Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six,

BY BANKS, GOULD & CO.,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

REPORTS OF CASES

Unly

'ty of

DECIDED IN THE

HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY

IN 1850 AND 1851,

BY THE

RIGHT HON. LORD CRANWORTH,

VICE-CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.

BY NICHOLAS SIMONS, M. A.,

OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES

TO ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DECISIONS.

BY J. L. HANES,

COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW

VOLUME I.-NEW SERIES.

NEW YORK:

BANKS & BROTHERS, LAW PUBLISHERS,

No. 144 NASSAU STREET.

ALBANY: 475 BROADWAY

1865.

There are now three Acts of Parliament, each of which authorizes the ap pointment of a Vice-Chancellor, namely, 53 Geo. III, c. 24 (the Vice-Chancellor of England's Act), under which Lord Cranworth was appointed; 5 Vict. c. 5, under which Sir J. L. Knight Bruce was appointed; and 14 & 15 Vict. c. 4, under which Sir George James Turner was appointed. This last act does not authorize the appointment of a successor to Sir George Turner

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