virtue of that Act, or in any other document, or in any Act of Parliament. XVI.-COURT; PROCEDURE; Orders. 69. Regulations respeciing payments into court and applications-39 & 40 Vict. c. 59, s. 17.] (1.) All matters within the jurisdiction of the Court under this Act shall, subject to the Acts regulating the Court, be assigned to the Chancery Division of the Court. (2.) Payment of money into Court shall effectually exonerate therefrom the person making the payment. (3.) Every application to the Court shall, except where it is otherwise expressed, be by summons at Chambers. (4.) On an application by a purchaser notice shall be served in the first instance on the vendor. (5.) On an application by a vendor notice shall be served in the first instance on the purchaser. (6.) On any application notice shall be served on such persons, if any, as the Court thinks fit. (7.) The Court shall have full power and discretion to make such order as it thinks fit respecting the costs, charges, or expenses of all or any of the parties to any application. (8.) General Rules for purposes of this Act shall be deemed Rules of Court within section seventeen of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and may be made accordingly. (9.) The powers of the Court may, as regards land in the County Palatine of Lancaster, be exercised also by the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine; and Rules for regulating proceedings in that Court shall be from time to time made by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with the advice and consent of a Judge of the High Court acting in the Chancery Division, and of the Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine. (10.) General Rules, and Rules of the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine, under this Act may be made at any time after the passing of this Act, to take effect on or after the commencement of this Act. 70. Orders of Court conclusive-40 & 11 Vict. c. 18, s. 40] (1.) An order of the Court under any statutory or other jurisdiction shall not, as against a purchaser, be invalidated on the ground of want of jurisdiction, or of want of any concurrence, consent, notice, or service, whether the purchaser has notice of any such want or not. (2.) This section shall have effect with respect to any lease, sale, or other Act under the authority of the Court, and purporting to be in pursuance of the Settled Estates Act, 1877, notwithstanding the exception in section forty of that Act, or to be in pursuance of any former Act repealed by that Act, notwithstanding any exception in such former Act. (3.) This section applies to all orders made before or after the commencement of this Act, except any order which has before the commencement of this Act been set aside or determined to be invalid on any ground, and except any order as regards which an action or proceeding is at the commencement of this Act pending for having it set aside or determined to be invalid. XVII. REPEALS. 71. Repeal of enactment in Part III. of Second Schedule; restriction on all repeals.] (1.) The enactments described in Part III. of the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed. (2.) The repeal by this Act of any enactment shall not affect the validity or invalidity, or any operation, effect, or consequence of any instrument executed or made, or of any. thing done or suffered, before the commencement of this Act, or any action, proceeding, or thing then pending or uncompleted; and every such action, proceeding, and thing may be carried on and completed as if there had been no such repeal in this Act; but this provision shall not be construed as qualifying the provision of this Act relating to section forty of the Settled Estates Act, 1877, or any former Act epealed by that Act. XVIII.-IRELAND. 72. Modifications respecting Ireland-40 & 41 Vict. c. 57, 3. 69.] (1.) In the application of this Act to Ireland the foregoing provisions shall be modified as in this section provided. (2.) The Court shall be Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in Ireland. (3.) All matters within the jurisdiction of that Court shall, subject to the Acts regulating that Court, be assigned to the Chancery Division of that Court; but General Rules under this Act may direct that any of those matters be assigned to the Land Judges of that Division. (4.) The proper office of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Ireland shall be substituted for the central office of the Supreme Court of Judicature. (5.) General Rules for purposes of this Act for Ireland shall be deemed Rules of Court within the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), 1877, and may be made accordingly, at any time after the passing of this Act, to take effect on or after the commencement of this Act. 73. Death of bare trustee intestate, &c.—37 & 38 Vict. c. 78.] (1.) Section 5 of the Vendor aud Purchaser Act, 1874, is hereby repealed from and after the commencement of this Act, as regards cases of death thereafter happening, and section 7 of the Vendor and Purchaser Act, 1874, is hereby repealed as from the date at which it came into operation. (2.) This section extends to Ireland only. SCHEDULES. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. ACTS AFFECTED PART I. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110.-An Act for abolishing arrest on mesne process in civil actions, except in certain cases; for extending the remedies of creditors against the property of debtors; and for amending the laws for the relief of insolvent debtors in England. 2 & 3 Vict. c. 11.-An Act for the better protection of purchasers against judgments, crown debts, lis pendens, and fiats in bankruptcy. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 15.-An Act for the better protection of purchasers against judgments, crown debts, cases of lis pendens, and life annuities or rentcharges. 22 & 23 Vict. c. 35.-An Act to further amend the law of property and to relieve trustees. 23 & 24 Vict. c. 38.-An Act to further amend the law of property. 23 & 24 Vict. c. 115.-An Act to simplify and amend the practice as to the entry of satisfaction on Crown debts and on judgments. 27 & 28 Vict. c. 112.-An Act to amend the law relating to future judgments, statutes, and recognisances. 28 & 29 Vict. c. 104.-The Crown Suits, &c., Act, 1865. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 54.-The Judgments Extension Act, 1868. ' Journal , THIS INDENTURE made by way of statutory mortgage the day of 1882 between A. of [&c.] of the one part and M. of [&c.] of the other part WITNESSETH that in consideration of the sum of £ now paid to A. by M. of which sum A. hereby acknowledges the receipt A. as mortgagor and as beneficial owner hereby conveys to M. all that [&c.] To hold to and to the use of M. in fee simple for securing payment on the day of 1883 of the principal sum of £ as the mortgage money with interest thereon at the rate of [four] per centum per annum. In witness &c. Variations in this and subsequent forms to be made, if required, for leasehold land, or other matter. day of PART II. (A.) Deed of Statutory Re-conveyance of Mortgage. THIS INDENTURE made by way of statutory re-conveyance of mortgage the day of 1884 between C. of [&c.] of the one part and B. of [&c.] of the other part supplemental to an indenture made by way of statutory transfer of mortgage dated the day of 1883 and made between [&c.] WITNESSETH that in consideration of all principal money and interest due under that indenture having been paid of which principal and interest C. hereby acknowledges the receipt C. as mortgagee hereby conveys to B. all the lands and hereditaments now vested in C. under the said indenture To hold to and to the use of B. in fee simple discharged from all principal money and interest secured by and from all claims and demands under the said indenture. In witness &c. Variations as noted above. THE FOURTH SCHEDULE. Deed of Statutory Transfer, Mortgagor not joining. THIS INDENTURE made by way of statutory transfer of mortgage the 1883 between M. of [&c.] of the one part and T. of [&c.] of the other part supplemental to an indenture made by way of statutory mortgage dated the day of 1882 and made between [&c.] WITNESSETH that in consideration of the sum of £ paid to M. by T. being the aggregate amount of £ mortgage money and £ interest due in respect of the said mortgage of which sum M. hereby acknowledges the receipt M. as mortgagee hereby conveys and transfers to T. the benefit of the said mortgage. In witness &c. (B.) now Deed of Statutory Transfer, a Covenantor joining. THIS INDENTURE made by way of statutory transfer of mortgage the day of 1883 between A. of [&c.] of the first part B. of [&c.] of the second part and C. of [&c.] of the third part supplemental to an indenture made by way of statutory mortgage dated the day of 1882 and made between [&c.] WITNESSETH that in consideration of the sum of £ now paid to A. by C. being the mortgage money due in respect of the said mortgage no interest being now due and payable thereon of which sum A. hereby acknowledges the receipt A. as mortgagee with the concurrence of B. who joins herein as covenantor hereby conveys and transfers to C. the benefit of the said mortgage. In witness &c. (C.) Statutory Transfer and Statutory Mortgage combined. THIS INDENTURE made by way of statutory transfer of mortgage and statutory mortgage the day of 1883 between A. of [&c.] of the 1st part B. of [&c.] of the 2nd part and C. of [&c.] of the 3rd part supplemental to an indenture made by way of statutory mortgage dated the day of 1882 and made between [&c.] WHEREAS the principal sum of £ only remains due in respect of the said mortgage as the mortgage money and no interest is now due and payable thereon AND WHEREAS B. is seised in fee simple of the land comprised in the said mortgage subject to that mortgage NOW THIS INDENTURE NESSETH that in consideration of the sum of £ paid to A. by C. of which sum A. hereby acknowledges the receipt and B. hereby acknowledges the payment and receipt as aforesaid A. as mortgagee hereby conveys and transfers to C. the benefit of the said mortgage AND THIS INDENTURE ALSO WITNESSETH that for the same consideration A. as mortgagee and according to his estate and by direction WIT now 1882, between A. of [&c.] of the one part and B. of [&c.] and C. of [&c.] of the other part WITNESSETH that in consideration of the sum of £ paid to A. by B. and C. out of money belonging to them on a joint account of which sum A. hereby acknowledges the receipt A. hereby Covenants with B. and C. to pay to them on the day of 1882 the sum of £ with interest thereon in the meantime at the rate of [four] per centum per annum and also as long after that day as any principal money remains due under this mortgage to pay to B. and C. interest thereon at the same rate by equal half-yearly payments on the day of and the day of AND THIS INDENTURE ALSO WITNESSETH that for the same consideration A. as beneficial owner hereby conveys to B. and C. All that [&c.] To hold to and to the use of B. and C. in fee simple subject to the proviso for redemption following (namely) that if A. or any person claiming under him shall on the day of 1882 pay to B. and C. the sum of day of 18 THIS INDENTURE made the between [the same parties as the foregoing mortgage] and supplemental to an indenture of mortgage dated the day of 18 and made between the same parties for securing the sum of £ and interest at [four] per centum per annum on property at [&c.] WITNESSETH that in consideration of the further sum of £ paid to A. by B. and C. out of money belonging to them on a joint account [add receipt and covenant as in the foregoing mortgage] and further that all the property comprised in the before-mentioned indenture of mortgage shall stand charged with the payment to B. and C. of the sum of £ and the interest thereon herein before covenanted to be paid as well as the sum of £ and interest secured by the same indenture. In witness, &c. III.-Conveyance on Sale. THIS INDENTURE made the the effect in the second column of the said schedule men. tioned: And whereas it is expedient, with a view to the future consideration of the cases by Parliament, to provide temporarily for the suspension of elections in the said cities and boroughs: Be it therefore enacted, &c. : 1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Corrupt Practices (Suspension of Elections) Act, 1881. 2. Suspension of elections in certain cities and boroughs.] Au election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for any of the cities or boroughs mentioned in the schedule to this Act shall not be held until the expiration of seven days after the meeting of Parliament in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. between A. of [&c.] of the 1st part B. of [&c.] and C. of In witness, &c. [The Schedule above referred to. To contain list of documents retained by A.] IV.-Marriage Settlement. THIS INDENTURE made the day of SCHEDULE. CITIES AND BOROUGHS REFERRED TO. Name of City or Canterbury 1882 be Gloucester tween John M. of [&c.] of the first part Jane S. of [&c.] of Chester for a term of five hundred years without impeachment of Sandwich In witness, &c. CAP. XLII. An Act to suspend for a limited period, on account of And whereas the said commissioners have repectively reported as regards the existence of corrupt practices to Report of Comissioners as to prevalence of corrupt practices. Corrupt practices prevailed very extensively at the election of 1880. It was stated as an undoubted fact that all elections, both parliamentary and municipal, have for a long time past been corrupt. Corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the elections of 1879 and 1880. Corrupt practices extensively pre- Corrupt practices extensively pre- the election in February 1874, and has long extensively prevailed in the borough. CAP. XLIII. An Act to extend the Superannuation Act Amendment Whereas by the Superannuation Act, 1859, it is enacted appointed shall be deemed to have served in the permanent that for the purposes of that Act no person thereafter to be Civil Service of the State unless such person holds his appointment directly from the Crown or has been admitted into the Civil Service with a certificate from the Civil Service Commissioners, and that a person appointed before the passing of that Act to an office shall not be held to have served in the permanent Civil Service as aforesaid, unless such person belonged to a class which was at the passing of the Act entitled to superannuation allowance or to such other class as therein mentioned: And whereas in certain public departments of the State persons not belonging to the said classes were appointed after the passing of the said Act, and before the fourth day of ' Journal , June one thousand eight hundred and seventy, to established situations in the Civil Service, but through inadvertence on the part of the heads of such departments, and without any default on the part of the persons so appointed, no steps were taken before their appointment to procure for them certificates from the Civil Service Commissioners, and the Superannuation Act Amendment Act, 1873, was passed to relieve such persons, and authorised the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury at any time before the first day of Jauuary one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, upon application being made by the head of a public department, to declare that any such person as above mentioned should be in the same position as if he had been admitted into the Civil Service with a certificate from the Civil Service Commissioners : And whereas since the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four it has been discovered that certain persons appointed before the said fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventy to subordinate situations in the departments of the Postmaster-General and of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings were, without any default on the part of such persons, omitted from the applications authorised to be made to the Treasury by the Superannuation Act Amendment Act, 1873, and it is unjust that such persons should be deprived of the benefits of that Act: Be it therefore enacted, &c. : 1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Superannuation Act, 1881. 2. Extension of 36 & 37 Vict. c. 23.] The Superannuation Act Amendment Act, 1873, shall apply to the several persons appointed as aforesaid to subordinate situations in the departments of the Postmaster-General and of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, but not further or otherwise, in like manner as if it were herein re-enacted, with the substitution of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two for one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. "Client" includes any person who, as a principal, or on behalf of another, or as trustee or executor, or in any other capacity, has power, express or implied, to retain or employ, and retains or employs, or is about to retain or employ, a solicitor, and any person for the time being liable to pay to a solicitor, for his services, any costs, remuneration, charges, expenses, or disbursements: "Person "includes a body of persons corporate or unincorporate: "Incorporated Law Society" means, in England, the society referred to under that title in the Act passed in the session of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Attorneys, Solicitors, Proctors, and Certificated Conveyancers"; and, in Ireland, the society referred to under that title in the Attorneys and Solicitors Act, Ireland, 1866: "Provincial law societies or associations" means all bodies of solicitors in England incorporated by Royal Charter, or under the Joint Stock Companies Act, other than the Incorporated Law Society above mentioned. General Orders. 2. Power to make General Orders for remuneration in conveyancing, &c.] In England the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, and the president for the time being of the Incorporated Law Society, and the president of one of the provincial law societies or associations, to be selected and nominated from time to time by the Lord Chancellor to serve during the tenure of office of such president, or any three of them, the Lord Chancellor being one, and, in Ireland the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, the Master of the Rolls, and the president for the time being of the Incorporated Law Society, or any three of them, the Lord Chancellor being one, may from time to time make any such General Order as to them seems fit for prescribing and regulating the remuneration of solicitors in respect of business connected with sales, purchases, leases, mortgages, settlements, and other matters of conveyancing, and in respect of other business not being business in any action, or transacted in any Court, or in the Chambers of any Judge or Master, and not being otherwise contentious business, and may revoke or alter any such Order. 3. Communication to Incorporated Law Society.] One month at least before any such General Order shall be made, the Lord Chancellor shall cause a copy of the regulations and provisions proposed to be embodied therein to be communicated in writing to the Council of the Incorporated Law Society, who shall be at liberty to submit such observations and suggestions in writing as they may think fit to offer thereon; and the Lord Chancellor, and the other persons hereby authorised to make such Order, shall take into consideration any such observations or suggestions which may be submitted to them by the said Council within one month from the day on which such communication to the said Council shall have been made as aforesaid, and, after duly considering the same, may make such Order, either in the form or to the effect originally communicated to the said Council, or with such alterations, additions, or amendments, as to them may seem fit. 4. Principles of remuneration.] Any General Order under this Act may, as regards the mode of remuneration, prescribe that it shall be according to a scale of rates of commission or per-centage, varying or not in different classes of business, or by a gross suu, or by a fixed sum for each document prepared or perused, without any regard to length, or in any other mode, or partly in one mode and partly in another, or others, and may, as regards the amount of the remuneration, regulate the same with reference to all or any of the following, among other considerations; (namely,) The position of the party for whom the solicitor is concerned in any business, that is, whether as vendor or as purchaser, lessor or lessee, mortgagor or mortgagee, and the like: The place, district, and circumstances at or in which the business or part thereof is transacted: The amount of the capital money or of the rent to which the business relates: The skill, labour, and responsibility involved therein on the part of the solicitor: The number and importance of the documents prepared or perused, without regard to length: The average or ordinary remuneration obtained by solicitors in like business at the passing of this Act. 5. Security for costs, and interest on disbursements.] Any General Order under this Act may authorise and regulate the taking by a solicitor from his client of security for future remuneration in accordance with any such Order, to be ascertained by taxation or otherwise, and the allowance of interest. 6. Order to be laid before Houses of Parliament; disallowance on address.] (1.) Any General Order under this Act shall not take effect unless and until it has been laid before each House of Parliament, and one month thereafter has elapsed. (2.) If within that month an address is presented to the Queen by either House, seeking the disallowance of the Order, or part thereof, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to disallow the Order, or that part, and the Order or part disallowed shall not take effect. 7. Effect of Order as to taxation.] As long as any General Order under this Act is in operation, the taxation of bills of costs of solicitors shall be regulated thereby. Agreements. 8. Power for solicitor and client to agree on form and amount of remuneration.] (1.) With respect to any business to which the foregoing provisions of this Act relate, whether any General Order under this Act is in operation or not, it shall be competent for a solicitor to make an agreement with his client, and for a client to make an agreement with bis solicitor, before or after or in the course of the transaction of any such business, for the remuneration of the solicitor, to such amount and in such manner as the solicitor and the client think fit, either by a gross sum, or by commission or per centage, or by salary, or otherwise; and it shall be competent for the solicitor to accept from the client, and for the client to give to the solicitor, remuneration accordingly. (2.) The agreement shall be in writing, signed by the person to be bound thereby or by his agent in that behalf. (3.) The agreement may, if the solicitor and the client think fit, be made on the terms that the amount of the remuneration therein stipulated for either shall include or shall not include all or any disbursements made by the solicitor in respect of searches, plans, travelling, stamps, fees, or other matters. (4.) The agreement may be sued and recovered on or impeached and set aside in the like manner and on the like grounds as an agreement not relating to the remuneration of a solicitor; and if, under any order for taxation of costs, such agreement being relied upon by the solicitor shall be objected to by the client as unfair or unreasonable, the taxing master or officer of the Court may inquire into the facts, and certify the same to the Court; and if, upon such certificate, it shall appear to the Court or judge that just Cause has been shown either for cancelling the agreement, or for reducing the amount payable under the same, the Court or judge shall have power to order such cancellation or reduction, and to give all such directions necessary or proper for the purpose of carrying such order into effect, or Otherwise consequential thereon, as to the Court or judge may seem fit. 9. Restriction on Solicitors Act, 1870-33 & 34 Vict. e. 28.] The Attorneys and Solicitors' Act, 1870, shall not apply to any business to which this Act relates. CAP. XLV. An Act to amend the Pedlars Act, 1871, as regards the district within which a certificate authorises a person to act as Pedlar. [22nd August 1881. Whereas by the Pedlars Act, 1871, it is provided that any pedlar who has obtained a pedlar's certificate desires to act as a pedlar in any other police district than that in which the certificate is taken out must obtain an indorsement of such certificate by the chief officer of police of such other district : And whereas it is expedient to remove the necessity for such indorsement : Be it therefore enacted, &c. : 1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Pedlars Act, 1881. This Act and the Pedlars Act, 1871, may be cited together as the Pedlars Acts, 1871 and 1881. 2. Alteration of 34 & 35 Vict. c. 96, so far as regards requiring indorsement of a pedlar's certificate.] A pedlar's certificate granted under the Pedlars Act, 1871, shall during the time for which it continues in force authorise the person to whom it is granted to act as a pedlar within any part of the United Kingdom. The Pedlars Certificate Act, 1871, is repealed to the extent in the third column of the schedule to this Act mentioned. SCHEDULE. ENACTMENTS REPEALED. A description or citation of a portion of an Act in this schedule is inclusive of the word, section, or other part first and last mentioned or otherwise referred so as forming the beginning, or as forming the end, of the portion described in the description or citation. Extent of Repeal. Section four, from "or Acts as a pedlar in any district" down to "this Act"; section six, from "a pedlar's certificate" down to "taken out "; section seven; in section eight the words "and of the indorsement of certificates" and the words "and made"; section twelve so far as it relates to an indorsement, and section fifteen so far as it relates to an indorsement. An Act to amend the Patriotic Fund Act, 1867, and make further provision respecting certain Funds administered by the same Commissioners as the Patriotic Fund. [22nd August 1881. Whereas the fund called the Patriotic Fund has been administered in accordance with commissions from Her Majesty (the original commission having been dated the seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and the supplementary commission having been dated the twenty-sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight), and in accordance with the Patriotic Fund Act, 1867, and has been so administered by the Commissioners and the executive committee appointed by them in pursuance of the said commissions : And whereas the Commissioners appropriated the Patriotic Fund for divers purposes, and among others for the erection and endowment of a girls school known as the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Girls, and for the partial endowment of a boys school known as the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Boys, and purchased land and erected thereon the said girls school and boys school, and such appropriations were confirmed by the Patriotic Fund Act, 1867 : And whereas, in pursuance of the said Act, Her Majesty by the said supplementary commission directed the Commissioners to apply the Patriotic Fund (subject to the appropriations above mentioned), in such manner ag the Commissioners might think fit, for the purposes mentioned in section five of the said Act, and further directed that the fund known as the Rodriguez Fund should be applied for the like purposes as the Patriotic Fund: And whereas the Commissioners have undertaken to apply to the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales for a scheme under the Endowed Schools Act, 1869, to deal with the government of the girls school known as the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Girls, and with such portion of the Patriotic Fund as has been appropriated for the endowment thereof : And whereas it is expedient to authorise the sale of the Asylum for Boys, and to make such other provision with boys school known as the Royal Victoria Patriotic respect to the said Commissioners and the Patriotic Fund and the Rodriguez Fund as is herein-after contained : And whereas the said Commissioners have accepted the administration of the funds mentioned in the schedule to this Act, and it is expedient to make further provision respecting those funds: Be it therefore enacted, &c. : 1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Patriotie Fund Act, 1881. 2. Authority to sell boys school.] The Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund may agree to sell the boys school known as the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Boys, and the land appropriated thereto, in such manner as |