NOTES OF THE WEEK. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. NEWBY V. VON OPPEN AND OTHERS. Service of writ-Foreign corporation Double domicile-Common Law Procedure Act 1852, ss. 16 & 17. THIS was an appeal from a master's order at Cur. adv. vult. The COURT (Cockburn, C.J., Blackburn, Mellor, and Quain, JJ.) considered that the company had a domicile in this country as well as in America, and following the law laid down by Lord St. Leonards in The Carron Iron Company Proprietors v. Maclaren (5 H. of L. Cas. 416) refused to stop the proceedings against them at this stage. Rule absolute. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. SIDEBOTHAM v. KNOTT. the settlement executed by John Knott, and is now Ambrose and R. H. Collins, for the plaintiff, showed cause, and Holker, Q.C., and J. Edwards, for the defendants The COURT (Kelly, C. B., and Cleasby, B.) were it. Rule absolute to enter a verdict for the Attorneys for the defendant, Woodcock and SECOND DIVISION OF THE COURT. CROUCH v. TREGONNING. Jan. 23.-A. Charles (with him was H. T. Cole, Cur. adv. vult. Jan. 25-The COURT (Bramwell, Martin, and fendant's rule absolute, being of opinion that there was no implied promise to indemnify the plaintiff arising from the relation between the parties, and certainly not after the time when the defendant ceased to occupy; and further there was clearly no relation of landlord and tenant between the parties, and no tenancy between the plaintiff and defendant. The case failed both on the question of indemnity and on the question of tenancy. Rule absolute to enter the verdict for the defendant. Attorneys for the plaintiff, Gregory. Rowcliffe, Rowcliffe, and Rawle, 1, Bedford-row, W.C., Attorney for the defendant, Bolton. Master and servant-Machinery in motion. THIS was an action by the plaintiff, the widow and 66 while the parts required to be fenced are in motion." A rule having been obtained pursuant to leave to enter the verdict for the defendants, on the grounds (amongst others) that the inside edge of the wheelrace did not require to be fenced under the Factory Acts, and that the deceased voluntarily undertook the employment with knowledge of the attendant risk. H. T. Cole, Q.C. (with him A. Charles) for the plaintiff shewed cause Kingdon, Q.C. and Pinder for the defendants, contra. The COURT (Bramwell, Channell and Pigott, BB.) gave judgment discharging the rule, and were of opinion, first, that there was a clear breach of statutory duty on the part of the defendants in not fencing the edge of the wheel race where the deceased was placed to work; secondly, the danger was not so obvious as that the deceased must necessarily have known, and voluntarily encountered it; but, if it were so, that alone would not enable the court to say there was no evidence for the jury, who found there was no contributory negligence in the deceased, a verdict which concluded the case on that point, and with which the court saw no ground for disagreeing. Rule discharged. Attorneys for the plaintiff, Gregory, Rowcliffe, Bowcliffe, and Rawle, Bedford-row, W.C., agents for Benson and Elletson, Bristol. Attorneys for the defendants, Merediths, Roberts and Mills, 8, New-square, Lincoln's-inn. W.C., agents for Ward, Vassall, Parr and Osborne, Bristol. SECOND DIVISION OF THE COURT. ARROWSMITH 2. CHANDler. meant the whole cause of action. Authorities were The COURT (Martin, Bramwell, and Cleasby, Rule discharged, the plaintiff undertaking Attorneys for the plaintiff, Denton, Hall, and LEGISLATION AND JURIS PRUDENCE, HOUSE OF LORDS. THE APPOINTMENT OF SIR R. P. COLLIER. Earl STANHOPE.-I beg to give notice that on Thursday next I shall move for certain papers relating to the appointment of Sir R. P. Collier, and solution: "That the House has seen with regret that on Thursday following I shall submit this rethe course taken by Her Majesty's Government in carrying out the provisions of the Act of last session relative to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and is of opinion that the elevation of Sir Robert Collier to the bench of the Court of Common Pleas for the purpose of giving only a colourable qualification to be a paid member of the Judicial Committee, and his immediate transfer to the Judicial Committee accordingly, were acts at variance with the spirit and intention of the judicial patronage" (hear, hear). HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL took the oaths and his seat on his re-election for the borough of THE BALLOT BILL. Mr. FORSTER gave notice that on Thursday next he should bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to the procedure at municipal and parliamentary elections (cheers). He also gave notice, in the absence of his hon. and learned friend, that the Attorney-General would on Thursday bring in a Bill to amend the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act and the Parliamentary Elections Act of 1868. SCOTCH LEGISLATION. THE ALBERT AND EUROPEAN ASSURANCE COM- Mr. S. CAVE gave notice that to-morrow he should bring in a Bill to authorise the appointment of commissioners for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting upon the causes of the failure of the Albert and European Life Assurance Companies, and of the companies which have been merged in such companies, with power to examine directors, officers, whether permanent or occa sional, and all persons acting, whether as agents or otherwise, in negotiations for the amalgamation or transfer of other companies with or to the Albert or European Assurance Companies. THE GAME LAWS. Mr. WHITE gave notice for Mr. P. A. Taylor, who was absent, that that hon. gentleman would bring in a Bill for the abolition of the game laws. THE APPOINTMENT OF SIR R. COLLIER. the 16th inst. I shall call the attention of the Mr. R. A. CROSS.-I beg to give notice that on House to the recent appointment of Sir Robert Collier, and shall move a resolution thereupon. (Opposition cheers.) PRIVATE BILLS FOR IRELAND. Mr. PIM gave notice, for Mr. Heron, that the the expense and delay in obtaining local and personal Acts relating to Ireland. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Sir G. JENKINSON gave notice that he should move, as an amendment to the motion of which Mr. Gilpin had given notice, for a select committee to consider the report of the Royal comtained a recommendation that the present law of mission of 1866 on capital punishment, which conmurder should be altered. THE MIDDLESEX REGISTRY OF DEEDS. Mr. G. GREGORY gave notice that on the 16th he should bring in a Bill to discontinue the Middlesex registry of deeds and other matters affecting the settlement of land in Middlesex. PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS. Mr. SAMUELSON gave notice of his intention to move the reappointment of the select committee o. last session on patents for inventions. Herschell, for the defendant, had obtained a rule statute, and of evil example in the exercise of hon. gentleman would bring in a Bill to diminish calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the writ of summons in this case, and all subsequent proecedings thereon, should not be set aside, on the ground that the cause of action did not arise within the jurisdiction. Both parties were British subjects. The defendant carried on business both in France and England. In France, at Paris, and three other large towns, and in England, in London. The contract dated 28th Dec. 1866, was written in French, and made in Frauce. By it the plaintiff was to be employed as manager of the defendant's business (employé interessé was the French term) at a salary of 9000 francs a year, payable monthly, and a commission of 10 per cent. on the balance of the profits to be taken at the end of each year. In Oct. 1870, owing to the exigencies of the war in France, the defendant came to London; and the plaintiff came with him, and from Oct. 1870 to June 1871, was occupied in London in the defendant's service, when they both returned to France, the plaintiff continuing on there in the service till November last, when he was dismissed. He now commenced this action against the defendant for breach of contract in non-payment of wages, and for wrongful dismissal, and by his affidavits used at chambers, when the matter came before Hannen, J., it was sworn that a cause of action arose in London consisting of salary due to the defendant in relation to his services rendered in London and still remaining unpaid. Hannen, J. had, after taking time to consider, declined to make an order, setting aside an order of the master giving leave to proceed, being of opinion that a cause of action arose within the jurisdiction. Sect. 18 of the Common Law Procedure Act 1852 enacts that it shall be lawful for the court or judge upon being satisfied by affidavit that there is a cause of action, which arose within the jurisdiction, or in day three weeks he should call the attention of THE MANAGEMENT OF DOCKYARDS. Mr. GOURLEY gave notice that on the 19th March he should move for a select committee to inquire into the existing management of dockyards, survey of ships, &c. THE DUNGANNON BENCH OF MAGISTRATES. Lord C. HAMILTON gave notice that, on the 13th inst., he should call the attention of the house to the treatment of the Dungannon bench of magis. trates by the Irish government, and move for copies of correspondence with reference to the charges against them. PUBLIC PROSECUTORS. ARBITRATION FOR TRADES' UNIONS. THE following is a copy of a Bill drawn up by Mr. Rupert Kettle: A Bill to extend the application of the Act to consolidate and amend the laws relative to the arbitration of disputes between masters and workmen. "Whereas it is desirable to extend the provisions of an Act passed in the reign of His Majesty King George IV., intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relative to the Arbitration of Disputes between Masters and Workmen,' so as to make the same applicable to modern modes of settling such disputes by boards of arbitration: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and respect of the breach of a contract made within bring in a Bill to provide for the appointment of Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia the jurisdiction," &c., to empower the plaintiff to proceed in the action as therein mentioned. Mr. WALPOLE gave notice of his intention to public prosecutors. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Mr. GILPIN gave notice that on Friday next he should bring in a Bill for the abolition of the punishment of death. LOCAL TAXATION. ment assembled, and by authority of the same, as follows: "1. Interpretation.-(a) In this Act the words 'the Act,' shall mean the statute of 5 Geo. 4, cap. 96. (b) The word board,' shall mean any board of arbitration described in the next following sec tion, which shall have under its rules power to determine any dispate of which it may have cor nizance. (c) The word decision,' shall mean any final decision, in writing, of any dispute in manner prescribed by the rules of the board, whether the same be by recording a vote of the board on a Day, for the plaintiff, showed cause.-Though anade abroad, one breach of the contract was the non-payment of the monthly salary in London. The Court of Queen's Bench in Allhusen v. Mal garejo (18 L. T. Rep. N. S. 323; L: Rep. 3 Q. B. 342 37 L. J. 169, Q. B.), following Sichel v. Borch in this court (9 L. T. Rep. N. S. 637; 2 H. & C. 954; 33 L. J. 179, Ex.), held that "cause of -action" meant the whole cause of action. But in Jackson v. Spittal (22 L. T. Rep. N. S. 755) ; L. Rep. 5 C. P. 542; 39 L. J. 321. C. P.) the Court he should bring in a Bill to facilitate the proof of resolution of a meeting, or by the written judg of Common Pleas declined to follow those cases. Lastly, this court in Durham v. Spence (23 L. T. Rep. N. S. 500; L. Rep. 6 Ex. 46; 40 L. J. 3, Ex.) were divided, Martin and Pigott, BB., following Jackson v. Spittal in the Common Pleas, and Kelly, C.B., agreeing with the other cases. It is sub mitted that Jackson v. Spittal was right, and that there was a cause of action within the jurisdiction here. Herschell, for the defendant, contra.-On a true construction of the statute, cause of action" to the terms of any contract about to be entered into, or to the construction of any existing contract, or to the breach of any contract, such board shall have all the powers conferred by this Act, and also such powers contained in the Act as are hereinafter mentioned. "3. How contract of submission shall be made. -Every master who agrees to be bound by the decision of any board shall affix and keep affixed in some conspicuous part of his place of business, where the same can be read by his workmen, a printed copy of the rules of such board, and shall also deliver a printed copy thereof to each of his workmen; and every workman who agrees in like manner to be bound shall accept a printed copy of the rules so delivered; and every employer so affixing, and every workman so receiving a copy of such rules, shall in all things be bound thereby. "4. Attendance of persons and production of documents.-Where a summons is issued and served upon any person according to the rules of any board, to attend before such board and give evidence; or to give evidence and also to produce any books or documents in his possession, and the person so served wilfully omits to appear at the time and place mentioned in the summons, or, then and there, to produce the books or documents mentioned in such summons; or if any person being present at the sitting of any board shall refuse, when required, in accordance with the rules of such board, to give evidence or to produce any books or documents, then in his possession, then, and in either of the above cases, the person so omitting or refusing shall be a witness in default within the meaning of sect. 9 of the Act; and, thereupon, any justice of the peace acting in the petty sessional district where such person shall so have omitted or refused to attend or to give evidence, or to produce books or documents, shall have and exercise all the jurisdiction conferred upon justices by sect. 9 of the Act; and the person who shall have so omitted or refused shall be subject to the penalties therein mentioned. If any person objects to the inspection of any book or document by the board, because so doing would unnecessarily expose his trade, then the board shall appoint some independent person to extract from such book or document, in a form not to lead to such exposure, such information as may be required by the board; and such books and documents shall be then produced and delivered, in the presence of the person producing the same, to the person so appointed. "5. Decisions and their enforcement.-Every decision shall be in writing, and where it orders the payment of money it shall state the sum, and by whom, to whom, and when the same shall be paid; and when the decision orders anything to be done, or not to be done, then it shall further order what sum shall be paid, and by whom, and to whom, and when, as liquidated damages if such decision is not complied with; and every decision so made shall be an award within the meaning of sci. 24 of the Act, and be enforced accordingly. "6. Exemption from operation of penal statutes.-No member of any board, nor any person bound by the proceedings thereof, shall be liable to any penalty or punishment under any Act relating to masters and servants for any breach of contract of which such board might under its rules take cognizance. 7. Boards to use public buildings.-With the consent of the rating authority, and subject to proper regulations, any board may hold meetings in any building maintained out of public rates, upon paying the expenses of lighting, warming, and cleaning such buildings when so used. "S. Parts of the Act to be incorporated herewith.-Sects. 9, 17, 24, 25, 26, 27 (with form in schedule there referred to), 28, 29, 30, 33, and 31 of the Act shall be incorporated with this Act, and construed therewith as though the same had been hereby re-enacted. 9. The acceptance of this Act by boards to be voluntary. This Act shall not be in force in relation to any board, or the proceedings thereof, until the whole or some part hereof shall be accepted by such board. And any board may accept the whole or any part of this Act; and only such parts as are so accepted shall, in relation to such board, be in force. And when any board shall accept the whole or any part of this Act, such board shall so state in its rules, in the following form (or some form to like effect)-viz., "This board has accepted the Trales' Arbitration Act 1871;' or, if part only be accepted, then, this board has accepted sections (here state sections accepted) of the Trades' Arbitration Act 1871.' Provided that it shall not be competent to any board to accept sect. 32 of the Act only. "10. Not to apply to proceedings for conciliation. -The provisions of this Act shall not apply to any proceedings taken for the purpose of settling any dispute by conciliation only; and where no power is given to any board to determine any dispute, in case the parties thereto cannot mutually agree, any proceedings to promote such mutual agreement shall, for the purposes of this Act, be annual rental of £103 4s. 8d., and each of the deemed proceedings for conciliation. "11. Short title.-The Act shall be cited as "The Trades Arbitration Act 1871.' "Clauses in the Act of 5 Geo. 4, c. 96, proposed to be incorporated in the 'Trades' Arbitration Act 1872': "Sect. 9. Power to summon witnesses, and to compel them to attend and to give evidence, under pain of imprisonment. "Sect. 17. Power for married women to lodge complaint in name of husband, and for children under age in the name of parents or guardians. "Sect. 24. Performance of award may be enforced by distress, and, failing that, the party refusing may be imprisoned. "Sect. 25. Where consequences of distress ruinous, or especially injurious to defaulter or his family, warrant may be withheld and defaulter committed. "Sect. 26. On payment of sum awarded, with costs, party imprisoned to be discharged. 'Sect. 27. Form of commitment. 66 "Sect. 28. No appeal by writ of certiorari. "Sect. 29. No proceedings under Act to be bad for want of form. "Sect. 30. Fees to be paid as under:-Summons, 2.; oath, 3d.; entering order, 4d; warrant, 67. "Sects 33 and 34. As to limiting actions against arbitrators," &c. ELECTION LAW. NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS. NOTICE OF CLAIM POWER TO AMEND DESCRIPTION.-B. being entitled to be registered in respect of the occupation of a house in E. of the clear yearly value of not less than 10., served upon the overseers a notice of claim in the form given by the 6 Vict. c. 18, Schedule B, No. 6, in the third column of which the "nature of qualifi cation" was stated to be House." E. is a city and county of itself, having reserved rights of voting as freeholders and freemen under 2 Will. 4, c. 45, and therefore persons possessing freehold property are entitled to vote for the city, and the overseers of the parish make out two lists, one of persons entitled to vote as occupiers, the other of persons entitled by virtue of other rights except as freemen: Held, that the notice was sufficient, or, if not sufficient, that the revising barrister had power to amend: (Ford v. Boon, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 830. C. P.) COUNTY FRANCHISE-£12 OCCUPIER-NOTICE OF CLAIM. The appellant claimed before the revising barrister to have his name inserted in the list of £12 occupiers for the parish of W. It was proved that on the 25th Aug. he sent to the overseers of W. a notice of claim in the following terms: "To the overseers, &c. I hereby give you notice that I claim to be inserted in the list of voters for the division of East Devonshire, and that the particulars of my place of abode and qualification are stated in the columns below. Dated the 25th Aug. 1871. (Signed) F. H. Firth." The nature of his qualification was described in the third colum below as" land as occupier." The appellant was entitled to be put on the list in respect of land occupied by him of the value of more than £50 a year. The revising barrister held the notice insufficient, as it was sent in too late to enable the appellant to claim to be put on the list of £50 occupiers, and that a notice of claim to be put on the list of £12 occupiers ought to show on its face that it was a claim to be put on that list, and not a claim to be placed on the register sent in too late. Held, that the notice was sufficient as a notice of claim to be placed on the list of £12 occupiers: (Firth v. The Overseers of Widdicombe-on-the-Moor, 35 L. T. Rep. N. S. 833. C. P.) COUNTY FRANCHISE-FREEHOLD-DEDUCTION OF EXPENSES.-Appellant, and forty-seven other persons, claimed a county vote, describing their qualification as "share of freehold houses and lands.' The appellant and another person were the owners in fee simple of certain houses and lands in trust for themselves and the other fortysix claimants, in forty-eight equal undivided shares as tenants in common. The gross annual rental up to June 1871 was £141 14s. 41., but for the year between 31st July 1870, and 31st July 1871, it was £143 2s. 10d., the increased rent of £1 88. Gd. being occasioned by the bringing into the dwelling-houses a supply of water, and such bringing in of water was found by the revising barrister a convenience to the tenants, who were charged an increased rent in respect of it, and such increased rent commenced in June 1871, when the water supply commenced. cost of laying on such water was £21 19s. 1d. There were certain outgoings in the shape of chief rents, right of way, and commissions to a rent collector, amounting to £39 18s. 2d. If only this last amount was deducted (and it was conceded that it was properly deducted) from the gross rental of £143 2s. 19d., there remained a net The forty-eight claimants was then entitled to be put on the register as a 40s. freeholder; but if the expense of laying on the water was also deducted, there remained a net annual rental of only £81 5s. 7d., which did not give a 40s. freehold to each of the forty-eight claimants. The revising barrister held that the expense of laying on the water was a necessary expense and proper to be deducted from the gross annual rental, and consequently disallowed the votes. Held, that the revising barrister was wrong: (Buckley v. Wrigley, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 835. C. P.) COUNTY FRANCHISE-FREEHOLD FOR LIFE— 40s. FREEHOLD-BYE-LAWS OF A CORPORATION -POOR BURGESS.-A corporation, being possessed. of certain lands, made a bye-law that they should be occupied by poor and necessitous burgesses at a rent to be fixed and named by the corporation at their pleasure. The bye-law provided that only such persons were poor and necessitous burgesses as were declared so by a majority of the council of the borough. The claimant, who claimed to be entitled to a vote as a 40s. freeholder, had been declared a poor and necessitous burgess, and had been allotted one acre at a rent of 5s. per annum until further notice: Held, that the claimant had no freehold or equitable interest sufficient to entitle him to a vote; that the estate was held at the will of the council, and at the most his interest was not greater than that of a tenant from year to year: (Fernie v. Scott, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 836. C. P.) Cents. Jan. 1973 Ann. 30 years April 5, 1885 exp. 10 92 922 921 912 203 Do. exp. Jan. 5, 1880 Do. exp. July 1880 Red Sea Tele. Ann, 1908, Consols, for Acc.... India 5 Cent. for Acc. Do. 5 Cent. July 1880 India Stock, July 1880 India Stock, 1874 India 5 Cent. India 4 C. Oct. 1888 106 106 105 106 105 105 India 5 Cent. 1870 ...! India Bonds (10001.)... 30s.a 30s.a 30s.a 30s.a 25s.a 20s.a Do. (under 1000l.) 30s.a 30s.a 30s.a 30s.a Ex. Bills, 10001. Do. 5001. 58.4 5s.a 58.a 5s.a 5s.a 5s.a 23.a 2s.a 25.a 2s.a 2s.a 2s.a Do. 1001, and 2001. 2s.a 2s.a 2s,a 28.a 2s.a 28.a Metropolitan Board of Works 3 C. Stock. 97 974 974 97 a Premium. PUBLIC COMPANIES. Belfast and Northern Counties.-Dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. Bristol and Eceter.-Dividend at the rate of 6} per cent. per annum. Lancashire and Yorkshire.-The half-yearly dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum. Londonderry and Enniskillen.-Preference dividends, 5 per cent. on the A and B stocks, together with 1 per cent. on B arrears. North Staffordshire.-Dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. BANKS. London and County.-Dividend of 6 per cent. for the half-year, together with a bonus of 3 per cent. London and Provincial.-Dividend at the rate of 75 per cent. per annum. York City and County.-Dividend of 10 per cent. and a bonus of 30s. per share, or 6 per cent. FINANCE, CREDIT, AND DISCOUNT COMPANIES. General Credit and Discount.-Dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. for the twelve months. Imperial Credit.-Dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the half-year. Midland Land and Investment.-Dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited).—The liquidators aunounce that during the past year they have succeeded in realising sufficient to discharge the balance of the loan obtained in 1870, that the whole of the ascertained debts have been discharged with the exception of £4475 unclaimed, and that there remains only outstanding a contingent liability, the existence of which will not interfere with a return being made to the share holders. The date when the liquidation will be completed cannot yet be given. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Home and Colonial Marine Insurance.-Dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. The General Mortgage and Securities Insurance Company (Limited) is announced. Capital £25,0000, in 50,000 shares of £5 each. This company is established for insuring to mortgagees, and other owners of moneys, stocks, or funds, charged by way of mortgage, or otherwise, upon real or personal property, life interests, reversions, or other partial interests therein, the due payment of their principal or interest, or both, notwithstanding the insufficiency of their securities, as to value or otherwise, as the case may be; thereby giving, in consideration of a moderate annual or other premium, a perfect security against any loss in the event of the mortgaged property not realising upon sale, by reason of the risk insured against, the amounts so charged thereon. The prospectus says: "Solicitors, trustees, guardians, and executors, will feel relieved from the responsibility attached to the investment of funds entrusted to their care, when they can have the guarantee of this company in addition to the security immediately offered, and consequently will resort to it." MISCELLANEOUS COMPANIES. Australian Agricultural. - Interim dividend, 12s. 6d. per share. Hooper's Telegraph Works.-Dividend of 78. per share, or at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. Phospho-Guano.-Dividend declared on the A capital for the half-year at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, and a dividend on the B capital at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. South Cleveland Ironworks (Limited).-Capital £200,000, in £20 shares. Owing to the death of Mr. William Watkin, the late proprietor, the buildings and property of the Esk Valley Iron Works, at Grosmont, near Whitby, will be acquired. The lease of the 400 acres, upon which there are stated to be not less than 10,000,000 tons of ironstone, has fifty-one years to run, and the vendors transfer the whole, and agree to erect two large blast furnaces, with all modern appliances, and to pay 8 per cent. interest during their construction, for the sum of £160,000. It is calculated that then the production will be 40,000 tons of pig per annum at a profit of £54,500. Westminster Palace Hotel.-Dividend at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum declared. MINING COMPANY. of a supplemental bill, bringing the facts stated in RATIFICATION OF SETTLEMENT-DELIBERATE PAPER NOT PLAINLY TESTAMENTARY-BEQUEST IN PAST TENSE.-A testator commenced his will thus: "I have given all that I have to B. C. and her two sons (minors), &c., and after bequeathing certain annuities appointed them his residuary legatees. Under the signatures of himself and the attesting witnesses were the names of two persons nominated trustees; Held, that the paper was testamentary, but that the appointment of trustees did not come within the terms of Lord St. Leonards' Act, and that they were not therefore executors according to the tenor: (In the Goods of W. Coles, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 852. Emma. The third monthly interim dividend, at Prob.) the rate of 18 per cent. per annum. SOLICITORS' JOURNAL, NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS. Debtor and CredITOR-PROMISSORY NOTE INDORSEMENT ACKNOWLEDGMENT-LORD TEN- the security of a promissory note, payable to him- MORTGAGE PRIORITY-NOTICE.-A. and B., respectively the first and second mortgagees in fee of an estate, were induced through the fraud and misrepresentation of W., who acted as solicitor for them both, to execute to him a conveyance of the estate free from both the mortgage debts. The deed of conveyance was indorsed with receipts in the ordinary form for the mortgage moneys, signed by A. and B. respectively, though in reality no money was paid to A. or to B. W. then entered into possession of the estate, and acted as the owner, which he was reputed to be. Subsequently he executed an equitable mortgage of the estate, by covenant and deposit of the title deeds, to C., who had no notice that the prior mortgages to A. and B. had not been in fact paid off. W. continued to pay interest on the mortgage debts due to A. and B. until his death, when the fraud was discovered: Held (affirming the decision of Malins, V.C.) that C. was entitled to priority over A. and B.: (Hunter v. Walters; Darnell v. Hunter; Curling v. Walters, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 765. Chan.) PRACTICE-REVIVOR SUPPLEMENTAL BILL -ORIGINAL BILL OF REVIVOR-A bill to revive a guit which has become abated and defective by the marriage of one of the parties and the birth of children should be an original bill, in the nature petition except under very special circumstances: Austin v. Austin, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 856. Div.) TRADE MARK SPURIOUS IMITATION CARRIER INJUNCTION-FRAUD.-Certain goods bearing a spurious imitation of the plaintiff's trade mark were shipped by foreign merchants to the London Docks, to the order of a London firm who were not dealers in the goods in question, but merely acted as forwarding agents. On a bill by the plaintiff to restrain the removal of the goods from the dock with the spurious brand on them: Held (affirming the decree of the Master of the Rolls), that in such a case it was no defence to say that the defendants were merely carriers or consignees, but that, as it was proved they were not guilty of participation in the fraud of the foreign merchants, as they had given the plaintiffs all information in their power, and had offered to erase the forged trade marks, the plaintiffs could have thus obtained all they were entitled to. Appeal dismissed with costs:(Upmann v. Elkan, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 813. Chan.) WILL NOT FORTHCOMING-PRESUMPTION OF REVOCATION - DEPENDENT RELATIVE REVOCATION.-A testator executed his will at his solicitor's office, and took it away with him. It was never seen afterwards, and could not be found after his death in his repositories. He had made declarations inconsistent with his testamentary depositions shortly before his death, but the court held that he, being the last custodian of the will, revocation arose and was not rebutted. The court and it not being forthcoming, the presumption of will not apply the principle of dependent relative revocation except there is proof of the actual destruction of the instrument: (Homerton and another v. Hewett, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 854. Prob.) JUDICIAL SEPARATION-PERMANENT ALIMONY INCREASE OF HUSBAND'S FACULTIES.—A wife, who had obtained an order for permanent alimony on a decree of judicial separation being pronounced, applied for an increase, on the ground that the husband's faculties had increased. The husband being absent in India, notice of motion was served on the solicitor who had acted for him in the suit. The court held this notice to be insufficient, and declined to make the order. Appli cation was also made for an order on the husband to pay up the arrears of alimony, and, on the representation that the India Office would enforce it in some way on the husband, who was an officer in the Indian army, the court made the order as prayed: (Louis v. Louis, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 856. Div. Ct.) -- NO WILL FORTHCOMING- ADMINISTRATION WILL EXECUTED UNDER POWER OF APPOINTNEEDED TO PRESERVE THE ESTATE-NEXT OF MENT SUBSEQUENT MARRIAGE-REVOCATION- KIN ABROAD.-A deceased was supposed to have 1 VICT. c. 26, s. 18.-By a deed of settlement exe- made a will, appointing his cousin his executor, cuted between the deceased and her intended but at his death it could not be found. His husband, certain property was conveyed to trus- brother, the sole next of kin, had been absent in tees to pay the income to the deceased herself Australia for forty years, and a representative was band, then to him for life, if she should so appoint the debts, and to represent the deceased in a during her life, and if she pre-deceased her hus-urgently needed to carry on the business, to collect appoint, then it was to go to the issue of the colligenda to the deceased's cousin for the use and by will, but not otherwise, and if she did not so Chancery suit. The court made a grant ad ing her power of appointment in favour of her in- to make certain payments: (In the Goods of marriage. The same day she made a will exercis- benefit of the next of kin, with special directions tended husband: Held that the will came within Tepper, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 853. Prob. Ct.) voked by the subsequent marriage: (In the Goods the exception of the Wills Act, and was not re- WILL-LEGACY-FAILURE OF OBJECT OF GIFT of Worthington, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 853. Prob.) -ABSOLUTE GIFT SPECIAL CASE-NEWLYBORN INFANTS.-A testator, by his will, directed APPEAL-SECURITY FOR COSTS OF.-In a suit request in writing, and after her death at their MATRIMONIAL SUIT-WIFE'S COSTS REFUSED his trustees during the life of E. P., upon her for judicial separation, the wife failed to establish own discretion, to expend any sums of money out brought against her husband, and the court re-purchase of any commissions for, or in obtaining a charge of incestuous adultery which she had of his residuary estate not exceeding 65001., in the fused to allow her the costs of the hearing, the promotion of, W. P. in the army. E. P. made although security for them had been given in the a request in writing to the trustees to pay the registry. Subsequently, in chambers, an applica- whole sum of £6500 to W. P. The object of the tion was refused to cancel the bond given for gift had failed, in consequence of the abolition of rity for further costs to enable the wife to pro- entitled absolutely to the whole fund. The court costs, and the husband was ordered to find secu- purchase in the army. Held, that W. P. was secute her appeal against the dismissal of her will dispense with the presence of infants who petition: (Jones v. Jones, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 856. have come into existence since a special case has Div.) been set down, where there are other persons in Flower, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 816. V.C. B.) the same interest who are represented: (Palmer v. TRUST-FAILURES OF FIRST TRUST WHEN ASCER- MATRIMONIAL SUIT- WIFE'S PETITIONCRUELTY-APPLICATION TO ADD NEW CHARGES REFUSED.-Cruelty is a matrimonial offence which must essentially be within the wife's knowledge when she files her petition, and the court, therefore, will not allow her to add new charges to her COVENANT NOT TO SET UP A TRADE WITHIN A CERTAIN DISTANCE-MODE OF ADMEASUREMENT do an act within a certain distance of a given OF SUCH DISTANCE.-If a party covenants not to place, the proper mode of admeasurement is to such distance; or, in other words, to measure the draw a circle round such place of the radius of distance by a straight line upon a horizontal plane, with the plaintiff, to whom he had sold a publicor as the crow flies. The defendant covenanted house, that he would not engage in the business of the keeper of a public-house" within the distance of one half of a mile of the said premises" Held (per Martin and Channell, B.B.), that the distance should be measured upon the that the subject-matter of the covenant should be principle above stated. Held (per Cleasby, B.), considered, and that in this case the distance should be measured as a travelled distance from the one house to the other: (Moulet v. Cole, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 839. Ex.) UNCLAIMED STOCK AND DIVIDENDS IN THE MILLS (John) Langham, Godstone, Surrey, yeoman. March BANK OF ENGLAND. [Transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and which will be paid to the persons respectively whose names are prefixed to each in three months, unless other claimants sooner appear:] ALSTON (Edward), Esq., Fellow of St. John's College, Samuel Alston. LAMOND (Wm. Okey, Stock Exchange, E.C., gentleman. 877. 28, 5d. New Three per Cent., and 747. 15s. 11d. Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities. Claimant, Cordelia Lamond, widow, administratrix of William O. Lamond, deceased, WILLIAMS (Joshua), Esq., Lincoln's-inn. and WILLIAMS (Joshua Strange), Esq., of the same place. One dividend in the sum of 49817, 68. 5d. Three per Cent. Annuities. Claimant, said Joshua Williams. WILLIAMS (Wm. Owen), Cochrane-terrace, St. John's-wood, N.W., gentleman, DAVIES (Fanny), West-place, John'srow, St. Luke's, widow, and DAVIES (Thos. Wm.), a minor. £51 58. 2d. Three per Cent. Annuities. Claimant, the said Fanny Davies, widow, the survivor. APPOINTMENTS UNDER THE JOINT-STOCK MILLWALL IRON WORKS, SHIPBUILDING, AND GRAVING- CREDITORS UNDER ESTATES IN CHANCERY. BORTEFEUR (Alexander), Esq., 45, Moscow-road, Bayswater, COCHRANE (Wm. M.), Nottingham. March 29: Ward and Co., 1, Gray's-inn-square, Middlesex. April 16; V.C. W., at one o'clock. COOPER (Robert), 112, Spencer-street, Goswell-road, Middle sex, cook. Feb, 20; R. B. Johnson, solicitor, 18, Bedfordrow, W.C. Feb. 27; M.R., at eleven o'clock. FETCHER 35, Lincoln's-inn-fields, W.C. o'clock. (Chas. B.), 18. Stratford-place. Camden-town, N.W.. gentleman. Feb. 28; G. J. Robinson, solicitor, March 9; M.K,, at eleven GOORD (Wm.), Fletching, Sussex, yeoman, Feb. 21; A. Hastie, solicitor, East Grinstead. Feb. 25; V.C. W., at GORING (Mary E.), 13. Sussex-square, Hyde park, W. Anglesey. March 10; M.R., at twelve o'clock. one March 1; Pritchard and Sons, solicitors, Lwydiarth, Esgol, GRAY (Owen), Fisherton House, near Salisbury. Feb. 20; R. Dawbarn, solicitor, Isle of Ely, Cambridge. March 2; V.C. M., at twelve o clock. HAMMILL, Lieut. Col. Thomas C.), Castle House, Snares brook, Essex. March 7; C. J. Dimond, solicitor, 10, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, Middlesex. March 11; V.C. B., at twelve o'clock. HAMILTON (Right Hon. Geo. A.), 65, Warwick-square, Middlesex, and Hampden-hall, Balbriggan, Dublin. Feb. 29: Fetherston and Son, solicitors, 21, Wellington Quay, Dublin. March 21; M. R. at his Chambers at Dublin at eleven o'clock. o'clock. HAWKINS (Whitshed K.). Madras, East Indies, a major and twelve o'clock. March 6; V.C. W., at twelve o'clock. solicitor, Ashford. March 12; V.C. W., at twelve o'clock. CREDITORS UNDER 22 & 23 VICT. c. 35. BAILEY (John H.), White Notley, Essex, clerk. March 9 Maidstone. man. 25; C. Carter Morrison, solicitor, Reigate. MORGAN (Edward L.), 1, Westhill, and the Rose and Crown, NICHOLL (Iltyd), Esq., The Ham, Glamorgan, March 5; Borough. Berwick-on-Tweed Canterbury RICHARDSON (Henry); Kingston upon Hull, gentleman. March 20; Lee and Thorney, solicitors, 10, Parliamentstreet, Hull. SIMPSON (Alexander), Brokenrolds, Netherdale-by-Tariff, SMITH (Elizabeth), Burn, Brayton, York. April 1; A. WALLIS (Hester, 79, Church-terrace, Camberwell, Surrey. WILLIAMS (Wm.), 2, Montague-place, Friarstile-road, Richmond, Surrey, baker. Feb. 29; J. Godwin, solicitor, 11, North-buildings, Finsbury, E,C. NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS. he remained until the 20th Jan. 1869, when he was ENDOWED SCHOOLS ACT - UNIVERSITY Ex. again admitted into the respondents' workhouse. HIBITIONS — - CONSTRUCTION. A., by his will, Held, that, independently of the exception by in 1712, after bequeathing a certain portion 9 & 10 Vict. c. 66, s. 1, of time spent in a hospital, of his property to trustees to provide annual the pauper had a constructive residence in reexhibitions for scholars of Jesus College, Ox-spondents' union during his temporary absence, ford, to be selected from the principality although he had no specific lodging or house to of Wales, and to be resident at the college, return to, and therefore his status of irremovleft the residue of his estate for the purchase of ability was not destroyed, and an order for his advowsons to be held by the exhibitioners, and to removal to the place of his last legal settlement which the governing body of the college were to was bad: (Guildford Union v. St. Olave's Union, have the right of presentation. The exhibitions 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 803. Q. B.) were provided for, and the residue of the estate OWNERSHIP. had been applied by the governing body of the college in the purchase of livings which were held by former exhibitioners: Held, that the Endowed Schools Commissioners had, for the purposes of a scheme, power under the Endowed Schools Act 1869, to call upon the college to furnish information as to the endowment: (Re The Meyrut Fund, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 787. V.C. W.) RIGHT OF OWNER OF COMMON LAND DEDICATED TO THE PUBLIC-ACCESS TO PROPERTY.The owner of land, who dedicates a portion of it to public use as a highway, parts with no other right than a right of passage to the public over the land so dedicated, and may exercise all other rights of ownership not inconsistent therewith; and the appropriation made to and adopted by the public of a part of the street to one kind of passage, and of another part to another, does not deprive him of any rights, as owner of the land, which are not inconsistent with the right of passage by the public. The provisions of the Highway Act and the Metropolis Local Management Act, so far as they apply to roads or streets, are subordinate to the paramount rights reserved by the owner. Where, on a summons against the respondent under the Highway Act for doing damage to a highway, it appeared that the readjoining a public highway, used the premises for spondent, the owner, and occupier of premises the deposit of heavy machinery, which he conveyed to and from the premises across the flagged pavement or footway in front of them, in trolleys or waggons which injured the pavement, and it was found by the magistrate that the premises in question could not be reasonably enjoyed without access across the footway, and that the rights of Ownership and those of the public might be jointly exercised consistently with the general welfare, it was held that the magistrate was not bound to convict, and was justified in dismissing the summons: (The Vestry of St. Mary, Newington, v. Jacobs, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 800. Q. B.) BANNERMAN (Henry), Esq. Hunton-court, Hunton, Kent. 850. Cr. Cas. Res. feloni POOR LAW-REMOVAL-STATUS OF IRREMOV. lived in the respondent's union before the 25th ABILITY-RESIDENCE IN A HOSPITAL.-A pauper March 1867 long enough to obtain a status of irremovability. On that day he was admitted into the respondents' workhouse, and he remained there until the 27th Aug. 1868, when he voluntarily took his discharge, and on the same day became an inmate of a hospital in another union. On the and took a lodging in the respondents' union, where 31st Dec. 1868 he was discharged from the hospital, Prisoner was charged with stealing a mare, the property of E. The evidence was that prosecutor, in the presence of the prisoner, agreed to buy of W. a mare for £5, and that W. assented to take a cheque for the £5. The prosecutor afterwards sent prisoner to W. with the cheque, and directions to take the mare to Bramshot Farm. On the next day prisoner sold a mare to S., which he said he had bought for £5. Before the magistrate he said he sold the mare to S., with the intention of giving the money to E., but that he got drunk: Held, that that was sufficient evidence on which a jury might find that the mare sold to S. was the property of E.: (Reg. v. King, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 851. Cr. Cas. Res.) SUMMARY JURISDICTION-CLAIM OF RIGHTEXPRESS PROVISION FOR SETTLEMENT of Disating a bridge company, and enabling them to take PUTES.-A private Act of Parliament, incorporcertain maximum toils, which the company by resolution might diminish and alter, provided for the settlement of disputed tolls by a justice, by way of arbitration. By a subsequent section, if any collector should demand or take a greater or less toll from any person than he should be authorised to do by virtue of the Act or resolu tions under it, or should demand or take a toll from a person exempt from the payment thereof, he was to forfeit a sum less than £5 upon an information before justices. The respondent, a foot passenger, paid the appellant, the collector of tolls, upon demand, a toll the second time the same day, and laid an information before justices against the appellant for demanding it. There was no exemption in the Act upon a passenger's crossing the bridge a second time in the same day; but it was admitted that from the passing of the Act, forty years before, until this demand, no passenger had ever paid under such circumstances. No resolution, however, was in existence. The justices convicted, notwithstanding the appellant's assertion of a bona fide claim of right. Held, upon a case stated by the justices, that as there was a particular provision in the Act for the settlement of such a dispute, the information of forty years' practice, although evidence of exonght to have been dismissed; also that the fact emption, was not conclusive: (Dixon v. Cockett, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 826. Q. B.) POOR LAW-UNION EXTENDING INTO SEVERAL JURISDICTIONS-COURT OF APPEAL FROM AN Law Amendment Act 1867, "where a union exORDER OF REMOVAL.-By sect. 27 of the Poor tends into several distinct jurisdictions, every matter, act, charge, or complaint by which the have any interest, shall for the purpose of jurisguardians thereof are affected or in which they diction be deemed to arise or exist equally throughout the union:", Held, that the appellate jurisdiction from an order of removal under this section is the same as that under which the order is made; and it does not depend upon the place from which the removal is ordered: (Dudley Union 829. Q. B.) v. Wolverhampton Union, 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. |