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London, England, 1827-08-02 00:00:00

LAW INTELLI GENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Auc. 1.
WATKINS AND DIAULE.

The argument in this case was resumed and con-
cluded. The subject in dispute arose in consequence
of certain estates and iron works, which had been
'sold by auction, not answering the description in the
particulars of sale under which the purchaser bid for
them.

The LORD CHANCELLOR directed a reference to
the Master, to ascertain the difference between the
actual description of the estate, and that in the par-
ticulars, together with the value of the alleged diffe-
rence, if any should be found, and with liberty to
the Master to state special circumstances.

IN THE MATTER. OF THE REV. WM. HORNE.
Mr. PHILLIMORE applied on the part of the son-
in-law, the husband of the daughter of this gentle-
man, for the order of the Court to ground a com-
mission of lunacy.
The LORD CIIANCELLOR said he must have the
opinion oft physician 'before he could grant a com-
mission. There was a very able practitioner in the
neighbourhood, Dr. Arnold, of Leicester, whom he
would order to have access to the alleged lunatic.
TIIE EAST GREENWICH FREE SCHOOL.
Mr. ROSE moved in this matter, that the trustees
should be restrained from disposing of the funds of
this school, and that they should pay them into
Court, to wait Crie decision of an information filed
against them by the Attorney-General, at the rela-
tion of a Mr. Townsend. The affidavits stated, that
Mr. Townsend, being a candidate to fill the office of
master of this school; had been duly elected at a
meeting of the trustees, but that an objection being.
afterwards started, that he was a tax-collector, and
therefore ineligible for the office of schoolmaster, the
trustees proceeded to another vote, and rescinded
his appointment, although lie offered to give up, and
had actually given up, the situation of tax-collector.
The relator thinking that this was illegal as well as
unfair, took possession of the school-house, from
which he was forcibly ejected by order of the
trustees. He then filed his information, and the pre-
sent motion was for the- purpose of obtaining an in-
terlocutory order to prevent the trustees from pay-
ing another master, whom they had since appointed,
out of the trust funds.

The LORD CHANCELLOR rose before the whole of
the Counsel had been heard, to attend an appoint-
ment with the Master of the Rolls.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Auc. I.
COSTS.

Mr. Cos having made an application for leave to
vary the terms of an order of.the Court,
The VICE-CHANCELLOR, in granting it, said he
would take that opportunity of repeating what he
had before said on this subject—viz., that in every
case where he found that obstacles had been thrown
in the way of the performance of orders of the
Court, and that those obstacles tended to no other
purpose than to swell the bills of costs of solicitors,
he would take care to throw the costs upon the
parties with whom the delay originated. In the
present case he should make the party who had
rendered this supplementary order necessary, pay all
the costs of it. His Honour also intimated, that for
the relief of the suitors of the Court in lessening the
enormous expellees to which they were not unfre-
quently put, he should state it to the Lord Chan-
cellor as his opinion, that on taxing bills of costs
before the Master, all charges for supplementary
orders should be struck out. He haped that he
should be able to persuade his Lordship to give the
Masters directions to that effect.

CONST AND H.A DAIS;

Mr. Twiss moved, in this cause, that all proceed-
ings directed by the late Vice-Chancellor should be
suspended until the termination of the suit.
Mr. SUGDEN opposed the motion.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR could not grant this mo-
tion to suspend all the proceedings generally. He
could not be justified, on any ground, in presuming
that his predecessor had made a wrong order, or in
tweiudging a case on an interlocutory motion of this
nature. He could not, therefore, make any order,
except such a_one as would not impugn the decree,
and would save the e)cpence.

PREROGATIVE COURT, Aucusr I

This was the first Caveat day after Trinity Term
The Court sat by Surrogate.

IN THE GOODS OF WILLIAM CAMPBELL, ESQ., DECEASED.

Dr. HAGGARD moved the Court to grant joint
administration of the personal estate of the late Mr.
Campbell, of Russell-square, Chairman of the Board
of Stamps in Ireland, to the widow and the Rev.
Daniel Campbell, brother of the deceased. Mr.
Campbell died in June last, leaving a widow, a
brother, and a sister. The infirm state of Mrs.
Campbell's health made her desirous of joining Mr.
Daniel Campbell in the administration, and a proxy
of consent was given on the part of the sister.
The REGISTRAR stated that it was not usual to
grant a joint administration under these circum-
stances, unless special grounds were shown by affi-
davit. He knew an instance in which joint admi-
nistration had been refused to the widow and the'
father of the decea'sed.
The Court (Dr. Daubeny) refused the motion
until a precedent could be showm
The other business consisted of unopposed mo-
tions and matters of mere form.