KENWORTHY (William), Southport, and KENWORTHY (Joseph James). LE GRAND (Charlotte Caroline Beatrice), Ramsgate. April 30; Hiscocks and Co., 38, Poultry, E.C. 2. Mossop (Henry), Ashford, and Lincoln's-inn-fids, W.C. April 21; H. Mossop and Syms, 11, Lincoln's-inn-filds, W.C. 2. MAKIN (Edward), Radcliffe and Manchester. April 30; Barrow, Smith, and Macfie, Manchester. NORTH (Alfred), Huddersfield. April 10; Wilmshurst and Stones, Huddersfield. PARKER (Capt. John Bradbery), of Parker and Heagarty, Billiter-bldgs, E.C. April 20; Rivers and Milne, 88, Gracechurch-st, E.C. 3. PRIEST (Alfred), Clapham Common. May 31; E. E. Winterbotham, 1, Frederick's-pl, Old Jewry, E.C. 2. RAMSDEN (George), Chapeltown, Yorks. April 30; Smith, Smith, and ROBERTS (Frances Mary), Grateley. April 25; P. E. J. Talbot, Andover. Kendal. SMITH (Margaret Barton), Withington. May 1; Briggs and Whitworth, Manchester. SCHOFIELD (Joseph), Ashton-under-Lyne. April 30; R. Innes, Manchester. STEVENS (William), Mawley Town, Cleobury Mortimer. April 7; W. Attwood, Cradley Heath. SUTTON (Thomas), Sale. April 4; E. Chatham and Co., Manchester. TOPPING (Eleanor), Preston. April 12; T. H. and T. Dodd, Preston TAYLOR (Sarah Ann), Sutton Coldfield. April 17; Wallace, Robinson, and Morgan, Birmingham. THOMAS (Charles George), Southampton. April 30; Stephens and Locke, Southampton. THRING (Frederick William), St. Mary Bourne. April 25; P. E. J. Talbot, Andover. TIPPER (David Allan), Hockley Hill, and Handsworth, Birmingham. June 24; Tanfield and Co., Birmingham. WATNEY (Mary), Croydon. April 22; Ranger, Burton, and Frost, 17, WHITE (Jane Ann), Chelsea. April 17; Kenneth Brown, Baker, Baker, WILLIAMS (Hannah), Bordesley, Aston-juxta-Birmingham. April 17; the executors, at the office of Rowley, Chatwin, and Emerson, Birmingham. WILSON (Jemima), Huntingdon. April 12; Hunnybun and Sons, Huntingdon.. WINTER (Frederick), Bradford. April 25; J. Freeman, Bradford. WOODWARD (Emma), New Brighton. April 12; Jolliffe and Hope, Chester. WYLLY (Major Charles Herbert), Royal United Service Institution. Whitehall. April 23; Bower, Cotton, and Bower, 4, Bream's-bldgs, Chancery-la, E. C. 4. To be Commanders of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.-Col. Herbert Brooke Taylor, M.B.E., V.D., late Notts and Derby Regt.; Acting Brig. Gen. Cecil Henry Whittington, C.M.G., R.A.F. To be Officers of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order. --Capt. Harold Frederick Atter, Yorks. L.I, T.F.; Major Harold Douglas Barnes, T.D., London Regt., T.F.; Acting Major Cland Herbert Dick Bonnett, R.F.A.; Temp. Capt. Francis Sam Butter, R.A.S C.; Temp. Major Lionel Melville Clark, R.A.S.C.; Lieut. Col. Thomas Dowling, A.S.C.; Capt. (Acting Lieut.-Col.) Thomas Macdonald Eggar, R.F.A.; Capt. (Acting Major) Maurice Woodman Emley, R.E., T.F.; Major Humphrey Percival Gamon, S. Staffs. Regt., T.F.; Lieut. (Temp. Capt.) Charles Ronald Graham, Gen. List; Capt. (Temp. Lieut. Col.) Walter Johnstone Halsey, Bedfordshire Regt.; Lieut.-Col. Charles John Huskinson, Notts and Derby Regt., T.F.; Temp. Major Arthur Ainslie Johnson, Gen. List; Capt. Francis John Lambert, Darbam LI., T.F.; Major Arthur Neale Lee, D.S.O, Not's and Derby Regt, T.F.; Capt. William Francis Marchant, London Regt., T.F.; Lieut.-Col. Evelyn Hay Pollock, T.D., R A.S.C., T.F.; Capt. (Acting Major) Francis John Rodwell, Suffolk Regt., T.F; Temp. Lieut. (Temp. Major) Robert Hamilton Scott, D.S.O., Gen. List; Capt. Aubrey Temple Sharp, Leicester Regt, and M.G. Corps, T.F.; Lieut.-Com. Harold Nevil Smart, C.M.G., R.N.V.R.; Bt.-Major John Percy Somers, T.F., Reserve, Qr.-Master and Capt. Alfred William Taylor, M.C., W. Yorks. Regt.; Lieut.-Col. Charles Hillsborough Rimington Taylor, T.F., Latour Corps; Capt. (Temp. Major) Montagu Trevor Turner, Sussex Regt. (S.R.); Major Ho ace Leaf Wright, Northamptonshire Regt. To be Members of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order. -Lieut. Thomas William Emerson, T.F., Reserve; Temp. Lieut. (Temp. Capt.) George Lister, Gen. List. Awarded a Bar to the Distinguished Service Order.-Lieut. (Acting Lieut. Col.) Alfred Hacking, D.S.O., M.C., Notts and Derby Regt., T.F. To be Companions of the Distinguished Service Order.-Major Vincent Hamilton Dickson, E. Lancs. Reg., T.F.; Major Thomas Bernard Heslop, Durham LI.; Major Kenneth Hunny bun, Cycle Corps, Somerset L.I., T.F.; Major Lawrence Lamonby, Border Regt. ; Major Arthur Neale Lee, Notts and Derby Regt., T F.; Temp. Major James Godrey Martin, M.C., N. Staffs. Regt.; Lieut -Col. Hugh Mowbray Meyler, M.C.; Major James Habersham Speeding, R. G.A.; Major (Acting Lieut.-Col.) Thomas Henry Walker, R.F.A., T.F.; Major (Acting Lieat.-Col.) Harold Graham Wilson, Lincs. Regt., T.F. Awarded a Bar to the Military Cross.--Capt. Leslie Ernest Peppiatt, M.C., London Regt. ; Temp. Lieut. (Acting Capt.) Gleeson Edward Robinson, M.C., R.F.A., T.M.B.; Lieut. (Acting Capt.) John Williams, M C., Welsh Regt. Awarded the Military Cross.-Lieut. (Acting Capt.) Charles Walter Back, Norfolk Regt.; Capt. Gerald Carr Banham, Eesex Regt., T.F.; Temp. Lieut. William Dover Way Buckell, M.G. Corps; Temp. Second Lieut. James Ballpitt, M.G. Corps; Temp. Capt. Ernest Frank Churchill, R.E.; Temp. Capt. (Acting Major) Edwin Henry Coe, R.F.A.; Temp. Lieut. Sydney Houghton Dowson, R. Warwick. Regt.; Lieut. (Acting Major) Cyril Fullard Entwistle, R.G.A., T.F.; Capt. James Everidge, Surrey Yeo. and R.A.F.; Capt. (Acting Major) Edward Cayley Harrison, R.G.A., T.F.; Temp. Lieut. Roland Henry Hazel, R.E.; Temp. Capt. Ivor Jackson, Gen. List; Temp. Lieut. George Frederick Jervaulx Jarvis, Res. of Cavalry, att. Yorks. Regt. ; Second Lieut. Harold Walter Lake, Coldstream Guards; Capt. Edward Lucas, York and Lancs. Regt.; Temp. Lieut. Charles Melville Melville, Roy. Fus.; Temp. Second Lieut. John Samuel Parry, Roy. Fas. ; Capt. Charles Kendall Phillips, W. Yorks. Regt., T.F., att. R.E., T.F.; Capt. Oswald Alfred Radley, Cheshire Regt. ; Lieut. Thomas Frederick Rawle, South Wales Bord, Special Reserve; Temp. Capt. Alfred Cecil Denison Smith, East Yorks. Regt.; Lieut. (Acting Capt.) Henry John Edwin Stinson, R.G.A., T.F.; Capt. Alfred William Taylor, W. Yorks. Regt.; Capt. Arthur Turner Taylor, London Regt. ; Lieut. (Temp. Capt.) Robert Emery Taylor, Middlesex Regt., Special Reserve; Lieut. (Acting Capt.) Howard Belmont White, Welsh Regt., T.F.; Capt. George Arthur Wilmot, R. War. Regt., Special Reserve; Lieut. Joseph Wilson, R.G.A.; Capt. Frank Henry Cafande Wiltshire, London Regt.; Lieut. Alan Fletcher Worden, Lancs. Fas. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.-Lieut. William Bentley. Awarded the Croix de Guerre.-Nowel Watkin Beal, British Ambulance Corps ; Lieut.-Col. Thomas Dowling, O.B.E., A.S.C.; Lieut. Com. Charles Lancelot Gamble, R.N.V.R.; Capt. Edward Lucas, M.C., York and Lancs. Regt. Awarded the Italian Croce al Merito di Guerra.-P、roy Griffiths Averill, British Ambulance Corps. Awarded the Italian Croce di Guerra.-Second Lieut. Edward Leslie Burgin, Intelligence Corps. Articled Clerks. To be Officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.-Lieut.-Col. Charles Esmond de Wolff. To be Companions of the Distinguished Service Order.-Temp. Capt. Albert George Allen, M.C., Gen. List; Temp. Lieut. (Acting Major) Wilfrid Bairstow Clarkson, R.G.A.; Temp. Major Desmond Warwick Croft, M.C.,; Temp. Lieut-Col. Thomas Robert McCready, M.C., M.G.C., Marines. Awarded a Second Bar to the Military Cross.-Lieut. John VicaryM.C., Gloucester Regt. Awarded a Bar to the Military Cross.-Temp. Sub-Lieut. William Reginald Gibeon, M.C., R.N.V.R; Temp. Capt. (Temp. Major) Edward Owen Sewell, M.C., Gen. List; Acting Major Arthur Spottiswoode, M.C., Roy. Fus. Awarded the Military Cross.-Lieut. Richard Chatterton, R.G.A.; Qr.-Mast. and Lieut. Horace Alfred Day, Royal Marines, R.N. Div. Temp. Capt. Samuel Hilton, Roy. Fus; Temp. Second Lieut. Samuel Irwin, S. Lancs. Regt., TF.; Lieut. Alec Sydney Lambert, R.G.A.; Temp. Lieut. (Acting Major) Frank Ludlam, R.F.A.; Lieut. Arthur Raymond Rose, Yorks. LI.; Lieut. Godfrey Laird Rutherford, Durham L.I., T.F.; Acting Major Arthur Spottiswoode, Roy. Fas.; Lieut. (Acting Major) Ernest Henry Broadbent Usher, R.F.A. Awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre.-Capt. Robert Clifford Freeman, Gen. Staff. SELDEN SOCIETY. ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1918. 1. The number of members, notwithstanding losses by death and resignation, remains about the same, and in 1918 was 339. 2. Owing to delays attributable to the war, the publication for the year 1917-the Year Books of 6 Edward II., edited by Sir Paul Vinogradoff and Dr. Ehrlich (vol. 34)-was not completed and sent to members until last year. 3. The publication for the year 1918 is a volume of the Year Books o Edward II., edited by Mr. W. C. Bolland (vol. 36), and has been issuef to members. The volume of Select Cases before the Council, by Professor Baldwin (vol. 35), the printing of which has been undertaken by the Harvard University Press, will shortly be ready for issue to members. 4. The next publication will be a volume of the Year Books of Edward II., edited by Mr. W. C. Bolland. 5. Provisional arrangements have been made for the following further publications-viz.: Other volumes of the Year Books of Edward II.; a volume of Select Ecclesiastical Pleas, by Mr. Harold D. Hazeltine and Mr. Hilary Jenkinson; the second volume of the Law Merchant, by Mr. Wilfrid Hooper; an edition of the Liber Pauperum of Vacarius, by Mr. F. de Zulueta; a second volume of Public Works in Medieval Law, by Mr. Cyril Flower; a volume of Select Entries from the Court Books of Chartered Companies, by Mr. Cecil T. Carr; and a volume of Select Entries from the Exchequer of Pleas, by Mr. Hilary Jenkinson. 6. The council record with great regret the death in July of the president, the Right Hon. Lord Parker of Waddington. The council have nominated the Right Hon. Lord Sumner as president, who has kindly consented to accept the office. 7. Under the rules the following members of the council retire: Mr. H. D. Hazeltine, Mr. W. S. Holdsworth, His Honour Judge Lock, Mr. Walter C. Renshaw, K.C, and the Right Hon. Lord Justice Warrington. No nominations have been received under rule 7, and the council have nominated the retiring members for re-election to the council. 8. A casual vacancy in the council has occurred through the death of Dr. Edwin Freshfield. This has been filled by the appointment of Mr. R. M. Welsford. 9. An abstract of the accounts, with the report of Mr. R. F. Norton, K.C., and Mr. Hubert Hall, the auditors, is annexed. 10. It will be seen that in consequence of the greatly increased cost of publication of the society's volumes the expenditure daring the year has exceeded the income. If the rate of publication of the volumes is to be maiutained, a large increase of membership will be necessary. 10th March 1919. G. BOYDELL HOUGHTON, Vice-President. ANNUAL MEETING THE annual meeting of the Selden Society was held on Wednesday at Lincoln's-inn Hall, Lord Justice Warrington presiding. Among those present were Messrs. W. C. Bolland, C. H. Bedwell, Cracroft, A E. Stamp, Charles Sweet, J. E. H. Rider, Gilbert Hurst, Cyprian Williams, J. Fischer Williams, James G. Wood, and H. Stuart Moore (secretary). Lord Justice Warrington, in moving the adoption of the report, said they were met in the absence of their president, who was detained by more important duties in Paris, and unfortunately the vice-president, Mr. G. Boydell Houghton, was not well enough to attend the meeting. They were reminded by the report of the loss which the Profession in general and the society in particular had sustained by the death of Lord Parker, who was elected president at the general meeting last year. It was unnecessary for him to say anything more than that to the meeting. They could only express the regret which they all felt at his untimely death. With regard to that part of the report which referred to the provisional arrangements for certain publications, it would be noticed that those publications were seven number, indicating a very formidable undertaking on the part of the society, but an undertaking which, judging from the subjects of some of the works, would result in some extremely interesting volumes, if it could only be carried into effect. That brought him to that part of the report which was really the most serious of all, namely, that which related to the expenditure for last year, owing to the greatly increased ccst of printing and paper, having exceeded the income of the society. That, of course, was in itself bad enough. It would appear that they had been compelled to use up the money which they had on deposit at the beginning of the year, namely, £600, and they had reduced the balance on the current account very largely, viz., from £192 78. 2d. to £80 58. 1d., showing a very serious excess of expenditure over income. But the real seriousness was in the fature, because, unless something could be done to increase the revenue, it was certain that the programme they had set before themselves could not be carried out. This difficulty was exemplified in the case of vol. 13 of the Year Books. The total expense of the volume, including the literary work and the printing, was upwards of £800, and the standing charges of the society amounted to about £145 a year. The deficit on the income which the society was at present receiving would come to something like £400 a year. That, undoubtedly, was a very serious situation. The society had only a small sum of capital, and if they were to go on with these publications it meant that they must raise their income very considerably. He, therefore, urged the members of the society who were able to do anything in that direction to exert themselves to the utmost to obtain new subscribers. The motion was unanimously adopted. The following members of the council, who retired under the rules, were, re-elected: Messrs. H. D. Hazeltine, W. S. Holdsworth, His Honour Judge Lock, Walter C. Renshaw, K.C., and Lord Justice Warrington. UNITED LAW SOCIETY. A MEETING of the above-named society was held on Monday, the 24th inst. Mr. S. E Redfern moved: "That the time has arrived wheu the two branches of the Legal Profession should be amalgamated." Mr. James Ball opposed. There also spoke: Messrs. T. Hynes, R. C. Nesbitt, T. Phroo, G. W. Elliman, C. P. Blackwell, and H. V. Rabugliati (visitor). Mr. Redfern replied. The motion was lost by six votes. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Information intended for publication under the above heading should reach us not later than Thursday morning in each week, as publication is otherwise delayed. Mr. EDWARD FORBES LANKESTER, K.C, has been appointed a Metropolitan Magistrate to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. John de Grey. Mr. Lankester was called by the Middle Temple in 1878, and took silk in 1905. NOTES AND QUERIES. This column is intended for the use of members of the Legal Profession, and therefore queries from lay correspondents cannot be inserted. Under no circumstances are editorial replies undertaken. None are inserted unless the name and address of the writer are sent, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of bona fides. Querles. 30. INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE RESTRICTION ACT 1915.-Where the mortgaged security consists of two dwelling-houses, the rent of each of which does not exceed £26, but the combined rents are considerably over that sum, does sect. 2, sub-sect. 4, apply? There is no additional land; nothing but the houses and yards. Does it make any difference that each of the houses is a "house and shop"? I thought there had been sɔme decision on this latter point, but cannot trace it. DOUBTFUL. 31. SOLICITOR J.P.-QUARTER SESSIONS.-A solicitor who is a J.P. for the county borough in which he practises is disqualified from practising before the bench of which he is a member, and he is entitled as a J P. to sit on the bench with the recorder at quarter sessions. Query: Is he disqualified from practising before the recorder at quarter sessions? Opinions with authorities will oblige. A MEMBER OF THE LAW SOCIETY. 32. WILL-TRUST-CHARITY.-The testator by his will gave the residue of his estate to his trustees" upon trust for such of my relatives living at my decease, the deserving poor attending places of religious worship in the townships of and in the said county, and also for such of the following charities and institutions, namely, and in such sums and proportions and at such time or times and in such manner and generally upon such terms and conditions as my trustees may alone select, determine, and appoint." It has been suggested that the trustees should, if possible, apply money or purchase a suitable building for or erect one for the use of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, the property to be vested in the district council absolutely for the purCan the trustees do this under the provisions of the will as above set out, or would it be necessary or advisable to apply to the court for sanction and interpretation of the will? If the building was erected it would be treated as a permanent memorial for the heroes fallen in the J. B. pose. war. Answers. (Q. 29.) BUILDING SOCIETY RECEIPTS.-A reconveyance (and therefore a receipt) by a building society incorporated under the Building Societies Act 1874 is exempt from stamp duty: (Old Battersea and District Building Society v. Inland Revenue Commissioners, 78 L. T. Rep. 746; (1898) 2 Q. B. 294). Receipts given by unincorporated societies are also exempt from stamp duty (10 Geo. 4, c. 56, s. 37, incorporated in 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 32). I have not been able to find any authority on the other points raised in the query. G. O. S. CORRESPONDENCE. This department being open to free discussion on all Professional topics. the Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions or statements contained in it. MOTOR-CARS AND DISTRESS FOR RENT.-Referring to the article in the last issue of the LAW TIMES, p. 364, the author does not appear to have taken into account the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1908 which came into operation on the 1st July 1909, subsequent to the haring of the case, Sims' Manufacturing Company v. Whitehead, referred to in the article. As the subject of the article in question is a matter of everyday practice, I should like to hear the author's views as to the effect of the Act in question on the subject-matter of the article. J. W. 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He was one of the oldest solicitors in the town, but retired some time ago owing to illness. THE COURTS AND COURT PAPERS. COURT OF APPEAL AND HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE (CHANCERY DIVISION).-HILARY SITTINGS, 1919. ROTA OF REGISTRARS IN ATTENDANCE FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 5. GAZETTE, MARCH 25. BACHE, JOHN DONE, Weston-super-Mare, farmer. Ct. Bridgwater. March 20. DAW, WILLIAM THOMAS, Birmingham, butcher. Ct. Birmingham. March 22. KING, DEMIAH, Southampton, newsagent. Ct. Southampton. March 20. SYMONDS, HERBERT JAMES, Tonbridge, brewer. Ct. Tunbridge Wells. March 20. Amended notice substituted for that published in Gazette, Oct. 1, 1918. BOLTON, ROSE ELLEN (trading as the Oatwheat Cake Company), Hanley, oatcake maker. Ct. Hanley. Sept. 26, 1918. ADJUDICATIONS ANNULLED. GAZETTE, MARCH 21. LOCKWOOD, KENYON, Huddersfield, stuff merchant. Ct. Huddersfield. March 12. GAZETTE, MARCH 25. HARDY, RICHARD HENRY, late Huddersfield, coal dealer's agent. Ct. Huddersfield. March 12. ADJUDICATION ANNULLED AND RECEIVING ORDER RESCINDED. GAZETTE, MARCH 21. FEBLAND, HARRIS, Whitechapel-rd, tailor. Ct. High Court. Feb. 18, 1919. To surrender at the High Court of Justice in Bankruptcy. CALLENDER, GEORGE MARSHALL, Victoria-st, Westminster. March 18. DE MERINDOL, RAOUL FERNAND JOSEPH, Washington House, Basil-st, Knightsbridge, lieutenant in His Majesty's army. March 18. FITZGERALD, LORD EDWARD, Hyde Park Hotel. March 18. WOOD, PERCY ARTHUR NODING ST. LEDGER, late Richmond-grdns, Shepherd's Bush. March 17. To surrender at their respective District Courts. BACHE, JOHN DONE, Hutton, farmer. Ct. Bridgwater. March 17. MICHELL, CHARLES FREDERICK, Balham, photographer. Ct. Wandsworth. March 18. Ct. Tunbridge Wells. SYMONDS, HERBERT JAMES, Tonbridge, brewer. March 17. TURNER, ROBERT OLIVER, Kendal, shirt manufacturer. Ct. Kendal. March 19. GAZETTE, MARCH 25. To surrender at the High Court of Justice in Bankruptcy. BOYD, R. S., Borough High-st. March 20. WALLIS, HENRY EDWARD, Gloucester-ter, Hyde Park. March 20. To surrender at their respective District Courts. CULLEN, W. H., late Weston-super-Mare, captain in His Majesty's Army. Ct. Sunderland. March 21. DAW, WILLIAM THOMAS, Birmingham, butcher. Ct. Birmingham. March 21. KING, DEMIAH, Southampton, newsagent. Ct. Southampton. March 20. Amended notice substituted for that published in Gazette, March 21. SYMONDS, HERBERT JAMES, Tonbridge, miller. Ct. Tunbridge Wells. March 17. ADJUDICATION S. GAZETTE, MARCH 21. FRIEDMAN, JACOB (commonly known as Jake Friedman), Teddington. Ct. Kingston, Surrey. March 17. HILLMAN, DAVIS (described in receiving order as D. Hillman). Cheap side, costume manufacturing manager. Ct. High Court. March 18. LAWRENCE, LAWRENCE, Tottenham Court-rd, W., jeweller. Ct. High Court. March 20. MICHELL, CHARLES FREDERICK, Balham, photographer. Ct. Wandsworth. March 18. SAWYER, FARRINGTON (sued as Dr. Farrington Sawyer), Waldorf Hotel, Aldwych. Ct. High Court. March 20. 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THE DEBTOR (No. 391 OF 1918).-BankruptcyBankruptcy notice. BARKER STICKNEY.-CopyrightAssignment to company-Royalties-Assignee to account REX v. PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY; Ex parte KYNOCH LIMITED.-Port of London-Port authority LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (apps.) v. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY COMPANY (resps.).-Metropolis LEADING ARTICLES. &c. TO BEADEES AND CORRESPONDENT 397 COUNTY COURTS.-Sittings of the Courts ..... 400 ... 400 401 165 CRIMINAL LAW AND THE JURISDIOTION OF MAGISTRATES.-Borough Quarter Sessions 403 402 403 IRISH NOTES 405 It was eminently suitable that a judge of the King's Bench should have been appointed to preside over the committee to inquire into the law and rules of procedure regulating courts-martial both in peace and war, and the selection of Mr. Justice DARLING for that purpose is a good one. The committee is composed as follows: Mr. Justice Darling, chairman; General the Earl of Cavan, Mr. Horatio Bottomley, M.P., Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P., Major Christopher Lowther, M.P., Mr. A. Hopkinson, M.P., Mr. Stephen Walsh, M.P., BrigadierGeneral B. E. W. Childs, Mr. Felix Cassel, K.C., JudgeAdvocate-General; Brigadier-General Gilbert Mellor, Deputy Judge-Advocate-General. During the war the Profession has rendered invaluable assistance, and has been chiefly responsible for adapting the system to meet the requirements of our vast armies in the field. Women and the Profession. WE publish in another column (post, p. 409), a full report of the meeting of the Law Society convened to consider the Barristers and Solicitors (Qualification of Women) Bill. The motion of Mr. GARRETT, which was seconded by Sir WALTER TROWER, to support the measure was carried by fifty votes to thirty-three, opinions, as our report shows, being very much divided. That the present Bill will be placed upon the statute-book before the close of the present session is practically certain, as the Government will give facilities for its advancement in the House of Commons. We do not suppose for one moment that women will come into the Legal Profession in stronger force than they have entered the profession of medicine. Mr. SHARPE stated that but 4 per cent. of the names on the Medical Register were those of women, and this after opportunity had been afforded for nearly fifty years. It will be many years before the Law List will show even such a small percentage, for we hardly believe that the law will prove much of an attraction to women generally. MOTOR-CARS AND THE LAW OF DISTRESS AMENDMENT ACT 1908. WITH reference to the article on "Motor-car and Distress for Rent" in our issue of the 22nd March (ante, p. 364), it is pointed out by a correspondent in the issue of the 29th March (ante, p. 395) that the writer of the article has omitted all mention of the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1908. The purpose of that article was to draw attention to some of the cases that might be relevant to the subject, and to show that the existing state of the case law makes it difficult to say whether motor-cars at a garage are or are not within the exemption given by the leading case of Simpson v. Hartopp (1743, Willes, 512; 1 Sm. L. C.) to "things delivered to a person exercising a public trade, to be carried, wrought, worked up, or managed in the way of his trade or employ." The Act of 1908 does not, properly speaking, "exempt " any. thing from distress, but extends the scope and policy of the Lodgers' Goods Protection Act 1871 (which it repeals and re enacts) to goods of certain under-tenants and strangers. It does this by enacting in substance that if a landlord levies on the goods of a person protected by the Act that person may serve the landlord with a declaration to the effect that the goods are the property of the protected person, and the landlord thereupon, if he proceeds with the distress, "shall be deemed guilty of an illegal distress," for which appropriate remedies are given to the person injured. By sect. 1 the Act applies (in effect) only to undertenants who pay their rent "not less often than " quarterly, and pay such a rent as represents "the full annual value" of the premises occupied, to “ any lodger," and to "any other person whatsoever not being a tenant of the premises or of any part thereof and not having any beneficial interest in any tenancy of the premises or of any part thereof." The last-named class may be shortly referred to as "strangers." Sects. 4 and 5 further cut down the classes of persons and goods to whom and which the Act applies. Among these are "goods in the possession, order, or disposition of such tenant by the consent and permission of the true owner under such circumstances that the tenant is the reputed owner thereof." By sect. 9, "superior landlord "includes a landlord in cases where the goods seized are not those of an under-tenant or lodger." Altogether the Act is a difficult one to construe and apply. In text-books dealing with the law of distress it is usually treated of by itself and placed in a separate compartment, so to say, and not yet welded into the general framework of law on the subject. 66 So far as motor-cars kept at a garage are concerned, sects. 1 and 4 are the most important. As to sect. 1, the provisions for protecting goods not the property of the tenant for whose rent the landlord is distraining are taken from the Act of 1871, and will presumably receive the same construction. The procedure as to serving a declaration on the landlord must be strictly com plied with. The Court of Appeal dealt with this matter in Thwaites v. Wilding (49 L. T. Rep. 396; 12 Q. B. Div. 4). The Master of the Rolls (Sir William Brett) said: "The Legislature has imposed conditions, and these conditions must be rigidly complied with in order to deprive the landlord of his remedy at common law and to bring the lodger within the protection of the statute." And Lord Justice Bowen said: "I think it clear that a lodger is relieved only when the terms of the Lodgers' Goods Protection Act have been rigidly complied with." The exception contained in sect. 4 of goods in the order and disposition of the tenant will often give rise to difficult questions. Two cases in which this section has come up for discussion on this point are Chappell and Co. v. Harrison (103 L. T. Rep. 596) and Shenstone and Co. v. Freeman (102 L. T. Rep. 682; (1910) 2 K. B. 84). Both cases related to pianos. In Chappell and Co. v. Harrison it was held that a piano lent to the lessee of a theatre was liable to distress for the lessee's rent. The court refused to take judicial notice of an alleged custom to lend pianos to theatre lessees, and held that any such custom must be proved. It was definitely laid down that the question whether an article is in the order and disposition under that section [sect. 4] is a question of fact." In Shenstone and Co. v. Freeman the piano was held not to be in the order and disposition of the tenant; the expression "order and disposition" &c., is to be construed according to its meaning in bankruptcy law. 16 The owner of a motor-car who kept his car at a garage would then, if it became necessary to claim the protection of the Act of 1908, in the first place have to comply "rigidly" with the provisions of sect. 1 as to serving a declaration on the landlord. In the next place he would have to show, either by proving a custom on the subject or otherwise, that the car was not in the possession, order, or disposition of the keeper of the garage by his (the owner's) consent and permission under such circumstances that the garage keeper was the reputed owner of the car. Should the car be kept in a separate lock-up compartment rented by the owner from the garage keeper, the owner of the car would then have to consider whether he was or was not an under-tenant protected by the Act of 1908, and a further minute examination of the provisions of the Act about under-tenants would become necessary. In such a case as Simms Manufacturing Company v. Whitehead (1909) W. N. 95), the Act of 1908 would apparently afford no protection, but the car would be distrainable like the piano in Chappell and Co. v. Harrison (sup.). COMMENTS ON CASES. "Property Preserved" by Appointment of Receiver. As will be seen from our "Notes of Recent Decisions not yet reported" (ante, p. 352), a decision was pronounced by the Court of Appeal, consisting of the Master of the Rolls (Swinfen Eady), Lord Justice Scrutton, and Mr. Justice Eve, in the recent case of Wingfield v. Wingfield, which is of much interest to the Profession. Mr. Justice Peterson's decision was reversed, it will be observed, because he had regarded sect. 23 of the Solicitors Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 127) as applicable to the case. His Lordship considered that the appointment of a receiver and manager had effected a preservation of certain property through the instrumentality of the firm of solicitors who had acted on behalf of the plaintiff in the proceedings taken by her to obtain that appointment. According to what was said by the then Master of the Rolls (Brett) in Greer v. Young (49 L. T. Rep. 225; 24 Ch. Div. 545), the fundamental theory of the section is that whatever is recovered or preserved by the solicitor's exertions is to be treated as salvage, though not rescued, and that the solicitor is to be paid as if salvage services had been rendered. But in the circum. stances of the present case, as epitomised in our note, there had been no property recovered or preserved" through the instrumentality of the solicitors within the meaning of the section. If the true view is that a charging order cannot be created unless the solicitor "shall be employed" by the person whose property is recovered or preserved, and that the charge can only be made on such part of the property as belongs to the person who employed the solicitor, the claim of the firm in the present case was negatived by what had occurred in the course of the proceedings. There appears, however, to be some conflict of authority. Thus, in Bulley v. Bulley (38 L. T. Rep. 401; 8 Ch. Div. 479), although property was preserved on behalf of a person having only a partial interest in it, yet a charge on that property was warranted by the section. In Bailey v. Birchall (2 H. & M. 371), a charge on property was allowed to solicitors notwithstanding that their client had no interest whatever in the fund that was recovered. And Vice-Chancellor Bacon took a similar view of what was authorised to be done by the section in Twynam v. Porter (23 L. T. Rep. 551; L. Rep. 11 Eq. 181). The section gives the court a discretionary power to make the charge, and does not confer upon a solicitor an absolute right to the order. But Mr. Justice Peterson in the present case did not |