provision, considered to have had an estate descendible and devisable in all respects as that of an unregistered proprietor of land, such person or persons as shall for the time being under this provision have the legal estate in such land, holding such land for the estate and interest vested in him, subject to all trusts and equities for the time being existing in or affecting the land.

83. Transmission of lease or charge on death. -On the death of the sole registered proprietor, or of the survivor of several registered proprie tors of any lease or charge, the executor or administrator, or executors or administrators of such sole deceased proprietor, or of the survivor of such proprietors, shall be entered on the register as and shall be deemed to be and have all the powers of registered proprietor or proprietors; and if such executor or administrator, or the surviving executor or administrator shall die while registered proprietor, and there shall not have been entered on the register a statement that the executor or administrator, or the executors or administrators, or the survivors or survivor of them, is or are no longer proprietor or proprietors, in his or their character or characters of executor or administrator, or executors or administrators, which entry shall be made on written request of the executor or administrator, or executors or administrators, for the time being the legal personal representative of the said sole registered proprietor or surviving registered proprietor shall be so entered on the register, and shall have the like

powers.

84. Transmission of land or charge on bank ruptcy. Upon the bankruptcy of any registered proprietor of any land, lease, or charge, his trustee in bankruptcy shall be entitled to be registered in his place, but the court may order some other person to be registered in the place of such bankrupt, or of the trustee if he shall have been entered on the register. The registrar shall enter upon the register such person (if any) as under the circumstances may be proper, and shall give effect to any order of the court, and such person shall have all the estate, powers, and remedies of the bankrupt proprietor. Until such entry the bankrupt's power of disposal shall be in no way affected.

85. Transmission on sales by sheriff, or court, or by person having a charge.-Whenever any registered land, lease, or charge shall be sold by any sheriff or other officer having authority to sell the same under any writ, or shall be sold under any direction, decree, or order of any competent court, or by the registered owner of any charge with power of sale, any person interested may apply to the court in a summary way for an order to the registrar to register the purchaser under such sale as the proprietor of such land, lease, or charge; and the court, if satisfied that such order ought to be made, may so direct, and the registrar shall make such registration accordingly; and any such purchaser may be registered without such order, if the registrar shall be satisfied that the registration is proper under the circumstances.

89. Transfer to be further delayed on bond being given.-If before the expiration of such period, the cautioner, or some other person on his behalf, appears before the registrar, and enters into a bond, with some person approved of by the registrar, with sufficient security, conditioned to indemnify every party interested against any damage that may be sustained by reason of any dealing with the land, lease, or charge being delayed, the court may thereupon, if it thinks fit so to do, make an order on the registrar requiring him to delay registering any dealing with the property for such further period as may be mentioned in the order, or make such other order as the circumstances of the case may require. 90. Compensation for improper lodging of caveat.-If any person lodges a caveat with the registrar without reasanable cause, he shall be liable to pay such costs, and to make to any person who may have sustained damage by the lodging of such caveat, such compensation as the court shall order him to pay.

91. Power of court to inhibit transfers.-The court may at any time, upon the application of any person interested, made in such manner as court directs, issue an order inhibiting for a time, or until the occurrence of an event to be specified in such order, or generally until further order, any dealing by the registered proprietor with any registered land, lease, or charge.

92. How court to act on application for inhibition.-Previously to making any such inhibitory order as aforesaid, the court may make such inquiries as to the circumstances of the land, lease, or charge in respect of which the same is made, and the parties interested therein, and may cause such notice to be given, as it thinks necessary, to enable it to form a judgment as to the expediency of making such order, and shall hear any persons claiming to be interested in such land, lease, or charge, who may apply to be heard. court may make or refuse any such order, and may 93. Court may annex conditions to order.-The may think fit, and may discharge such order when granted, with or without costs, and generally may act in the premises in such manner as it may consider the justice of the case requires; and the registrar, without being made a party to the proceedings, upon being served with such order or an official copy thereof, shall obey the same.

annex thereto any terms or conditions which it

PART VI.-As to Notices.

94. Address to be furnished by persons on register.-Every person whose name is entered on the register of title as proprietor of any land, lease, or charge, or as cautioner, or as entitled to receive any notice, or in any other character, shall fur. nish to the registrar a place of address in the United Kingdom; and any such person may, by notice to the registrar, furnish a new place of address.

95. Mode of giving notice.-Every notice by this Act required to be given to any person shall be served personally, or sent through the post in a registered letter, marked outside "Land Regis. try Office," and directed to such person at the 86. Transmission by order of court.-Whenever address furnished to the registrar, and every such the registered proprietor or one of several regis- notice so sent through the post, unless returned, tered proprietors of any land, lease, or charge shall be deemed to have been received by the shall, in the opinion of a court of competent juris-person addressed when it would be delivered to diction, be alone or with another person or persons him in the ordinary course of post, or within such a trustee thereof, and such court shall make any period as may be prescribed by general order. order that some person or persons named in such 96. Notices to be returned by post office.-Her order be entered on the register as registered pro- Majesty's Postmaster General shall give direcprietor or proprietors thereof, the registrar, on being served with an office copy of such order, shall enter such person or persons as registered proprietor or proprietors.

an

87. Caveat how to be lodged.-Any person interested or claiming to be interested as execution creditor, or otherwise howsoever, in any land, lease, or charge registered in the name of any other person, may lodge a caveat with the registrar against any dealing with such land, lease, or charge by the registered proprietor until notice shall have been served upon the cautioner. The caveat shall be supported by an affidavit made by the cautioner or his solicitor or agent in the prescribed form, and containing the prescribed particulars.

tions for the immediate return to the registrar of all letters marked as aforesaid, and addressed to any person who cannot be found, and on the return of any letter containing any notice, the registrar shall give such (if any) directions as he may think requisite or proper under the circum

stances.

PART VII.-The Register, the Entries thereon, and Priorities, and Appeals from the Registrar. 97. Priorities of transferees.-As between two or more transfers by a registered proprietor of any land, lease, or charge, the first applicant for registration shall be preferred and entered on the register as registered proprietor.

to be entered in the register of the title in fee simple to the land.

100. Mode of entry on public or other register.Subject to such general orders as shall be made on that behalf, the mode of making entries on the land register as regards land, leases, and charges, and all other entries thereon, and the manner of describing the parcels in the register by reference to a public or other map, or otherwise, shall be such as the registrar shall consider best adapted to the original and subsequent registering of the title, and the describing the land, lease, or charge, and the entries being corveniently arranged, and the referring to and keeping of the register. And the registrar shall make from time to time such transfers in the land register of a part or parts, or the whole, of the land to a new heading or headings, or otherwise, and such consolidation or subdivision of entries as he shall consider to be

required or convenient; and in case of and upon any such transfer, the title of the registered proprietor for the time being of the part transferred shall for all purposes be considered as commencing with the register as shown by the entry of such transfer, subject only to such, if any, reference to the earlier registration as the regis trar may consider necessary to make the entry of the transfer.

101. Annexation of franchises to registered land.-Where there is annexed to the ownership of any land proposed for registration any right or franchise to be exercised over some other land, or in some other place, or with respect to some other matter, the registrar may, upon request and upon proof made to his satisfaction of the existence of such right or franchise, enter notice of the same in the register in such manner as he thinks fit.

102. Entry may be made to restrict register and control alienation.-Where the registered proprietor of land, lease, or other charge is land, lease, or charge, to place restrictions on desirous for his own sake or at the request of some person beneficially interested in such his power of transferring, demising, or charging such land, lease, or charge, such proprietor may, upon application to the registrar, direct that no transfer or lease shall be made of or charge created on such land, lease or charge, unless the following things, or such of them, or as he may prescribe, are done; (that is to say):

Unless notice of any application for a transfer
or creation of a charge is transmitted by
post to such address as he may specify to
the registrar:
Unless the consent of some person or persons
to be named by such proprietor is given to
the transfer or creation of a lease or
charge:

Unless some such other matter or thing is

done as may be required by the applicant and approved by the registrar.

103. Registrar to note such restrictions.-The registrar shall thereupon make a note of such directions on the register of title of such proprietor or otherwise as he shall think fit, and no transfer shall be made or charge created except in conformity with such directions; and any such directions may at any time be withdrawn or modified at the instance of all the persons for the time being appearing to the registrar to be interested in such directions, and shall also be subject to be set aside or varied by the court.

104. Co-proprietors may sever their equitable estates and call for transfers.-When more than one person is entered on the register as proprietors they shall be co-proprietors. Their equitable interests, if any, may be severed. An equitable

owner of an undivided share or shares shall be entitled to call for a transfer to him, or as he may direct, of his share or shares, and upon such transfer there shall be a separate registration thereof.

105. Co-proprietors may have entry made on register restrictive of alienation. Upon the occasion of the registry of two or more persons as joint proprietors of any land, lease, or charge, an entry may with their consent be made on the register to the effect that when the number of such proprietors is reduced below a certain specified number no registered disposition of such land, lease, or charge shall be made, except by the order of the court.

88. Effect of caveat.-After any such caveat has been lodged in respect of any land, rent, lease, or charge, the registrar shall not register any dealing with such land, lease, or charge until there has been served on the cautioner notice warning him that his caveat will cease to have any effect after the expiration of twenty-one days, or such other number of days as may by general order be prescribed in that behalf next ensuing the date at which such notice is served; and after the expira-simple title.-When any rent or leasehold estate tion of such period the caveat shall cease unless an order to the contrary is made by the court; and upon the caveat so ceasing the land, lease, or charge may be dealt with in the same manner as if no caveat had been lodged.

99. Registered leases to be noted on record of fee is registered, and the title in fee simple to the land is also registered (whether the first registration be of the rent or leasehold title, or of the title in fee simple), the registrar may cause a note of the registration of the rent or leasehold title

106. Court may direct transfer on the register. tered proprietor for the time being, or of any person being, or claiming to be, beneficially interested in any land, lease, or charge, or of the registrar, and that, notwithstanding any previous order, may order any new proprietor or proprietors, solely or jointly with or in the place of any existing proprietor or proprietors, or any one or more of the proprietors, or any person or persons to be entered on the register as proprietor or proprietors, and the proper entry on the register to give effect to such order shall thereupon be made, or the court may make such order in the premises as it thinks just. (To be continued.)

SOLICITORS' JOURNAL.

We have received a short report of a meeting of junior members of both branches of the legal profession, which took place at the rooms of the Union Society of London, on Tuesday last. We regret that want of space prevents our publishing this report, but in another column we have furnished our readers with the nature of the subject discussed at the meeting of the Union Society, and the decision arrived at, namely, that greater facilities should be afforded members of the Profession for passing from one branch to the other. As is well known, a barrister-at-law is required (with some exceptions) to be disbarred and then to serve in the office of an attorney at law for three years as an articled clerk before he can be admitted on the roll of attorneys; this is so provided by sect. 3 of 23 & 24 Vict. c. 127, commonly known as the Attorneys' Act 1860. That a member of the higher branch of the legal profession should be called upon to subject himself to such conditions is simply unreasonable, and that such a provision remains on the statute book is only to be accounted for by the fact that the cases are very few and far between in which a barrister is found desirous of becoming a solicitor. It is worthy of observation that a clerk who has been in an attorney's office for ten years is placed, as regards the period of articles, on the same footing with a barrister. This is so provided by sect. 4 of the same Act. Sect. 16 of this Act provides that where, by custom or statutory provision, the qualification of a solicitor for any office is his having been a solicitor for so many years, then that a barrister-at-law having been such for an equal length of time, shall be considered as qualified equally with such a solicitor. If this is not a complete contradiction to the spirit of sect. 3, it is very nearly so, and indeed, to read these sections, three and sixteen, side by side, is to find that the spirit of the one cannot be reconciled to the spirit of the other. We must confess it seems to us that to require a barrister to enter into articles of clerkship before he can become a solicitor is a degrading ceremony, and such a position cannot be defended for a moment, for, supposing after passing an examination he was admitted on the roll of attorneys, he is at once liable in an action of negligence, at the suit of any aggrieved client. This is the protection afforded to the public against incompetent persons, and they ought to have the same protection as regards the Bar. A liberal profession existing for the public must advance with the times, and will advance. The doors by which the public can gain admission to it must be thrown open, and the criterion by which to judge of a man's fitness for membership of such a profession must be a high standard of general education and legal knowledge. We hope that the consideration of these questions by the Union Society will lead to their being debated elsewhere.

ON the 25th inst. a special number of the LAW TIMES will be forwarded to every solicitor in the Profession who is not at present a subscriber to the journal. The Editor of this department hopes that his professional brethren will not lose this unusual opportunity of ventilating new ideas and giving a fresh impetus to those not new which is thus offered.

SEVERAL Subscribers have called our attention to the fact, not however by any means lost sight of by us, that the Land Transfer and Title Bill now before Parliament, provides for the appointment of barristers to the several offices that will be created by this measure, such as registrars, assistant registrars, and examiners of title. That these posts should be reserved exclusively for members of the higher branch seems most unjust. Here we have a measure which will surely sooner or later operate to curtail the accustomed profits of this branch of the Profession, and yet we are to fill none of the offices which are created for the purposes of such curtailments. We hope not only the Council of the Incorporated Law Society will make to the Lord Chancellor the necessary representations on this point, but, also and we may say more especially, that the thirteen or fourteen solicitors in the House of Commons will not so far forget the duty which each owes to his profession as to allow the sections in question to pass unchallenged. It is a question upon which the House ought certainly to be divided, no matter with what result, Solicitors have a right to know what view the Bar, as represented in the House of Commons, takes of the matter. We publish one of several letters received upon the subject.

A COUNTRY solicitor writes to us that he has not seen any announcement of the appointment of a chief clerk at the Mansion House, and that he has been informed that the Court of Aldermen were surprised and disappointed at there being only

WE publish in another column a letter from a Managing Clerk" upon the subject of the measure now before Parliament, having for its object to amend 17 & 18 Vict. c. 36, and we hope the importance of the subject to which our correspondent directs attention will be brought to the notice of those members of the House of Commons having charge of the Bill in question. We also publish a short letter from “A Solicitor" in reference to this measure, and we are quite sure that if the several suggestions contained in this correspondence are brought prominently before the House of Commons, and are supported there by those members who belong to the Profession, they will certainly be adopted for the better protection of the public against the dishonesty of unscrupulous persons. We understand that the sections as to bills of sale included in the Legal Practitioners' Bill have been brought prominently under the notice of Mr. C. E. Lewis, M.P., who has charge of the Bills of Sale Bill.

IN a case of Re Sykes, ex parte Gosnold, heard before the Judge of the Wandsworth County Court on the 31st ult., his Honour, in delivering judgment, observed as follows in reference to a proof in bankruptcy: "The proof is filled up very ignorantly and inaccurately, and ought to have been rejected by the chairman." For this and the execution' creditor ought to have an opporother reasons, "I think," said the Judge, "that tunity afforded him of amending his proof." We quite agree, and his Honour's decision points to the necessity of checking the encroachments of accountants in reference to bankruptcy business. It is well known that large numbers of proofs in bankruptcy are prepared by accountants and agents, and that they are frequently most inaccurate in their form. The Profession will hail with satisfaction a systematic rejection of all inaccurate proofs by County Court Judges and their registrars, as well as by the chairmen of meetings at which such proofs are presented. As to such chairmen, however, the misfortune is that they are not, as a rule, competent to judge as to

whether a proof should be rejected or not; and we are by no means sure that it would not have been a wise provision in the last Bankruptcy Act that the chairmen of such meetings as those in question should be required to submit each proof to a solicitor before receiving the same. It is at all events a matter of notoriety that a very large number of bankruptcy proofs are prepared very inaccurately, and it would be well, therefore, in the interests of the public, not to say the bankrupt's estate, that the preparation of such documents should be secured to properly qualified practitioners.

REFERRING to the third report of the Judicature Commission, which has just been presented and published, the following portions are of especial interest to solicitors. The paragraph which recommends that the judges should have power to call in assessors in commercial cases, the remuneration to be received by whom to be regarded as costs in the cause. This latter provision we regard with some concern. It is making this and that expense costs in the cause which is continually increasing the amount of our bills, without really any advantage to solicitors themselves. The Profession will consider Mr. Ayrton's objection that a more summary mode of procedure is necessary, which he thinks is to be found in the establishment of tribunals of commerce, as to which he observes that it will be better to have these than to be obliged to wait in order to have every representation to the court filtered and perhaps mystified through a single or even double legal agency. Sir Sydney Waterlow also observes in reference to our present system, that at times it works a denial of justice or inflicts on the suitor a long pending worrying law suit, the solicitors on either side pleading in their client's interests every technical point, and he adds: "if the summary jurisdiction conferred on justices of the peace in criminal cases when exercised by gentlemen who are not lawyers, gives satisfaction, it can scarcely be doubted that a similar jurisdiction in civil cases would be equally acceptable." We offer no opinion on this view beyond saying that we cannot agree with it, and coming as it does, from Sir Sidney Waterlow, we are the more surprised to find such a view propounded.

THERE seems to be a growing feeling amongst solicitors, that when the several legal measures now in Parliament become law, and are in full working order, there will be a considerable diminution of business, especially in London, where the work of the advocate is undertaken in the main by barristers, while in the country it still remains almost entirely in the hands of solicitors. Our own opinion is, that although the amount of professional work may fluctuate and be at times diminshed by legislation, yet, that by reason of the constitution of society, solicitors must always remain in considerable request. No doubt a somewhat alarming number of gentlemen are still admitted every term, and we quite think that parents, whether solicitors or not, will do well to consider twice before they determine to article their sons. The total number of solicitors is now so large as to constitute a considerable community of themselves.

WE publish with pleasure, in another column, a letter from "A Certificated Managing Clerk," upon the subject whether solicitors who act as clerks to other attorneys should have a right of audience in County Courts and before justices of the peace, on behalf of clients of their principal. Much diversity of opinion exists, and many different rules obtain in the country upon this not unimportant subject. To our mind the matter is a very simple one. What County Court judges, and magistrates, and registrars, and magistrates' clerks must look to is that none but certified solicitors or, of course, barristers, appear qualified) happens to be a managing clerk, instead before them. The fact that an advocate (properly of a partner of another solicitor, should be no hindrance whatever to the former appearing on behalf of a client of the latter. There is practically no difference between a managing clerk who is a solicitor and a junior partner in a firm, as regards the relations of each with the dent that many benches of magistrates, and some senior. We must, however, remind our corresponCounty Court judges, refuse to hear managing clerks under such circumstances as above stated, although it has always seemed to us unreason. able. A case identical with that here suggested was not long since reported in our columns, in which a bench of borough magistrates so refused.

ON the occasion of the committal of a police serjeant for perjury at the Marlborough-street Police Court, the following is reported to have occurred, and as to which it is sufficient to observe that the thanks of the Profession are due to Mr. Knox for his prompt action in the matter. If all "agents

of the peace prosecuting and defending before justices should certainly be enacted, but I much doubt whether any clerk of the peace would be now found to act in that manner, although certain instances have been known.

A CERTIFICATED MANAGING CLERK.

UNCLAIMED STOCK AND DIVIDENDS IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND. [Transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Deo, and which will be paid to the persons respectively whose names are prefixed to each in three months, unless other claimants sooner appear.] HART (Judah), Broad-street-buildings, FOLIGNO (Edwd) Bury-street, St. Mary-axe, and MOSES (Samuel), Aldgate, all Esqs. £97 19s, 2d. New Three Per Cent. Annuities, Claimants, said Judah Hart, Edwd. foligno, and Samuel Moses.

STUART (John Edward), New Bond-street, chemist. £100 New Three Per Cent, Annuities. Claimant, said John Edwd. Stuart.

APPOINTMENTS UNDER THE JOINT-STOCK WINDING-UP ACTS. EAST SUFFOLK TRAMWAYS COMPANY (LIMITED).-Petition for winding-up to be heard April 24, before V.C. H. INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.-Creditors to send in, by May 30, their names and addresses, and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to F. Maynard, 55, Old Broadstreet, London, the official liquidator of the said company. June 8, at the chambers of V.C M., at two o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims,

LONDON AND PARIS PIANOFORTE AND HARMONIUM COMPANY (LIMITED).-Creditors to send in, by April 28, their names and addresses, and the particulars of their claims, and the names an addresses of their solicitors (if any), to A. A. Broad, 35, Walbrook, London, the official liquidator of the said company. May 6, at the chambers of V.C. B., at twelve o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims.

CREDITORS UNDER ESTATES IN CHANCERY. LAST DAY OF PROOF.

CACKETT (Benjamin Wm.), Halbridge, Hockley, Essex, barge owner and farmer. April 30; Wm. A. Arthy, solicitor, Rochford, Essex. May 8; V.C. M., at twelve o'clock.

IMRIE (John), 420, Strand, and 411 Oxford-street West, Middlesex, hair aresser. April 23; 1. Kempster, solicitor, 87, Lower Kennington-lane, Lambeth, S.E. May 7; V.C. B., at twelve o'clock.

o'clock.

JOSLAND (Richard), 53, Studley-road, Stockwell, Surrey, gentleman. May 1; F. A. H. Terrell. solicitor, 28A, Basinghall-street, London. May 9; V.C. H., at twelve MORANT (Robert), 91, New Bond-street, Middlesex, and Well Walk, Hampstead, Middlesex, upholsterer. April 30; W. H. Bosanquet, solicitor, 22, Austinfriars, London. May 11; V.C. M., at twelve o'clock.

RAWLINS (Elizabeth), 13, Somers-place, Hyde-park, Middlesex, spinster. April 23; E. A. Paterson, solicitor, 22, Great Winchester-street, London. May 1; V.C. B., at twelve o'clock.

ROSE (George F.), formerly of Pickett-street, Strand, Middlesex, cheesmonger, late of 28, North-bank, St. John'swood, Middlesex. May 22; at the chambers of V.C. M June 2; at the said chambers, at twelve o'clock. STOCK (John), Poplar, Middlesex, Esq.; April 36; Gellatley and Co., solicitors, 2. Lombard-court, Gracechurch-street, London. May 26; V.C. H., at twelve o'clock. WILKINSON and KIDD, 5, Hanover-square, Middlesex, wholesale saddlers and harness inakers. April 28; Aldridge and Thorn, solicitors, 31, Bedford-row, Middlesex. April 27; V.C. H., at two o'clock.

CREDITORS UNDER 22 & 23 VICT. c. 35. Last Day of Claim, and to whom Particulars to be sent. ANSELL (John), Leamington Priors, livery stables keeper. May 18; Chas. E. Large, solicitor, 1, Clarence-terrace, Leamington Priors.

BARING (Thos.), M.P., 8, Bishopsgate-street Within, London, of Norman-court, Stockbridge, Hants, of the Cedars, Roehampton, Surrey, and of 4, Hamilton-place, Middlesex, Esq. May 80; Markby and Co., solicitors, 57, Coleman-street, London.

BISHOP (Thos.), Uxbridge Moor, Hillingdon. Middlesex licensed victualler. June 5; W. Gardiner, solicitor Uxbridge, Middlesex.

BOULTON (John), Laurels Solihull, Warwick, gentleman May 15; J. L. Jones, solicitor, Alcester.

CHARLES (Thos.), 9, Arabella-row, Pimlico, Middlesex, fishmonger and ice merchant. May 1; Mason and Withall, solicitors, 18, Bedford-row, London. CUMMINGS (Mary A., 26, Portobello-road, Notting-hill. Middlesex, widow. May 15: J. H. N. Briggs, solicitor, 56, Lincoln'-inn-tielas, Middlesex. EDWARDS (Caroline), Ipswich, spinster, May 14; s. Westhorp, solicitor, 32, Museum-street, Ipswich.

FLOUNDERS (Mary), Princes park, within Toxteth-park,

LONG (Henry), Lord John Russell Tavern. Commercialroad, Landport, Portsea, licensed victualler. May 1; Edgcombe and Cole, solicitors, Portsea, Hants. LYON (Robert), Hexham, linen and woollen draper. April 17; J. Baty, jun., solicitor, Hexham. MARSHALL (Jas.), Low Horton, Northumberland, farmer. May 1; Cuas. J. Stephenson, Walllottle House, Northumberland.

PIPER (Luke), formerly of Laming, late of Sompting, Sussex, farmer. May I; R. Edmunds, solicitor. Worthing. RANDELL (JA.), 25, Mark-lane. London, and of Prebend

end, Bucks, and of Umberleigh House, Devon, and of Co rievullie, near Garve, Ross, Esq. May 20; Phelps and Sidgwick, solicitors, 3. Gresham-street, London. RASHLEIGH Mary F. Holmwood, near Dorking. Surrey.

Liverpool.

widow. May 1 Still and Son, solicitors, 5, New-square, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex. REYNARD (Ann), Holdforth-street, Leeds, spinster. July 1; Teale and Appleton, solicitors, Leeds. ROYSTON (Wm. and Isabel), Harrison's Hotel, Brighton, Sussex, hotel keeper. May 1; Walker and Co., solicitors, 5, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, London. SAMUEL (Henry S.), Canning-street, Liverpool, merchant. May 18; Anderson and Co., solicitors, 4, Brunswick-street, STACE (Elizabeth, commonly known as Elizabeth Laura). Gloucester House, Melcombe Regis, Dorset, schoolmistress. May 1: Phelps and Sidgwick, solicitors, 3. Greshain-street, London. STENNING (Wm.), Halsford, East Grinstead, Sussex, timber merchant. July 1; G. and F. S. Stenning, soliSTEPHENS (Stephen), 61, Star-street, Paddington, Middlesex, gentleman. June 1; Rhodes and Son, solicitors, 63, Chancery-lane, Middlesex. SYMCOX (Francis), formerly of Oversley, late of Studley, Warwick. May 1; J. L. Jones, solicitor, Alcester. TAYLOR (John), Burnfoot House, Wigton, Cumberland, Esq. July 3; Dobinson and Watson, solicitors, 5, BankTOLLIT (Rosetta), Brentford, Middlesex, widow. June 5; W. Gardiner, solicitor, Uxbridge, Middlesex. WALLIS (John C.), 4, Albion-chambers, and 8, Richmondplace, Clifton, gentleman. May 15; Petgrave and Hodgkinson, so icitors, 4, Harington-place, Bath,

citors, Maidstone,

street, Carlisle.

-sold for £810.

Camberwell.-Improved ground-rent of £58 3s. 2d. per

annum, term 94 years-sold for £1310.

The lease of No. 4, Albany-street, term 44 years-sold for £360.

Nos. 1, 2, and 3, Albany-street, same term-sold for £325.
By Messrs. COOPER and GOULDING, at the Mart.
Baker-street.-No. 40, Yorke-place, term 21 years-sold for
£1300.

Mayfair. No. 12. Chesterfield-street (the moiety only), long
lease hold-sold for £2500.
Russell-square. No. 10, Montague-place (a third only)
term 27 years-sold for £400.
Brighton.-No. 25, Brunswick-square, term 50 years-sold
for £1575.

By Messrs. DRIVER, at the Mart. Middlesex.-Ashford, a plot of land, containing da. 3r. 31p.,

freehold-sold for £600.

A similar plot, containing 40. 3r. 16p.-sold for £600. Willesden.-An inclosure of land, containing 16a. Sr. S5p.,

freehold-sold for £10,000.

A similar plot, containing Sa. 2r. 3p.-sold for £3000.

By Messrs. FAREBROTHER, CLARK, and Co., at the Mart. Bucks-Eton, No. 124 to 187, High-street-sold for £685. Nos. 12, 13, and 14, High street, and a plot of land, la. 2r. 8p. Horton.-The Half Way beerhouse, freehold sold for

-sold for £100.

£640.

COMPANY LAW.

NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS. LIABILITY OF A CORPORATION FOR THE FRAUD OF THEIR AGENT-AUTHORITY OF THE MANAGER OF A BANK.-An action for deceit will lie against a corporation for a fraud committed by their agent, provided the fraudulent act was within the scope of the agent's authority, and the corporation have derived some benefit from it. The cashier of the respondents' bank, who discharged the duties of manager, by sending a fraudulent answer to a telegram, induced the appellants to accept certain bills drawn upon them by one L., and indorsed to the bank: Held (reversing the judgment of the court below), first, that it was within the scope of the cashier's authority to send such a telegram; secondly, that the bank, having obtained the benefit of the bills, were liable in an action for the false representations. The decisions of the Exchequer Chamber in Barwick v. The English HUGHES (John), formerly of Newport House, Shrewsbury, Joint Stock Bank (16 L. T. Rep. N. S. 461; L. Rep.

Lancaster, widow. May 30; Waterhouse and Winter

London.

botham, solicitors, 61, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn, HARDEY (Geo.), Apple Tree and Mitre, 30, Cursitor-street. Chancery-lane, Middlesex, licensed victualler. May 12; Johnstone and Jackson, solicitors, 55, Chancery-lane, HOLLAND (Wm. J.), Golden-cross Hotel, Oxford, June 1; T. and G. Mallam, solicitors, High-street, Oxford, HOLT (Johu), 105, Lancaster-rad, Kensington-park, Notting-hill, Middlesex, gentleman. June 8; William Coates, 12, Kensington-park-road, Notting-hill, Middle

London.

sex.

Salop, late of Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, gentleman. June 18; J. B. Watkins, eolicitor, Swan Hill, Shrewsbury. KAY (Robert), formerly of Castleton, Rochdale, afterwards of Higher Broughton, near Manchester, late of Trowswithin, Castleton, calico printer. June 30; Sale and Co., solicitors, 29, Booth-street, Manchester,

Devonport...

Newcastle-on-Tyne

MARITIME LAW.

NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS. MARINE INSURANCE-PRINCIPAL AND AGENT -NEGLIGENce-Broker'S ALLOWANCE-JURISDICTION.-A marine insurance company, carrying on business in New York, employed C. as their agent in this country, for the purpose of taking risks, and adjusting and paying losses, for which he was to receive a commission of 5 per cent. upon the premiums made in each year. The company also effected insurances in this country through C. On the 8th Dec. 1865, C. received instructions from the company to reinsure fifteen ships upon which their lines were full. C. endeavoured to effect the insurances, but in consequence of news of a disastrous gale he was unable to do so except at exorbitant rates; he therefore wrote the same day to the company, informing them thereof, and stating that he left to the company, if they deemed it necessary, to insure on their side where it could be done at a profit, instead of here, where it would have to be done at a loss. After sending this letter, C. made no further attempt to insure these ships. Before the company received this letter, one of the ships which C. was directed to reinsure was wrecked and thereby a loss was incurred to the company: Held, that C. had not discharged the duty cast upon him as the company's agent to reinsure, by writing the above letter, and that he was liable for the loss which had been sustained in consequence of his neglect to insure as directed, and was not entitled to set-off against such loss the amount of the premiums which, by not insuring as directed, he had saved to the company. Under the "credit" system of conducting marine insurance business, which was the system adopted by C., it is customary for the underwriter to allow a discount of 12 per cent. to the broker upon the balance, if any, owing to the underwriters upon the settlement of accounts with the broker at the retain the discount for his own benefit, but must end of the year: Held, that C. was not entitled to account for the same to the company: (Great Rep. N. S. 113. V.C. B.) Western Insurance Company v. Cunliffe, 30 L. T.

REAL PROPERTY AND CONVEYANCING.

NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS. WILL-SEPARATE ESTATE-A balance in a banker's hands, belonging to a married woman at the time of her death, and arising from savings effected by her out of her separate estate, will not pass under a gift of "all funds and property

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purchased out of" separate estate : (Askew v. Rooth, 30 L. T. Rep. N. S. 155. V.C. B.) UNDERLEASE-COVENANT NOT TO ASSIGN.In an agreement for an underlease of coal mines, it was provided that the underlease should contain "the like provisions, conditions, and stipu. lations in all respects as were contained in the original lease. The original lease contained a proviso and covenant against assignment or underletting without the landlord's consent. Held, that in the like covenant in the underlease the name of the original landlord alone was to be inserted as the person whose consent was to be required to any assignment or underletting, and not that of the underlessors: (Williamson v. Williamson, 30 L. T. Rep. N. S. 154. V.C. B.)

MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT REVERSIONARY INTEREST-POLICY OF ASSURANCE-MORTGAGE OF POLICY-PAYMENT OF PREMIUMS BY MORT. GAGEES LIEN INTEREST.- By a marriage

Folkestone..

Friday, July 10 Tuesday, April 28......

Monday, April 20 Wednesday, April 29. Wednesday, April 29.

Recorder.

What notice of appeal to be given.

Clerk of the Peace.

G. H. E. Rundle.

R. T. Brockman. John Clayton.

Robert Ransom.

Thomas Heald.