Star.
London, England, 1802-02-16 00:00:00

LAW INTEL,LIuENCE.

COURT or KiNC% m.NcH, FEB. 15.
BARNARD (:Ni tr. I'OFSFKS. onstiris.
This was a pi tam aftion bruitzlit to recover
fix penalties of Sol. each from the defendants, who
are Proetors, for having nacd without having
taken out their annual licence, and paid the duty
of 51. imp:lied by AIC of Parliament upon all Proc-
tors, Attornies, Ste. and alio imputing, the penalty
of 501. for each prolcilional a& dr:ne by any one
without having previoullyobtaincd filch licence. The
declaration char ged the defendants with not having
obtained inch licence: and notwithaanding,
with having procured the palling of the probates;
2d, with having caufed the wills to be proved ;
and 3d, with having extraaed the probates of the
wilh Rated in the declaration, by which the dc.
fendaats had forfeited the fums of Sol. for each an.
Mr. Glass Rated to the Jury, that the necefii-
ties of the State had induced the Legifiature to
impofe upon all Prodors and Attornies the annual
duty of 51. and that in evidence of firth payment
they took out a licence. By the A.t impofin_g the
duty, they were allowed a certain number of days
before they were liable to any information, but if
the certificate was not taken cut within that limi—
ted period, they were liable to forfeit col. for each
a& done afterwards. He Mould prove that there
Gentlemen aited as Prodors in the months of
March, April, and May lalt, and that they had
not then taken out their certificate, which would
entitle him to recover Sol. for each akc.t done, as
laid in the declaration.

George Hughes, the firß witnefs ;called, raid
he was employed in the Stamp-office, as Regifler
of Attornies' Certificates : from the documents he
produced, he Rated, that the Meifrs. Collins had
not taken out their certificates until the 14th of
May, 18oi.
Charles !Cinder proved, that the defendants had
aged as his ProCior, is 'mewing the probate of
his father% will. The probate itfclf being alfo
produced, it appeared to bear date the 27th of
March, rBo I.

• Robert Pott proved the defendants had aro ac-
jed as his ProEtors, in procuring the probate cf
his father's will, which probate was dated the at
of April, ISoi. •
Mrs. Circuit proved the fame, with refpet to
the probate of her hufband's will.
Robert boodball, Clerk to Melfrs. Gains, alto
proved, that tbeabuve butinefs had gon! through
their office.

John Watfon, Record Keeper of the Preroga-
tive Court of the Archbahop of Canterbury, pro-
duced the wills of Charb.tte Smith, Catharine
Cooke, and Thomas Peck; by thtfe it appeared,
that the certificate of the oaths for taking ott the
executorfhip, being. duly adminiftered, was at-
tefted by Mr. N. Galin, and that in confequence
an aft was indorfed, ordering adminittration to be
granted.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended, that no
proof of the probate having been granted being
produced, the evidence, as it fined. did not tall
within any of the counts within declaration.
The Learned Judge being of thr! fame opinion,
after font:: converfation,
Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL addreffed tl.e Jury,
and admitted he had no defence to the three Sal
cafes.

Mr. Gllllll admitted that he could not recover
on the three IA ; a verdia was therefore taken
for the Plaintiff for three penalties of Sol. each.
MARSH V. 1t01,160N.

This was an atlion upon a Policy of Infurance
f• • • .

111 of (Meter tBo/, oa the (hip Speculation, is
the Coafting trade, in port or at fea. The veffel
failed from Ipfwich to Chefter, and having made
the Lands End, met contrary winds, which drove
her out of her courfe, and the V*3s captured by a
French privateer calli.d the Br.lave, holm h'• her
.raptors, and the M;;:ier and Men carried into a
Sp mill) prifon, dttained, Scc.fcr a while, and af-
:crwards relcafed.

Defence—that tile plaintiff when he purchafed
this (hip had not compli,.',l with the tecin7:ii.oas of
the Aft of Parliament for regifleri,ig thips, &z.
commonly called Lord flawheibt..a.-y's aft, mid.
there:On:, a 1..: the plaintiff could not he called
the legal owner ; which appeared to be the cafe,
the ptoper ia.lorizincat upon the oath, eicc. at the
Cullom-Hoine not being wade as the aarzquired.
This being the cafe, the plaintiff could not recover
far this lot's, but as in this cue the policy did not
attach, and as the premium was net paid into
Court, the plaintiff was entitled to recover that
premium.

Verdia for the PlaintiiT—ham:ic_::s v7l. I6s.
Another caufe del en.!ed again(} a.( ther rur
der-Writer upon another part of the voyage, and
the fame objection applied, and, therefore, the
plaintiff could obtain nothing but his premium,
which was the fum of four guineas.—Verdift for
the Plaintiff—Damages four guineas.

MATTHEWS AND ANOTHER. V. HAIGH.

This was an anion to recover the amount of
three bills of exchange, drawn at different dates;
the firft for 3211. 9s. 4d.—the fecund for 1321.
145. 7d.—and the third for tool. being acceptan-
ces lent for the purpolc of accommodation by the
plaintiff to the defendant. Previonfly to the pay-
ment of thife bills becoming due, a balance was
Luck between theparties—three bills of exchange,
amounting in the whole to the fums of the above
mentioned, but which would not become due un-
til after the former were given by the defendant
to the plaintiff, and a calculation was made of
the intereft which would arife from them. This
flatement, being on paper, was produced in proof
of the purchaf: or exch,:ngc of acceptances. The
plaintiffs' acceptances wet,: regularly honoured,
but the defendant's were never prei'ented, cf courfe
had not been paid ; and the prcfent anion hail
been commenced before the payment of them
had become due. On the part of the plaintiff it
was contended, that the bills given by the defen-
dant wrre not valid, as on: cr more of them was
i tdorfed by his own thop-boy, a youth of fourteen;
and that they were Lot received by the plaintiff in
exchange for his own, but only as memorandums
of the claim. The contrary, howe7er, being con-
fidered to be the cafe, and the action having been
commenced before the &fendant was liable to pay-
ment, the Jury returned a verdid for defendant.