The National Register.
London, England, 1822-07-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGLATE.

COURT 017 CHANCERY.
s %1u111).% Y, JULY 13.
ELOPEMENT VI ITO %t AHD UP CH NNCERY..--.ME. Shad-
well said that theta was a case which pi essed eketedingl!.,
and that it was of that description of cases which his
Lot &hip was in the habit of always giving preference to ;
lie therefore begged permission to mention it. It was the
case of Bradshaw v. Bradshaw. A young man at Cat lisle
bad a loped *ilk a young lady, knowing her to he a ward ;
MO they Got 111311 lull in Scotland ugaiust her father's
knowledge.
Mr. Hart interrupted the learned counsel, and said
that lie appealed on the other side. All that he could say
for his client was, that lie ought, at the time of the mar-
riage, to have been at school, tor, in Unita, lie was a per-
fect buy t and lie submitted that the hest conclusion that
could be collie to Would be, to aide r the boy to appear
before the Master, and make such a settlrinent upon the
aid as should be then found necessary.
His Lordship said, /hat the two learned gentlemen must
agree npon that themselves.
Mr. Shad a ell said, that lie did not wish to be too hard
upon the yentig mac, and that he held ill his [Mild an affi-
davit, sa) tog that they had born maimed 11001 according
to the iites of the church of England, gild age ceanly to
the lass of Scotland.
His Lordship asked how tbat pi ssibly could be?
Mr. Ilas t leplied, that the only way he could solve the
t nignia was, that as they neciiled both acts of equity and
points of Id% in a ne court house in Scotland, be supposed
they also mat i ietl in their churches age eeable to both the
Lives of Scotland and England.
Mr. shad seed then explained, that they had been re
I lied its England, but begged that that Might be PER-
mined lido woe it the !tactics were broa;:ht before the
Master, to which Air. hard immediately cohbehted.

COURT OF IaING'S
SATURDAY, JULY 13.
GALE AND titilu,s e. fiALEstORT.
This was an action of trover, by the assignees of John Wil
kinsun. to recover the possession of a vessel, together with her
tackle and stores, call, d the Experiment, alleged to have been
converted by the derendant for his own use, alter the act of
hanktuptcy had been committed. The defendant gave notice
of his inteutioti to dispute the validity of 1.,e commission, and
particularly the witting of die alleged bankrupt. The ease was
interesting to Ilia Greenland trade, and involved a question of
some importance on the bankrupt laws.
The case opened on behalf of the plaintiff was this :—The
alleged bankrupt had formerly been hr partnership with his
father in the Greeuland whale fishery business, and was di. owner
of three ships in that trade, of which the Experiment was one:
besid a which, he speculated largely in oil, and carried on an
extensiv a trade as a dealer in that article, 'villein large pur-
chases and aching for profit. In the your 1521 he became in-
volved in dilliculties ; a commission was taken out, and he was
declared a bankrupt, but he had never yet surrendered to that
commission, which was /mere:Aida superseded, and another
commission sued out, under which the plaintiffs were declared
assignees, and took au assi,nment. Aa the principal matter in
dispute was us to the trading, it was proposed to give must sa.
listactory evidence upon the subject. After the bankruptcy,
the bankrupt had assigned the ship in qu,stivin to the defendant,
to whom lie was intladed, and the object of the present action
was to recover it back, for the benelit of the patent! creditors.
The following witnesses were called.
Mr. W Whim Smith, clerk to the bankrupt, proved the peti-
tioning creditor's debt, athountirrt to about 2001. due to the
bankrupt's ship carpenter. The atikrupt was owner of three
Greettiaud whalers, the vogues of which were manufactured
into oil, and sold for profit. la addition to this the bankrupt
sotnetimes purchased large quantities of oil to sell again, its
much as 3.1, 40, and lOU tool at a time. The bankrupt's house
of business was at Wapping, and be had a country residence.—
At Ch: lamas, 1520, he became eminirrused, anti in the early
part uf 1821 be kept house to &sold his creditors. He (witness)
kept only the ships bcuks, the tradesmen's accounts, and the
ledger. Believed that the bankrupt had other bouLalwhich he
did uut know what had become of. The bankrupt bad gone
away, but had left no books bebiad.
Mr. Samuel James, partner in the house of James, Wood,
nod James, oil merchant, proved that in the latter end of Nov.
1141 U, his house sold tho beukrupt 35i tuns of Crtenlaiid oil. la
the ourse of conversation, when witness applied for the pay-
meld, spoke of the likelihood of oil rising in price its summer
time, and said he bail occasictually bought parcels of oil in the
months of February laud alarch, when prices were that, and
kept them until the mouth of June, and then redraw.' a pretty
profit upon them.
Mr. Thome Woodcock, bookkeeper of the Greenland docks,
transferred to the bausrtipt in Febtuary, 18114 15 taus of oil,
parcel of the quantity sold to him by the last witness, standing
in the name c.:' his house at the dock-books.
John Corbett lived as clerk with the bankrupt from May,
18ab, to )lay, 1518. In May, 1508, the bankrupt pureltatied
about lOU tuns of foreign oil from Alcaors. Stewart and Outatiny,
af Yarmouth, and w kite's went down to attend the trans-ship-
ment of it to Loadon. It was afterwitrde sold to ditferent per-
boob. Recollected also his purchasing the Whitby oil, which
WWI also said to different persons, in separate quantities.
WM. Liman, another e;eik of the Imukrupt, inured that his
master hail desired him to be detoad to petrol's who called in
March, 1521. W Diness denied him to shcrilie' °dicers iu Nowak
of hint in b:at month.
Evi..ence was then given of the assil.nment of the Experiment
by the bankrupt to the defendant iu September, Ib2l ; and of
the demand and refusal to deriver, and the defendaut's present
pusaessiou of the visael. •