TABLE OF CONTENTS Bea. or Beav..... Bell's Cr.... .................... King's Bench. 46 64 66 Rolls. Criminal Appeals. ..................................................................... Common Pleas. Bingham, new cases.................................................. 46 ... Beaven, .............. B. or Br. & L..... Bro. P. C.. or P... Bosanquet & Puller.. .................... .Browning & Lushington ........ Brown's Parliament Cases. ........... Broderip & Bingham....... C. B. N. S......... .Best & Smith Campbell Admiralty. House of Lords. Nisi prius. Common Bench Reports, old series.... Common Pleas. Code Civil new ........... ..... Code of Civil Procedure.. C. or Cl. & F. or Fin... Clark & Finnelly C. & P.. .................. Carrington & Payne..... Nisi prius. ...... Nisi prius. C. S. U. C....... .Cox's Criminal Cases...... Criminal Appeals. Cox C. C. D. or Dears. & B. C. C... Dearsley & Bell's Crown Cases......... Criminal Appeals. H. L. C.... EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS. House of Lords Cases (Clark)........... House of Lords. H. or Hem. & M. or Mil...Hemming & Miller......... How. R. U. S. Ins.......... Chancery. ..Howard's Reports, United States......Supreme Court. ...Hurlstone & Norman.. Institutes......... K. or Kay & J............ Kay & Johnson's Reports............ Knapp.. L. C. J. L. C. L. J..... L. C. R... Leon L. J. Ex.. XIII King's Bench, Ireland, Chancery. ...... Law Journal Privy Council...................... L. R. App. Cas...........Law Reports, Appeal Cases................. King's Bench. Judicial Committee. ..House of Lords Privy L. R. P. C. L. R. S. C. House of Lords. Queen's Bench. Montague, Deacon & De Gex's Rep.... Bankruptcy. Macq. Sc. Ap. Cas...... Macqueen's Scotch Appeals Cases ..... House of Lords. Moore's Privy Council Reports ..........Judicial Committee. Russ. & M. or Myl....... Russell & Mylne's Reports.......... Chancery. 64 Nisi prius. King's Bench. XIV EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS .Supreme Court Report (Canada) .Simon.... ..................... ........................................ Vice-Chancellor. ......... ...Swabey & Tristram's Reports............ Probate & Divorce. ..Supreme Court. .Swanston .Swabey Reports ....Taunton...... T. or Term. R. or Rep...Terms Reports (Durnsford & East)....King's Bench, Chancery. Admiralty. .....Common Pleas. General. W. B. L. or W. Bl........Sir William Blackstone....... Wheaton .......... Common Pleas & Q. B. Wheaton's American Reports........ Wm. Rob................... William Robinson's New Admiralty Reports. INTRODUCTION SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL ORIGIN OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL The Privy Council, like all institutions which have a political origin, has a history full of troubles and conflicts. A few of its pages are stained with deeds of injustice and violence, but these belong to a time when England, demoralized and weakened by party struggles, had to submit to the despotism of men who could not curb their passions. But it has generally been composed of the most noble and distinguished lords of the realm. A great number of them have acquired celebrity by their virtues and have been renowned as much for their science and their love of justice, as for their descent and wealth. From its origin, the Privy Council has been so bound up with the constitutional laws of Great Britain, that it is impossible to relate the history of the one, without narrating that of the other. England has always retained the same form of government. She has been ruled with more or less despotism, with more or less liberty, according to time and sovereign, but there have always been the king and the upper and lower houses forming a Parliament. During the later centuries, as far back as the revolution of 1688, great changes have |