ness, No. 78,159; Nathaniel Taylor, assignee.-W. Hutchin son, Hulme, Manchester, joiner, No. 78,155; James Baines, assignee.-Richard Edwards, Liverpool, watch manufacturer, No. 78,163; Wm. Eaves, assignee.—Edward Billman, Manehester, out of business, No. 78,251; John Plant, assignee.— Thos. Hallsworth, Dukinfield Hall, near Ashton-under-Lyne, No. 78,187; Robert Winterbottom, assignee.-John Thomas Byrom, Blackburn, out of business, No. 78,157; Ralph Spen. cer, assignee. The following Prisoners are ordered to be brought up before At the County Court of Lancashire, at LANCASTER, Joseph Parker, Dinton, Buckinghamshire, baker, July 27 at 10, County Court of Buckinghamshire, at Aylesbury.-Wm. Franklin, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, tailor, July 27 at 10, County Court of Buckinghamshire, at Aylesbury.-Charles Mander, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, chairmaker, July 26 at 2, County Court of Oxfordshire, at Thame.-Elizabeth Fundall, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, harness maker, County Court of Buckinghamshire, at Aylesbury.-Thomas Nash, Loudwater, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, builder, July 13 at 11, County Court of Buckinghamshire, at High Wycombe. Henry Beech, Astbury, Cheshire, silk throwster, July 18 at 11, County Court of Cheshire, at Congleton.-Arthur Tibbenham, Burgh St. Peters, Norfolk, shopkeeper, July 19 at 10, County Court of Suffolk, at Beccles.-Stephen Tillett, Botesdale, Suffolk, fishmonger, July 17 at 2, County Court of Suffolk, at Eye.-Simon Pain, Bristol, retailer of beer, Aug. 3 Holden, Bolton-le-Moors, out of business.-Charles WhiteAlex. Simpson Sloan, Liverpool, master mariner.-George at half-past 10, County Court of Gloucestershire, at Bristol.Benjamin Evans, Bristol, grocer, July 27 at half-past 10, head, Preston, out of business.-J. Hopkinson, Bury, builder. County Court of Gloucestershire, at Bristol.-Wm. Staples, Brindle, Manchester, out of business.-John Wilson, Burn-John Sharples, Bolton-le-Moors, joiner.-Geo. Frederick Gretton, Northamptonshire, grocer, Aug. 12 at 10, County ley, grocer.-Margaret Salkeld, Manchester, out of business. Court of Rutlandshire, at Uppingham.-Anthony Montgomery, Old Hill, near Rowley, Staffordshire, out of employ, Greenhalch, Oldham, manager of a cotton card room.-Geo. -Samuel Sutherst, Higher End, near Bury, joiner.-Jacob July 21 at 9, County Court of Worcestershire, at Dudley.Isaiah Pearson, Netherton, Dudley, Worcestershire, labourer, Cook, Pendleton, near Manchester, wheelwright.-Wm. Bird July 21 at 9, County Court of Worcestershire, at Dudley. Stratford, near Manchester, out of business.—Mary Leech, Redish, Liverpool, commission agent.-Jos. Coates Borwell, Emanuel Fereday, Dudley, Worcestershire, painter, July 21 at 9, County Court of Worcestershire, at Dudley.-Alexander widow, Rochdale, out of business.-Robert Tinker, ManchesRollason, Smethwick, Staffordshire, photographic artist, July ter, out of business.-Francis Winnington, Chorlton-upon22 at 9, County Court of Staffordshire, at Oldbury.-Joseph Preston, out of business.-James Scott, Blackburn, retail Medlock, Manchester, out of business.-Robert Hothersall, Evans, Chester, printer, July 10 at 10, County Court of dealer in ale.-Thomas Lancashire, Newton Heath, near Cheshire, at Chester.-James Ellis, Lockwood, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, druggist, July 20 at 10, County Court of Manchester, out of business.-T. Foster, Liverpool, saddler.— Yorkshire, at Huddersfield.-Thomas Milnes, Apsley, Hud-J. Broadhurst, Manchester, coal dealer.-Geo. Wilding, Mandersfield, Yorkshire, woolsorter, July 20 at 10, County Court chester, retail dealer in ale.-John Rowbottom, Hulme, Man of Yorkshire, at Huddersfield.-John Finsland, Swansea, Gla- chester, wheelwright.-Charles Foster, Longridge, Preston, morganshire, licensed victualler, July 20 at half-past 9, County keeper.-Joseph O'Kell, Liverpool, share broker.-Oswald blacksmith.-James Sutcliffe, Manchester, provision-shop Court of Somersetshire, at Bridgewater. Isherwood, Middleton, near Manchester, confectioner.-Abel Duke, Ashton-under-Lyne, confectioner. 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: July 21 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONEr. Thomas J. Empson, Evelyn-street, Tanner's-hill, Deptford, Kent, miller's clerk.-John Hedgecock Jenkins, Prince's-st., Rotherhithe, Surrey, market gardener. July 24 at 11, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. Sarah Fisher, Seething Wells, near Kingston, Surrey, grocer. 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: At the County Court of Norfolk, at NORWICH, July 22. At the County Court of Buckinghamshire, at AYLESBURY, Joseph Ashby, Cheddington, labourer.-Chas. White, Stoke At the County Court of Kent, at DOVER, Aug. 18 at 11. MEETING. Robert Welham the elder, Somersham, near Ipswich, Suffolk, bricklayer, July 24 at 12, at Hayward's, Needham Market, sp. aff. July 21 at 10, before Mr. Commissioner MURPHY. John Holmes, York-buildings, Adelphi, Middlesex, managing agent to the Athenæum Life Assurance Society.-John R. Oates, Providence-place, Cambridge-road, Mile-end, Mid-BODHAM dlesex, tailor.-Joseph Allbright, Richmond-st., St. George'sroad, Lambeth, Surrey, out of business. George Furby, Hastings, Sussex, ironmonger. July 22 at 11, before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS. Joseph Cartwright, London-street, Fenchurch-street, London, Custom-house agent.-James Giddings, Aldenham-st., St. Panoras Old-road, Middlesex, clerk to a builder. July 24 at 11, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. George Ruffell, Montague-terrace, Trinity-square, Surrey, commission merchant.-Matthew Owen, Great Smith-street, Westminster, Middlesex, timekeeper for omnibus proprietors. John Thomas Gain, Waltham-cottages, Warner-road, Camberwell New-road, Surrey, out of business. July 24 at 11, before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS. Thomas Trill, Apollo-buildings, East-st., Walworth, Surrey, ale merchant.-Alexander Jones, Bevis Marks, London, dealer in cigars.-Joseph Nelson, St. James's-place, Upper Grange-road, Bermondsey, Surrey, commission agent. County Court of Lancashire, at Lancaster. Assignees have been appointed in the following Cases:Joshua Rhodes, Rochdale, stonemason, No. 78,154; John Clegg, assignee.-Francis Bernard, Manchester, out of busi TUESDAY, JULY 11. BANKRUPTS. BUTLER WHISKER, Castle-street, Holbora, JAMES TRIGGS, WILLIAM TRIGGS, and EDWARD GEORGE SEWELL GREEN, Aylesbury-street, Clerken GIOVANNI BAPTISTA GIUSTINIANI and SAVERIO victualler.-Andrew Burn, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, MidCASTELLI, (together with Frank Castelli and Francesco dlesex, tailor.-W. Morris, Tunbridge, Kent, cabinet maker. Francescovitch Braggiotti, who have since obtained their John Cox, New-road, Lower-road, Rotherhithe, Surrey, certificates), Bury-court, St. Mary-axe, London, merchants, builder.-Henry Malcolm Ramsay, Elgin-crescent, Kensing(carrying on business with Leonardo Giustiniani and Brice ton Park, Middlesex, builder.-Edw. Wilkinson, Liverpool, Giustiniani, under the style or firm of Castelli, Giustiniani, tailor.-Francis W. Robinson, Southport, Lancashire, printer. & Co.; the said Saverio Castelli and Brice Giustiniani also Joseph Moss.-Thos. Hughes, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, carrying on business in Fenchurch-street, London, as mer- innkeeper.—Christopher James Taylor, Birmingham, coal chants, under the style or firm of S. Castelli & B. Giusti- dealer.-Jas. Bough, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, carpet niani; the said Saverio Castelli residing at Upper Clapton, manufacturer.-Rowland Hill, Nottingham, lace merchant. Middlesex; the said Brice Giustiniani and Leonardo GiusPARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. tiniani residing at Constantinople; and the said Giovanni Baptista Giustiniani being now at Leghorn), July 24 at half-past 2, and Aug. 22 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Lee; Sols. Lawrance & Co., 14, Old Jewrychambers, London.-Petition filed Nov. 7, 1851. JOHN ADAMS, Longton, Staffordshire, china manufacturer, dealer and chapman, (lately trading in partnership with Samuel Hartshorne and James Ferneyhough, as china manufacturers, under the firm of Hartshorne & Co.), July 21 at 12, and Aug. 18 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham: Off. Ass. Christie; Sols. E. & H. Wright, Birmingham.-Petition dated July 5. JOHN DAVID NEILL and HENRY SANDERSON, Liverpool, ship brokers and general merchants, dealers and chapmen, (carrying on business there under the firm of Neill, Sanderson, & Co.), July 19 and Aug. 14 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Morgan; Sol. Holden, Liverpool. - Petition filed July 7. MEETINGS. Charles Castle, Alfred Henderson, and Eustace Barham, Bristol, attornies, solicitors, and conveyancers, (as far as regards the said Charles Castle).-Daniel Smith Bockett and George Cowbran, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Middlesex, attornies and solicitors. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. William Learmonth, West Calder, Edinburgh, grazier.- INSOLVENT DEBTORS Who have filed their Petitions in the Court of Bankruptcy, and have obtained an Interim Order for Protection from Process. Charles Yourle, Brighton, Sussex, bookseller, July 15 at 10, County Court of Sussex, at Brighton.-Mark Wynter, Brighton, Sussex, chemist, July 15 at 10, County Court of Sussex, at Brighton.- William Charman, Brighton, Sussex, retailer of beer, July 15 at 10, County Court of Sussex, at Brighton.-Chas. Mathew, Ixworth, Suffolk, machinist, July 24 at 10, County Court of Suffolk, at Bury St. Edmunds.George Simons, Cambridge, pianoforte tuner, July 24 at 10, County Court of Cambridgeshire, at Cambridge.-William Guess, Leicester, grocer, Aug. 16 at 10, County Court of Leicestershire, at Leicester.-John Crossley, Leicester, lamb's wool spinner, Aug. 16 at 10, County Court of Leicestershire, at Leicester.-Mark R. Ashford, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, chemist, July 21 at 10, County Court of Glamorganshire, at Cardiff.-William Crow, Hough-upon-the-Hill, Lincolnshire, cordwainer, Aug. 9 at 10, County Court of Lincolnshire, at Grantham.-John Scale the elder, Milford, Pembrokeshire, licensed victualler, July 25 at 10, County Court of Pembrokeshire, at Haverfordwest.-George H. Motteram, Liverpool, general agent, July 17 at 10, County Court of Lancashire, at Liverpool.-Cornelius Roberts, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancashire, out of business, July 17 at 10, County Court of Lancashire, at Liverpool. Francis Quick, Bristol, jeweller, July 22 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Hugh Parker, Offley Shore, John Brewin, and J. Rodgers, Sheffield, Yorkshire, bankers, July 22 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Sheffield, aud. ac. sep. est. of Offley Shore.-James Burgin, Sheffield, Yorkshire, tailor, July 22 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Sheffield, aud. ac.-Augustus Rizzi, Leeds, Yorkshire, looking-glass manufacturer, Aug. 1 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds, aud. ac. and div.-Michael Lees, Salterhebble, Halifax, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturer, Aug. at half-past 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds, aud. ac. and fin. div.-Peter Backhouse, Liverpool, glass dealer, July 21 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, aud. ac.-George Prockter, Jos. Prockter, and Thomas Prockter, Rochdale, Lancashire, cotton spinners, July 24 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac. sep. est of George Prockter; July 31 at 12, aud. ac. joint est.; Aug. 2 at 12, div. joint est., and div. sep. est. of George Prockter.-Abraham H. Chambers the elder and Abraham H. Chambers the younger, New Bond-street and South Molton-st., Middlesex, bankers, Aug. 3 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, fin. div. The following Persons, who, on their several Petitions filed in Joseph Symes, Queen's-buildings, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, cheesemonger, Aug. 1 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Samuel Clarkson Peters, Southampton, draper, Aug. 8 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Joseph Dodsworth Browning, Bristol, cabinet maker, Aug. 3 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol, fin. div.-M. Milne, ManJuly 26 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. chester, grocer, Aug. 3 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Isaac S. Spicer, New Ormond-st., St. Andrew's, Holborn, Manchester, div.-Cooper Ewbank, Manchester, sharebroker, Middlesex, lodging-house keeper.-Thomas Keen, SheppertonAug. 3 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, div. place, New North-road, Islington, Middlesex, cheesemonger. -Peter Backhouse, Liverpool, glass dealer, Aug. 3 at 11,-Joseph Watkins, Huntingdon-st., Caledonian-road, IslingDistrict Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, div. CERTIFICATES. To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before the Day of Meeting. 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 : ton, Middlesex, engraver.-John M. Wren, Seymour-place, John-street, Upper Holloway, Middlesex, out of business. worth-common, Surrey, carpenter.-Charles Webster, Red Lion-street, Holborn, Middlesex, watchmaker. July 26 at 10, before Mr. Commissioner MURPHY. François Sas, Huntley-street, Gower-street, New-road, W. Wright, Thetford, Norfolk, butcher, Aug. 2 at 1, Court Middlesex, cabinet maker.-Robert Peake, Aldersgate-street, of Bankruptcy, London.-James Hunt, Lupus-street, Pimlico, London, cheesemonger.-Alfred Fisher, Vernon-street, BagMiddlesex, builder, Aug. 2 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, Lon- nigge-wells-road, Middlesex, warehouseman to a milliner.den.-Joseph J. Wells, Coventry, haberdasher, Aug. 3 at 12,-James Boreham, Portland-place, Westmoreland-road, WalCourt of Bankruptcy, London.-Edward Pateson, Preston, Lancashire, draper, Aug. 3 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester.-Joshua Wormald, Glossop, Derbyshire, shoemaker, Aug. 4 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester.-Montgomery Gladstone and Joseph Creevy Bond, Manchester, general brokers, Aug. 2 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester.-Thomas Norbury and Richard Bindloss, Manchester, silk manufacturers, Aug. 3 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester. To be granted, unless an Appeal be duly entered. July 27 at 11, before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS. Robert John Hartwell, Little Charlotte-street, Blackfriarsroad, Surrey, compositor. Thomas Golding, Spital-street, Dartford, Kent, stationer.-John Elmes, Church-street, Lower Edmonton, Middlesex, carman.-Thomas Beamont, Mare-st., Hackney, Middlesex, livery-stable keeper.-Elizabeth Parker, Queen's-terrace, Marlborough-road, Chelsea, Middlesex, hat manufacturer.-Wm. T. Hearn, Maldon-road, Haverstockhill, Middlesex, clerk to a merchant. Saturday, July 8. 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. Wm. Thompson the younger, Handsworth, Staffordshire, out of business, No. 76,689 C.; George H. St. Clair, assignee. -John Wm. Mills, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, stationer, No. 78,070 C.; Thomas Smith, assignee.-James Crawford, Sheffield, Yorkshire, beer-house keeper, No. 78,085 C.; G. A. Haigh, assignee.-George Raven, South-town, near Great Yarmouth, Suffolk, gardener, No. 78,109 C.; Charles Turnor, assignee.-Thomas S. Binfield, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, teacher of music, No. 78,217 C.; Wm. Binfield, assignee.Francis Bernard, Manchester, out of business, No. 78,159 C.; Nathaniel Taylor, assignee. Saturday, July 8. 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: July 25 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. Thomas Byrne, Brighton, Sussex, potato dealer. July 25 at 10, before Mr. Commissioner Murphy. Henry L. Morand, Great Titchfield-street, Marylebone, Middlesex, better on horse races. July 26 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. Wm. James Barrett, Oval, Hackney-road, Middlesex, out of business.-James Weston, Lime-street, City, out of basiness. Adjourned Hearing. July 26 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIoner. Wm. Henry Smith, Glengall-grove, Old Kent-road, Surrey, out of business. Orders have been made, vesting in the Provisional Assignee The following Prisoners are ordered to be brought up before the Estates and Effects of the following Persons :— (On their own Petitions). :: a Judge of the County Court, to be examined and dealt At the County Court of Cambridgeshire, at CAMBRIDGE, Wm. Nunn, Cambridge, publican.-Wm. Essex, Milton, John L. Shepherd, Southampton, out of business. John Taylor, North Shields, innkeeper. at 12. John Joseph Calvert, Horncastle, grocer. at 10. Henry C. Coape, Regent-street, Middlesex, in no profession: in the Queen's Prison.-Joseph Caldwell, Alfred-place, Old Kent-road, Surrey, skin salesman: in the Queen's Prison.Stefanos Xenos, Duke-street, St. James's-square, Middlesex, ship agent in the Queen's Prison.-John E. Brunt, Polandstreet, Oxford-st., Middlesex, picture dealer: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex. - Frederick Hermann, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, Middlesex, cabinet maker in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.— James Shipton, Cardigan-place, Kennington-cross, Surrey, coach-spring maker: in the Gaol of Surrey.-Walter Peck, Canning-place, Gloucester-road, Kensington, Middlesex, not in any trade in the Queen's Prison.-Thomas Berriman, Edwards-terrace, Commercial-road, Peckham, Surrey, surveyor in the Queen's Prison.-Peter Haffman, Sackfordstreet, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, pocket-book manufacturer: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-William Spencer, Hanover-street, Pimlico, Middlesex, retired clerk in the Admiralty, Somerset House in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-John Dawson, Church-street, Camberwell, Surrey, cheesemonger: in the Queen's Prison.-G. Harvey, Brownlow-street, Drury-lane, Middlesex, silver burnisher in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex. -Henry Simpson, Ossulston-street, Somers-town, Middlesex, out of business: in the Debtors Prison for London and Middlesex.-Wm. Frankland, Preston, Lancashire, butcher: in the Gaol of Lancaster.-Thomas Lancashire, Newton Heath, near Manchester, out of business: in the Gaol of Lancaster.G. F. Brindle, Manchester, out of business: in the Gaol of Lancaster.-John Holland, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, out of business in the Gaol of Lancaster.-Charles Whitehead, Preston, Lancashire, out of business: in the Gaol of Lancaster. -Joseph C. Borwell, Manchester, out of business: in the Gaol of Lancaster.-Richard Allerton, Everton, Liverpool, wheelwright in the Gaol of Lancaster.-Mary Leech, Rochdale, Lancashire, out of business: in the Gaol of Lancaster.James Hopkinson, Bury, Lancashire, builder: in the Gaol of TUDOR'S CHARITABLE TRUSTS ACT, 1853: with : Lancaster. · George Holden, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, MEETING. Anthony Goodridge, Plymouth, Devonshire, out of business, July 25 at 12, Court-house, Portugal-street, Lincoln'sinn-fields, London, sp. aff. Just published, price 1s., PHANTOMS of CRIMINAL LAW; being the Subject Just published, in post 8vo., price 5s. Ed., CHURCH PATRONAGE, HISTORICALLY, LE GALLY, and MORALLY CONSIDERED in CONNEXION Just published, price 9s. cloth, the General Orders, Minutes, Forms, and Schemes; prefaced by a Summary of the LAW of CHARITIES. London: W. H. Bond, 8, Bell-yard, Temple-bar; Wildy & Sons, LinBurnley, Lancashire, grocer: in the Gaol of Lancaster.-Johncoln's-inn-archway; and W. 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LONDON, JULY 22, 1854. 621 In the Goods of Henry Corby.-(1 Vict. c. 26, s. 11— 634 by representing herself during coverture to be a single woman; and that raised a question upon which the case has been since re-argued; (upon this point it is not yet, we believe, reported); and the same learned judge who decided the first point has held that the intervention of fraud makes a great difference; that it puts the feme coverte in the same position as if she were sole; and that for her debts, so contracted under a false representation of her being sole, the property subject to her mere ge THE law upon the effect of a power of appointment in a married woman has recently received an interpretation, which, if it be correct, will lead to consequences a little singular, and perhaps not altogether convenient. In the case of Vaughan v. Vanderstegen (2 Drew. 165) the Court elaborately discussed the principle on which the power of a married woman to contract debts, or, more strictly to speak, to incur liabili-neral power of appointment by will, is chargeable in the ties, is based, and treated it as settled law that she can only do so in respect of her separate estate. The question, then, in that case, being whether the property over which a married woman has a general power of appointment by will only, without any limitation in favour of herself beyond a life estate, is liable, in the hands of her appointees, for debts contracted by her during coverture, it became necessary, for the purpose of deciding that question, to consider whether such property, or such power, is in any respect her separate estate; and the Court came to the conclusion that it is not; that the power is a mere power, and not an estate; that the property subject to it is in no sense the married woman's separate property; that she can have no enjoyment of it of any kind; and that the mere fact that she can dispose of it after her death by a special and particular mode of disposition, without the aid or intervention of her husband, does not make it her separate property: consequently that as, in respect of it, she is incapable of contracting a debt, it follows that it is not, in the hands of her appointees, liable to the debts incurred by her during coverture. hands of her appointees, exactly as if she were a man or a feme sole; and the Court has held that it is quite immaterial whether the false representation of discoverture is made for the purpose of defrauding the creditor, or whether it is made for family reasons, without any intention of particular fraud. It is sufficient if the feme coverte holds herself out generally as a feme sole, and the creditor believes her to be so, to impart to her the power to contract a debt in respect of the property over which she has only a power of appointment; though, if there were no such misrepresentation, she would not have that power. The learned judge appears, in so deciding, to have relied much on the case of Savage v. Foster, (9 Mod. 35). But we must not assume that he decided altogether on the authority of that case, for it was in its circumstances extremely different from the case before him, of a power of appointment by will only. In Savage v. Foster the married woman had not strictly contracted or purported to contract any debt at all. What she had done was to allow the tenant for life of real estate, in which she had the remainder, to hold herself out and to convey as the tenant in fee; then she became discoverte, and being discoverte, the Court compelled her to complete the title which she had by her fraud suffered to be taken; the property was her property, which she could convey, and therefore could be compelled to convey during her lifetime; whereas in Vaughan v. Vanderstegen it would quite have passed the power of the Court to compel the married woman either to pass any estate during her lifetime, or effectually to appoint after her death, by any act done during her lifetime; for having only a power to appoint by a revocable instrument, it is clear, that even if the Court could compel her to make a will-an exercise of power for which we do not believe there is any authority-yet, at least, the Court could not by any exercise of its power prevent her from revoking a will so made, and making another: so that the Court cannot be supposed to have proceeded, in Vaughan v. Vanderstegen, on the principle of treating the property subject to the power of appointment as being applicable, after the married woman's death, to the purposes to which she might have been compelled to appoint it during her life; but on the broad principle that fraud imparts to a feme coverte a power to contract debt in respect of, and chargeable upon, as her general assets, that property over which she has only a general power of appointment by will. The proposition is new, and a little startling, viewed with reference to the principle on which it has been held by the same learned judge, that, in the absence of fraud, a married woman has no such power. Without, however, at present attempting to go the length of doubting whether it is good law, we may conclude, as we did at the commencement of these observations, that it will probably lead to some results not altogether consistent with the established notions of the relative liabilities of husband and wife. THE STATUTE-LAW COMMISSION. (Continued from p. 249). Sect. 39. "In no case can a will operate as an exercise of any power which was not created before the making of the will." Mr. Brickdale says that in the case of a power the wish and intention of the donor of the power is entitled to the first consideration, and it is scarcely probable that he can mean that the property should pass by a will already executed, and necessarily made without reference to the power. This is to hide substance behind technicality. A general power of appointment is, for all testamentary purposes, the same thing as ownership, and should be governed by the same rules. A residuary gift is considered to represent the testator's wishes with respect to after-acquired property: why not also with respect to after-acquired powers? The question as to the donor's wishes is the same whether he gives a power or an estate. The intention in giving such a power is to give dominion either free from the disability of coverture, or without the power of irrevocable alienation inter vivos. The clause as it stands would deny operation even to an express recognition in the power of the efficacy of a pre-existing will. Sect. 40. "If any person, who, if he had survived the testator, would have become entitled to any estate in tail or quasi in tail under a will, dies in the testator's lifetime, the gift does not lapse, but takes effect as if such person had died immediately after the testator, but not so as to give any estate or interest to any persons except those claiming under the entail." The intention of the saving clause is, we are told, to prevent the estate from becoming subject to the debts and contracts and the dower of the wife of the deceased devisee in tail, as if the estate had vested in him. We should be inclined to advise the widow to claim her dower "under the entail." The meaning is, that the gift shall take effect as if such person had died immediately after the testator, without leaving a widow, and without having alienated or incumbered the devised estate; but in seeking to avoid a direct expression of this meaning, the clause has been so framed as to defeat the devise in the event of the devisee having executed a general disentailing assurance of all his lands. There is no equivalent for the 33rd section of the Wills Act, which prevents the lapse of a gift to a child who dies before the testator, leaving issue. The only reason offered for this omission is, that it is better not to encourage negligence or indolence in testators. We believe that nothing that can be placed on the statutebook would have any effect on the proceedings of testators, by way either of encouragement or of discouragement. But we are sure that the existing enactment cannot do harm., and that in very many cases it has prevented serious hardship. Whether it is right that the gift should be subject to the will of the deceased child is a subordinate question, which, however, we have no hesitation in answering in the affirmative. Sect. 41. "Gifts by will to trustees are to be construed in the same manner as beneficial gifts in respect of the estates or interests conferred." This is called by Mr. Brickdale a simple and convenient rule. We think that ingenuity could not contrive one more fertile of uncertainty and confusion. It is an elementary rule of construction, applicable not only to wills and deeds, but to every expression of thought, that we must take the sense of words and sentences, not merely as the dietionary and grammar indicate, but with a view to the business in hand. Besides the general convention from which a language takes its form, it is subject to a lesser convention between the parties using it for the time being, and, like the opal, changes its indications with the point of view. Language is also always incomplete, and in it, as in painting, "A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head, Stands for the whole to be imagined." But what whole is imagined depends upon the subject of the entire composition. A single sentence, however complete in construction, is senseless without its connexion. We commence a piece of music by announcing the key. A poet uses familiar words, but we seek in them the forms of things unknown; and when a testator tells us how he means his land to go, we so piece out the inevitable imperfections of his language as to evolve details consistent with his main design. In a fiduciary and in a beneficial gift the same expressions necessarily suggest different ideas, and to say that both shall be construed in the same manner, whether in respect to the estates or interests conferred, or in any other respect, is simply absurd. In the present case the absurdity is increased by the peculiarities of our law of real property. For example, a devise direct to the beneficiary must pass the legal estate if the testator has it; but how would the following devise be construed under the proposed enactment? "To A. and B. and their heirs, to the use of them and their heirs during the life of C., in trust for her separate use, and after her death to the uses of C.'s will; and in default of appointment, to the use of her children as tenants in common in fee." Or take a case like that in Doe v. Simpson, (5 East, 162), where the testator gave land to trustees, in trust out of the rents and profits to pay an annuity to A. for his life and to raise a legacy of 8001. for B., and after payment of the annuity and legacy, he gave the land to D., and he authorised the trustees to grant building leases. How are we to construe those limitations as if they were both to beneficiaries? Must we strike out the trusts? There will then be a gift to the trustees conferring the fee, followed by an execu tory limitation to D. in an event which is unknown, for we have struck out the words which describe it. Or if we argue, that as D. is not a trustee, the gift to |