LAW TIMES

OF

REPORTS

All the Cases Argued and Determined

IN ALL THE

COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY, IN BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY, NISI PRIUS, THE CRIMINAL COURTS, AND IN IRELAND,

FROM MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1854.

VOLUME XXIII.

The Reports in this Volume are Contributed by the following Gentlemen:

HOUSE OF LORDS, by JAMES PATERSON, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
PRIVY COUNCIL, by JAMES PATERSON, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.

Equity Courts.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S COURT, by C. H. KEENE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. The COURT OF APPEAL IN CHANCERY, by C. H. KEENE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.

ROLLS COURT, by G. WHITELEY, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barristerat-Law.

VICE-CHANCELLOR KINDERSLEY'S COURT, by P. M. LEONARD
and H. R. YOUNG, Esqrs., Barristers-at-Law.

VICE-CHANCELLOR STUART'S COURT, by JAMES B. DAVIDSON, Esq.,
Barrister-at-Law.

VICE-CHANCELLOR WOOD'S COURT, by J. II. COOKE, Esq., Barrister

at-Law.

Common Law Courts.

The QUEEN'S BENCH, by ADAM BITTLESTON, Esq., of the Inner Temple,
and JOHN THOMPSON, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barristers-at-Law.
The COURT of COMMON BENCH, by DANIEL THOMAS EVANS, Esq., of the
Middle Temple, and R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Esq., of the Middle Temple,
Barristers-at-Law.

The COURT of EXCHEQUER, by FREDERICK BAILEY, Esq., and C. J. B.
HERTSLET, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barristers-at-Law.

The BAIL COURT, by T. W. SAUNDERS, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Bar-
rister-at-Law.

The EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, by the Reporters of the Courts from which the cases come.

Bankrupt and Insolvent Courts.

The INSOLVENT COURT, by DAVID CATO MACRAE, Esq., of the Middle
Temple, Barrister-at-Law.

COMMISSIONERS' COURTS, by JOHN A. FONBLANQUE, Esq., Barrister-
at-Law.

Nisi Prius, Circuit, and Crown Cases.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, by B. C. ROBINSON, Esq., of the Middle
Temple, Barrister-at-Law.

CRIMINAL APPEAL COURT, by A. BILTLESTON, Esq., of the Inner Temple,
Barrister-at-Law.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT, by ADAM BITTLESTON, Esq., of the Inner Temple,
Barrister-at-Law.

WESTERN CIRCUIT, by EDWARD W. Cox, Esq., of the Middle Temple,
Barrister-at-Law.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT, by J. B. DASENT, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
OXFORD CIRCUIT, by J. E. DAVIS, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.

SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT, by DANIEL T. EVANS, Esq., of the Inner Temple,
Barrister-at-Law.

NORTH WALES CIRCUIT, by MORGAN LLOYD, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
Nisi Prius in London and Middlesex.
QUEEN'S BENCH and COMMON PLEAS, by W. POWELL, Esq., Barrister-
at-Law.
EXCHEQUER, by J. B. DASENT, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
Ecclesiastical Courts.
ECCLESIASTICAL and ADMIRALTY COURTS, by Dr. WADDILOVE, of
Doctors' Commons.

Election Law.

REGISTRATION APPEALS, in the COMMON PLEAS, by DANIEL T.
EVANS and R. V. WILLIAMS, Esqrs., Barristers-at-Law.
ELECTION COMMITTEES, by JAMES PATERSON, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
Irish Reports.

The LORD CHANCELLOR'S COURT, by J. BLACKHAM, Esq., Barrister-
at-Law.
COMMON LAW COURTS, by 6. M'KENNA, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
CRIMINAL COURTS, by J. M'KENNA, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
INCUMBERED ESTATES COURT, by JAMES BURKE, Esq., Barrister-at-
Law.

IRISH BANKRUPTCY COURT, by J. LEVY, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
IRISH INSOLVENT COURT, by J. LEVY, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.

N.B.-All the Written Judgments are reported verbatim in Short-hand, by Mr. II. GREGORY, Short-hand Writer.

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Brimelaw v. Arden (a pauper), 129

Brown v. Byrne, 114, 144, 154

Mason, 93

Bryan v. Wastell, 21

Bryant v.

66

Buckland v. Johnson, 145, 161, 190

Bull v. Robison, 71, 210, 288

Bunbury v. Fuller, 131

Burchfield v. Moore, 92, 143

and Bush v. Anderton, 129, 179

Butcher v. Price, 67, 180

Byass v. Gates, 165

Earl of Chester-

Ewelme Hospital, 4

- HaberdashersCom-

Potter, 269

Mayor and Corpo-

The Mayor, Alder-

Burgesses of Wigan and

ration of Rochester, 104

man, and

others, 43

163, 178, 191

mar School, 326

Radloff, 59, 97,

Sherborne Gram-

· Lord Wynford, 82,

96

Byles v. The Ipswich Dock Commis-

sioners, 179

CADDICK AND

ANOTHER

HAINES AND OTHERS, 71, 178

Calvert v. Robinson, 144, 164

Campbell v. Moxhay, 227

Caman v. Myers, 146, 210

Canning v. Čanning, 251

Cardwell v. Baynes, 179

v.

Cottingham v. Rowley, 66, 190

Couling v. Fearn and others, 66, 158

Courteis v. Johnson, 71, 178

Cox v. Carrington, 82, 97

Middleton, 6

Cradock v. Owen, 19

Crane v. Batten, 67, 157, 220

Creed and wife v. Rigby and another, 97

Crowe v. Clay, 38

Cust v. Goring, 338

DAVIS v. JONES, 71, 82

Dale v. Beemore, 68

Dansey v. Richardson, 93, 144

Dawes v. Moss, 82

Dawson v. Henson and another, 180

rupt, 121

Dewhurst and others v. Clarkson, 109

De Winte v. De Winte, 346

Dress v. Stanhope, 341

Dimmock v. Grange, 163

Diplock v. Hammond, 181

Doe dem. Horden v. Hurst, 157

Melhuish v. Bulpin, 67, 144

Dollond v. Johnson, 285

Donaldson v. Donaldson, 306

Dorrett and others v. Meux and another,

144

Dowdall v. The Australian Royal Mail

Steam Navigation Company, 67, 98,

157, 174

The General Steam Navi-

gation Company, 78

Downs and another v. Mead, 95

Doyle v. Fothergill, 157

Du Hourmelin v. Sheldon, 339

Duncan v. Cannan, 318

Carlin and another v. Pearson, 161, 191 Dunn v. Scott, 93

Carmichael v. Cassan, 12

Carpenter v. Dunsmore, 174

Carver v. Burgess, 303

Cass v. Wight, 115

Castelli v. Groom, 157, 209

Cattlin v. Henty, 93, 114
Chaffers v. Baker, 181
Chadwick v. Chadwick, 108
Charles v. Altin, 176
Charnley v. Grundy, 67
Chaplin v. Levy, 71, 81, 82
Chepeler v. Durant, 79
Cheshire v. Holland, 95
Mountford, 80
Chesnutt v. Chesnutt, 129
Chick v. Blackmore, 285
Child v. Douglas, 140, 283

Barker and another v. Sterne, 71, 82, Chope v. Jones, 82

95

Churchill v. Siggars, 174, 220

Clarke v. Johnson, 96

Clayton v. Percy, 146, 163, 178, 179

Cligart and wife v. Mayer, 288

Clossman v. Lacoste and another, 91

Bateman v. Williamson and others, 209, Coape v. Arnold, 342

296

Cobbett v. Slowman, 82
Cockrane v. Haggett, 59
Hackett, 71

Cole v. Bishop, 58, 78, 174
Colyer v. Finch, 283

Congreve v. Evetts, 163, 194, 210
Cooch v. Maltby, 146, 179, 180
Cooke v. Gregson, 86

Kerr, 86
Wagster, 293

Cooksey v. Thompson, 144
Cooper v. Taylor, 263
Coppard v. Gates, 165

Coster v. Baring, 176

Scott, P.O., re M'Lintock, 258

Thomas Southgate, re the

Guardians of the Poor of the Lexden

and Munster Union v. Thomas

Southgate, 210

Turner, re Boyle, 262

Williams, 66

Wilson, 176

Young, 180

FAGG v. NUDD, 91

Fairclough v. Pavier, 59

Fallows v. Lord Dillon, 154

Farnell v. Warren, 78

Fenix, otherwise Phoenix, (Silandler,

master), 210

Fenton v. Clegg and another, 59

Ferrett v. Hill, 95, 145, 158

Finch v. Shaw, 283

Fisher v. Warren, 69

Fleming v. East, 252

Fleming v. Self, 63

Forbes v. Forbes, 108

Limond, 42

Ford v. Campbell, 58, 78

Francis v. Clemow, 57
Freeman v. Freeman, 317
Fulton v. Baliol, 66

GALES v. LORD DUNBOYNE, 309

Galloway and another v. Heyworth and

others, 95, 129

Gann v. Gregory, 186

Gardiner v. Barber, 128

Rowett, 71, 82

Gates v. Wiggins, 309

and another v. The Queen, 39 Gay v. Halkesworth, 176

Edye v. Kingsford, 69

Elsam v. Denny, 76

Emery v. Webster, 146

Evans v. Earle, 146

Elsam, 129, 146

Gerry v. Morris, 96

Gether v. Capper 68, 95, 145

Gibson v. Sturge, 71

and another v. Sturge and ano-

ther, 178

The Royal Insurance Com- Gill v. Powell, 174

pany, 70

Gilpin v. Fowler, 22

Giskell v. Scott, 176

and others v. Earle, 59
Ex parte Armstrong, 176

Goodfellow v. Goodfellow, 46

Bateman, re Burbury, a bank- Goodman v. Richardson, 58

Greaves v. Legg and another, 82, 254

Gray v. Wilkinson, 96

the younger v. Wilton, 97

and another v. Willicomb, 146

Winnicombe, 59

Greenaway v. Hart, 174

Greenfield v. Sykes, 58

Greenway v. Holmes and others, 68, 115

Grey v. Friar, 334

Griffiths v. Hatchard, 295

Grix, executor, v. Dalby, 271

Gurney v. Behrend, 78

and others v. Behrend and

others, 89, 92

Hernaman and others, assignees of Bur- Lucas r. Bower, 78

gess, r. Barber, 68

Herring v. Tomlin, 66, 92

Hervey r. Fitzgerald, 10

Heyward and another v. Barnes, 68

Heywood v. Minshull, 163

Hills v. Hunt, 176

Hill r. Jones, 253

Hindson r. Weatherill, 149

Hisgrove r. Forcington, 66

Hobbs v. Parsons, 47

Holgate v. Holgate, 66, 144, 190

Holland v. Fox, 58, 93, 129, 174, 230

Holmes r. Hoskins, 70

Holt r. Robertson, 71

the younger v. Robertson, 146

Honeyman v. Lewis, 71, 80, 82

Hookpayton r. Bussell, 82, 146

Hooper . Lane and Hooper, 143

Hope r. Hope, 182, 198, 343

Hopkins . Tanqueray, 68, 95, 144

Houghton v. Crawford, 340

Howell r. Evans, 219

Hudson r. Carmichael, 168

Hughes r. Evans, 71

Great Western

Company, 58, 80

Hunter v. Michael, 82

Ludlow v. Stevenson, 294

Lumley v. Gye, 66, 129, 144, 157

M'ANDREW r. LIDGETT AND

ANOTHER, 58

M Kellar v. James Summers the

younger, 146

M'Cormick v. Garnett, 136

MacGildonney r. Gregory, 66, 92

Mackenzie . The Sligo and Shannon

Railway Company, 128

Major v. Major, 340

Malcolmson . Peart, 144, 174, 209

Mann v. Thompson, 345

Maning r. Phelps, 162

Marryatt v. Marryatt, 218

Marsden v. Wardell, 66, 93, 111

Martin r. Welsted, 346

Maxwell v. Deare, 1

Mayhew r. Suttle, 209, 296

Mayor of Southmolton e. The Attorney-

General, 117

Meacher v. The Trustees of St. Luke's

Parish, 180

Railway

Meeson e. Oliver, 271'

Hopkins, 83, 92, 174

Humphreys, 58, 174, 208

Milne, 96

INGLIS v. CAMPBELL, 86

In the estate of J. H. Keogh, deceased,

72

In the goods of D. Downer, 11

Henry Corby, 346

Sackville Zaccheus

Thatcher, 346

In re The Bingley School, and re the

Charitable Trusts Act, 1853, 139

JACKSON. HENDERSON, 66, 157

Jacobs r. Richards, 44

Jameison v. Trevelyan, 146

James r. Lord Wynford, 320

Job r. Johnson, 96

Johnson e. Rathboue, 63, 115

Webster, 201

Jones v. Giles, 82, 179, 255

O'Brien, 80, 145

Wells, 71

--and another r. Nicholson, 82,

146

Jortin . The South-Eastern Railway

Company, 7

Joy r. Aspinwall, 206

Judkins v. Atherton, 173

Judge e. Baker, 239

Jay r. Halksworth, 176

Jefferys e. Boosey, 275

Metzner r. Bolton, 22
Milne . Gilbart, 290
Milne, 290
Walker, 290

Mills, clerk, r. Ryder and another,
churchwardens, &c. 82, 146, 221

Mitchell r. Gibbs and another, 67, 114

- Hender, 72, 83

Morewood and another v. Tupper, 96

Morgan r. Morgan, 330

Moore r. Blakey, 71, 129, 146

Campbell, 71, 194, 210

Morson . Blaine, 97, 146, 246

Morant v. Earl of Normanton, 66

Morris v. Lancaster, 82, 96

Willmot, 92, 93

Morison v. Blaine, 82, 97, 210

Morten v. Laken, 71, 178

Moyse r. Dingle, 164, 180

Mullick r. Radakissen, 25

Myers v. Staples, 157

NASH v. HODGSON, 244

Neale v. Cubitt, 82

Neile v. Ridley, 71, 82

Newman v. Love, 157

Newton . Ingham and others, 66

Nichol v. Goltz, 162

Nicholls v. Barnett, 114

Barrett, 114

Gayford, 82, 96

Nicholson . Morgan, 176

Nicklin e. Williams, 194

Norton r. Cooper, 125

Nosworthy r. Norton and Frost, 71, 146

Jelichio and another e. Cockerill, C8, Nussey v. Glendinning, 66, 93

OLIVO r. HANSON, 66

Oswald r. The Mayor, &c. of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, 272

O'Toole r. Brown, 92, 78, 111

Owen r. Griffiths, 96

Owens v. Wynne, 144, 157

PADWICK v. HURST, 240
Sugar and another, 178

Page . The Agriculturist Insurance

Company, 146

Parker r. Rolls, 68, 80, 95
Sowerby, 282

Passingham v. Witherden, 163

Paterson r. Wallace, 249

Payne v. Batten, 174

Hedgecock, 174

Paynter v. Carew, 21

Pearson v. Bean, 78

Peers v. Harding, 66, 157

Fetergate and another . Milne and

Smith, 68, 78

Pemberton v. Wire, 345

Perry v. Turpin, 87

Peterson v. Ayre, 67

Phelps v. St. John, 174

Pickles v. Holland, 71

Pidding v. Edmunds. 161

Pierce v. Williams, 71

Pinchin v. The London and Blackwall

Railway Company, 307

Pinder v. Barr, 66, 174, 190, 209, 254

Place and another v. Potts and another,

234

Plowden v. Campbell, 174

Polley v. Wright, 82

Poore v. Dennett, Isle of Wight Brotherly

Society, 51

Pope v. Bavidge, 163

Potter . Inland Revenue, 96

Powdrell r. Jones, 304

Powys c. Blagrave, 37

Pridier. Field, 301

Pyke v. Adams, 93

QUEEN . COLLIER AND BAILEY,

97

Re Robert Duff Ironside, 13

-

Philip John James, 347

The Joint-stock Companies Wind-
ing-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and
re The Direct Exeter, Plymouth,
and Devonport Railway Company,
ex parte D'Urban, 250'
-The Joint-stock Companies Wind-
ing-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and
the German Mining Company, 200
The Joint-stock Companies Wind-
ing-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and
the Pennant and Craigwen Con-
solidated Lead Mining Company,
Mayhew's case, 55, 137

The Joint-stock Companies' Wind-
ing-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and
the Royal Bank of Australia, ex
parte Walker, 74

The Joint-stock Companies Wind-
ing-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and the
Sea, Fire, Life Assurance Society,
ex parte The Official Manager of the
Port of London Shipowners' Loan
and Assurance Company, 63, 301
The Joint-stock Companies Wind-
ing-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and
the Warwick and Worcester Rail-
way Company, ex parte Pritchard,
301

John Jones the younger, 157
Philip Jones and Monmouth and
Glamorgan Bank, 52

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way Company, ex parte Macahlay,
263

- Lawrence, Crowdy, and Bowlby,
solicitors, ex parte Burdon, 267

The Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax

Railway Company, 59

Leggett, 224

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-

-

Edward Lidbettter, 348

Joseph M Lintock, 270

The London and Brighton and South

Coast Railway and the Lands

Clauses Consolidation Act, and

16 & 17 Vict. 137, ex parte The

Haberdashers' Company, 216

Magrath, 52

M.Nally, 116

The New River Company's Act,
1852, and the Lands Clauses Con-
solidation Act, 1845, and Bickerton
Hargrave's Entailed Estate, 139

Nokes, 129

W. H. Orchard, 180

John Villey Oster, one, &c. 59

William Oster, one, &c. 59

Paul, 40

Piddlesden, 158

Porter, of Belfast, 40

Edward Power, 12

Oswald Price, 128

H. T. Roberts, 171, 180

George Russell, 348

Ryan, 52

The Second Royal Benefit Building

Society, 144

Martin Sherridan, 333

Henrietta Suelling, 69

Stamp Duty payable on a deed
dated 26th Sept. 1852, &c. 179
The Stamp Duty payable on a Deed
of Settlement, dated 31st Oct. 1853,

178, 233

John Stanley, 324

Taylor, 72

Henry Loftus Tottenham, 13

The Town Council of Louth, 129

Trinity College, Cambridge, ex

parte Edleston, 41

The Trustees' Relief Act (10 & 11

Vict. c. 96), and re The Trusts of

the Will of John Wynch, 259

The Trustee Relief Act, and re the

Trusts of the will of Peter Thomp-

son, deceased, 215

Vann, 191

Watkinson, 270

Frederick Weston, 308

William Williams and Sons, 11

The Wimbledon and Croydon Rail-

way Act, 1853, ex parte the Arch-

bishop of Canterbury, 219

The Winding-up Acts 1848 and 1849,

and the London aud Birmingham

Extension, and Northampton,

Daventry, Leamington, and War-

wick Railway Company, ex parte

Prichard, 140, 225

Worsley, 11

Reader v. Harvey, 129

Reddish, secretary, &c. v. Pinnock, 146

Reed v. Harrington, 157

Reeves v. Baker, 54

Reg. v. Allison, 174, 209

Allen and Saunders, 144

Alleyn, 71

Alleyne and others, 174

Tindall and others, 174, 270 Waterlow and other v. Cotton, 190

Saxton v. Clapham and others, 190, The Newmarket Railway Company,

209, 244

Slim v. Great Northern Railway Com- Thompson v. Bell, 71

Eldridge and another, 161, 270 Tidd v. Lister, 101