HOUSE OF LORDS CASES, ON APPEALS AND WRITS OF ERROR AND CLAIMS OF PEERAGE, DURING THE SESSIONS 1854, 1855 AND 1856. BY CHARLES CLARK, ESQ., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. (By Appointment of the House of Lords.) VOL. V. LONDON: BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, Law Publishers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. HODGES, SMITH & CO., DUBLIN; T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH. JUDGES AND LAW OFFICERS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE DECISIONS REPORTED IN THIS VOLUME. Lord Chancellor : LORD CRANWORTH. Master of the Rolls: RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN ROMILLY. Lords Justices: RIGHT HON. SIR J. KNIGHT BRUCE. Vice-Chancellors: SIR R. T. Kindersley. SIR JOHN STUART. SIR W. P. WOOD. Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench: Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas : Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer : Attorney-General: SIR A. E. COCKBURN. Solicitor-General: SIR R. BEthell. |