THE

INCORPORATED COUNCIL OF LAW REPORTING

FOR

ENGLAND AND WALES.

Members of the Council.

Chairman-THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD DAVEY.
Vice-Chairman-MONTAGUE CRACKANTHORPE, Esq., Q.C.

JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq., President of the Incorporated Law Society.

WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Esq. (Firm-Messrs. Currie,
Williams & Williams), Lincoln's Inn Fields.
JOHN HOLLAMS, Esq. (Firm-Messrs. Hollams, Sons,
Coward & Hawksley), London Commercial Sale
Rooms, Mincing Lane, E.C.

Incorporated
Law Society.

Secretary-JAMES THOMAS HOPWOOD, Esq., 10 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn.

THE

LAW REPORTS

OF THE INCORPORATED COUNCIL OF LAW REPORTING.

Supreme Court of Judicature.

CASES DETERMINED IN THE

CHANCERY DIVISION

AND IN

LUNACY,

AND ON APPEAL THEREFROM IN THE

COURT OF APPEAL.

Mr. Justice Chitty
Mr. Justice Romer

EDITOR-SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., Barrister-at-Law.
ASSISTANT EDITOR-A. P. STONE, Barrister-at-Law.

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REPORTERS.

H. CADMAN JONES,
W. WORSLEY KNOX,
GEORGE MURRAY,
W. COWELL DAVIES,
W. LLOYD CABELL,
D. PITCAIRN,

G. A. STREETEN,
H. B. HEMMING,

G. I. FOSTER COOKE,
C. C. M. DALE,

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Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams

(COMPANY CASES)

1897.-VOL. I.

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