CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF HALSBURY LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD ALVERSTONE, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JUSTICE HENN COLLINS THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE WRIGHT SIR R. B. FINLAY, K.C., GENERAL EDITOR A. WOOD RENTON, Esq., BARRISTER-AT-LAW THE ENGLISH REPORTS VOLUME IX HOUSE OF LORDS CONTAINING MACLEAN & ROBINSON; WEST; and HOUSE OF WILLIAM GREEN & SONS, EDINBURGH AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE BOSTON BOOK COMPANY AGENTS FOR CANADA THE CANADA LAW BOOK COMPANY PREFATORY NOTE WEST was the first reporter "by appointment of the House of Lords." The first and second volumes of the House of Lords Cases were reported by Clark and Finnelly (who were also reporters " by appointment of the House of Lords"); the remaining volumes by Clark alone. In the original paging of Volume I. of the House of Lords Cases, the numbers 175 and 176 were omitted. The mistake has not been rectified in the present Volume of the English Reports. Wilbraham v. Scarisbrick (1 H.L.C. 167) was discussed and followed in Shuttleworth v. Murray, 1901, 70 L.J. Ch. 459. |