THE

LAW JOURNAL REPORTS

FOR

THE YEAR 1848 :

COMPRISING

REPORTS OF CASES

IN THE COURTS OF
Chancery and Bankruptep, Queen's Bench and the Bail Court,

Common Pleas,
( Including Cases on APPEAL from the Decisions of Revising Barristers,)

Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer Chamber,

FROM
MICHAELMAS TERM 1847, TO TRINITY TERM 1848,

BOTH INCLUSIVE;

ALSO
Notes of Judgments in the HOUSE of LORDS, during that Period; and a separate
arrangement of Cases relating to the DUTIES OF MAGISTRATES, including

CROWN CASES RESERVED.

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EDITED BY MONTAGU CHAMBERS, OP LINCOLN's Inn, Esq.,

ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S COUNSEL.

ONE (

HER MAJES

COUNSEL.

VOL. XXVI.

NEW SERIES_VOL. XVII.
PART I. CHANCERY AND BANKRUPTCY.

LONDON :
Printed by James Holmes, 4, Took's Court, Chancery Lane.
PUBLISHED BY EDWARD BRET INCE, 5, QUALITY COURT, CHANCERY LANE.

1848.

Lord Chancellor's Court,
PHILIP TWELLS, Esq. BARRISTER-AT-Law.

Rolls Court,
FREDERICK JAMES HALL, Esq. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Court of the Vice Chancellor of England,
THOMAS WYATT GUNNING, Esq. BARRISTER-AT-Law.

Court of the First Vice Chancellor,
BENEDICT LAWRENCE CHAPMAN, Esq. BARRISTER-AT-Law.

Court of the Second Vice Chancellor,
EDWARD COOKE, Esq. BARRISTER-AT-Law.

Court of Bankruptcy,
BENEDICT LAWRENCE CHAPMAN, Esq. BARRISTER-AT-Law.

Court of Queen's Bench, PHILIP BOCKETT BARLOW, Esq. and HENRY JOHN HODGSON, Esq.

BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

Bail Court, Exchequer Chamber and Crown Cases Reserved, DAVID POWER, Esq. and EDWARD WISE, Esq. BARRISTERS-AT-Law.

Court of Common pleas, THOMAS SANDERS, Esq. and ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, Esq.

BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

Exchequer of Pleas, HENRY HORN, Esq., FRANCIS TOWERS STREETEN, Esq. and

DAVID POWER, Esq. BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

CASES RELATING TO MAGISTRATES,

REPORTED PRINCIPALLY BY PHILIP BOCKETT BARLOW, Esq., HENRY JOHN HODGSON, Esq., DAVID POWER, Esq. and EDWARD WISE, Esq.

BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.