THE

LAW JOURNAL REPORTS

FOR

THE YEAR 1851:

COMPRISING

REPORTS OF CASES

IN THE COURTS OF

Chancery and in Bankruptcy, 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 1850, TO TRINITY TERM 1851,
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.

EDITED BY MONTAGU CHAMBERS, OF LINCOLN'S INN, Esq.,

ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S COUNSEL.

VOL. XXIX.

NEW SERIES-VOL. XX.

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.

MDCCCLI.

1851.

Lord Chancellor's Court,

EDWARD COOKE, ESQ. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Rolls Court,

THOMAS PARKER, JUN. ESQ. BARRISTER-At-Law,

Court of the First Vice Chancellor,

BENEDICT LAWRENCE CHAPMAN, ESQ. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Court of the Second Vice Chancellor,
THOMAS WYATT GUNNING, ESQ. BARRISTER-at-Law.

Court of the Third Vice Chancellor,

JOHN FITZPATRICK VILLIERS, ESQ. BARRISTER-AT-Law.

Cases in Bankruptcy,

BENEDICT LAWRENCE CHAPMAN, Esq. BARRISTER-AT-Law.

Court of Queen's Bench,

HENRY JOHN HODGSON, Esq. and COLLEY HARMAN SCOTLAND, Esq. BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

Bail Court, Exchequer Chamber, and Crown Cases Reserved,
FRANCIS RUSSELL, Esq. BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

Court of Common Pleas,

ALEXANDER JAMES JOHNSTON, Esq. and THE HON. GEORGE DENMAN, BARRISTERS-At-Law.

Court of Exchequer,

HENRY HORN, Esq. and EDward wise, ESQ. BARRISTErs-at-Law.

CASES RELATING TO MAGISTRATES,

REPORTED PRINCIPALLY BY

HENRY JOHN HODGSON, Esq., COLLEY HARMAN SCOTLAND, Esq.

AND

FRANCIS RUSSELL, Esq. Barristers-at-Law.