LAW JOURNAL REPORTS

FOR

THE YEAR 1883:

COMPRISING

REPORTS OF CASES

IN

The House of Lords and in the Privy Council,

IN

The Court of Appeal, the Court for Crown Cases Reserved,

and the Court of Bankruptcy;

AND IN

THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

VIZ.

Chancery; Queen's Bench; and Probate, Divorce and

Admiralty, Divisions.

MICHAELMAS 1882 TO MICHAELMAS 1883.

The Appellate Cases, in the House of Lords, and in the Court of Appeal, are with the Reports of Cases

in the respective Divisions and Courts from which the Appeals come. These Cases form five distinct

VAumes, having separate Indexes of Subjects and Tables of Cases: viz., the Privy Council Volume;

the Chancery and Bankruptcy Volume; the Queen's Bench or Common Law Volume; the Probate,

Divorce and Admiralty Volume; and the Magistrates' Cases.

THE CASES RELATING TO THE POOR LAW, THE CRIMINAL LAW, AND OTHER SUBJECTS CHIEFLY

CONNECTED WITH THE DUTIES AND OFFICE OF MAGISTRATES, ARE SEPARATELY ARRANGED,

AND FORM A DISTINCT VOLUME OF REPORTS, VIZ. THE MAGISTRATES' CASES.

THE PRIVY COUNCIL CASES HAVE THEIR OWN INDEX AND TABLE OF CASES, AND FORM A

DISTINCT VOLUME OF REPORTS.

THE REPORTS ARE EDITED BY

MONTAGU CHAMBERS, ESQ., ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S Counsel,

FREDERICK HOARE COLT, Esq.,

AND

JOHN GEORGE WITT, Esq., BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

CHANCERY DIVISION, VOL. LII.

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NAMES OF THE BARRISTERS

BY WHOM THE CASES ARE REPORTED.

In the House of Lords,

LIONEL LANCELOT SHADWELL,

In the Privy Council,

EDWARD BULLOCK.

En Her Majesty's Court of Appeal,

ARTHUR CLEMENT EDDIS, H. LACY FRASER, ROBERT BRUCE RUSSELL, WILLIAM EDWARD GORDON and GEORGE ABBOTT STREETEN.

IN

THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE,

Court for Crown Cases Reserved,

WALTER HENRY MACNAMARA.

Chancery Division,

DAVID PITCAIRN, CECIL C. M. DALE, ARTHUR CORDERY, JAMES E. HORNE, GEORGE A. STREETEN,

WILLIAM COWELL DAVIES, LEWIS BOYD SEBASTIAN, JAMES EYRE THOMPSON and REGINALD BRODRICK SCHOMBERG.

Court of Bankruptcy,

ARTHUR CORDERY and WILLIAM COWELL DAVIES.

Queen's Bench Division,

W. DECIMUS I. FOULKES, J. H. ETHERINGTON SMITH, GILBERT GEORGE KENNEDY, RICHARD HOLMDEN AMPHLETT, FRANCIS PARKER and EDWARD BENNETT CALVERT.

Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division,

EDMUND FULLER GRIFFIN and HENRY STOKES.