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London, England, 1807-07-01 00:00:00

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Limcour-but flay his 30.

• ria.araen e. 'LATINS.
This was a motion on behalf of the Dtfendant.
for dissolving injundion obtained by the Plaintiff,
four months ag 1. as Assignee or Purchaser of a
Patent, obtained in the year 1794. fur certain im-
provements made and discnvercd at that petiord, by
the inventor, of a macaine for raising all sot ts of
shags upon wo ,lien cloth. The invention was made
in the year I ; ,7, and the itr.t patent was then oh-
t4ine Juno') the merits of the invention, which had
proved highly benetival to the public and the p .rry.
An illf/TOVelhellt was made in the original machine
in 1744, and for this improvement another patent
was obtaine I by the same party for fcurteen years
longer, before the first patent was possessed by him
fir the full term of fourteen years. These p new,
are granted under nr regulated by an Ad of Parlia-
ment passed in the reign of King James 11 and the
:4w upm the suhjed his received a great deal of
discusi.on, and been attended with a difference of
opinion among the ahlen Judges. The Defendant
stood charged by the Plaiotiff's Lill with infringing
upon the latter patent, and the Plaintiff brought
his sadion at law previous tar Min; his bill ; but nn
chtaining an injtinflion in February last, h., stayed
all proceedings at law in the aft on, and the D. -
fendant having now answered the Plaint,ff's bill, and
by such answer hiving admitted the utility of the
improvements. as well as al other charges in the bill,
moved to dissolve the injonnion, on the ground that
the patentee had nut duly specified the improve-
merit., in the registry of his second patent ; the
specificati-m, by same mistake cr inaccuricy hav-
ing rather described the original invention, for
wnich he had obtained the first patent. than the im-
provements on which he had obtained the patent
now in question. The sptcificarinn must, according
to his Lordship's opinion on the LW, as laid down by
him to the Jury, at Guildhall, in Cartweight's case,
on which law he differed from Mr. Justice tidier
and Mr. Justice Ashurst. in a case nefuie Lind
Mansfield, contain a clear and specific sta-ement of
t!.e particulars, comprising the improvement. in
order that the public may easily see on re, ord how
far the rights of the patentee hatri extended ; and
how far other men's ingenuity was restrained by the
patent; a nice distindion, in these eases, between the
old and the new parts; alnningh„ perhaps, there
was nothing new under the sun. said his Lordsnip,
a doubt. in the mind of the Court. was sufficient to
send it to a Jury, as was Lid down in 2J Vesey,
pin. in the case of Bolt egiina Watts.--
His Lordship having. on reading it. sprtification,
expressed great doubt, and refusing to decide the
law on the face of the case, as requested by both
parties—declared it a stilijed of-great general im-
portance. which Insist go to a Jul y at Gloucester,
(it being a Sheffield inyeritiol ; or that the Counsel
on both sides must agree unon the shape of a case
at Law, to be sent to a Court of Columns Law for
their judgment. He seemed of opinion strongly,
that the patent was void ; for if a Patentee take '
Mee* In his patent than by the specification appears
to have been in die power r f the Crown to grant. it
is clearly void ; so it he take less than was intended
or necessary. it will be fatal; and the specification
requiring a said. clear, and intelligible exposition
of the particulars, which it appeared here were
omitted, he said he could not conceive how any man could understand it with reterenca: to the Aft I
of Parliament.

Lnr,i.hip ordered the injundlion to stand until
the hearing.

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The Sittings ended yesterday, at Westminster.
No case occurred of any public interest.
in Use case of the Kura mres llseirees, Sire-
enamsors, and Ktno, noticed in our Paper of yes-
terday. the former was not in custody of the Keeper
of the Kong's Bench. as we staid. neither did the
Delendahts rely upon the flaw in the indiament. but
offered to g., into the merits, which offer was de-
clined, anti the'Y were accordingly argsutted.
Mr. Bagger, from the Bath Theatre, made his
Ida at the Haymarket Theatre List night, in the
part of Pass!, in the musical entenainnsent of Peal
rord Virg/era, and was received on his ware with
the most rapturous applau-e. He is a gen-
teel handsome young ma", about twenty-live,
treads the stage well, and gave every possible
effeet to the put. He sang with great taste and
sweetness. Several of his tones were considered
to resemble Mr. Be A6IA IL H. received the moat un-
bounded applau-sr, and was honoured with two co-
cores from one of the fullest houses of rho season.
Application upon application contiones to press
on Aserce's Koyal Amphitheatre. Westminster-
bridge. for bores, almost hourly; such are the
merits and attraSive qualities of the several pleas-
ing Entertainments at this fashionable place. where
the wonderful Military Taffies, displayed by bltb
horse and foot, every Evening, in the Grand Spec-
reek of The Boma Cassock, may literally be said to
shake the house with resounding plaudits.
Lady WI IlDli • Mel servant providentially rescued
Mr. 3. N. M. from the watery grave ; on being
taken out of the Serpentine River. he was conveyed
to the Humane Society's House, Hyde Park. and
Mr. Krt•ee attended; so that the, young man is
now providentially alive. Her Ladyship's Mini=
and others, as recommended by the Medical Assist.
ant, have been rewarded by the Treastster of the
above life-saving Institution.
The best mode of choosing Lottery nuralsers, was
a sebjea started, the other evening, at a city dub.
One member advised doing of it blind-fold. in ho-
nour of the blind goddess; a second with the
backs of the Tickets presented ; a third recommend-
sid numbers containing three sieves,' or three elms;
obverting, that the late bespoke number, which
sent a 20,0001. Prize to Southampton, had three
elect. But the Chairman's opinion was, to choose
numbers in the present Lottery which were blanks
in the last. From resped to the Chair, the latter
mode was adopted.
Losr-Yesterday evening. coming out of the
Ilaymaires Theatre, a small red MOrOCC3 Note
Case, containing two one pound notes. and tee Letters
Tickess,fer Me Leiter" witch Ivies Drowev she 140
Joloi iasi. Any person who may have found the
same. and will leave the Tickets at the bar of the
Stafford Coffee-house, Ozrord-street, may keep the
Notes for their trouble. As the Numbers of them
are known. they are stopped.