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London, England, 1807-06-10 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIOENC'E.

COURT OF CIiANCRRY—Jusa 9.

CITY OF 60119011, V. MITIOVT3.

This was a bill filed by the Lord Maybe and Cor-
poration of the City of London, against the De-
fendants, the assignees of a Mr. Turner, a Bank-
rupt, praying a specific execution of a lease for 40 ,
years, to be renewable at the end of each forty
years, for ever, of certain premises in Bridge-street,
Klacktriars, under and by virtue of a covenant, in
a certain lease made by one Gennon, one of Mr.
'Turner's ancestors, about the year 1730. The pre-
mises are now partly built upon. and partly covered
with the bridge and quay, and some of them con-
stitute a part of the street or highway, leading
to Biackfriar%' Bridge. These premises were let
or sold by the City of London, to the Committee
of Blackiriars' Bridge, in the year 1760, without
any communication with Turner's ancestors.
The state of the premises is quite sabered from
what it was at the time of the original lease, under
which the City was bound, on their failure to per-
form the covenant in the lease, to give up. not
only the premises in question, but other premises of
their own, lying near the former, in consideration
of the injury Mr. Gennon had other ssise complained
of. by means of the City buildings. It is now ins.
possible that the City, who have not fulfilled their
covenant according to the terms of it, can restore the
premises; and the Assignees have a judgment at
law in their adtion against the City, by consent,
while the City have, by the Court, and under the
same consent, an initiation against the proceediug
at law, until the hearing.
The wotds of the covenant are, " that the City
shall, on or before the expiration of the last month
of each v:rm of forty years, at all times, for ever,
tender to the heirs of the lessor, a lease, with the
like covenants, as in the original lease are e,.istain-
ed ; and that vtch heir shall a-secure the same
at a rent of 200!. a yeai " The City have suf-
fered a lapse of thirty years. with. lit tendering
such lean ; and, nu the death of Mr. T'urner's
mother, •;ie last le,surt in the 'ear 1100, her son, by
his a,ignecs, claimed one ur livid .41 moiety of the
premises, under the minister .ettlenseot of his fa-
ther and mother, and brought his Actin ; the City
filed their Bill in 1802, a d the Chancellor appears
stronOy against the relief prayed Tr by the bill,
avhich would constitute the covenant a perpetual
one, in all events, ,rod agains: every casualty or ac-
cident.

Sir Arthur Pigglit is to be heard to the points
suggetted by the Cirincellor, on beh4lf of the City,
before judgmei.t ; and the case excites great interest,
as no care or precedent can be cited, wbi;h bears
direEtly upon the question.

COURT OF KING'S BEISeII. %TIMIS , Just, 9

This being the diy appointed by the Court for
the attendance of the Term Grand and Petty Ju-
ries, Mr. Ju•tice.Gsost shortly addresed them up-
on the several duties they bad to perform. He re-
commended to their notice. particularly, the 'radon@
indifinserrits which would he laid before them, re-
spelling the nuisances in this great and populous
metropolis. and to such other stsbj•fts as tended to
corrupt the manners and morals of ►ociety in ge-
neral

The Court was ocrui ied the whole of !he mnrc-
ing in special aruments upon reserved cases,
among which was the following . •
TUt LISCUTOTS of ADMIRAL CHRISTIAN O. AD.