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VAI4CouvuE

In a former raper we gave the report' of this
case at, length, which came before the Court on
exceptions to the Master's Report. Subsequent to
that; we gave the judgment of the Court, which was
in favour of the Defendant, that the Plaintiff had
not Made out a good title. The ftirthQr consideration,.
with respeato casts, stood over to this clay.
The LORD CunxcELLoti wished that the matter
of costs, should, in this Court, as well as,, in a Court
of Law, be determined by the event of the cause ;
hut as that was not the rule,. he should aa to the
best of his judgment. Be then entered into a ,detail
of the V brnier praetice in cases of this nature, and,
the ground on which that had been overturned by
Lord TuoaLow ; and, after declaring himself cle-
cidedlY in favour of the old praetice, said, he thought
the new was too firmly established by.precedent to
be now ,over-ritled. His Lordship concluded by
saying, that, without intending to throw the slightest
imputation on Mr. Vancouvre, he was of opinion
the bill should be dismissed with costs.

CHARESWELL V. BYRON.

In this rase, which caine before the Court on ex-
ceptions to the Master's Report, with respe& to the
Plaintiff's right to a property called the Riding-House,
in Oxford-road, his Lordship sent it back tti -the
Master to be re-Considered.

MOND4Y, AUG. 19.

gi P4Ol/1 PMOH, IN THE MATTER OF THOMPSON',

A 11.1NKRUPT.

This was the. Petition of Elitabeth Finch,, and
prayed, that .the Bankrupt's certificate should, be
stayed, on the ground that the signatures had not.
been. verolarly obtained, .
Mr. IsioT, on the part of the Petitioner, stat-
ed that Mrs. Finch bad employed the Bankrupt, and
his partner, croOkshank, to purchase stock.for her.
In the beginning of 180.1 she went to the Bankrupt,
and desired hind to purchase a certain quantity of
stock ; which he promised to do, and went out for
the purpose, but, on his return, tell her, he could
not then get it; bat desired her to leave the Money,
and he Would have it done. 'She accordingly gave
him 1101. and he ~gave her an acknowledgment.. He
afterwards met the Petitioner and told her, he had
purchased n the stock, and She having the greatest
reliance "on him, made no further inquiries. In: the
beginning of the month of November, .1804, the
Petitioner again .went to the: Bankrupt, end gave
him 1051. to purchase an Exchequer : Bill, be
giving her his acknoWledgme ut on a piece of
Waste paper for the amount. Hp afterwards met
her, and told her he had purChaSed
:the Exchequer
Bill, and she being unacquainted with business,made
no inquiries. In the latter end of Noveniber he
called at her house, and telling her he was.going, to
the 'country, said, he wished. to give her a more
satisfakaury security . for the 1051. she had lately
given him, and then drew a Promissory Note in his
own name, and ;:gave it to her, getting from her
the acknowledginent he had -before given her, by
which his partner, C'rook'shanl: would have been
bound. 'Soon after this. the partnership between
the Bankrupt and Crookshank was :dissolved, and
not long after Mr. Thompson was declared a Bank-
rupt. . About this time the Petitioner went to the
Bank, and demanded a dividend on the stock for
which she had paid the Bankrupt, but was told
there was none standing in her name. On further
inquiry, she fettnd that Thompson A'lls insolvent,
that a commission had been taken out against him,
and that he had got his certificate signed by a sta.-
, ficient number of. creditors. This Petition:' was
therefore lodged, and prayed that the certificate
should be stayed until inquiries were made respe6ting
the signatures.- .Nlr. Roitriixt farther stated, that
the sum of 2001. had
:been paid by Crookshank, to
which debt the partnership Was liable, but that the
tosl, for which:the Bankrnpt,gave his note, and in
doing so, becaMe solely liable, wits what Mrs.
Finch expe&ed to have a dividend on ; he, there-
fore, hoped that the prayer of the Petition should
I be granted.
Mr. WHISHAW, on the' other side, contended'
that there had not been 1001, colle&cd under the
commission, and that the majority of the cre-
ditor., and tho.,,e who were most deeply interested)
bad:signed, his Lordship should dismiss the Peti-
tion.

The Low' CRANTELLOi 'said it Wali .the duty, of
the Court to examine alto the condud of Bankrupts,
subsequent to the Commission being talcen out ;' bat
there Were so many' frauds praetised, in contern-
pl:itiott of bankruptcy, he wondered some of them
wcre. not indi6,ted. Lordship then„ on looking
over the papers, observed, that the 'affidavit of the
:Signature of the pincipal creditor, who lived in
Eflinbargli, had not been elOtibited to the Commis-
!,ioners, mid said he thoughtit necessary 'to say, re-
spa'ifolly, to. all dm CorrunisAoners of 4ankruPts,
that hi, p.:reatest, wish eras, that they should attend
particularly to the affidavits of the signatures to Cer-
tificatcs. Lordship then orderedthat this should
hitC:k to the Commissioners, and, tint the
matter Should stand over, until the next day'of Peti-
tions. . •

KX-I',SRTE BC/VILLA, IN TifW. MATTEIt OF lIEVIOLDSj

A BANKRUPT.

. ,
r.lllliPetition prayed that a tne.eting of the Credi-
trr,; of the 11,1nkrupt shOuld be ealleditand that the
..i!lo'ived to prove a debt on a
buy! Of I 0001. cr on a bond' of 900 i.
7/tr. Ro:,TILLY, on thu part of the Petitioner,stated,
•tilat in 't:(l:l3irleratiun of a marriage which was to
be between the daughter of therliatik-
rui)t :,;1(.1 the Potitioner, Mr. Reynolds: and the fa-
'thcr Gr. the Petitioner entered into a.parele agree-