The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-05 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COVRT OF CHANCERY, Ann. 4.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S READING PAPERS.
His Loansme stated in a case, that it had got into this state,
that one Counsel said such a fact way one way, and the opposite
Counsel said it was just the other way. Now in such a state of
things he could do molting but read the papers, in order
that he might see with his own eyes which way the fact
was. He had gained more information in that way, by far, than
by any statements that had been made to him at bar and
yet there was hardly any thing for which► a man ware more
abused than 110 was for that very Wing. Übe were to be
ill-
natured he sho►►ld l►ke to try the experiment for one weekonly, bow
dw business of this Court would go on if he were not to read the
papers. lam perfectly satisfied (continued his Lordship) that the
business of this Court cannot be done without the Chan-
cellor's reading the papers. At least, the humble individual ,
now speaking, whatever others can do, is too dull, has bad too
little experience, and has much too little knowledge, to enable
hint to dispose of the cases that come before him, without assisting
himself to do justice by the reading of the papers. What is it that
has occasioned the statement that I have heard at least a hundred
times within the last fortnight, that such and, such • things. had
never been stated before, -bang the papers ?
in Tuft MATTER O►' 0111tOO11Y, A HANXIII.II.T.
Mr. DuCtWoirru entered rho Conit,tand hoped be would be
excused for interrupting the business :while he made a short, hut
important, application. In the present matter, his honour the
Vice-Chancellor had Ott ordered a supersedeas of the commission
to issue; and the present motion was, that the Court would order
the supersedeas to be stayed until the appeal could be heard.
• . His Loaositte desired notice of it to be given at the Bankrupt
Office.

PRACTICE—APPEALS r►Nn REHEARINGS.
Mr. HART and Mr. PARKER were engaged in a discussion upon
a case this morning, which occasioned • -
His LORDSHIP to make observations to thi-following effect :
According to the present constitution of the Via-Chancellor's
Court, which nobody could like better than he (his Lordship) did,
though it would probably be improved by an alteration, and he
hoped loon too; whatever the Vice-Chancellor heard, he heard it
for the Chancellor ; and what was called an appeal to the Chan-
cellor, was neither more nor less than a rehearing.' By what
he would call a misnomer, however, upon hearing appeals in this
Court, there was a little feeling excited, both at the bar and else-
where, thinking thing. were stated bere, that had not been men-
tioned in the Court below ; hitt he begged to repel the observation,
that things were stated here that at any rate were not before the
COurt below.

ITAWbf&N Alin OTHERS V. TIMG.

The Somerroft-Catimiii, opened the ease in this injunction,
wldchitt.u; ordered to stand over some days ago. The object of
the plaintiffs was to procure the injunction of the Court, for the
purpose of restraining the defendant front publishing a work called
The iondalEtwyqopeclia, which the plaintiffs charged to be a
piracy of a work of which they are the proprietors and entitled
The Encyclopedia Metrapolitana. The copyright of this work
was originally vested in Mr. Rest Fenner, and upon his bank-
ruptcy, and by other trjmsfers, the whole of the property of the
work came into the possession of the present plaintiffs, who con-
sisted of various persons connected with the bookselling trade.
The work was first published in the year 1821, and continued to
appear in portions periodically till 1826. In the course of its'
publication, a great outlay of money had been mule by the pro-
prietors, and very expensive preparations made for the accomplish-
ment of so vast a work as had been projected. It was of course
that a long time must elapse before they could hope to be repaid.
Ile did not deny that, from the nature of the work, and from the
extensive scope which it would take, embracing, as it must do,
the whole circle of human science, it was necessary for the per-
sons engaged in it frequently to refer to authorities. Those autho-
rities were also open to the defendant, or to any other persona who
avowed a similar object; but if he could show to the satisfaction
of the Court, that there was such a similarity in the two works
that it was impossible that the labours of the defendant could
have been performed unless he had availed himself of the
exertions of the plaintiffs he should have done enough to raise
tlte legal presumption that the fernier had committed a gross
act of r piracy. There WAS one Circumstance which, of itself,
would be Oitiorgtory on this point. The defendant had been
able to produce 'in few torahs Whit bad cost the plaintiffs
years to get tgether, and it was impossible, as he hoped to be
able to show, That he could have done this unless he had Availed
hitriteelf of the work which had been previously published.
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the defendant had copied the work of the plaintiffs. Ju the ori-
ginal work it had been part of the design of- the authors to user"
t!i the etyntolegy of the worth. of our language, and to show
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