place, Old Jewry. Tuesday, March 22, at 12, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims SOUTH LONDON DAIRY SUPPLY ASSOCIATION, LIMITED.-By an order made by the M.R., dated Jan 29, it was ordered that the association be wound up. Bellamy and Co, Bishopsgate st Within, solicitors for the petitioner

TRAMWAYS SHARE INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.-By an order made by V.C.B., dated Jan 29, it was ordered that the company be wound up. Bellamy and Co. Bishopsgate st Within, solicitors for the petitioner

Gazette, Feb. 8.

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"Law" writes to the Times:-" Will yon kindly allow the attention of the public and my brothers of the legal profession to be called to the enclosed notice, which appeared at the head of the list at the common law judges' chambers this morning, without any previous warning to the parties or the profession, except such as could be gained by a perusal of the list published in today's papers or at the Royal Courts after six p.m yesterday? I had a summons adjourned by a judge last week till to-day, when it was fixed to be heard at twelve o,clock, but on arriving at that hour I found it had been transferred to the eleven o'clock list in pursuance of the notice, which is as follows:-'The Hon. Baron Pollock will sit at chambers to-day, and all the summonses returned for twelve o'clock will be taken at eleven o'clock, and those returned for one o'clock will be taken at twelve o'clock, or as soon after as may be convenient. Counsel will be heard at balf-past twelve.' I was told by an fficial that further changes in regard to the list would probably be made between this and the 18th inst. I can only say I hope we shall have prior notice of them. May

I suggest that before they are made the council of the Law Society should be consulted, or a few solicitors who themselves practice at chambers, or even half-a-dozen managing clerks of large firms should be asked to advise. Such a course would result in increased convenience both to the public and the authorities."

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JAMIESON, ALEXANDER, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Grocer.
Brewis and Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Feb 28.

KENDALL, THOMAS, Whinfell House, Westmoreland, Gent. Feb 21. Heels, Appleby

LAMB, JOHN, Doncaster, Butcher. March 31. Palmer, Doncaster MARRIOTT, THOMAS BECKETT FEILDING, Avonbank, nr Pershore, Lieut. Gen., H.M.'s Royal Artillery. March 15. Martin, Pershore MCUREIGHT, CHARLES WILLIAM DICKEY, St Helier's, Jers y, Esq. March 12. Ormerod and Allen, Manchester

MYLES, THOMAS, Sheffield, Jeweller. March 31. Rodgers and Co, Sheffield

PATTISON, EDWARD, Gateshead, Durham, Glasscutter.

Feb 28.

Feb 28.

Brewis and Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

PATTISON, EDWARD, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Glasscutter. Brewis and Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

PETRIE, JANET, Brunswick pl, Swansea. March 25. Bellingham, Swansea

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Feb 21.

SIMPSON, STEPHEN, Brixton rd, Licensed Victualler. Feb 24.
Clapham and Fitch, Bishopsgate st Without

SOPWITH, JOHN, Tynemouth, Northumberland, Cabinet Maker.
Feb 28. Forster and Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
SPARKS, EDWARD ISAAC, Misterton, Somerset, M.B. March 8.
Sparks and Blake, Crewkerne

SPIVET, ELIZABETH, Doncaster. March 31. Palmer, Doncaster STEPHENSON, JOSEPH, Long Marton, Westmoreland, Yeoman. Feb 24. Heelis, Appleby

THORPE, FRANCIS CORBETT, Hampton, Gent. March 8. Sparks and Blake, Crewkerne

THURIELL, WALTER, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Factor. March 1. Lewis and Lewis, Holborn

WILSON, Rev. ARTHUR CHARLES, Nocton Vicarage, Lincoln. March 15. Toynbee and Co, Lincoln

¡Gazette, Jan. 28.]

LEGISLATION OF THE WEEK.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

FEB. 3.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILLS.-Sectional or Block-Buildings Management, &c., Colne and Marsden Local Board.

FEB. 4.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILLS.-Stockton Bridge, Boston Ocean Dook and Railway, Tuckton Bridge, Brading Harbour, Rathin and Cerrig-y-Druidion Railway.

FEB. 7.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILLS.-Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, Oxford Police.

FEB 8.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILLS.-Cadogan and Hans-place Estate, Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway, East London Water, Byker-bridge (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Hylton, Southwick, and Monkwearmouth Railway, Railway Passengers' Assurance Company, Solicitors' Remuneration, Settled Land, Conveyancing and Law of Property, Limitation of Actions.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

FEB. 3.-BILL READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILL.-West Ham Local Board.

FEB. 4.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILLS. - Bradford Water and Improvement, Reading Corporation, Swanage Railway, Tyne Improvement, Westbury-on-Trym Gas (No. 1), Cheshire Salt Districts Compensation.

FEB. 7.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILLS.-Alnwick Gas, Birkenhead Corporation (Gas and Water), Birkenhead Corporation (Improvement, &c.), Burton-on-Trent (Station-street Extension) Railway, Cambridge University and Town Gas, Cleator and Workington Junction Railway, Elham Valley Light Railway, Holland (parts of) and Sutton Bridge Water, Kingston-upon-Hall Corporation Loans, &c., London City Commissioners of Sewers (Artizans' Dwellings), Oxted and Groombridge Railway, Richmond Gas, Ryton Local Board (Water), Sheffield Water, Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway, Stalybridge Extension and Improvement, Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway, Westburyupon-Trym Gas (No. 2), Westgate and Birchington Gas, Woking Water and Gas.

BILL IN COMMITTEE. Consolidated Fand (passed through Committee).

FEB. 8.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILLS.-Goole and District Gas and Water, North Staffordshire Railway (Cauldron Quarries).

FEB. 9.-BILLS READ A SECOND TIME. PRIVATE BILLS.-Aylesbury and Rickmansworth Railway, Fylde Water, Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Hoylake and Birkenhead Rail and Tramway, Lydd Railway, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Additional Powers), Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (New Works), Metropolitan Railway, Skipton and Kettlewell Railway (Extension to Aysgarth). BILL READ A FIRST TIME.

Bill to further amend the Law relating to Sea Fisheries, by providing for the Protection of Clam and other Bait Beds (Mr. Chamberlain).

COURT PAPERS.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.
ORDER OF COURT.

Thursday, the 3rd day of February, 1881. Whereas, from the present state of the business before the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellors, Sir Richard Malins, Sir James Bacon, and Sir Charles Hall, and Mr. Justice Fry respectively, it is expedient that a portion of the causes assigned to the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellors, Sir Richard Malins and Sir Charles Hall, and now standing for trial or hearing before their lordships, should be transferred to the Vice-Chancellor Sir James Bacon; and that certain of the causes so to be transferred should for the purpose only of trial or hearing be transferred from the Vice-Chancellor Sir James Bacon to Mr. Justice Fry: Now I, the Right Honourable

Roundell Baron Selborne, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, do hereby order that the several causes set forth in the first, second, and third schedules hereto be accordingly transferred from the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellors Sir Richard Malins and Sir Charles Hall to the Vice-Chancellor Sir James Bacon, and taken as causes assigned to the Vice-Chancellor Sir James Bacon, and be marked in the cause books accordingly. And I do further order that the causes in the first schedule when so transferred be for the purpose only of trial or hearing transferred from the Vice-Chancellor Sir James Bacon to Mr. Justice Fry. And this order is to be drawn up by the registrar and set up in the several offices of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice.

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1880 H 3,119

Pardew v Ellis aot, wits 1880 P 70
Pardew v Ellis act, wits 1880 P 71
Atherley v Saunders act, wits 1879 A 187
In re Hobbs, Hobbs v Cullum act, wits
Hoole v Smith act, wits 1880 H 129
Hedley Ecclesiastical Commrs for England act, wits
1880 H 0,414

The Blackpool Land, &c, Co The Imperial Hotel Co,
Blackpool, limd act, wits 1879 B 5,542

The King's Lynn Dock Co v Company of Proprietors of the Norfolk Estuary act wits 1880 K 452 Williamson Loud act, wits 1880 W 2,710

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Barker v Riddell act and m fj, wits 1880 B 2,018
Hampton v Hampton act 1880 H 2,107

In re Waterton, Fewster v Waterton act, wits 1879 W 430

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1879 J 112

Jackson v Haigh act, wits
Harding v Tatill act, wits 1880 H 01, 182
Bakewell v Jacob act, wits 1880 B 0,848
Day ▾ Neale act, wits 1880 D 0,156
Stewart v Holland act, wits 1879 S 102
McGregor v Middleton act, wits 1879 M 347

Middletou v McGregor act, wits 1879 M 1,242

Rolt v Rolt act, wits 1880 R 0,654

Davies Thomas act, wits 1879 D 199

Ogle v Berlin Phosphate, &c, Co act, wits 1879 0 53
Furber v King act, wits 1876 F 0,572

Furber v King act, wits 1879 F 0,573
Denvon v Northway act, wits 1879 D 105
Whitfield Balderston act, wits 1880 W 1,448
Castings White act, and m fj, wits 1880 C 0678
Wheeler Le Marchante act, wits 1880 W 1,793
Jones v Linton act, wits 1879 J 147

Ward Ashton v Bennett act, wits 1880 W 0,143
Mc Kensie v Yabsley act, wits 1880 M 898
Barney v Timothy and Green act, wits 1880 B 01,268
SELBORNE, C.

None of the causes in the above schedule will be placed in the paper for hearing before Thursday, the 17th day of February, 1881, unless by the written consent of all parties. H. LATHAM, Registrar.

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D'Arcy, Henry Edward Augustus, Well st, Cripplegate, Warehouseman. Pet Feb 1. Murray. Feb 18 at 11

Gibson, William, Palace chambers, Westminster, Wine Merchant. Pet Jan 31. Murray. Feb 15 at 11

To Surrender in the Country.

Abrahams, Moses, Birmingham, Commission Agent. Pet Jan 31. Cole. Birmingham, Feb 16 at 2

Blanchard, Harvey, Hockley, Birmingham, Baker. Pet Jan 31.
Parry. Birmingham, Feb 18 at 2

Haldane, Henry Ernest, Dover, Captain in H.M. 64th Regiment.
Pet Jan 14. Furley. Canterbury, Feb 18 at 12.30
Munfield, William, and Hannah Munfield, Bolton, Lancaster, Pro-
vision Dealers. Pet Feb 2. Holden. Bolton, Feb 23 at 11
Preece, Alfred, Wolverhampton, Household Furniture Dealer. Pet
Feb 1. Sanders. Wolverhampton, Feb 15 at 12

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