List of Public General Acts-17 & 18 Vict.

the more effectual Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

61. An Act to authorise the Application of a Sum of Money out of the forfeited and unclaimed Army Prize Fund in enlarging and improving the Royal Military Asylum.

62. An act to extend the benefits of two Acts of her Majesty relating to the Constitution, Transmission, and Extinction of Heritable Securities in Scotland.

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81. An act to make further Provision for the good Government and Extension of the University of Oxford, of the Colleges therein, and of the College of Saint Mary, Winchester.

82. An act further to improve the Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster.

83. An act to amend the Laws relating to the Stamp Duties.

84. An act to extend the Provisions of the

63. An act to continue the Poor Law Com-Acts for the Augmentation of Benefices. mission for Ireland.

64. An act to amend an Act of the last Session, for extending the Public Libraries Act, 1850, to Ireland and Scotland.

85. An act for better securing the collecting and accounting for the Land Tax, Assessed Taxes, and Income Tax, by the Collectors thereof.

65. An act for further continuing certain 86. An act for the better Care and Retemporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical formation of Youthful Offenders in Great Jurisdiction in England.

66. An act to continue the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor.

67. An act to facilitate the Purchase of Common, Commonable, and other Rights, by the Principal Officers of her Majesty's Ordnance.

Britain.

87. An act to make further Provision for the Burial of the Dead in England beyond the Limits of the Metropolis.

88. An act to render valid certain Marriages of British Subjects in Mexico.

89. An act to amend the Laws for the better

Prevention of the Sale of Spirits by unlicensed Persons, and for the Suppression of Illicit Distillation, in Ireland.

68. An act to provide for the Application of certain Stock purchased with Moneys which 90. An act to repeal the Laws relating to arose from the Sale of Part of the Land Re-Usury and to the Enrolment of Annuities. venues of the Crown in Ireland. 91. An act for the Valuation of Lands and Heritages in Scotland.

69. An act to indemnify Local Boards of Health as regards rating for the Repair of 92. An act to continue an Act of the 11th Highways under the Public Health Act, 1848. year of her present Majesty, for the better Pre70. An act to enable the Trustees of Port-vention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts land Chapel, Oxford Chapel, and Welbeck of Ireland. Chapel, in the parish of Saint Marylebone, to augment the Salaries of the Ministers of the said Chapels.

71. An act to amend the Law concerning the making of Borough Rates in Boroughs not within the Municipal Corporation Acts.

72. An act to provide for Payment of the Salaries of the Sheriff and Sheriff Clerk of Chancery in Scotland.

73. An act to amend the Acts for the Regulation of Joint Stock Banks in Scotland.

74. An act to render Reformatory and Industrial Schools in Scotland more available for the Benefit of Vagrant Children.

75. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the due Acknowledgment of Deeds by Married Women in certain Cases.

76. An act for the Formation, Regulation, and Government of Convict Prisons in Ireland. 77. An act to provide for the Mode of passing Letters Patent and other Acts of the Crown relating to India, and for vesting certain Powers in the Governor General of India in Council.

78. An Act to appoint Persons to administer Oaths, and to substitute Stamps in lieu of Fees, and for other purposes, in the High Court of Admiralty of England.

79. An act for further regulating the Sale of Beer and other Liquors on the Lord's Day. 80. An act to provide for the better Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland.

93. An act for the Exchange of the Office in Somerset House of the Duchy of Cornwall for an office to be erected in Pimlico on the Hereditary Possessions of the Crown.

94. An act to alter the Mode of providing for certain Expenses now charged upon certain Branches of the Public Revenues and upon the Consolidated Fund.

95. An act to make better Provision for the Administration of the Laws relating to the Public Health.

96. An act for allowing Gold Wares to be manufactured at a lower Standard than that now allowed by Law, and to amend the Law relating to the assaying of Gold and Silver Wares.

97. An act to amend and extend the Acts for the Inclosure, Exchange, and Improvement of Land.

98. An act to regulate the Salaries of the Parochial Schoolmasters of Scotland.

99. An act to provide for the Establishment of a National Gallery of Paintings, Sculpture, and the Fine Arts, for the Care of a Public Library, and the Erection of a Public Museum, in Dublin.

100. An Act to make further provision for the more speedy and efficient Despatch of Business in the High Court of Chancery.

101. An act to continue and amend the Acts now in force relating to Friendly Societies.

102. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Bribery, Treating, and undue

List of Public and General Acts.-List of Local and Personal Acts. Influence at Elections of Members of Parlia- Amendment of the Laws and Duties of Customs.

123. An act to render any Dealing with Securities issued during the present War between Russia and England by the Russian Government a misdemeanor.

124. An act to settle the Contribution to be made by certain Baronies in Roscommon and Galway and the County of the Town of Galway to the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company.

125. An act for the further Amendment of the Process, Practice, and Mode of Pleading in and enlarging the Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and of the Superior Courts of Common Law of the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham.

109. An act to defray the Charge of the LIST OF LOCAL AND PERSONAL Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great

Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in Declared Public, and to be Judicially Noticed. certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons' Mates, and SerjeantMajors of the Militia; and to authorise the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers.

1. AN act for better supplying with Gas the town of Middleton and the neighbourhood thereof in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

2. An act to enable the London Life Association to increase the amount authorised by their Deed of Settlement to be assured upon a single Life in the said Society.

3. An act for granting further powers to "The Radcliffe and Pilkington Gas Com

112. An act to afford greater Facilities for the Establishment of Institutions for the Pro-pany." motion of Literature and Science and the Fine Arts, and to provide for their better Regulation. 113. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Administration of the Estates of deceased

Local Acts.-Notes of the Week.-Superior Courts: Lords Justices.—Rolls.

poration of "The Royal Exchange Assurance," 19. An act for enabling the Scarborough Public Market Company to raise a further Sum of Money, and for amending and consolidating the Provisions of the Act relating to such Company.

tom and other places in the Parish of Bury in Appointed under the Bribery Act, 17 & 18 the County Palatine of Lancaster.

RECENT DECISIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS.

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Superior Courts: V. C. Kindersley.-V. C. Wood.

One of the children died in the widow's lifetime without issue.

Scott for the administratrix of the daughter; Lloyd, Palmer, Fleming, and Smyth for other parties.

The Master of the Rolls said, that the meaning of the words personal representatives must be descendants, and not executors and administrators, as the words per stirpes and not per capita were added, and this was confirmed by the subsequent part of the will.

Vice-Chancellor Wood. McCulloch v. Gregory. June 26, 1854.

PURCHASE UNDER DECREE. DISCHARGE

FROM. PRACTICE.

A motion on behalf of a purchaser under a decree to be discharged from his purchase, was directed to stand over until the Master's report had been confirmed.

THIS was a motion on behalf of the purchaser under a decree of the Court to be discharged from his purchase.

Bird in support; W. M. James, contrà.

The Vice-Chancellor said, that the motion must stand over until the Master's report of the purchase was confirmed, but without prejudice to this motion.

1854.

A bill charged that the defendant had obtained Elt v. Burial Board of Islington. June 29,
a bequest by undue influence, and after evi-
dence was taken and publication passed,
the plaintiff moved for leave to amend or
to file a supplemental statement under the
15 & 16 Vict. c. 86, s. 53, that the testator
had executed the will in ignorance of its
contents: Held, that this was a different
issue to that raised by the bill, and the
motion was refused, with costs.

INJUNCTION BILL. COSTS OF WRITTEN
COPY FILED.

A written bill had been filed in an injunction case under the 15 & 16 Vict. c. 86, s. 6: Held, that the plaintiff was entitled to the costs where it was not shown they had been incurred malâ fide.

THIS was a motion for leave to amend this the Taxing Master to allow the costs of a THIS was an application for a direction to bill or to file a supplemental statement under

the 15 & 16 Vict. c. 86, s. 53, in this admi-written bill which had been filed in this innistration suit. The bill charged that the de- junction case under the 15 & 16 Vict. c. 86, s. 6.2 fendant had obtained a bequest by undue influence, and evidence had been taken and publication passed.

Bazalgette in support, on the ground that the evidence showed the testator had executed the will in ignorance of its contents.

Glasse and Shee, contrà.

The Vice-Chancellor said, the issue raised by the will was that the defendant had obtained the bequest by undue influence. The amendment sought, on the other hand, would raise the issue that the defendant had fraudu

lently inserted the bequests without the testator's knowledge, and the motion must be refused, with costs.

August 7, 1852, which directs, that "no costs
Rolt, in support, cited the 2nd Order of
are to be allowed, either as between party and
party, or as between solicitor and client, for
any written bill or written copy of a bill, filed
under the 15 & 16 Vict. c. 86, s. 6,2 or for any
ant thereto, or for any written brief of such
written copy thereof, served upon any defend-
bill, unless the Court shall, in disposing of

the cause, direct the allowance thereof."
W. M. James, contrà.

shown the costs had been incurred malá fide,
The Vice-Chancellor said, that as it was not
the costs must be allowed.

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* Which enacts that "notwithstanding the 1 Which enacts, that "it shall not be ne- provisions hereinbefore contained, the Clerks cessary to exhibit any supplemental bill in the of Records and Writs of the said Court said Court for the purpose of stating or putting may receive and file a written copy of any in issue facts or circumstances which may have bill of complaint praying a writ of injunc occurred after the institution of any suit; but tion or a writ of ne exeat regno, or filed for such facts or circumstances may be introduced the purpose, either solely or among other by way of amendment into the original bill of things of making an infant a ward of the said complaint in the suit, if the cause is otherwise Court, upon the personal undertaking of the in such a state as to allow of an amendment plaintiff or his solicitor to file a printed copy of being made in the bill, and if not, the plaintiff such bill within 14 days, and every bill of shall be at liberty to state such facts or cir- complaint so filed shall be deemed and taken cumstances on the record, in such manner and to have been filed at the time of filing the subject to such rules and regulations with re-written copy thereof, and a written copy of any spect to the proof thereof and the affording the defendant leave and opportunity of answering and meeting the same, as shall in that behalf be prescribed by any General Order of the Lord Chancellor."

such bill of complaint stamped as aforesaid, and with such endorsement thereon as aforesaid, may be served on any defendant thereto, and such service shall have the same effect as the service of a printed copy.

The Legal Observer,

AND

SOLICITORS' JOURNAL.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1854.

MEMOIR OF THE LATE LORD

DENMAN.

Mr. Denman espoused the principles of the great Whig party, and entered Parliament for the borough of Wareham, at the LORD DENMAN was the son of Dr. Den- general election of 1818. In the following man, an eminent physician in London. year he was elected for Nottingham, for His mother was an aunt of Sir Benjamin which place he continued to sit, to the great Brodie. He was born on the 23rd July, satisfaction of his constituents, until he beIn Parliament he 1779. One of his sisters married Sir came Chief Justice. Richard Croft, and the other Dr. Baillie, the warmly supported several reforms in the two leading physicians of their time. Tho- Law, as well for the removal of abuses in the mas Denman went to Palgrave School, near administration of justice in the Civil Courts, Diss, in the county of Norfolk, then superin- as in the mitigation of the severities of the tended by the celebrated Mrs. Barbauld, Criminal Law. He was also eminently disand her distinguished scholar often men- tinguished in the great contest for the abotioned, that "he had received from that lition of Slavery. accomplished lady the rudiments of instruc- In the year 1820, the trial of Queen tion and the first lessons of discipline." Caroline called forth all his impressive and From thence he proceeded to Eton, at dignified eloquence. Mr. Brougham was which eminent school he remained several appointed her Majesty's Attorney-General years, until he entered St. John's College, and Mr. Denman her Solicitor-General. Cambridge, where he graduated in 1800. In 1806, he was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, practised at the Common Law Bar, and selected the Midland Circuit for his career at the Assizes. Before his call to the Bar he married the daughter of the Rev. Richard Vevers. Whilst at the Junior Bar, he was much esteemed as an arbitrator and we recollect several important references before him.1

One of them was of an extraordinary character. The premises of a trader of the City of London had been burned down, and it was suspected that the fire was not accidental, and that the value of the property was enormously overstated. The man was tried for arson, the punishment for which was then certain death. He was acquitted, became bankrupt, and his assignees brought an action against the insurance company. On the trial coming on, Lord Chief Justice Gibbs advised a reference, and Mr. Denman was chosen arbitrator. After VOL. XLVIII. No. 1,388.

The distinguished ability shown by Mr. Denman in that celebrated trial, raised him highly in the estimation of the public for his moral courage and unbending firmness. The judgment, as well as zeal which marked his advocacy, must have essentially contributed to the issue of that great question. But, as might be expected, this opposition to the feelings of the King and his powerful ministry, placed a barrier against Mr. Denman's participating in the honours of his profession, to which his talents and standing at the Bar entitled him.

In the year 1822, however, the City of London, many of whose leading members had taken an active part in support of the Queen, appointed Mr. Denman to the office of Common Serjeant.2

numerous meetings he felt compelled to decide against the claim."

2 Mr. Alderman Wood (not Waithman, as stated in The Times,) the father of the pre

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