OF

CASES DECIDED

BY THE

ENGLISH COURTS,

WITH

NOTES AND REFERENCES TO KINDRED CASES
AND AUTHORITIES.

BY

NATHANIEL C. MOAK,

Counsellor at Law.

VOLUME XXVI.

CONTAINING

9 CHANCERY DIVISION, pp. 159-705.

10 CHANCERY DIVISION, pp. 1-420.

ALBANY, N. Y. :

WILLIAM GOULD & SON,

LAW PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS.

1881.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one,

LORDS OF APPEAL IN ORDINARY.

Right Hon. LORD BLACKBURN, appointed 1876.
Right Hon. LORD GORDON,3
Right Hon. WILLIAM WATSON,

1880.

PRIVY COUNCIL, JUDICIAL COMMITTEE.

Right Hon. Sir JAMES W. COLVILE.
Right Hon. Sir BARNES PEACOCK.
Right Hon. Sir MONTAGUE E. SMITH.
Right Hon. Sir ROBERT P. COLLIER.

Appointed under
34 35 Vict.
ch. 91 usu-
ally sitting.

SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE.
COURT OF APPEAL-Ex officio Members.

The Right Hon. the LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR (President).
The Right Hon. the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of England.

The Right Hon. the MASTER OF THE ROLLS.

The Right Hon. the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Common Pleas.
The Right Hon. the LORD CHIEF BARON of the Exchequer.

Ordinary Members.

Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM MILBOURNE JAMES, appointed 1870.
Right Hon. Sir GEORGE MELLISH,5
Right Hon. Sir RICHARD BAGGALLAY,

1875.

Right Hon. the LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR (President).

Right Hon. Sir GEORGE JESSEL, Master of the Rolls, appointed 1873. Hon. Sir RICHARD MALINS, Vice-Chancellor,

Hon. Sir EDWARD FRY, Justice of the High Court,

1866.

1 Retired with Earl of Beaconsfield's administration, April, 1880: 15 L. J., 227.

* Appointed under Gladstone's administration, April, 1880: 15 L. J., 227. Died August 21, 1879: 15 L. J., 115.

* Appointed to fill vacancy of Lord GORDON, April, 1880: 15 L. J., 115, 234. 5 Died June 16, 1877: 12 Law Jour., 372.

Retired on account of ill health, October, 1877: 63 L. T., 417.

Appointed June, 1877, in place of Lord Justice MELLISH: 12 Law Jour., 386. Appointed Nov. 1877, in place of Lord Justice AMPHLETT: 12 Law Jour., 631.

Died October 20, 1880: 15 L. J., 507, 508, 518, 527; 69 L. T., 419, 433.

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* Appointed April 30, under the act of April 24, 1877: 12 Law Jour., 251.