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May 29 at 12. John Sheldon, Hulme, brewer.

May 22 at 10, County Court of Suffolk, at Bury St. Edmunds. At the County Court of Lancashire, at MANCHESTER,
-Ebenezer Edward Morter, Lowestoft, Suffolk, gunmaker,
May 17 at 2, County Court of Suffolk, at Lowestoft.-Wm.
Crouch, Woodbridge, Suffolk, market gardener, May 19 at 2,
County Court of Suffolk, at Woodbridge.-James Black,
Birkenhead, Cheshire, licensed victualler, May 19 at 10,
County Court of Cheshire, at Birkenhead.

The following Persons, who, on their several Petitions filed in the Court, have obtained Interim Orders for Protection from Process, are required to appear in Court as hereinafter mentioned, at the Court-house, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn, as follows, to be examined and dealt with according to the Statute :

May 26 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. James Wood, Dover-road, Surrey, tea dealer.

May 29 at 11, before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS. John Vincent, Macclesfield-street South, City-road, St. Luke's, Old-street, Middlesex, smith.-Adam Uriah Bryant Meakin, Redcross-st., Cripplegate, London, ironmonger. The following Prisoners are ordered to be brought up before the Court, in Portugal-street, to be examined and dealt with according to the Statute :

May 26 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. John Paterson, Green-street, Leicester-square, Middlesex, baker.-Thomas George Frederick Holt, Church-st., Trinitysquare, Newington, Surrey, out of business.

May 26 at 10, before Mr. Commissioner MURPHY. James Knox, Harriet-place, New Church-road, Camberwell, Surrey, commission agent.

May 27 at 11, before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS. John Charles Roeder, Underwood-place, City-road, Middlesex, out of business.

May 29 at 11, before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS. George Frederick White, Park-st., Borough-market, Surrey, foreman to a potato salesman.-John Crocker, Goodgestreet, Tottenham-court-road, Middlesex, greengrocer.

May 29 at 10, before Mr. Commissioner MURPHY.
John Taylor, Fish-st.-hill, London, out of business.-W.
Blundell, Hanover-cottages, Park-road, St. John's-wood,
Middlesex, surgeon-dentist.-Wm. John Hughes, Sloane-st.,
Chelsea, Middlesex, mining engineer.-Wm. Thomas Plumb,
Wellington-place, Park-road, New Peckham, Old Kent-road,
Surrey, baker.

May 29 at 11, before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.
Adjourned Hearing.

Edwin Powell, York-place, Portman-square, Middlesex, in no business.

County Court of Lancashire, at Lancaster. Assignees have been appointed in the following Cases:—

James Wm. Holland, Longsight, near Manchester, out of business, No. 77,867; George Anderton, assignee.-Joseph Scholes, Oldham, licensed victualler, No. 77,904; William Ingham, assignee.-Jas. Hayes, Manchester, beerseller, No. 77,900; William Cole, assignee.-Jesse Lee, Brickfield, near Bacup, stonemason, No. 77,957; John Atherton, assignee.— Joseph Bridge, Preston, provision-shop keeper, No. 77,956; James Arrowsmith, assignee.-R. Leyland, Chorley, joiner, No. 77,953; William Atherton, assignee.-Thomas Cornall, Preston, labourer, No. 77,871; Robert Raby, assignee.-J. Porrett, Burnley, out of business, No. 77,967; Joseph Lee, assignee.-Joseph Winterbottom, Ashton-under-Lyne, out of business, No. 77,811; Francis Perry, assignee.

The following Prisoners are ordered to be brought up before a Judge of the County Court, to be examined and dealt with according to the Statute :

At the County Court of Lancashire, at LANCASTER,

May 26 at 12.

Richard Greenhalgh, Collyhurst, general machinist.-Robt. Parkinson, Preston, out of business.-Robert Gardner, Lancaster, beerseller.-John Cresswell, Manchester, plumber.Alfred Whaley Sanderson, Lancaster, tea dealer.-Thomas Cunliffe, Leyland, near Preston, out of business.-Thomas Warburton, Rochdale, machinist.-Charles Turner, Hollinwood, bricklayer.-Daniel Antrobus, Lower Broughton, out of business.-Sam. Broadbent, Oldham, provision-shop keeper. -Thomas Henry Allwood, Liverpool, professor of music.John Bilsborough the younger, Clitheroe, out of business.

At the County Court of Gloucestershire, at BRISTOL, June 1 at half-past 10.

William Low, Bristol, blacksmith.

At the County Court of Kent, at DOVER, June 14 at 11. John W. Lesingham, Elm-place, Kensington, Middlesex, house agent.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' DIVIDENDS.

Henry Mordaunt Martin Byne, Dulcot, near Wells, Somersetshire, out of business: 68. 2d. in the pound.—John E. Balls, St. David-street, Dover-road, Surrey, mill sawyer: 18. 2 d. in the pound. -John Gyles, Barnsbury-grove, Barns. bury-park, Islington, Middlesex, shoemaker: 208. in the pound.-Wm. Harries Tilbury, Camden-street North, Camden-town, Middlesex, comedian: 28. in the pound.-Philip Bredeoake, Leigh, Lancashire, grocer: 18. (making 38. 2d.) in the pound.-Thomas White the younger, Abberley, Worcestershire, farmer: 2s. 2d. in the pound.-James Wilson, Kiswick, Crosthwaite, Cumberland, blacksmith: 20s. in the pound.-Wm. Edwards, Cross-street, Hatton-garden, Middlesex, coffee-house keeper: 18. 1d. in the pound.-John Elmer, Thorpe, Essex, farmer: 94d. in the pound. — Charles Jenner Boorman, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, chemist: 93d. in the pound.-John Allen, Union-street, Borough, Surrey, halfpay captain in her Majesty's Navy: 18. 2d. (making 148. 5d.) in the pound.

Apply at the Provisional Assignees' Office, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London, between the hours of 11 and 3.

TUESDAY, MAY 16.

BANKRUPTS.

JAMES MERCHANT, Foulmire, Cambridgeshire, grocer and draper, dealer and chapman, May 26 and June 30 at half-past 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Whitmore; Sols. W. & R. D. Thurgood, Saffron Walden, Essex; Sharpe & Co., 41, Bedford-row.-Petition filed May 5. CHARLES HENRY MAY, Edgeware-road, Marylebone, Middlesex, jeweller, dealer and chapman, May 27 and June 30 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Whitmore; Sol. Cattlin, 22, Ely-place, Holborn.-Petition filed JOHN BAKER, Edgeware-road, and Jonson-place, WestMay 16. bourne-green, Middlesex, draper, dealer and chapman, May 29 at 2, and June 27 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Edwards; Sols. Mardon & Pritchard, 99, Newgatestreet, London.- Petition filed May 13.

JOHN SHARPE, Barn Elms, Barnes, Surrey, cowkeeper and dairyman, dealer and chapman, May 29 at 2, and June 27 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Lee; Sols. King & Attwaters, 3, Lyon's-inn, Strand, London.-Petition filed May 16.

WILLIAM DOLTON, Sutton St. Mary, Lincolnshire, common brewer, liquor merchant, and farmer, May 26 and June 16 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Nottingham: Off. Ass. Harris; Sols. Caparn & Ayliff, Holbeach; Powell, Birmingham.-Petition dated May 5.

THOMAS MANNING, Combe Lake, near Fair Mile, Ottery
St. Mary, Devonshire, smith and machine manufacturer,
dealer and chapman, May 25 and June 22 at 1, District
Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter: Off. Ass. Hirtzel; Sols.
Head & Venn, Exeter.-Petition filed May 10.
MAURICE JARVIS, Leeds, Yorkshire, woolstapler, June 6
at 12, and June 27 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy,
Leeds: Off. Ass. Hope; Sols. Lee, Leeds; Bridger &
Collins, 37, King William-street, London.-Petition dated
May 10.

EDWARD COULTATE and THOMAS SWINDELLS, Manchester, brokers, (trading under the style of Brown, Coultate, & Co.), May 31 and June 21 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Fraser; Sols. Hyson & Robinson, Manchester.-Petition filed May 12.

MEETINGS.

George Nock and John Williams, Frith-street, Soho, Middlesex, goldsmiths, May 26 at half-past 1, Court of Bank. ruptcy, London, aud. ac.-W. Wallen the younger, Lawrence Pountney-lane, London, architect, June 1 at half-past 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud ac.-R. Mulock Wright and Joseph Smith Anstie, Broken-wharf, Upper Thames-st.,

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London, drysalters, May 27 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Henry Groom, Bray, Berkshire, miller, May 27 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Jas. Young Hulbert, New-court, Bow-lane, London, and Upper Grange-walk, Bermondsey, Surrey, account-book manufacturer, May 30 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.—Jas., Kinder, Manchester, cotton manufacturer, June 2 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.-Thomas Dawber, Manchester, calico printer, May 26 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.-Charles Cox, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, common brewer, June 14 at half-past 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham, and. ac.; June 21 at half-past 10, div.-Chas. Walker, Basinghall-street, London, and Leeds, Yorkshire, woollen cloth manufacturer, June 8 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.Joseph Peverelle, Liverpool, hardware dealer, June 7 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, div.— Wm. Lynall, Birmingham, plumber, June 7 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham, div.-Jas. Bough, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, carpet manufacturer, June 14 at half-past 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham, div.

CERTIFICATES.

To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before the Day of Meeting.

Wm. Cluff Hulme, High-street, Putney, Surrey, grocer, June 13 at half-past 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.-E. W. Robinson, Liverpool, cotton broker, June 8 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool.—Wm. Turner, Crewkerne, Somersetshire, currier, June 8 at 1, District Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter.-John F. Thynne, Tavistock, Devonshire, dealer in musical instruments, June 8 at 1, District Court of Bankruptcy, Exeter.-James Gummery, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, druggist, June 12 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham.-Rowland Hill, Nottingham, lace merchant, June 16 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Nottingham.-Stephen Meredith, Birmingham, draper, June 8 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham.

To be granted, unless an Appeal be duly entered. Wm. Miles, King's Lynn, Norfolk, shipowner.-Alexander Bain, Old Bond-street, Middlesex, electric clock maker.-F. Chater, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, chemist.

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Wm. C. Jones, Shide, Isle of Wight, Southampton, horse dealer, May 31 at 10, County Court of Hampshire, at Newport.-Thomas Nason the younger, New Windsor, Berkshire, fishmonger, June 7 at 10, County Court of Berkshire, at Windsor.-W. Quarmby, Sheffield, Yorkshire, mason, June 1 at 12, County Court of Yorkshire, at Sheffield.-J. Bowley the elder, Appleby, Derbyshire, yeoman, June 27 at 10, County Court of Leicestershire, at Ashby-de-la-Zouch.-John Wilcockson, Hasland, Derbyshire, beer-shop keeper, June 14 at 11, County Court of Derbyshire, at Chesterfield.-T. S. Mallam, Easebourne, near Midhurst, Sussex, land surveyor, June 8 at 12, Cuonty Court of Sussex, at Midhurst.-James Doogan, Hilsea, Wymering, Southampton, army pensioner, June 6 at 11, County Court of Hampshire, at Portsmouth.James Richards, Portsea, Southampton, builder, June 6 at 11, County Court of Hampshire, at Portsmouth.-John Price, Old Swinford, Worcestershire, in no business, May 22 at 10, County Court of Worcestershire, at Stourbridge.-Wm. F. Wallett, Wigan and Manchester, proprietor and equestrian manager, June 14 at 10, County Court of Yorkshire, at Leeds. Saturday, May 13.

Assignees have been appointed in the following Cases. Further particulars may be learned at the Office, in Portugalstreet, Lincoln's-inn-fields, on giving the Number of the Case.

John Kirkpatrick, Sussex-place, Rotherfield-street, Islington, Middlesex, solicitor's clerk, No. 64,207 T.; T. Nias,

assignee.-Thomas A. Stubbing, Radwinter, Essex, farmer, No. 76,178 C.; Thomas Saunders, assignee.-Wm. Cotton, Morley, King's Norton, Worcestershire, timber merchant, No. 77,463 C.; Isaac Chilee, assignee.-George T. Condy, Ipswich, Suffolk, attorney-at-law, No. 77,650 C.; R. Reeve, assignee.-Charles Sullings, Chelmsford, Essex, turner, No. 77,810 C.; Julius Gaborian Shepherd, assignee. Henry Faulkner, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, coach builder, No. 77,884 C.; Richard Smith the younger, assignee.-Thomas Smith, Hove, Sussex, dairyman, No. 77,664 C.; James Duly, assignee.-James Raistrick, Horton, near Bradford, Yorkshire, tailor, No. 77.737 C.; Benjamin Atkinson, assignee.-Joseph Dyson, Wanningham, near Bradford, Yorkshire, stonemason, No. 77,794 C.; John Binns, assignee.James Crisford, Westfield, Sussex, out of business, No. 77,859 C.; Frederick Wren, assignee.-James Wm. Holland, Longsight, near Manchester, out of business, No. 77,867 C.; George Anderton, assignee.-Radcliffe Royston, Lindleyfields, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, joiner, No. 77,920 C.; Rowland Broadbent, assignee.-Henry Youell, Birmingham, out of business, No. 77,936 C.; Peter Bates, assignee.-H. Parratt, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, coach builder, No. 77,799 C.; Thomas Burbidge, assignee.- Edward Dalton, Salford, Lancashire, joiner, No. 77,574 C.; Peter Wood, assignee.-Isaac Calam, Belby, near Howden, Yorkshire, out of business, No. 77,848 C.; Wm. Calam, assignee.-Jas. Heywood, Spring-hill, near Waterhead Mill, Lancashire, provision-shop keeper, No. 32.286 C.; John Taylor, new assignee; Peter Roylance, late assignee, removed.

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John Thomas Gain, Waltham-cottages, Warner-road, Camberwell, Surrey, out of business in the Queen's Prison.-J. Trevers the elder, Gloucester-place, Old Kent-road, Surrey, builder in the Queen's Prison.-Frank Baron Billam, Hallplace, Lower Kennington-lane, Surrey, out of business: in the Gaol of Surrey.-George Jones, Queen's-place, New North-road, Islington, Middlesex, surgeon: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Joseph Parry, Liquorpond-st., Gray's-inn-lane, Middlesex, cheesemonger in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex. Grimes, High-st., Poplar, Middlesex, grocer: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Wm. Alexander Holmes, Ellen-place, Battersea, Surrey, clerk in the Ordnance-office, Tower in the Gaol of Surrey.-James Izod, Penton-place, Walworth, Surrey, out of business: in the Queen's Prison.George Newby Wardell, Lloyd-square, Pentonville, Middlesex, attorney in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Joseph Eldridge, Queen-street, Dunstan -road, Middlesex, out of business: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex. - George Bristow, Bedfordbury, Coventgarden, Middlesex, builder: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Henry Gompertz, Lower Phillimoreplace, Kensington, Middlesex, gentleman: in the Queen's Prison.-Geo. Wm. Collins, Sherborne-st., Blandford-square, Middlesex, clerk: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Lambert Philip Mölledonn, Culford-road, Kingsland, Middlesex, merchant's clerk in the Queen's Prison.Richard Walton, Haggate, Briercliffe with Entwistle, near Burnley, Lancashire, labourer in the Gaol of Lancaster.W. Lamb Clavering, Hulme, Manchester, draper's assistant: in the Gaol of Lancaster.-Robert Parkinson, Preston, Lancashire, out of business: in the Gaol of Lancaster.-Robert Gardner, Damside-street, Lancashire, beerseller: in the Gaol of Lancaster.

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May 30 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. W. Smith, George-street, Regent-street, Lambeth, Surrey, whiting manufacturer.

Institutes of Justinian: being a Translation of aud Commentary
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John S. W. Herring, St. Thomas-the-Apostle, attorneyat-law.-Elizabeth Lake, Torr Down Farm, Swimbridge, out of business.

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John G. F. Blow, Long-lane, Bermondsey, Surrey, clerk : 114d. (making 28. 7 d.) in the pound.-Thomas H. Bennet, St. James's-place, Hampstead-road, Middlesex, assistant clerk in the General Registry Office, Somerset House: 18. (making 78.) in the pound.-John Tipper Stratford, Belgrave-cottage, Laun-place, Shepherd's-bush, Middlesex, clerk in the Money Order Office, General Post Office: 9d. (making 13s. 4d.) in the pound. Benjamin Lamplough, Doncaster, Yorkshire, woollendraper: 18. 3d. in the pound.-John Shaw, Chorltonupon-Medlock, Manchester, painter: 2d. in the pound. Edward Amos the elder, Plumstead, Kent, painter: 18. 6d. in the pound.-E. G. Evans, Higley, Shropshire, carpenter : 38. 74d. in the pound.-Robert J. Hibbs, Greenwich, Kent, lieutenant in her Majesty's Royal Navy: 48. 9d. in the pound. -John Lancaster, Woodside, near Lymington, Southampton, of no trade: 20s. in the pound.-Henry Pook, George-terrace, Park-road, Peckham, Surrey, clerk to an attorney: 6d. in the pound.-James Cook, Acre-place, Coburg-road, Kentroad, Surrey, plumber: 38. in the pound.

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VICE-CHANCELLOR KINDERSLEY'S COURT.

Procter v. Cooper.-(Judgment-Notice).....

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Whitlow v. Dilworth.-(Husband and Wife-Deed of
Separation-Future Property-Sole Receipt by
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COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

PRICE 18.

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Ex parte Hughes.-(Servant in Husbandry-Stat. 20
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Edwards v. Davies.-(Arbitration-Power of Court or
Judge to enlarge Time-3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42, s. 39
-Death of one of the Parties)

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of Parke, J., (now Parke, B.), in Leigh v. Hind, (9 B.
& Cr. 774). There the assignor of a lease of a public-
house had covenanted not to keep another public-house
within the distance of half-a-mile. The question had
been referred to arbitration, and the arbitrator had
found that the house kept by the assignor was within

THE Court of Common Pleas recently considered the
question, whether the twenty miles mentioned in the
concurrent clause of the County Courts Act, 9 & 10
Vict. c. 95, s. 128, are to be measured in a direct line
that is, in common parlance, "as the crow flies"-half-a-mile by the shortest way of access, partly by
or according to the means of access from one place
to the other. (Stokes v. Grissell, C. P., 10th May).
They did not expressly decide the point, nor was it
necessary for them to do so in the case before them;
but Jervis, C. J., and Maule, J., appeared to be of
opinion that the measurement should be by taking
a straight line from place to place. The words in
the section in question are merely these-" where the
plaintiff dwells more than twenty miles from the de-a-mile: the plain and ordinary sense of these words is
fendant"-no mode of measurement being pointed out.
But we submit that there are several grounds why the
measurement should be by the nearest accessible route
from house to house, rather than by a direct line.

The reason why a party is permitted to sue (without loss of costs) in the superior courts, when he dwells more than twenty miles from the defendant, appears to be, that the plaintiff should not be compelled to go beyond that distance to attend the court within the jurisdiction of which the defendant dwells; and if so, the means of going and returning, without committing a trespass, would appear to afford the true criterion of measurement. Again: the plaintiff would know, or might easily ascertain, the distance between himself and the defendant by the public way, but could not learn the distance by a direct line, without committing a trespass. The Court cited with approval the dictum VOL. XVIII.

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footpath and partly by carriage-way. It was con-
tended that he should have taken the distance by foot-
path all the way, but the Court held that the award
was right. Parke, J., however, went further, and
said, "I should have thought that the proper mode of
admeasuring the distance would be to take a straight
line from house to house. . . . . The defendant agrees
not to keep a public-house within the distance of half-

the actual distance, and I think they ought to be so
understood, unless we can collect from the context that
they were meant to be used in a different sense; and
here the context raises no such inference. . . . . It
seems to me, therefore, that the distance should have
been ascertained without any reference to the modes
of communication. . . . . But assuming that this is
not the true mode of construing the agreement, I think
that is to be considered the nearest way of access which
a person, making the best of his way from house to
house, would be likely to take." Parke, B., after
wards, (Atkyns v. Kinnier, 4 Exch. 782), adverting to
this case, said, "The rule laid down in Leigh. Hind
is, that where there is a stipulation as to non-residence
within a prescribed distance, the true principle of ad-
measurement is to take the nearest mode of access,
according to the existing state of the streets." Accord-

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ingly, where a surgeon covenanted that he would not reside within the distance of two miles and a half from another surgeon, the Court held, that the distance was to be measured, not by the most frequented public ways, but by any of the usual public ways. (Atkyns v. Kinnier, 4 Exch. 782).

In these cases, with reference to the object of the contract, the nearest accessible route was taken, as the parties looked to the possibility of persons going from one house to another; and though the distance in the County Courts Act is not fixed with any view of the plaintiff going to the defendant's house, yet it is, we apprehend, with a view to his going to the court within the jurisdiction of which the defendant dwells. It is true, that where no such considerations apply, and there is nothing in the context tending to define the mode of measurement, the distance "as the crow flies" is the one adopted. Thus stat. 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 68, enacts, that no person shall retain a settlement gained by possessing an estate in a parish for a longer time than he shall inhabit "within ten miles thereof." These words were held to mean ten miles measured in a direct line from the residence to the nearest point in the parish. (Reg. v. Saffron Walden, 9 Q. B. 76). Lord Denman said-" Here we are left very much at large, and without materials for judgment. We find no words referring to any particular object; we have, therefore, to lay down a fixed and absolute rule. Now, abstractedly, the most reasonable rule appears to be that approved of by my Brother Parke, namely, a measurement by a direct line. By this we shall avoid the practical difficulty of a settlement being good one day and bad the next." The principle of this decision can be easily understood, as it would be a great hardship to deprive a man of a settlement by reason of a road being stopped up, or the like. The nearest point of the parish also might not be accessible by any public route. No question of access, in fact, would arise in the case. To the argument of counsel, that a direct line could often not be measured without committing a trespass, Williams, J., answered, "We are in no danger here of suggesting an act of trespass, for we have the distance actually found."

Sometimes statutes expressly direct this mode of measurement. Thus stat. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 18, s. 76, reciting that doubts had arisen as to the measurement of the distance of seven statute miles prescribed by the Reform Act for the residence of voters for cities and boroughs, enacts that the distance shall be measured in a straight line on the horizontal plane from the point within any city, &c. Sometimes other modes of measurement are directed. Thus stat. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 106, which prohibits (with some exceptions) the holding of two benefices not within ten statute miles from each other, directs the distance to be computed from church to church, "by the nearest road or footpath, or by an accustomed ferry."

The question of the right measurement of distance is certainly not free from difficulty; but we would suggest as a rule, which may be deduced from the cases or statutes upon the subject, that where access or passing along the distance has been contemplated, or where it is essential to a person's rights that he should himself possess the means of measurement, the nearest accessible public route should be taken; in other cases, where no such considerations arise, the direct line should be adopted as the one least liable to change.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Young, Esq., to be Attorney-General, and William A. Henry, Esq., to be Solicitor-General, for the Province of Nova Scotia.

THE NEW MORTMAIN BILL*.

THE expediency of establishing a board of legislative draftsmen, for the purpose of revising, if not of drawing, all bills, has been long felt and urged; and since the business or profession of a law reformer has been taken up (we are afraid seldom for its own sake) by so many members of the Bar, from the SolicitorGeneral downwards, the measure has become one of absolute necessity: for it is certain that the desire, or the profession of a desire, to amend the law is seldom co-existent with the ability to do it, even when the succeeded in their amateur attempts at draftsmanship, reformer is a practising lawyer. Few lawyers have their performances being generally inferior to the Government bills, even as they were before the existing arrangement at the Home Office. Not to cite the shortcomings of a Preston, a Romilly, and a Sugden, we may refer to Mr. Headlam's own work, the Trustee Act, 1850, which, if parental tenderness had not blinded him, might have served as a warning against the present attempt. The faults of the Mortmain Bill are still more glaring.

The 1st section enacts, that the act of 9 Geo. 2, c. 36, "shall continue in its present form and effect with respect to all wills, deeds, or legal instruments of all descriptions duly made or executed on or before the 1st November, 1854, and that, subject as aforesaid, and subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, the said recited act shall be and the same is hereby repealed." That act, it will be remembered, enacts, that no lands or hereditaments, nor any money, stock, or other personal estate to be laid out in the purchase of any lands or hereditaments, shall be conveyed or settled for any charitable uses, unless such conveyance, &c. (other than of stocks in the funds) be made by deed, indented &c., and such stocks be transferred &c., as therein mentioned; and further, that all gifts, grants, conveyances, appointments, assurances, transfers, and settlements of any real or personal estate for any charitable uses, made in any other manner or form than as directed by the act, shall be absolutely and to all intents and purposes null and void. What, then, does the bill mean by "legal instruments duly executed?" Does it mean instruments legally capable of operating according to the purport of them, and duly executed for the purpose of carrying the expressed intention into effect that is to say, for example, conveyances to charitable uses by indenture, attested by two witnesses, and inrolled within six months? Or does it mean instruments which, if the act of Geo. 2 were out of the way, would be duly executed for the purposes expressed in them? The second is probably the meaning, but it is not expressed; and if the second is the meaning, how does the provision operate in the case of a deed purporting to be an appointment to the use of trustees for a charity, executed for s valuable consideration, but not duly executed as an appointment? Is such a deed an instrument "duly executed" within the meaning of this clause? No doubt, if the bill were suffered to pass, the Courts would strive to twist its nonsense into something like sense, and might possibly succeed; but is this the way to deal with the laws of a civilised country, or indeed of any country?

The 2nd section contains interpretations which stand in great need of explanation. "The word 'lands' shall extend to and include manors, messuages, tenements, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, of every tenure or description, whatever may be the estate or interest therein." It includes, therefore, a personal 144. b.; 2 Ves. sen. 179). "The word 'seised' shall be perpetual annuity limited to the heirs. (Co. Litt. 20, applicable to any vested estate for life or of a greater *From a correspondent.

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