THE

LAW JOURNAL REPORTS

FOR

THE YEAR 1848:

COMPRISING

REPORTS OF CASES

IN THE COURTS OF

Chancery and 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 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.

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

MDCCCXLVIII.

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.