The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-05 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 4.

Mr. KINDERSLEY, at the sitting of the Court this morn-
ing, made an application respecting a young lady of great
personal beauty, sixteen years of age, and who, on attaining
her majority, would be entitled to a very large fortune. It
appeared that one of her guardians was about to take her
to the Continent with him, a step which the other guardian
considered highly injudicious and improper. The present
application was therefore an order to prevent the young lady
from being removed out of the jurisdiction of the Court.
The LORD CHANCELLOR immediately granted the order
as prayed.

Sir EDWARD SUGDEN, on his Lordship's entering the
Court this morning, reverted to the question of the pro-
priety of holding the present sittings during term at Lin-
coln's Inn, and expressed a hope that his Lordship had taken
into his consideration the very great inconvenience sustained
by the bar from the destruction of Howard's Coffee-house
and the consultation rooms.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he had turned his
attention to the subject, and made some inquiries on the
practicability of the removal to Lincoln's Inn, but he was
not yet prepared to determine on the proposition submitted
to him.

Sir EDWARD SUGDEN said that the inconvenience which
the bar suffered at present might be removed if the Judges
of the Court of King's Bench could be induced to give the
use of the Grand Jury Room for holding consultations. In
the event of their Lordships consenting to allow the Grand
Jury Room to be so used, the Gentlemen of the Chancery
Bar might request those of the Common-law Bar to allow
the use of their consultation rooms to the Chancery Bar in
common with themselves. There was little doubt that this

request would be immediately complied witillawd thus the
Learned Counsel thought there would be sufficient accom-
modation for every one, and the whole"of the present incon-
venience would be got rid of without difficulty.
His LORDSHIP approved much of this suggestion, and
intimated his intention to send a message to the Judges of
the Court of King's Bench in the course of the day.

TOWNSEND V. REED.
The motion was opened yesterday, and the arguments
resumed this morning. It was an appeal from an order of
the Vice-Chancellor, by which his Honour refused to allow
a solicitor his costs generally out of the fund in the cause.
It appeared that the solicitor had been concerned for the
defendants in the cause, as their attorney in an action at
law, and also in defending them against another suit in this
Court, but upon points in both suit and action which were
closely connected with the matter of the present suit. Up-
on a decree being pronounced in their favour, he claimed
therefore to have a lien on the funds to which the defen-
dants were declared to be entitled, for his costs generally ;
and he gave notice of that lien before the money was paid
over to the defendants by the trustee, who received it
on their account. The trustee, in defiance of the notice,
paid the money over to the defendants, and the solicitor
then applied to have the whole of his costs taxed by the
Master, and that the amount found due to him might be
now paid by the trustee, to whom he had given notice of
his lien on the fund. This application was resisted on the
part of the trustee, who contended that no such lien as the
solicitor put forth could operate on him 4 and even if it did,
that it only extended to the particular suit, and not to the
general costs incurred on the part of the solicitor's clients.
The Vice-Chancellor being of opinion that the lien was thus
limited, pronounced an order to that effect, and against this
order the solicitor now appealed.
Mr. KINDERSLEY having argued in support of the appeal
and Mr. Lloyd against it,
The LOBD CHANCELLOR said he was of opinion that the
solicitor had, in this case, a general lien for all his costs in-
curred on the part of the defendants in litigating the mat-
ters at issue, and that a trustee, having received regular
notice of the lien, was bound not to part with the money
until that lien was satisfied. His Lordship glanced at the
practice which had prevailed with respect to liens since the
time of Lord Mansfield, and took occasion to observe that,
although now so thoroughly established, it was by no means
of ancient practice. In the present case he directed the bill
of the solicitor to be taxed, and that the trustee should then
pay so much as might be found due on all the proceedings
in which he had been concerned for the defendants in the
cause.