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Rainy v. Beltran

Bond v. Thompson
Young v. Champaers
v. Williams

Jacksons v. Varnsy
Phillip, v. Gompertz
Jones v. Caubruok
Williams v. Finlagon
Currie v. Rotheram
Doe v. Abbott

DAT, AT Ti,.
INITY TUX, 1,26.
nanent.
Deareroft T. Meux and
other.

Putland v. hforen
Philipp. v. Philipps
Aldridge v. Knife
symes v. Larley
Edmunds v. Smith
Paddon and Another v.
Harper
G, To-morrow, at ten.
.

Ruthren v. Brown
Mathias V. Reunite),
Turnley v. Cohen
Cutbill v. Cooper
Lawton v. Parlow
Graham r. Hinckley

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—Tats MAY, AT TIN.
Customs Causes.—Special Juries.
Attorney-General v. Tanner 1 Attorney-General v. Real
Same v. Tunstill 1 Same v. Mustache
Common Juries.
Attorney-General v. Candy 1 Attorney General v. O. R. Clarke
The Equity Sittings in Gray's lan Rail are for June 2, 23, 30, and
July 1, to sit at ten each day.

COURT OF DELEGATES.—Tcos DA r, AT TIN
Fourth and last Se■slon.—Before the Surrogates.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, WEDNESDAY, Jews 14.

EX PARTE ORIMSTEAD IA THE MATTER Or HOWARD
AND GIRDS-

The LORD CHANCELLOR decided, this morning, that the
debt sought to he established by •Grinistead, against the estate of
Howard and Gibbs, could not be sustained. After weighing the
' case with all the caution which ought to be exercised by one who
sat both as judge and jury, lie felt obliged to come to a conclusion
which he had anxiously endeavoured to avoid. The dealings W-
I merit the parties proceeded with the greatest regularity up to Nov.
1818, when, to one the expression of Mr. Grimstead,Mr. Gibbs set
about di ceiving him; that regularity consisted chiefly in circurnstati-
flatly detailing the receipts of annuities and interest in the aceounts
between the parties ; but with respect to the sending to Gibbs the
book whit h conta.ned those accounts, he was quite unable to re-
concile the answers of Grinstead. lie said at one time that lie did
look at all the items of the account, and again lie said thatilie did
not ; he then said that he did not look through them as carefully as
he ought qualifying his expressions in a manner which was not
becoming in one coming into a Court of Justice. On the com-
parison of Grinstead with himself and with Gibbs, he could not,
with savvy, sitting in a Court of Justice, give credit to the account
given of the book. With respect to the erasures, it appeared to
him that if Mr. Gibbs wished to deceive a person with whom he
had hitherto dealt fairly, he took a remarkably bold step, and one
which was least likely to succeed. If there were no Usury Laws,
there was no doubt that Grinstead might, by the mere production
of the book, compel the payment of the capital sum and interest,
at the rate of eleven per cent. ; but, looking at all the evidence
produced, it appeared to him, and he said it with great pain, that
no Judge on earth could sum up the case to a jury in a manner
advantageous to Grimstead, nor could any jury say that it was not
a case tainted with usury. lie did not consider usury as a mon-
strous crime, but merely as a circumstance affecting the validity
of contracts. The book before alluded to seemed to him to furnish
sufficient evidence of an usurious credit; and looking at the matter
on that ground, without going into the mass of evidence, he was
of opinion that the demand could not be sustained,
The amount of debt claimed amounted, we believe, to near
60,0001.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14.

This being the last day of Term, his Honour the Vice-Chan-
cellor was occupied during the day in hearing motions, which pre-
sented nothing of public importance or interest.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WEDwastmr, Juwz 14.

THE RING V. THE MAYOR OF TIIE TOWN OF FALMOUTH.
On a former day Mr. SCARLETT obtained a rule, calling upon
the defendant to chew cause why a mandamus should not issue,
commanding him to make and levy a rate of Is. Sd. in the pound,
upon all houses, shops, &c. in the town and parish of Falmouth.
to be paid to the Rev. John Watkin Wilbraham, as Vicar of the
said parish, according to the provisions of the Act of Parliament,
by which the said town of Falmouth was incorporated. It ap-
peared that the Mayor and Corporation had hitherto been in the
habit of rating the houses situate within the " town and precincts
of Falmouth, but that beyond those precincts they considered the
jurisdiction of the Corporation did not extend, and that therefore
those parts of the parish lying outside of the boundaries of the town
had never been rated. The object of the present application, there-
fore, was to ascertain whether, upon the construction of the Act
of Parliament, the Vicar was or was not entitled to have the whole
parish rated towards his revenue.
Mr. MARRY•TT now showed cause against the rule, cad con-
tended that the words of the Act being " the town and precincts of
Falmouth," were confined to the jurisdiction of the Corporation,
and did not embrace the whole parish.
The COO CT thought the question was one which could be better
decided by a Jury. upon an issue, than by their Lordships, and
they therefore suggested that the mandamus should issue, to which
the Mayor might make a return, that he had rated all the houses
within " the town and precincts of Falmouth •" and then it would
be competent for the party applying for the rule, to bring an action
against him for a false return ; or if the Mayor were to be indem-
nified, he might rate the whole of the parish, and the question
might be brought to an Issue by an action of trespass on the part of
some one of the parishioners, upon the ground that the Mayor had
no jurisdiction.
The latter course was agreed to by the Counsel on both sides,
and the rule was made aboolute aecmclingly.
THE KING 14 Till MAYOR AND a/Julys OF THE 10101:014

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MARRIED.

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Ou the 12th inst. the Rev. Charts., Girdiestone, M.A. Fellow of BaMot
College, to Ann Ell:sixth, only daughter of Baker Morrell, of the city vi
°retard, Esq.
On the 10th inst. at West Rountott, 91r Thomas S. Palley, Batt. to Jane
Matilda Lilly. eldest daughter of the Rev. Montagu John Wyayard,
Rector of Ve.t Boonton, aad St. Mai tl n•s in llicklegate, Yorkshire.
Recently, at Nantes, Joseph At istide Maudolt, M.D. to Sarah, eldeat
daughter of T. H. Richardson, Esq.

IDLED.
Lately, at Ramhotag, in France, aged 21. Catherine. eldest daughter of
the late Lieut.-General Derborough.
On the 13th ln.tant, tbe Infant .on of Mr. Frederick Le Mann, of Bush•
lane.
On Tuesday, at her horse in Farrn..ttreet, Berkeley-square, after a pro-
tracted Illness, tenderly beloved and universally regretted. Annal,ol4,
widow of Count General James Lockhart, of Lee and Canwat►, In Scut.
land.
On Saturday. aged els years, Arthur, seventh son of Charles lode. FA.
of the Grove, Staunton.

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