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RELATING TO

RAILWAYS

AND

Railway Companies;

WITH

ALL THE CASES RELATING TO COMPENSATION, MANDAMUS, INJUNCTION,

AND OTHER MATTERS

Decided in the Courts of Law and Equity;

INCLUDING THE DECISIONS AS TO THE LIABILITIES OF

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN,

AND ON THE

PROMOTERS AND

RATEABILITY OF RAILWAYS TO THE POOR'S RATE.

ALSO THE PRACTICE IN PARLIAMENT, STANDING ORDERS, &c.

THE APPENDIX CONTAINS

All the Statutes, Forms of Notices, Warrants, Inquisitions, Awards, &c.; with
Precedents of Pleadings, Deeds, &c.

BY WILLIAM HODGES, Esq.,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

RECORDER OF POOLE.

LONDON:

S. SWEET, 1. CHANCERY-LANE, FLEET STREET,

Law Bookseller and Publisher.

As soon as the Bill introduced into Parliament, on the 12th of February, by Mr. Strutt, "for Regulating the Proceedings of the Commissioners of Railways, and for Amending the Law relating to Railways," has received the sanction. of the Legislature, a SUPPLEMENT to this Work will be immediately published, whereby the mode of conducting the preliminary proceedings in Railway Bills to be introduced during the next session of Parliament will be pointed out, and also any additional provisions or alterations in the law, falling under the heads contained in Secs. 3 & 7, Chap. I. In other respects, the proposed measure will not affect the law as stated in this Work.

W. H.

TEMPLE,
Feb. 20th, 1847.

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