OF

CASES DECIDED

BY THE

ENGLISH COURTS,

WITH

NOTES AND REFERENCES TO KINDRED CASES
AND AUTHORITIES.

BY

NATHANIEL C. MOAK,

Counsellor at Law.

VOLUME XVII.

CONTAINING

1 APPEAL CASES, pp. 611–706.

2 CHANCERY DIVISION, pp. 489-837; 3 1d., pp. 1-208.

1 COMMON PLEAS DIVISION, pp. 286-532.

1 EXCHEQUER DIVISION, pp. 251-293.

1 PROBATE DIVISION, pp. 139-291.

1 QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION, pp. 410-607.

ALBANY, N. Y. :

WILLIAM GOULD & SON,

LAW PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS.

1878.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight,

BY WILLIAM GOULD & SON,

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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JUDGES.

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR.

Right Hon. LORD CAIRNS, appointed 1874.

LORDS OF APPEAL IN ORDINARY.

Right Hon. LORD BLACKBURN, appointed 1876.
Right Hon. LORD GORDON,

PRIVY COUNCIL, JUDICIAL COMMITTEE.

Right Hon. Sir JAMES W. COLVILE.
Right Hon. Sir BARNES PEACOCK.
Right Hon. Sir MONTAGUE E. SMITH.
Right Hon. Sir ROBERT P. COLLIER.

Appointed under

34 d 35 Vict.
ch. 91: usu-
ally sitting.

SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE.

COURT OF APPEAL.

Ex officio Members.

The Right Hon. the LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR (President).

The Right Hon. the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of England.

The Right Hon. the MASTER OF THE ROLLS.

The Right Hon. the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Common Pleas.
The Right Hon. the LORD CHIEF BARON of the Exchequer.

Ordinary Members.

Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM MILBOURNE JAMES, appointed 1870.
Right Hon. Sir GEORGE MELLISH,1
Right Hon. Sir RICHARD BAGGALLAY,

1875.

Right Hon. Sir GEORGE Wм. W. BRAMWELL,
Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM BALIOL BRETT,
Right Hon. Sir RICHARD PAUL AMPHLETT,9
Right Hon. Sir HENRY COTTON,3

Right Hon. Sir ALFRED HENRY THESIGER,

I Died June 16, 1877 12 Law Jour., 372.

? Retired on account of ill health October, 1877: 63 L. T., 417.

3 Appointed June, 1877, in place of Lord Justice MELLISH: 12 Law Jour., 386. 4 Appointed Nov., 1877, in place of Lord Justice AMPHLETT: 12 Law Jour., 631.