168. as the judge said, but £2 9s. out of pocket, and in addition he would have to pass through the ordeal of an interview with Mr. Commissioner Kerr, the prospects of which may well be sufficient to frighten many plaintiffs from the City Court to the Mayor's Court over the way. I say nothing of the remarks upon the profession of attorneys, but beg to subscribe myself ONE OF THEM.

REPEAL OF ATTORNEYS' CERTIFCATE DUTY. -I was pleased to see the following lines in the last number of the LAW TIMES: "We think in view of recent legislation, that Mr. Disraeli, with his large surplus, may well relieve solicitors from the payment of the annual certificate duty, and the claim ought to be advanced by our representatives in the House." I cannot see why the attorneys should pay an annual certificate duty and members of the clerical and medical professions pay none. I would not wish to have it wholly repealed, but a part taken off, and that part (if Her Majesty's Government cannot afford to lose it) be put on the other two professions above-mentioned in equal proportions. If the leading members of our Profession were to take up this matter with a determination to get it modified it would be done; but as this annual payment to them is a matter of so little importance, they are supine in the matter, in fact, do not wish to have it modified or repealed, under the idea that it keeps the Profession respectable. How is it the other two professions are kept respectable without it? Do, Mr. Editor, kindly use your powerful pen, and assist us in this matter, and you will deserve and earn the thanks of our Profession in general, and those who are barely earning a living and cannot afford to pay the tax (and there are hundreds of them) in particular. If you will kindly give this a place in your next paper you will much oblige your old subscriber,

J. T. S.

SECURITY FOR COSTS-31 & 32 VICT. c. 54.-In your impression of the 14th inst., you state that "in one case it was held that plaintiffs resident in Scotland and Ireland cannot be compelled to give security for costs, the 31 & 32 Vict. c. 54 having provided a process of enforcing an English judgment in those countries. This was the case of Raeburn v. Andrews in the Queen's Bench on the 29th ult." As some misapprehension may exist as to whether this Act is applicable to the inferior courts of record in England, you will kindly allow me to state that is still necessary that security for costs should be taken in all the inferior courts, the 31 & 32 Vict. c. 54 only applying to judgments obtained in the courts at Westminster. The judgments of the inferior courts can certainly be removed to, and be made the judgments of, the Superior Courts, but subject to certain restrictions. 19 & 20 Vict. c. 108, s. 49, provides the following for judgments obtained in the County Court: "If a judge of a Superior Court shall be satisfied that a party against whom judgment for an amount exceeding £20 exclusive of costs has been obtained in a County Court has no goods or chattels which can conveniently be taken to satisfy such judgment, he may, if he shall think fit, or on such terms as to costs as he may direct, order a writ of certiorari to issue to remove the judgment of the County Court into one of the Superior Courts, and when removed it shall have the same force and effect and the same proceedings may be had thereon as in the case of a judgment of such Superior Court; but no action shall be brought upon such judgment." Pollock and Nicol, in their County Court Practice, 7th edit., p. 167, state that the above provision can only be exercised by a plaintiff where a defendant has no goods. The defendant, then, if the case be tried in the County Court, has no remedy against the plaintiff on his judgment if resident out of England, and if no security has been taken by the registrar the costs will have to be sued for and proved in the court where the action is brought, as an action will not lie on a judgment obtained in a County court: (3 Bl. Com. 160; Berkeley v. Elderkin, 1 E. & B. 805; 22 L. J. 281, Q.B.; Austin v. Mills, 9 Ex. 288.) AN ARTICLED CLERK.

NOTES

AND

QUERIES ON POINTS OF PRACTICE.

NOTICE. We must remind our correspondents that this column is not open to questions involving points of law

65. POWERS OF ADMINISTRATRIX.-A., who was pos sessed of some freehold property, died intestate, leaving a widow and three children (minors) him surviving. At the time of his death A. owed several sums of money, and his widow, who has taken out letters of administration, is desirous of selling the property, in order to satisfy the intestate's debts. Will any of the nistratrix can sell and convey without the necessity of readers of the LAW TIMES inform me if the admi

any other parties joining in.

RUSTICUS.

66. TRESPASS.-A. is the lessee of certain property upon which his house stands; he underlets one field, a portion of the said property, to B., at a yearly rent. While this field is in B.'s possession a third person, who is building a row of houses on a plot of land next to the field, drives his carts along the latter, and, in fact, makes it a thoroughfare, much to the annoyance of A., whose dining-room window overlooks the field. What remedy has A., and against whom? Cases would oblige.

ALCIPHRON.

LAW SOCIETIES.

ASSOCIATION.

MANCHESTER INCORPORATED LAW THE annual general meeting of the members of the association was held on the 19th Jan, last, at Cross-street Chambers, when an account of the receipts and disbursements (previously audited by two of the members), was submitted and passed, and the officers and committee were elected for the ensuing year.

The proceedings of this society for the last year
were stated in the following report, which was
read by the hon. secretary, and unanimously
adopted.

In presenting to the members of the Manchester
Incorporated Law Association the thirty-fifth
annual report, the committee have again the plea-
sure of recording the prosperous condition of the
association, both in the number of its members
and the state of its finances.
of the treasurer show a balance in hand of
The accounts
£116 15s. 10d. The amount invested in Consols
is £672 12s. 3d., which, with the sum of £80 1s. 3d.
for accumulated dividends thereon, is held in
trust for the association.

The legislation of the session, though comprising
comparatively few Acts of interest to the Profes-
sion, is rendered memorable both to lawyers and
the public by the passing of

mothers as regards the custody of their infant children. It empowers the Court of Chancery to order that a mother may have access to, or the custody of, her children under the age of sixteen, and legalises an agreement in a separation deed for the mother to have the custody of her infant children. It repeals the Act 2 & 3 Vict. c. 54.

Intestates' Widows and Children Act (36 & 37 Vict. c. 52).-This Act enables the widow or children of an intestate, where the estate does not exceed £100 in value, and if residing more than three miles from a registry of the Court of Prothe registrar of the County Court of the district bate, to obtain letters of administration through where the intestate had his fixed abode, for a small scale of fees.

Professional Remuneration.-A joint committee of the Incorporated Law Society and the Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association having been appointed with a view of framing a scale of charges which should be generally approved by the Profession, a circular letter was issued by them to each of the Provincial Law Societies, referring to the scale prepared in 1871 by the Incorporated Society, and to that agreed on about the same time by the law societies of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Worcester, and requesting information as to the experience of the Profession in regard to the two scales. Your committee, after carefully considering the subject, replied to the effect that in their opinion a scale of commission requires legislative or judicial sanction for general adoption, that the London scale of 1871 was so high as to be altogether impracticable in the country, and that the scale recommended by the provincial societies is also, if anything, too high in large transactions. They suggested the omission of the second column of the provincial scale, with a view to simplicity and reduction on large amounts, but in other respects upheld the provincial scale, and its separation of negotiation from conveyancing charges, and its principle of giving a smaller fee to the vendor's solicitor than to that of the purchaser. The London societies subsequently submitted the draft of the revised scale which has since been adopted by them. This scale, though vincial societies, especially in the adoption of a approaching more nearly to that of the profee to the vendor's solicitor of three-fourths only, of that of the purchaser's solicitor, your committee consider it still too high for adoption in this district. A revision, in some respects, of the provincial societies' scale is under their consideration.

Organisation of the Profession.-An important step towards the better representation of the Profession has been taken during the past year by The Supreme Court of Judicature Act (36 & 37 the Incorporated Law Society in obtaining a sup Vict. c. 66).—The principle of this Bill, the provi-plemental charter, by virtue of which the council sions of which are now too generally known to now consists of forty ordinary members, elected need recapitulation, was based by the Lord Chan- by proxy (of whom ten are solicitors practising in cellor on a judicious carrying out of the well-con- the provinces), and ten extraordinary members, sidered recommendations contained in the first elected annually by the council from the presidents report of the Judicature Commission for the of provincial law societies. At the recent election fusion of law and equity. The Bill proposed to ten of the most active country members of the transfer to the Supreme Court the jurisdiction of Profession were elected to the council, including the present Superior Courts of Law and Equity, your former president Mr. Bateson Wood. The and of several other courts, including the Court of question of an amalgamation of the Incorporated Common Pleas at Lancaster and Court of Pleas and Metropolitan and Provincial Societies was again at Durham. It did not affect the Chancery of considered at the provincial meeting of the latter Lancashire (except as to appeals), nor the County Association, at Birmingham, in October last, Courts, Salford Hundred Court, or other inferior when papers were read on "The Organisation of courts. Your committee after carefully consider- the Profession," by Mr. Marshall, of Leeds, and ing the Bill were of opinion that it was, on the on "The Amalgamation of the two London Socie whole, a beneficial improvement on the present ties," by Mr. Saunders, of Birmingham, and it system, and deserved the support of the Profes- was resolved to continue the efforts for the prosion, but that the necessity for securing district posed amalgamation. The council of the incorregistries in Lancashire (before the suitors were porated society have since passed the following deprived of the benefits afforded by the Common resolution on the subject:-"That the council facilities for the trial of causes in Manchester and mission of members of the Metropolitan and ProPleas at Lancaster), and of granting greater being prepared to entertain proposals for the adLiverpool should be urged on the Legislature. vincial Law Association into the Incorporated Law Your committee and the Incorporated Law Society Society on the dissolution of the former, is not of Liverpool communicated with the Lord Chan- unwilling to pledge itself to hold an annual cellor and Lord Cairns, with the result of extend-general meeting, out of London, in the autumn, ing and improving the District Registry Clauses, provided that the terms of admission can be so as to provide for the continuance of the Lan- satisfactorily arranged." Your committee trust cashire registries. When the Bill had passed the that this will soon be accomplished, believing Upper House and stood for second reading in the that those who are at present country members House of Commons, a joint deputation from the of the Metropolitan and Provincial Association Liverpool and Manchester Societies had an inter-will, as members of the incorporated society, find view with a number of members of that House to urge them to support the Bill, and your committee presented a petition praying that the Bill might pass. By means of the united action of the Associated Northern Provincial Law Societies the attention of many other law societies was called to the Bill, and observations were drawn up from time to time, in reference to the District Registry, members of Parliament. Ultimately the Bill, after much discussion in committee, where the Registry Clauses were at one time threatened with serious opposition, passed through all its forms, and has become one of the most important Acts

such as a solicitor should be consulted upon. Queries will Referee, and other clauses, and forwarded to

be excluded which go beyond our limits. N.B.-None are inserted unless the name and address of the writers are sent, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee for bona fides.

Queries.

63. SEAL.-In a marriage settlement in place of seals relating to the administration of the law which

there are merely ribbons inserted (wax having been
accidentally omitted to be put on). Will this affect its
validity?
T. P. H.

has ever appeared upon the Statute Book.
The Custody of Infants Act (36 Vict. c. 12)
makes an important change in the rights of

when in London an advantage in having access to the rooms of the society and reference to its library, and that the influence of the Profession will be increased by its representation in London being united, especially now that so many country solicitors are on the council.

Bills of Sale Act as regards Trade Fixtures.to the question of the registration of mortgages The attention of your committee has been given. of trade fixtures in consequence of decisions, first by Vice-Chancellor Malins in the case of Begbie v. Fenwick (24 L. T. Rep. N. S. 58), and next of the Court of Queen's Bench in Hawtrey v. Butlin (L. Rep. 8 Q. B. 29), in both of which cases it was held that a mortgage of trade fixtures in connection with leasehold premises to be valid, as against creditors, must be registered under the Bills of Sale Act. On the faith of the previous

Heelis Memorial.-The committee have received | subscriptions amounting to about £400, with which it has been decided to found a Gold Medal, to be called "The Stephen Heelis Prize for Manchester and Salford Students," to be annually awarded to the student who among the candidates from Manchester and Salford shall during each year have passed the best final examination, provided he attain a sufficient standard of merit to entitle him to a prize or honorary certificate of the Incorporated Law Society, and shall not have completed his 26th year. The Council of the Incorporated Law Society have approved the scheme, and undertaken to award the medal, of which the design has been approved, and the dies are now being made, so that the prize may be open to competition during the present year.

Point of Practice-Conditions of Sale. The Kent Law Society having asked for the opinion of your committee as to the propriety or impropriety of certain conditions of sale stipulating or offering inducement to a purchaser to employ the vendor's solicitor to prepare the conveyance, your committee replied that such a practice was unusual in this neighbourhood that your association had not experienced the necessity of making any rule on the subject, but that as an association we should object to any stipulation of the kind being inserted in conditions of sale.

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Prize for Essay on the Law of Tenure.-The prize of £7 7s. in books, given by Mr. Davies, for the best essay on the " History and Law of Tenure of Real Property," was awarded by your committee to Mr. Alfred Wallis, of Bluepits, an articled clerk of Mr. William Scott, of Rochdale.

well known cases of Mather v. Frazer, and Boyd
v. Shorrock, mortgages comprising trade fixtures
have not usually been registered. Your committee
came to the resolution that it was desirable to
obtain an Act of Parliament for the purpose-
First, of giving to the holders of such mortgages
the opportunity of registering them within a time
to be limited after the passing of the Act; and,
next, to provide that future mortgages compris-
ing trade fixtures should be declared to be within
the provisions of the Bills of Sale Act, no matter
what might be the tenure of the property to
which they were attached. A deputation from
your committee waited upon the then Attorney
General (now Chief Justice Coleridge) to bespeak
his aid in carrying out this resolution, which he
promised to give in the ensuing session, but said
it was too late to enter upon the matter in the
last session. Your committee also put them-
selves in communication with the Chamber
of Commerce, who promised their support
to a Bill to carry out these views. In
July last, the case Ex parte Daglish, re Wilde,
Weekly Reporter, vol. 21, No. 63, page 893, came
before the Lords Justices, who have confirmed the
ruling that an unregistered mortgage of trade
fixtures attached to property leasehold for 999
years is invalid, as against a trustee in bank-
ruptcy, which renders action in the matter more
necessary. The subject has been brought before
the Incorporated Law Society, and by the council
of that society before the present Attorney.
General, Sir Henry James; but he states that
there are so many Bills requiring the attention of
himself and the Solicitor-General during the
coming session, that there will be little chance of The Preliminary Examinations of Candidates
any Government Bill affecting the subject being prior to articles have, as usual, been held in Man.
introduced. He adds that in case of any private chester during the year, under the conduct of
member submitting a Bill to Parliament to carry members of your association as local examiners.
out the above views he will be happy to confer Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association.
with them thereon. Under these circumstances -The usual annual provincial meeting of this
your committee recommend the association to association was held in Birmingham, on the 21st
take up the subject, and to prepare, and endeavour and 22nd Oct., at which your association was re-
to get passed, an Act to do justice to those whose presented by a deputation. The meeting was
securities are so unexpectedly called in question, attended by 103 gentlemen, of whom 9 were
and to set at rest the present unsatisfactory state metropolitan members and 94 provincial. After
of the law.
the address of the president a number of interest-
Clerk of the Peace, County Palatine of Lancastering papers were read most of which were followed
Act. Your committee having recently learnt that by important discussions, those of the subject of
the justices contemplated the introduction, during amalgamation with the Incorporated Law Society
the coming session, of a Bill to repeal or amend have been already adverted to. The association
this Act, and to vest the appointment of two
was received by the members of the Birmingham
deputy clerks of the peace in the clerk of the Law Society with great hospitality and attention,
peace, instead of in the Chancellor of the Duchy, and it was decided that the next autumnal meeting
as provided by the Act, a joint letter from the should be held in Leeds.
Liverpool and Manchester societies was addressed
to Mr. Rathbone, M.P., one of the justices, point-
ing out the objections to such a change. Mr.
Rathbone afterwards forwarded the letter to the
Chancellor of the Duchy, and asked him not to
consent to any such Bill, and communicated it to
the justices at their adjourned annual sessions.
The justices, however, resolved to proceed with
the Bill, and your committee feel no doubt their
successors will be prepared to co-operate with the
Liverpool Society in opposing this attempt to
neutralise the benefit conferred by the Act.
Common Pleas at Lancaster.-The retirement of
the prothonotary (Mr. Harris), having afforded
an opportunity of combining the duties of asso-
Lord Coleridge took the chair; and amongst
ciate with those of the district prothonotary, in
each district, your committee addressed the Chan- those present were the Attorney-General (Sir
Henry James), the Solicitor-General (Sir William
cellor of the Duchy in support of the proposal, Harcourt), Mr. Manisty, Q.C., Mr. Herschell, Q.C.,
and an arrangement has accordingly been made
by which the office of associate at the Manchester Mr. Edlin, Q.C., Mr. Garth, Q.C., Mr. McIntyre,
Assizes will, in future, be filled by the district.C., Mr. J. J. Powell, Q.C., Mr. D. T. Evans, J. C.
Matthews, and numerous other gentlemen.
prothonotary.

County Court Changes.-Your committee finding that it was again proposed to transfer Mr. Russell from Manchester to Liverpool, and to make further changes in the circuits in and about Manchester, appointed a deputation, which in company with deputations from the Corporation of Manchester and the Chamber of Commerce, was received by the Lord Chancellor, and the representations then made induced his Lordship to abandon the intention of removing Mr. Russell, and to determine to make no change at present in the Lancashire Circuits.

New County Court.-Your committee have much pleasure in reporting that the numerous representations made by your association and other public bodies, as well as by the judge and officials of the court, regarding the inadequate accommodation for the increasing business of the Manchester County Court, have at length taken effect. Your committee lately received a letter from the First Commissioner of Works stating that the Government had under consideration the question of providing a New County Court, and requesting an expression of their views before he finally decided on a site. To this communication a reply has been sent urging the importance of a central situation. Details of the accommodation required for the public and the Profession were also given, and the hope expressed that the future requirements of a rapidly increasing mercantile district would not be overlooked.

The following gentlemen were elected the officers
of the association for the ensuing year: President,
Mr. W. H. Guest. Vice-Presidents, Mr. John
Taylor and Mr. A. Percy Earle. Treasurer, Mr.
James Street. Honorary Secretary, Mr. S. Unwin.
Chairman of Committee, Mr. G. F. Wharton.
Deputy-Chairman, Mr. Percy Woolley.

BARRISTERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIA-
TION.

THE first annual meeting of the Barristers' Bene-
volent Association was held on Friday afternoon,
Benchers, at the Hall of the Middle Temple.
the 13th inst., by the kind permission of the

It will be remembered that this association was called into existence at a meeting of the Bar in the Middle Temple Hall on 10th Jan. 1873, and its object "is to afford assistance to necessitous and deserving members of the English Bar, special pleaders, and conveyancers, their widows and children."

The rules of the association prepared by the committee appointed at the first meeting were submitted to and finally settled by a subsequent meeting of the Bar, over which Sir John Coleridge presided.

The Hon. Sec. (Mr. Macrory) opened the proceedings by reading the notice convening the meeting; and in the report which he submitted to the meeting it showed that the general committee had opened lists for donations and subscriptions, and made appeals to the Profession, which resulted in donations to the end of 1873 amounting to £2035 15s. (received and promised), and in annual subscriptions amounting to £479. Of this sum nearly £200 had been devoted to the grant or assistance in cases which the committee, after careful examination, considered deserving. The report went on to state that the benevolent operations of the association during the first year of its existence had been limited in their scope, owing to the uncertainty felt by the committee as to the funds actually at their disposal, and it added that several urgent applications for relief were at present under their consideration.

The Chairman, in moving that the report be

printed and circulated, said that it was not necessary for him to address the meeting at any length, for the association was now upon its legs, and, he hoped, regularly formed; and he trusted that it would continue to increase in power and influence. (Hear, hear.) From what had reached him quite recently he was sure that there were cases in the Profession which urgently called for relief of the kind the association proposed to give, to be administered by persons who could fully estimate the real need of their common charity. There were many instances which had reached him which, but for the stepping in of friends of the Profession, owing to the delicacy and feeling which actuated those who needed help, would have led to the most melancholy and miserable results which words could not describe. A great friend of his own-a person of considerable position and distinction-was brought, by no fault of his own, exceedingly low. Being a gentleman, delicacy stopped him from making known his position, and his case would have led to disastrous results had not attention been called to his condition. In cases of this kind an association such as the present one was of the greatest value, and what one man did not know of the condition of necessitous members another did; and if the committee were properly formed, they would find that such lamentable results as he had suggested would be avoided. He for one had never found that where there was any real need for charitable relief, the hearts and purses were shut against the Profession. (Hear, hear.) But it often happened that among those who were the least successful cases of distress and abject poverty frequently occurred of which they were not aware, and it would be the duty of the association to find such cases out. With regard to the financial condition, he was glad to find that an exceedingly small sum was spent in the working of the association, the expenditure being very moderate; and to the hon. secretary (Mr. Macrory), who had devoted his time and attention for nothing, they owed a deep debt of gratitude. (Applause.) He regretted, however, that many of the subscribers were in arrears, and he trusted that steps would shortly be taken to draw in money by means of a printed circular to be sent round to the defaulters. In conclusion, he said that he was glad to think that the associa tion had now been successfully begun, and he only trusted that year by year they would have larger funds to dispose of to those who sorely wanted them. (Loud cheers.)

Mr. Edlin, in seconding the resolution, hoped that the circulation of the report would be substantially conducive to the good of this associa tion.

The motion was then carried.

Mr. Manisty, Q.C. said that with regard to the arrears that might be in some respect due to a delicate feeling which prompted the committee not to apply for the money, but that difficulty would in future be removed; and they might anticipate good results from a new collector who had lately been appointed. There was not the slightest reason to fear but that the money would be quickly got in, for the Profession had come forward more unanimously and earnestly than it had ever done before, and he ventured to hope that the donations would be largely increased, as well as the number of annual subscribers.

The Attorney-General deplored the abstention

of the common law judges from all participation in the operations of the society, and urged the noble president to use his influence with his brethren on

the bench in their behalf.

The Chairman said that he could not understand why the judges as a body had not contributed to the funds of the association, and he promised that its claims should be fully made known to them, for he had never found that they would shut their hearts or their pockets against any reasonable claim. (Cheers.)

The Solicitor-General then proposed a vote of thanks to the Benchers of the Middle Temple for the use of the hall, which was carried.

The committee of management and the auditors were also appointed, and votes of thanks were awarded to the officers of the association in general, and in particular to Lord Coleridge, for his services in the cause, he also consenting to act as one of the trustees for the current year. The proceedings then terminated.

LEGAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. WE are asked to remind our readers that contributions in aid of the funds of this association may be sent to the honorary treasurer, Mr. J. M. Clabon, 21, Great George-street, Westminster, or they may be paid into the account of the association at the Temple Bar branch of the London and Westminster Bank. The success of this association, having in view the accomplishment of the most important objects, is due in a large degree to the undeviating and consistent support given to it by the present Lord Chancellor; and it will indeed be most fortunate if, with the

resignation by Baron Amphlett of the post of president, and the resignation of the Government, Lord Selborne could be again induced to place himself at the head of the association.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS' SOCIETY.

WE are requested by the Honorary Secretary of this Society to say that meetings of the Parlia. mentary committee were held on the 19th and 26th Jan. last, and the 9th and 16th Feb. inst., resulting in the framing of a Bill which will be introduced into the House of Commons, having for its object the protection of the Profession against the depredations of unqualified persons.

DUBLIN LAW STUDENTS' DEBATING
SOCIETY.

A GENERAL Meeting of the Society was held in
the Lecture Hall, King's Inns, on Feb. 16, when
the following subject was debated: "That the
present system of Legal Promotion requires

form."

DUBLIN LEGAL AND LITERARY

DEBATING SOCIETY.

THE Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
has been pleased to appoint Mr. Henry Ward
Collins, of 4, Brunswick-street, Liverpool, to be
a perpetual Commissioner for the County of Lan-
caster.
the Common

THE Lord Chief Justice of

W. JENKINS, ESQ. THE late William Jenkins, Esq., Q.C., LL.D., of Clifton Court, near Bristol, who died on the 22nd ult., in the sixty-eighth year of his age, was the eldest son of the late William Jenkins, Esq., formerly of the Treasury, Dublin Castle, and a lineal descendant of the learned lawyer and judge Pleas has appointed Mr. Edward Bagnall Potts, David Jenkins, who was detained a prisoner in of Broseley, in the county of Salop, solicitor, to the Tower of London, and again in Wallingford be a perpetual Commissioner for taking Acknow. Castle, for his loyalty to Charles I. He was born ledgments of Deeds by Married Women, under in the year 1805, and was educated at Trinity the Fines and Recoveries Act. College, Dublin, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1826, proceeded M.A. in 1832, and was

made LL.D. in 1856. He was a student of the Inner Temple, and was called to the Irish Bar in Trinity Term 1829. He was appointed a Q.C. in 1860, by the then Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Sir Maziere Brady, and retired from the Bar in 1863, since when he resided at Clifton Court. Mr. Jenkins had the reputation of being a sound equity lawyer, and was particularly successful in Re-investigating titles. He also practised in the Court of Chancery, where he distinguished himself in many important cases. Mr. Jenkins married on the 26th Sept. 1835, Helen, eldest daughter of the late John Thompson, Esq., of Bath, by whom he leaves one son, William, barrister-at-law of the Western Circuit, and also two daughters.

THE usual weekly meeting of this Society was held on Thursday evening last, at 53, Lower Sackville-street. The chair taken at eight o'clock, by Mr. Trevor Overend, President. An essay was read by Mr. J. H. Franks on "Irish Land Tenures."

LEGAL OBITUARY.

NOTE.-This department of the LAW TIMES, is contributed by EDWARD WALFORD, M.A., and late scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and Fellow of the Genealogical and Historical Society of Great Britain; and, as it is desired to make it as perfect a record as possible, the families and friends of deceased members of the Profession will oblige by forwarding to the LAW TIMES Office any dates and materials required for a biographical notice.

A. M. ALEXANDER, ESQ. THE late Adam Murray Alexander, Esq., some time a puisne judge of British Guiana, who died at Enagh Lodge, on the 2nd inst., was the second son of the late John Alexander, Esq., of Caw House, in the county of Londonderry, Ireland, a relative of the noble house of Caledon. He was born about the year 1810, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1830, and proceeded M.A. in 1834. He was called to the Irish Bar in Easter Term 1832, and practised for some time in Dublin; he was subsequently appointed to a puisne judgeship of the courts of British Guiana, which he held for a period of ten years.

W. A. WILDE, ESQ. THE death is announced of Mr. William Archer Wilde, of the Court of Probate, which occurred in Brittany, on the 2nd inst., in the twenty-first year of his age. He was the third son of the late Clarence Thomas Wilde, Esq., and a relative of Lords Truro and Penzance, and was born in the year 1853.

H. GARDNER, ESQ. THE late Henry Gardner, Esq., barrister-at-law, who died on the 5th inst., at his residence Sion Hill, Garstang, Lancashire, in the fiftieth year of his age, was the younger son of the late John Gardner, Esq., of Sion Hill, and of Pilling, Lanca. shire, by Frances, daughter of the late Daniel Elletson, Esq., of Parrox Hall, Lancashire, and he was born in the year 1824. He was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in 1856, and went the Northern Circuit, and he also practised at the Lancaster, Preston, Kirkdale, Liverpool, and Bolton Sessions. The brother of the deceased gentleman, the Rev. John Gardner, now of Pilling, Lancashire, was formerly in the profession of the law, having been called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1847; he, however, subsequently entered holy orders, and is now Rector of Skelton, Yorkshire.

A. SCHALCH, ESQ. FROM Jamaica, intelligence has been received announcing the death of Mr. Ernest Alexander Clendining Schalch, the Attorney-General of that island, which occurred on the 31st ult., from an attack of yellow fever. The deceased gentleman, who was of German extraction, was the elder son of the late Edward Vernon Schalch, Esq., of the East India Company's service, and was born about the year 1839. He gained a studentship at the Inner Temple in Jan. 1864, and was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in Easter Term of that year, and joined the Home Circuit. He practised with considerable success as a special pleader, and attended the Surrey Sessions. He left England about three years ago, on being appointed to the Attorney-Generalship of that island, and lived to acquire a high reputation in the colony. Mr. Schalch was married, and had a family; his only daughter, Miss Gertrude Geraldine Schalch, died about the same time as her father.

H. HOLLIST, ESQ.

THE late Hasler Hollist, Esq., of Lodsworth
House, near Petworth, Sussex, barrister-at-law
of the Middle Temple, who died on the 30th ult.,
in the 77th year of his age, was the only son of
the late Anthony Capron, Esq., who assumed in
1833 the name of Hollist in lieu of his patronymic:
his mother was Margaret, daughter of Richard
Hasler, Esq., of Bury, Lancashire, and he was
born in the year 1797. Mr. Hollist was educated
at Winchester, and at Brasenose College, Oxford,
where he graduated B.A. in 1820, and proceeded
M.A. in 1823. He was called to the Bar by the
Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, in
Michaelmas Term, 1823, and was a magistrate
and deputy-lieutenant for Sussex. He married
in 1825, Frances Georgiana, eldest daughter of
the late Sir Francis M. Ommanney, by whom he
has left a family to lament his loss; his eldest
son, Mr. Edward Ommanney Hollist, is a captain
in the Royal Artillery, and an instructor of artil.
lery at Woolwich.

S. STONE, ESQ.

THE late Samuel Stone, Esq., many years town
clerk and clerk to the magistrates for the borough
of Leicester, who died on the 5th inst, at his re-
sidence, Elmfield, Stonygate, near Leicester, in
the seventieth year of his age, of whom we gave a
short notice in our last impression, was the second
son of the late Samuel Stone, Esq., at Kington,
in the county of Leicester, by Mary, daughter of
Joseph Chamberlin, Esq. He was born at King-
ton in the year 1804, and was educated at Leicester
under the Rev. Charles Berry. He was admitted
a solicitor in Michaelmas Term 1825, and was
appointed on the 1st Jan. 1836 to the office of
town clerk of the borough of Leicester. In April
of the same year he was made clerk to the magis.
trates of that borough, and in 1849 he was ap-
pointed clerk to the Local Board of Leicester. He
retired from practice in September 1872, in con-
sequence of failing health, and was immediately
atterwards made a magistrate for the borough of
Leicester. Mr. Stcne, says the Leicester Journal,
during his lifetime,

66 was one of the few men who

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Gazette, Feb. 13.

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Potts. Sur. March 4

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Pet. Feb. 14. Reg.

WALLS, JOSEPH, pork butcher, Northampton. Pet. Feb. 13. Reg.
Dennis. Sur. March 4

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.

Gazette, Feb. 13.

FREYSTADT, HERRMANN; FREYSTADT, ADOLPH, and PEISER,
GEORGE, general warehousemen, Jewin-st, and Jewin-cres,
London, and Denton, near Manchester, also at Atherstone, and
Wilson-st, Finsbury. Nov. 3, 1973
TAYLOR, JOHN, victualler, St. Andrew's-hill. Dec. 15, 1873

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contrived to gain the friendship and respect of all
parties. He was an active, straightforward, honest
citizen, and as a public officer served the town faith-
fully and uprightly for more than a quarter of a
century, winning the esteem and affection of his
fellow townsmen, as the testimonial presented to
him a short time back on his retirement from
public life amply testified. Mr. Stone will be CADE, JOSEPH, draper, York. Pet. Feb. 10. Feb. 27, at three, at
much missed in Leicester. His familiar face was
always welcome at any public gathering, and he
had ever a kind word for those with whom he
came in contact. Affable and amiable to a
degree he made no enemies, and has died respected
by all. His example is one which other citizens
may profitably imitate." Mr. Stone married in
1829 Catharine Smart, daughter of Benjamin
Fowler, Esq., by whom he has left a family of six
children. The remains of the deceased gentleman
were interred in the Leicester Cemetery, the
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