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On NVednesday afternoon' after finiShing the
business on the Crown Side, Judge CHASIDRi, left
the town, llarou Wool) having dechued his assist-
mice in trying the causes, he not being in a hurry
to return to Londoo.
Before Barns W 00D.
BARON v. CILOHProN.
lii this action.: point of law was settled which is
particularly interesting to mechunies, and iu some
degree to the public at large, viz. shut working
tools, when in actual use, cannot be stszed for
debt, the law not allowing those who are in debt to
be deprived of the memos of paying it.
The action was brought by the Plaintiff, who is
a weaver, and resides in the neighbourhood oc,
t'horley, and occupies a small house belonging to
the Defendant, for having seized his tour looms,
when they were at work, fer tent. The elute wits
proved by a mail who was at work at one of the
looms.
On the part of the Defendant, Mr. TOPPING
stated, that this was a most impudeut action.
The Plaintiff was a very poor man, and owed the
Defendant Sol for rent, mud he could neither get
the Plaintiff out of the house, or any rent, al-
though lie had offered to forgive him all the rent if
lie would quit possession ; he therefore hail recourse
to the expedient or seizing, to endeavour to get
him out of the premises, and all that could be j
felled was not worth shove 101. itotwitlustandi '
which he still retained possession, so that it might
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be easily seen that it was au action of the Attorney.
who was in the habit of going from the town wi
he resides to Chorley, on the market days,
he opened a kind of booth, like a man at a fir,
leaving it publicly entiounced where he was to be
beiird of to dispense law, and lie had thought this
a proper subject for a pleasant journey to Lancas-
ter, of which lie was very fond.
Mr. PARK, who conducted the cause, under all
the circumstances, gave up the Reful, upon the De- i
fendant consenting to abide by his original offer, to i
give up the whole demand of Sol. for rent dqe, and
the Plaintiff undertaking to quit possession In, '1
Michaelmas day. '
In an Insurance Cause !respecting a ship., A
plowed iu the Slave%A
Trade, S inec &
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voyage from Africa to the West Indies, the,gto,
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of resibtance of payment, by the Underwriteers. weeep
that the time she wes lost, there wus sent amitillki : t
*umber of men on board to manage the pithy.. „
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answer to this, it was proved, that the ship Sat
frogs Liverpool with thirty-one men, and arrivellei.
Africa with that number: but where, by mortality,
and desertion, they were reduced to thirteete.la-
eluding the Captain and 100 boys ! and although.
the Captain made every possible exertion, he .could
slot procure any more, and sailed fur the West In-
dies with the reduced atunber.
The ease was referred to the Court of King's
Beach.
zointsow B. Lasott.
to this ease there were no particular eireute-
stances that deserve public notice, but there are
in those that arose out of it.—The Pluintil( is a
sailor. and the Defendant keeps a slop-shop,
and lets lodgings to sailors, in Liverpool. It was
stated on the part of the Plaintiff. that, iu the year
itseit, he loins" iu the Defeediuit's house, and
purchased of is wife a watch for five guitietiS,
and a suit of clothes for a similar sum. Li 'a
few days after the Plaintiff sailed for Africa, Mid
left the watch, new clothe', au ofd suit of clothes,
as a hat, *.• e the I)eferidata's Meow. In three
days afto ha had sailed, the •Llefentlittit's,wife,'er.i
is 'slum dead, in the presence of a unpaid girl, b
.served, that the Plaintiff was gone-sae:le a long
voyages. that she was ogre he would never return,
and put his watch into the slum window. and es.
posed it to isle ; it was sold; and she had also Len-
'coed time clothes to her own use.
In eerolconition of' this, a shoemaker, or redder,
was celled, who stated, that the Plaintiff bought
the watch of the Defendant's wife, in his presenee,
in his seat when she brought an apron full of
watches for hint to choose frum.
Mr. RACE. in cress-examining this witness,
asked if he was not to share in the plunder of this
action ? which he denied. Mr. 11. addressed him
by the name of Charley. the Colder. a name he is
kaervutlay in Liverpool. The witness took fire at
this familiar and degrading appellation, and re-
pled “ he was as good a man as ally gentleman in
Court, that he was a cortlsoititler, and had
uot come there to be insulted." The testy hie.
moue or this witness set the whole Court in a con-
volition of leughter. The JUVUE joined west
heartily is the laog'h.
Mr. Itstwe eontinued his cross-examination in a
considerable drain of irony, tending to chew the
improbability and absurdity of the idea of is me-
nial' going with her apron fall of watches iota a
colder's ;all, to sell one to a sailor, at the time he
lodged in her house.
This beistontt Plaintiffs case, Mr. PAN( ad-
dressed his iii, by observing, that there was
Vet the least colourable proof of a euneersiou of

the property adduced.
His Lordship, however, thought there was ; and
that the Plaintiff had made out u case.
Mr. PARK observed, that ;although hiwi,ordship
did not agree with him upon the question of the
convention of the pmperty, yet it remained with
the Jury to decide moon the whole merits of the
case. He said, for the whole of the fifteen year*
he had acted in a Court of Justice, this was the
most improbable tale he had ever heard told; there
might he people who believed it, for his part. he
could not gulp it. lle said, the Defendant's wife
being dead he had no possible ineasss of rebuttingway
thing that hail passed between her and the Plaintiff.
—The Learned Contuse' pointed. mit *sly strongly
the absurdity of a Tailor buy log a watch, a few slays
previons to his sailing, and leaving it behindlitn,
when it was well knonli that sailors prided them-.
selves on havin_ a .:etch ; but this was
description of actions, in which the stiffen were
the mere tools of certain Attorneys.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence
very impartially, still abiding by his opinion of a
converry of the property having being satisfacto-
rily proved, and the Jury fousul for. the Plaintiff,
damages eight guineas.
lw au action respecting the right of a road, Mr.
assass.evaniiaaincr a woman ; he

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'tithe she trembled very much. Mr. U.
pi:ding she had not told law the truth, asked
Ater the cause of the tremor that was her ?
After some Iteeitation, she answered him very
fiercelg, "'that he wee enough to frighten met
body." At this the Lamed tientletuan sat, abseil.
quietly, and joined in tly. geaerel laugh agaiust.
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