The Sun. — London, England, 1811-11-04 00:00:00

z„ItP , , I t I • .92 , )C r 3 4 f. wherc. a ati was disall , ,wed to. vote. Lord FiLLEN4oicl,l}4.;rl nvei - -rutud phe connnoti•law di, ,, ,uatiliad every one in a state of allPt'lly. Thtf'llouse of Conimons loA,Ted pimp, r 4 to Vwe in its el -ctions; and though in Mal* a its itt'r'Acts the %4 (gds . :" r;01 being pan pe:rs— thiteuri.d, that ek ex . tibrindaitti„ in this case, there w ,, s at least prima :filth , evidence to go to a Jury, agilinst t ohjedion, Mr, NlAttaY.vi' proceeded to state, that life iii. dietilient sei lot Ili inatrietoorial-co,tom i to which it was essential t it shonld have existed for , mein? than 'Goo 'years,' that is, from the days rd itichardi ; for 'so long was the legal memory of man ,held! to gd b NOw, ihe should slew that an, Alder rnan was not an immemorial officer; and he should' call uporrthe city , to produce their chart?r, by whcho it would appear that they ,had nut a Mayor within legal memory. But the custom was stated, to hve been, that the inhabitants payilig scot.atid bearing lot should elect some perSbn to t:;e office of constanle„ ' it had not been pl - oveil. that such inltabitants.dod pay an;:i.bear scot and Jot.. lord ELLtsitOttfAqu,.......Evetyinhabitant most pit - stinted to do so; if lie is' `not a vatfp'er„ , He is predicati'd to be ati inhabitant sectitt.duin stiljeChtt taideriam. • - • • - • :yety imtot*e ,e .: _+r COURT, OF I,N (;,'S • . L 0..7,7,110 ANO co. v. xyt t I th sis.„„ciplcisk;nita - arzi C.,ompan7, t en rent in . erelt:iLtc in I...ntlifi t t; ttfrOft their tin. tnerch,ant4 : burgh Iti *rCriOvei• the , ;tint (if 1,4 . nytnent on itecount of thtt ihcf:s4lut. jr itifoo.'!ar , 'll, 11;e. pia'trittlii, that tlit , decondant bat. it.-g ,a quantity ot istogta , -.4 to itoport 'to this' couni'V M 0111, place vilate to the phintiii*-4, io dry:A the tpv.,:tion flit‘ I,j„ , 1 , 1 1 ;1 6 p W ......i•ceor di ogly ittnie• 1.1 4 ,4. ! goods \V uncoil:a to he 6)' , sivriett Stdcidart,OrLon.loo, but were t i pi4tOllc y c09, , ,11ued 10 the 1)111 so(+;) 111114 . er thel atiival here a Counter- inlet was sent, colt4ijning thetn to Sto,ldait and C. o. were necordiogl - , • h:inderi 0%,1 1 1 to ihat 1101.1sC. pa4(l 1116 . pletututos (.4 insurance hl athotirit which 111 , 1 flout sought to recover hy the , i:est:tit The Atroutiin - 'Gen - 13(AL, for the defendant, contendel,,,,that, the,order for the insuronces, at. - d the . asslgnmentiti t gonTs to NtesScs.tliol.r!sond, were hr)c and th t !!..,.,:one Ii pllit alUli, alit! th.d tetot, they made the recon , ii;,tinunt to Stodcirt, they bllol.lht have paid thern,elvt , s the litioutit of - then demand. , against the dAendatit, wero therethie precluded troni teCOve:ing 1,01(1E1,1,11N13oR 613013 tht, to be 11‘1114)oslrowi prOpOiilioo,'t.ollSitrering 141 E: bider for the insurance, and the coo,igninent of the Toods,.two distintl and separatettransaaithiC 'fife I\l,:ssrt, Goldstnid , h i nd certainly got the goods into their hands, and irn i. .;lit have+pAid theluselves,. but they taetecl !must honestly and Innst; honourably in cleliVeriogithetn up to order without - inalting' any' deduction;- he thought that they had acted tort honoorribly :thd too delicately , , t!ards this 'defendant, who would now torn them, round in -this manner : in his opinion they' store clearly entitled te.). recover. Some of the Gentlemen of the Jury, however,; expreLing, - theirdotibts, the Jury rented 'for neatly two hours, and then brought , io a verttiCh forthe phintill o damages ttfit gs. 'A. • and costs. SATURDST;-'llOV6lllEtt 2. BoWDLER. Thiv!!!‘tvistv, a4lten rioght by the dasignees'of Alessrt.. S46p6ti and 11:.t1i . tottn to rilcover the stim of 51)1'oi. alleged ier:eived by the de fen lint by'a bid of Itatiduleot pre ference in ' of the hanktoptcY. It Was • , idm itteuthat' the suould rei•ot . er I ,r 2, t 10s. legally 'due by'anOther debt from the del,,nd tit. to the nankrupts'estoto ; hilt the defendant de rti,td the receipt of the 5,000 i. That a trailLtileot Ineference had been Made 't lie hat;krupts to , ; t ;,(,,,,•- hof.ty, appe,ired (root tite„eyatence ~ f Mr . . Simpson himself, who said that, filrhotiSe tiatie with 09 ... capital, and that in loSs lbw fiktiO 111Zii under erigatrements . to: the 'amount of ‘tithiebit conld tiol an6wer, !t o _that its r was Ihe Comitiiision ' oC 6l r l kriiptcy Was dated on 'the 1!,:l of Jta;)e `) at 'lO, and Vie hi.Jirse stopped ti.tvr . oetir ed,,,of March preceding. A Lute tinjii, iitl47ito.n vvithoutllw knt44,C:'i-• of ins iaritier V4,iii - eiving that money borrowed ought tent to be. pleeced on the same level With the dr!ots of by the ad; vice of the deten.tant, to i trroth,r, of tfie tfoos (it Sititiwtl and Culf., :otioL t.vitich ttie house of F.nrinan out towed 01, therm. 'lie accordingly chew rhe hill in cl.w4tion, which was ttimle t kiyaue at' the house . Ot ssi s. Masterrnin and Company ; and twcanste th l / 4 2ir hour of ttie day when Nl,t,sts. Simpson and Guth - wildn:tl to roceive.it,; IN as its ct ti , e deteiklatit, Whoa i, kept cash at - Nlesspi, Maiterman' 4 ; r.; cc:aim:kw): eel to reeeive the -money for them. The bankers 11,:t,itAted at that lioitrto, pay so large itutriin'etish, hut agreed to ttanSfer it to the'detendant's account'` anti the defendant accordingly indorsed the conterna of the brit received. knit it appeared, that the d e fend 3l 4 was in all this the mere agent of i‘d,essrs. Simpson and Guth, for whom the morrey was' int ended, and who actually rceeivedi but • w ho.wore not puw scud, 1 ecansu they were baukrupts top. ArlottNl. , ,y t3UN Ea AL, (0r the plaintiffs, COO , tot•de#l, dint paytutUtt lat o m Shup,ol, ahtt I , '.umuitt to Phie'ssis. Sitorit.o 11ot.1 C. nth ; it' a tiiirn perSoo Was eniployvtllo E,;ve colour tt , ,the tritud, he could nut tii:fni4irg4: . bnnbuil : by paying °vet hr money to those who it etc not ontitied.to ii After hearing Mr. PAU le.. for the defendant, , Lord lst.r. i recapitulated 'the cast: to the Jury ; anti itii;ll, that to allow,t he plaintiff's' ch u m OgatoNt -the defendant, Would be positing farther ilic d,i(trinc.. or Oraul,, dlatady carried to a great extent. ilk Lord 't No.p at.v.Ser. tide Jut y; to let the pIan:WITS take a verdict for the sttm adrnitte.tl to in' 4166' to thew ; and if a claim tor mote could he "preptc'ci, t bat would be, heard in another place. , --Yerilict for the piaintiff—domages 12 t 11. t 95. A'IAIIIINAT tiler, traced the history of Bar- . *el s' Cutupin,;.`.lo-altatute.ot the 3d 1.1.-nry VIII. , ettary., thrii chatter was art t n'of iced :. Amlftvliclva.; certain - w vfis tfreVe presumed to- pr:Oiee bti),be :}trrgety, it. was'enlit?44,l that - tio person ~ .it,(41114 }oak.- lice phyiiie or ougery in London; cxclitillty bat been examined licletelhkt Bishop,of Loodo t n„oi tilt? Dean of Si. Pattr3, and four pra,..;tisers .4 their re 7 spetli'c j)rtrft'snnla In the Eith year of, the reign Of fienly Vlil. the ss, , rgenns were made a di,ttnttt body. by the title of the Wald-n and V'llowAii,) the craft and inys'ery of Surgeons, nut passii,g iij number twelve. Lind lit.t.L . N'Brutounn said, that it way a differnt question 1 / 4 , betb, t def,..nftant Itlinl,t not daito to: b , ..f examined b.-toio o Ii; Bishop f London or the of St. Panl's, The Act gave the united coot evvr y general joivni..ge &it boa) cAupattioi befilte bad; hut it eould nut eniatge what ..had bin before comonviii.atcclto only twelve, so as to tnakt.-: it a corntpunication to t he. w lute company, The Ateof" g.ive in the basher a capacity of being one of tin! t l / 4 1 / 4 , clva y and when he had: hveoine so, s ,bnt ,ii never could mean to communicate w 5 or 600 what hart alw iy hcfate been ii%iettiously cOnfink.d to iwdve. 1.4 hew your Client 10 haves . been an itdmitted surgeon •ati one of the twelve. M. MARaYAT could not of cantle., .LOni ELLANBOROUGH.7-Theii, I.ol' claim 01 et entptiol is beyond the reason and- construttion of tilt stniute. . . Upon Mr. MAII,RYAt'S calling 'upon the Town clerk to produce the City's ch irter of Icitigiohn,,. it appeared that Mr. Woudthorpe had notTheen:lub. pco;i:ied, nor had , that DOticc Which would .have cuabledidna to apply for lesve,to yr,4,!oce Lord imam.) Gil would. oot -6 on►pel a public officer hastily to produce such a reccod. He should IWO been suhrteuaed. ADTORNMY•GENIMAL.—Notice to TrOttrtee to us would- have been nothing. The City iK not a party:. Mr. Woutithutpe hhoulA have had a sub patoa duces Lord tu,ttNaortouott had no doubt but. it would turn out, that the City had immemorially been pre. ,id r d over- by Wine officer answering to Mayor, whether under the title of Eldet-mart, or other, wise; and that Aldermen were, in substance, equal. ly inaineinori3l, if the city had always been di. vided into wards: ibut,' at present, there was . no evidence for the defendant; and he was accordingly , COURT or EXCI-ItiQUER, Nov. I. xtrar: & 6lfArrEt.,. Tne Arrourse . v'-GENit tat, - staieJ, that this way f in indictment against thc trunk-naaker aL thi''corner of St. PatirsClittrch-yard, to'r serve the office. of Constable of the Ward of P'jrr'iriLifliatt Within; to which Int been eleeied by the:a:l;res c i ne r of St.. nail af)portnetl' by the centir4l Wind:note , ' Ills obji.d. iqn, to be sworn, was, that ite was a tneniber of the Barber'i.-Coinpany, and was theretore,,hy s'escral Giunjets anti letters-pale:it; ex . etnpt. tatt was', that tint barbers and the sur porn; were originally twti conninnies; and were atterwirds united, with 'exemptions to not ex ceetiing twelv4' of them to Bove Wald t and Parish Others. . • , . Lord Et.Letigottotrou.—The reasonwas, that the public could not stay for surgical Itiststance, but niialit ' , twilit:lm till the barber had executed his ward or psrildt office.. . Mr. MAitICYAT, 'for the defendant, took a leg..d objeaioo to trie indieiinent, Inasmuch as au alleged tiescription in it was not aftstained by proof. l'he right of election to the Offices. Wai stared to reside in all persons , arid payin4 scot and bearing . . • s, , curtties in iiir'ceiti.6ilHer3;h‘tk7.l:t;,°tlllorne:lllr,l.‘liniltoiniltuhtel'Cl4ourt of lcrigss ..;ench, on a hood which bud been given as a collo 'era' assurance, and recovered t2,6001,-. daniageS. r.tfier• this verdici, the CorporatlT ifled a Bill in Chancery, to,invalidate Mr. Lowoen ecitrities, on the wound that the seat had been affixed by the Solat Body, and not by the Mayor, Assistants, Common Coui.cil,, 3ttrgesses at large : whether- the Sete Body had ale power SO to tiffi ,tlte - seal, WAS the single ques tion to be tried. Unfortunately for the Crpora tiOn of Colchester, there lived in the Borough a person who had amused himself with eitamining their. musty teet:rds; this' person, ,during his re searches, had thought lie had discovered that the Seleet Body hadno authority to manage the affairs of the Corpotiation, but that it was necessary tor thG 14, or t 5 tjo • Burgesses of Colchester to be as. sembled, in order to sanction every corporate act and that as the seal, had been affixed without this ppulat body having been convened, the securities were void, and ought, to 'be blown into the air. The Learned Counsel said, it would be quite_ sufh . - divot for his purpose toproduee the deeds, with the seal of the Corporation appended to them.. .the Opinion of the Lord Chaticeltor it was priroa /u it! evidence, which • ;he other side was called upon to divrove, that it was legally, atii,xed ; but he should ‘lo mote. It %%amid be easy for Jinn to sagisty the Jury, that for a put lid of f2OO y,'ars the Co - pota , iott Irad!been in the c.witt:filt course of granting secoti• iivs„„ t csecuted pi the same wiAy thoise to quo,tioti. however. 'wag not wig-ittent for the antiquarian to whom he had alluded, lie should, t liervfine, gO, as tar back'as the inne of lin hard the Sl'ehi)d, and should de illysliew, that from his rehltt 10 tihu of Geori4e 111: with the exception 01 two of ithree rei,ois, dating which the' records wete cleft-. clew it laid been t uniform praCtiee Of tilt Co pa rittioti to demise, wortvge, and sell their lands by under the ci . ,ri;orate seal 'Axed by a SJect dvlL.%2,itted by and atitiiig for the Burgcsscs at lii this thore was nothing extraerdiumy it h cl ter ages ht:en the practice of the City of Lon.- don, and other .Corporate Cities. The Learned Counsel, after enforcing at very conSider.tble length the various toi.ies cOuttecoal with the suhiect, la mented that the Corporation should have been in (.nced by any consideration to have set up a defence, which, with refeience to an indiVidul,.wOuld have cleetuLd unconscious and imriforal. IF effed lets given to such a defence, it would 'deter all man kiln( I, oat ever entering into coturaa with'the Co , poiation. of Colchester; and, therefore, he thonglit the. Jury would best conSult their interest . by compelling .theM to tro justice to the Plaintiff; Nlt condUct towaids them had been distinguished by cmdtir,liberaloy, accidothearance. ,Mr. Smyibir:s, •the presenl'Mryer of Colchester, proved; titan the sell affixed to the securities was the proper seal of tin Chrpouttioe, and as tar as'his ex!, petience extended,' . it had. uniformly been alaixed to corporatestc,tritio; by the Selec.t Body, ttithout,the' interference or pOotrol'Of the commonahty. • lkir. Depoty 'Keeper of the Records tit the Tower, read, in 1 1 :,11 .- A11,11, from the ancient Latta and Not man Fiplich rolls, numberless pas sao,es, which Went to prove that ti - !lffatis of Out, Corporation hadbeen always managed by a Selea Body. It appearort that from the 6th „Bich. r ant( thrsocci...erling re,ighs drown, to Elizabeth, the Baintri, Aldertnen, Clavier*, and Discreet Men Of the Car. poratioh, composing a Setc6t Body in contradis_ tiuMion to the Borgegses at large, bed beett in the • habit of zttfixing,the eorptnh.: 5031 itt de:inset, Wart go a , , a go s, grants in tee, oich,rs for relettingdl4putes tti arbitration, Otc.lers for prosecutieg and defending suits, and orders for letters of attorney, The nitif( why of the custom was alto proved by Mr:t t. ncis Abell, who bad known the Corporation tor many years. . Mr. I)Ai.L44 addressed the Jury on the part of die doeittl,mts. fie said, it would b atrect4tiop Before Sir Artentsnt.e MxcaortALo, , ktlight . , I , ol4.Chiet not to admit that he rose tioder very Coosi., Bar", au , 'l a stwciat turior the LouttrYof tis; , t`x• terahle difficulty, uhdoubtedly, respea to t.ovaNais ES°. AGAINST'. THU CORPORATION OE WAs the ill Oat nvitettal que : oion. A tardy ot COI.OIIES'IEII, iatportant evidence, hall been given ; but itrong is Tai was an issue diretted by the Lail Chancel. that evidence was, there u ere questions of Tt...11. lot, and the tinestioo to be tried was,: whet her the .veight, both Of law arid of fad, 1,..,1tich it WA's Scat of the Corporation Of Colchester bad been to submit to his Lordship atilt the July. Fie re duly and legally atihed to certain itiduttture's Of marked, that this was not a tinestiOn.betwiien the oortgrige, attd other securities for granted by . plaintiff as.d the Select Body, but between the the •Cuiporation of that Borough to ,Mr. ThoOldti plaintiff and the Ctirporation.; and the question was, Low ten, of the ? whether the 'Funds, which ought only to be ad- Mr..:SOLICITOR-GgNEML ObberVCCii that it wi fi toir t iiiitei l eti .for lift, betfetit of the,. Corparati-n at his 'duty, on the part of the plOirtift; to . insist oil I;trg'e, could hi looligage'd - or' sold, 'to defray the the atlitinatig.e. ot the proposition sobrnitled .expnses occasioned .by contests between' individual consideiaorm. St had be'en the misfortune of Mr. , members, or suits brOught against Ottlerrs of the S..owien, a Solicitor of emitteoce, to Itavn l been, put 'Corperation for Ms done, by them ? Having ar to Ow neccisiv of,appealing to almost every gued upon this therne,' lie observed that, unques nal, Iteown to the coantty—to a Court tot • Lii..v 7 --a 11011; . ibly, the plincipal point for the decision of the Comm . of Equity—Arbiirators, and uuw a.yai,i Ito a Jury was, wlt by the constitution . 6f the tio rotj4h, tlie phtver of atfixing the seal•was intrioned Court of Low, in order to enforce the p:1)11),:nl of to the tieleCt Body? fieCoritended thin it' was net, a debt of upwards of Q.OOOl, w hich Lad hwcu due the Lta oration of Colciie,srer aver titta lie CiitLlopt,>olOuld 6how, by referent:a ro the cn since the year 1791'. The debt originated in.his Iries,,,as tar: bath as Illehard I. that all proceedings having beets professonally employed to detencl the respeCtiog , the Corporation tvere transacted in the Corporatiou to a variety. ot souie of them emottl, at which the free Burgesses welt rnisito! out of eleOtoo coirleshhalh.l others out ,of' present, lit maintained, that the ;ancient style conte,ai for offi nn wt ccs coet:ted- th the Borpt)gi.,— adopted in all a...ms done by the , Corporation was With respect tr, ;di thesesn what. its, the goverotog body, wttt corresponded with the terms Mayor and•Corn conshting itt the. Mayor, Aldermen. Assistaals, moualty—and that by., the word Commonalty waft • arKI Coitomin ,t1i011;;Iti r,% tit to inter meant ad those .w.no vi ere Members,ot the Couto-. pose awl piotecd the,,individoal Members of tin.; vittion,_ It hhe proved: the_ right of -the free Ber;• Corporatioa, s,attt,t a(;tions for what they eortside;•. V.S'es'-to be present and aisisting in; all corporate eel the Ito!;,-.A e mir ta . it) i tui dischargc , of their duty. acts, from the reig n o f Ri c h a id. the. First to that of Th e s e r e a Body ? by wh o in tint affairs at the Car- • •t ,til=ed EliZabetit, no ititeratioil at .the usage gobit:- poration had geedi immemorial,ly aceo f o, tittellt •10 tliG latter period could be reNered le ingly, inr porstLince of rekolutly,l „ lo taitinirnouvly ga l, wh et he r t h e usage wwch hadfor eta let(sinew acc „,l„,l tot„ coiployed. , t he plaintift,,andin the pro- the tim e of 'Queen Elizabeth , was nit innovatioo on cess of v.triouS lit lunns, incurred the debt for the law of . the Borough, was-for the jury; tinder tit hir.n oil ly the secnritiei , itues'ion, were the advice of his Lordship, to determine. "I lie givvo. Alter a .conNittent)le lapse of Line,' Cor ! Learned, Counsel ad% eited to se.veral Otk:p.'ll l POraiio l ).r diSCI/ 3 rging Mr. LOVIVVW*Ov-• tinter, .but he busily stated, I that t AO , principal guts mithd, ettdp;tvonredr by every tue:lns to ev,..de ( h e li o n ; N os, .whether the Si. ii but been duly and le payment of. it, and the, result of this disposition ? Th at di,„dectuputt lhe Usa g e , their natl was a reference as to the nature of his which Was a question of fact-T—if the usage. Was as ( Linn, to three Arbitrators, Barristers at' Law,— cerlaiired, it would then be for his Lotclthip to de : 'They awarded - the phintitf, qtfter some ioccmsid er ,, date the taw. , able, dr.ainetions, 41- ;Iti ii) whir h , tA, 'oh ;be interest,. . '.l'tic Writ ten evidence on the part of the. defend. • attiounted tn the consideritivl, of ins prior num. nuts -consisted of sentries from ancietit records; gage, and no performance it their award, a deed state of a dtite as early a 4 Rit.laard I.'und one dafed coiihruntig the former securities was ehterett int o ,' in the reign' ot . Henry VIII, , ptop6rting to. be MO waled with illy CorYorat'on The lilaintitt, grants and demises Alhitie by the. flaithr et COMM alter many faiitless' 3l, tthol.ts to Obtibt Paytnent of , tales, or by the theasaent- of the t Ohne(' by kIC tit% RI) Fp, 410 S, No , 4, Mitalrtt court, Eow.-ettget I Ind l'i,sli;ll4l vy LiAh4 Ait Xll it ER nt rprs . s mn i t Ai the Su* 917104 No. i I'4 Stfiud t 7,vi s, cre 4iiver.firrn4,74ti, Orders for the Pow, Liotrrs fer the Adi !o , te. (posi .p ma y , nvtir b k 4 ,~ ;-~ ~~~~J; i Ce niniunilas o f lie town of C ileheste r. Tile oral testirnony related to tho se point -r,wilidt t he Leor " ed Counsel; in' his address to the Jury , with the mal e Eihad admi tted we re unimportant, when compared question as to the usage. . i . 4ne aoLicaTost•GENKBAL, in his reply , r e g retted , that his Learned Friend should have such a d d case to pe defend. Tae was rsuaa that if his Learned , Friend bad had an inditedual client to have cons ulted, instead of a corporation, 'be would not h ave Deco' pied so much of the tip le of the Court. The Learn ld ' Couesel,' lamentiner that the Corporation sou have been periorted ban Antiquaean %% ho had . t t e o tl irt i Vali t L: P t il l ' i r ei i r ruistnnierstood the old rolls and records he had pre. expressing his f a 6 i •that ti Ju y would; per feet eon c ent.e ie r 10%emudesoal,:eonuIrnianaase, ourt p od ta by: their verdia, convince the Cot woutti haie best consulted their os,vn honour and interest by. paying the plailititr's demand twctiii years ago. - cpoonraiiondt illeiyy i The Lord Chief Baron said, that as the Jur y were the tenth houtof their attendance, he shosla cop' Rive to make his ob&rvations as short as pus;ble.--• lie-ehiilveti, that although many objeetions NA been raised, the only que4tion with the solution uf which- the Jury had apy thing to do via, *bell ° the selrof .the Corpotation had , been jult t hci il'iaiottli's securities .by . the body which had 1 1 Power,- or whether it' should noehave been alli%er by It iiiores-extended body, namely, the Burgeoo 4 large? The charters_ said nothing expressly upon", Stl°Jecti and where that was the case, the qtvtill could only be decided by usage.- If te asage -i° oinsust pl.ilot oily been one way Ibr t heonsideroblo ettod, it• raised a - strong ground of presuMP li' l tint it ifitd been always so.* The first dawainVel the usage as they Were to he found in the read; ‘t hich had been read, mere somewhat equi' °c , , 1 ' ~.itut'onsettie ; but' even at . that- period "wh ich ',!.--, been remort-rd to, when literature tans not so got- rally di fresed, it etridentl ytip'pekued that a defUrenc° i s'. l n paid Co those Merubt rs 61 the Corporatio n, wh °' from their situations, were supposed to l'a" T(,),: L eariiii, z liiin the rirst, and that ' th e stfairs of 0. (.;:a._.,,,''irzld)o6leatitilt:tiutetir:,'tiflreoncl,,n-titrleol re a i i g i d o n o i t a ,I,lii4t i tr i 4:1,111.1t;i73 4:(-1..1.3.dy. In the reign of Etix,betli, the Col' potation' gut into somethiog of 'a rqulat sPtcl:,'; and for upward; of 't wo hundred years they hid fi' l , on in, the course which was now for the 6 011° ' *lca eunplaided of. .' When the glictimeritip Dia. - t ...," j Id 1 hotly w were perceived at so very early a pew, ',,, -1 0,is as . found that from the , time of Elisabet.''''",t's slant otßur i .g n e , s s s ep es p , ort o f :i t. day,. n the 'uiage was continued, the existence co , °eted Body from the comlitencement of i ll i ' ll P°"ti°6 becanie a natural Inference. Tb' 1 ' e . 1“ ,,.: and convenience of the-usage was a reaterl3l4.l3, Consistent. titan' the idea that whenever it wo r to nessaty to. execute a lease or a great of lath l ' ‘ ) l ,,lsi No' thing could bc 11 "' r pe ad-tx the seal to•nty corporate docarneol, 1,0,:„ itytild previously be an influx of the wliole ,:'!.. law has been made for - i tile a" ii i t i :lie lands of the Corporation w preventinghorn the al etc c ognition u be t h h the gt ' n re t . a11)ii::a oft.iißurgessescontinued! i . n 4 :o n w tt i n i e 4 au v4l : a e o 'ra. . a tl gl i S : el e 7l l : l;v : E r'h e ar U cr l a i d it : ti l i vi id t t ioc l i t i ble y ; , ll l ° :: °i . l e )iiii j c i lli t i c i : s l:%ei t 'rtvi ; r :ll li diji: :i d i .l: . : : : i 'rer,til it kY i o s ot,11:11:11:110:11.1,e:lb1:11111:11ti i 6 sears t at wards waY4 it WiisgorindlYi.ePt!"4!'" - 11 . 1; k a 410/ a!lel l these preliminary ob4eriationO(''''' --. r ." I t o , / from it: and from lilt! iriterpietatioe of the % 11 '; i1 of the renewed 'lble e charter' vi`evidence. i e . 1 n ilh'elleprc:lelcnittirlel°lgnallilLit::::!le: tog .proposition fur which the 1) 10.11)141 c-1' P i w . ,EIS the true one, . and 'that the IThinligenlen °illi ttlrection 'Ol the .concerns of the Corporatii?lllop, andieier had.been, with the. exception *„" il "" 1 If PPrted the general rule, in the Select P°ll.,{ect What had so invariably been done by '1AL4.6,,i, se Body, for such 3 long series of. years, 11 , r l eilil s 117Tpatitilv, •he thought i t agaiost .every r" pts of ' huthlitis` ItatUle, . that it ' sheul d 1 1 1 1 E, 1;0 1 ' ship more early reinonStititki aOinst. . d ie m S*S'Uf Opinion, dial, in a coSif vil)°f('. .to ~ :14.sits ti,BPoplii:eaarrt:lgiutit-tybei:titidlie, Cite mare iincierit tittles, that the' sale ' cotitl e r f t ho Jury to•pprSue was, to fool; at the proll" 1 Oa ( the enihern Pt ae,Uv - , during that tittle , l''' ) 1 t io• t ti h a t ; t a‘t%lldrietrhot%lsi.a.;rielilciehdhoisu,f,,jorndstilliiepptait)ol v e i t r ii i t 1 : I ° 1 0 ):1 1 ';I: ri t h.. conclu o ded that the smile eract ice 1t .31 - 1. e%is f l o c it lo the more ancient times, thee. verdi6l Pi ,iliift..—lt'.6ll the!tattierr. hand t1 ( 0 111 , °I/ i g t - iff ill great body of evidence Produced by tbe thePl3'n joy tier/port of this practice wits ontwei4heil tof: i; h, atnblguous instancesptior to the reign ol LIIII,cO odiinexxl,as opposed. to it, they Strunk' fiod th e diet ,for the defendant. ; -04 The Jury consulted together a few (134130-,1 by in returning their verdict for the 03 00, ' 131 e 31 of ir tofetflani that they found tbe coinolotiwo 1 the Corporation had -betn duly and leg: 11.1 eto " I 3! .. 0 tiis the. s e veral iodentures' and deeds toeotia issue, directed by' the Lotd Chaeeellor... ~ 0 4 This cause occupied "tip was of to b(41'11, tlis excited gre.it interest.: it was cOntlnc.lol 1 , me Part ,of the plaintiff,. nv the Solicitor•Penersit Mt' Dintneey, Mr. Mairyiv, Mr; Wetherel, a-pA. l*Witie.o On the part of theAcienciaol, b) f i l r ; las, Mt. 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