SECT. 58. Rights and establishments of the present Masters to continue until released in pursuance of this act 59. Nothing to affect the rights, &c., of accountant-general as a Master in Ordinary 60. The retiring Lord Chancellor may deliver written judgments within six weeks after his resignation... 61. Construction of terms PAGE 80 80 81 81 SUITORS IN CHANCERY RELIEF. 15 & 16 VICT. c. 87. 1. No officer hereafter to receive fees for his own use, but all officers to be paid by salary 2. Officers to continue to receive fees until Lord Chancellor shall otherwise direct, and pay them into "The Suitors' Fee Fund" 3. Officers not to take gratuities 83 4. How offenders to be prosecuted 84 5. Allowances for copying to cease, and power to Lord Chancellor to make regulations as to copies 84 6. Power to Lord Chancellor, by order, to vary, reduce, and abolish fees, and to provide for their collection by stamps 7. After such order, fees not to be received in money, but by means of stamps 8. Commissioners of Inland Revenue to give the necessary directions as to the stamps, to keep separate accounts, and pay monies into Suitors' Fee Fund.. 9. Provision for sale of stamps ...... 10. Commissioners of Inland Revenue may make regulations as to allowance for spoiled stamps.. 11. Provision of former acts relating to stamps to be applicable to stamps under this act .... 12. No documents to be received or used unless stamped .. 13. Officers guilty of fraud or wilful neglect in relation to stamps liable to be dismissed ... ..... 14. Power to abolish fees in lunacy, and to substitute a percentage in lieu thereof.... 15. Certain statutory jurisdiction given to Lord Chancellor intrusted with care of lunatics to be exercised by the persons for the time being so intrusted ........ 16. Salaries of Lord Chancellor and judges of the Court of Chancery, to be paid out of the consolidated fund.... 17. Repeal of section 61 of 5 Vict. c. 5 ........ 18. Brokerage heretofore received by accountant-general to SECT. ..... ...... 20. Nothing in act to affect the rights as a Master in Ordi- annum 23. Certain officers of Lord Chancellor removed, and their offices abolished 24. Certain officers of the Lord Chancellor to be paid by salary in lieu of fees. 25. The secretary of presentations and the secretary of commissions of the peace to account for and pay fees into the consolidated fund PAGE .... 26. The persons or person holding such last-mentioned offices to receive the yearly sum of 8001. 93 27. Certain offices abolished 94 28. Duties of subpoena office transferred to clerks of records and writs 94 ... 95 29. Duties of affidavit office to be performed by clerks of 95 95 32. 96 33. Forging the signature of registrar of lunacy, or of his seal, to be felony 96 34. Master of reports and entries to countersign cheques. 37. Lord Chancellor to make general orders for carrying act into effect 98 38. Orders under this act may be varied 39. Duties and salary of clerks in accountant-general's office. 99 40. Amount of salaries to clerks of Taxing Masters.... 41. Deposits on appeals to be paid into Bank, and placed to "The Appeal Deposit Account" 42. Persons may sell by auction, under an order of the Court of Chancery, without being liable to duty imposed by 8 & 9 Vict. c. 15 100 43. Indemnity in respect of former sales 101 44 Officers whose emoluments are diminished in consequence of this act, may make claim for compensation to Commissioners of Treasury... 101 SECT. 45. Payments to be made to persons whose offices are abo lished. PAGE 102 46. Lord Chancellor may order pensions for retiring officers. 103 47. Lord Chancellor may remove and give pensions to disabled officers 104 48. Salaries to grow due from day to day, but to be payable quarterly out of Suitors' Fee Fund... 104 49. Compensation to chaff wax, &c., to be paid out of Consolidated Fund 105 50. All other compensations and superannuation or retiring allowances to grow due from day to day, but to be payable quarterly out of Suitors' Fund 51. Alteration of quarterly days of payment of certain salaries out of Suitors' Fee Fund.... 106 106 107 52. Provisions for expenses of the offices of the court.. 53. Surplus of Suitors' Fund to be from time to time carried over to, and to become part of, Suitors' Fee Fund.... 108 54. Provision in case of surplus or deficiency of Suitors' Fee Fund 55. Interpretation of term "Lord Chancellor" 109 110 TRUSTEES' RELIEF ACT. 10 & 11 VICT. c. 96. 1. Trustees may pay trust monies, or transfer stocks and securities into the Court of Chancery. ... Receipt of Bank cashier, or certificate of proper officer, 110 111 2. Court of Chancery to make orders on petition, without bill, for application of trust monies and administration of trust 112 3. Regulation of salary of the accountant-general... 115 general orders 5. Construction of expression Lord Chancellor 12 & 13 VICT. c. 74. 1. The Court of Chancery may, upon application by the majority of trustees, &c. order payment or transfer of trust monies, stocks, or securities into the Court of Chancery .... 116 Orders made in pursuance of Trustees Relief Acts 117-119 DIMINUTION OF DELAY AND EXPENSE IN SECT. PROCEEDINGS IN CHANCERY. 13 & 14 VICT. c. 35. 1. Power for persons interested in questions cognizable in the Court of Chancery to state special cases for the opinion of the court .... 2. How lunatic may concur PAGE 120 120 3. How married woman may concur 120 4. How infant may concur. 121 5. How special guardian to be appointed for a lunatic not found such by commission, and for infant .... 121 6. Order to appoint special guardian of an infant may be discharged by court if made without notice 121 7. How such special cases to be entitled 122 8. Form of special case ...... 122 9. Special cases to state how guardian constituted, and the concurrence of the married women.. 122 10. Special cases to be signed by counsel and filed, and appearances to be entered by defendants 122 11. After a special case filed parties to be bound by statements after defendants have appeared, except married women, infants and lunatics, who are not to be bound till leave given by court to set it down ...... ... 12, How case to be set down for hearing 14. Upon hearing, court to determine question and make de- 123 123 124 124, 125 15. Protection to be afforded to trustees by declaration .... 125 16. The court may suspend the acting upon declaration.... 126 17. Special case to be a lis pendens, and may be registered 126 18. Mode of identifying documents, and court may order production... ............ 126 19. Court, on application of executors or administrators, may, 21. Proceeding of the court on such motion 23. Court, on application of executors or administrators, may direct appropriation of money to answer contingent liability 129 25. Protection to be afforded to executors and administrators 130 26. Notwithstanding provisions of 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 94, judges of the court may hear and determine applications mentioned in act, if they think fit....... 27. Exceptions for scandal, impertinence, and insufficiency to be heard by the court ..... 28. Power for court, notwithstanding any rule, &c., to the contrary, to receive proof by affidavit.... 29. Certain provisions of 53 Geo. 3, c. 24, and 5 Vict. c. 5, repealed in part....... 131 132 132 132 .... 134 30. Power to Lord Chancellor, &c., to make general rules ment Rules and orders not laid before parliament within when made, practice to be according to this act, and 134 135 32. Until rules or orders are made, and if not applicable ...... 33. Decrees and orders to be subject to appeal, &c.. 34. Interpretation of terms 35. Commencement of act Schedule to act 135 135 136 136 136 COURT OF APPEAL IN CHANCERY. 14 & 15 VICT. c. 83. 1. Her majesty to appoint two persons to be judges of the Court of Appeal in Chancery 2. Power to appoint secretary, usher, and trainbearer for each judge. 138 3. Precedence of judges of Court of Appeal...... 138 scribed 138 5. Court of Appeal to have jurisdiction now exercised by Lord Chancellor 138 6. Statutory jurisdiction now exercised by Lord Chancellor as a judge in Chancery may be exercised by the Court of Appeal 139 7. Jurisdiction of Vice-Chancellor in bankruptcy transferred to the Court of Appeal..... 139 8. Common law judges may sit at request of Lord Chancellor 139 .... 9. Decision of majority to be binding, if court equally divided, the decree appealed from to be affirmed...... 140 |