THE

LAW JOURNAL REPORTS

FOR

THE YEAR 1852:

COMPRISING

REPORTS OF CASES

IN THE COURTS OF

Chancery and in Bankruptcy, Queen's Bench and the Bail Court,
Common Pleas,

Exchequer, and Exchequer Chamber,

FROM

MICHAELMAS TERM 1851, TO TRINITY TERM 1852,
BOTH INCLUSIVE.

(Decisions in Error in the Exchequer Chamber will be found in the respective Courts from which the Errors
come; the Common Pleas includes the Appeals from Revising Barristers, and the County Court
Appeals are in the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer respectively.)

ALSO

NOTES OF JUDGMENTS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS, DURING THAT PERIOD; AND A SEPARATE
ARRANGEMENT OF CASES RELATING TO THE DUTIES OF MAGISTRATES, INCLUDING

CROWN CASES RESERVED.

EDITED BY

MONTAGU CHAMBERS, Esq. ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S COUNSEL,
PHILIP TWELLS, Esq. AND FRANCIS TOWERS STREETEN, Esq.

BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

VOL. XXX.

NEW SERIES-VOL. XXI.

PART I. CHANCERY AND BANKRUPTCY.

LONDON:

Printed by James Holmes, 4, Took's Court, Chancery Lane.

PUBLISHED BY EDWARD BRET INCE, 5, QUALITY COURT, CHANCERY LANE.

MDCCCLII.

1852.

Lord Chancellor's Court,

EDWARD COOKE, ESQ. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Court of Appeal in Chancery,

SAMUEL VALLIS BONE, ESQ. BArrister - at -
- LAW.
Rolls Court,

THOMAS PARKER, JUN. ESQ. BARRISTER-at-Law.

Court of the First Vice Chancellor,

JOHN FITZPATRICK VILLIERS, ESQ. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Court of the Second Vice Chancellor,

THOMAS WYATT GUNNING, ESQ. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Court of the Third Vice Chancellor,

BENEDICT LAWRENCE CHAPMAN, ESQ. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
Cases in Bankruptcy,

SAMUEL VALLIS BONE, ESQ. BARRISTER-at-Law.

Court of Queen's Bench,

HENRY JOHN HODGSON, Esq., COLLEY HARMAN SCOTLAND, Esq. BARRISTERS-at-Law.

Bail Court, Exchequer Chamber, and Crown Cases Reserved,
FRANCIS RUSSELL, Esq. BARRISTER-At-Law.

Court of Common Pleas,

ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, Esq., THE HON. GEORGE DENMAN,

AND

JAMES REDFOORD BULWER, ESQ. BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

Court of Exchequer,

HENRY HORN, Esq. and EDWARD WISE, ESQ. BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

CASES RELATING TO MAGISTRATES,

REPORTED PRINCIPALLY BY

HENRY JOHN HODGSON, Esq., COLLEY HARMAN SCOTLAND, Esq.

AND

FRANCIS RUSSELL, Esq. BARRISTERS-At-Law.