Star.
London, England, 1818-12-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLiGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 16.
This day being the third Seal after Michaelmas
Term, th. LORD CHANCELLOR opened it at his house,
preparatory to hit lio,,out the Vtce-Cumccit.t.tor.a
hearing his Lordship's motions.

LAW PROMOTIONS:
The LORD CHANCELLOR afterwards swore in the
following Learned Counsel to their several offices:
Mr. Serjeant Cortry, as King's Serjeant and MI Justice of
Chaster ; Serjeant Pe.za, as King's Scrjeant; Mr. Garai
Witsox, of the Chancery Bar, as King's Conn.,:l; Mr. GATI:ta
and > r. Notts, of the King's Bench Bar, as King's CoanseL

COURT OP KING'S BENCH, DEC. 16.
ATKINS V. LANE.
This was an action brought by the LORD MAYOR
to recover damages for a false warranty of horses,
which had been sold him by the defendant. Walker,
the Lord Mayor's coachman, proved the warranty in
the following manner :—Meeting the horses coming
up, on the road to London, he observed that tlrey
looked rough, and asked if they were all.sound and
right. The defendant said-, "Yes." The same wit-
ness also proved, that when the plaintiff went to the
defendants stables, the defendant gave the same an-
swer to the same question put by the plaintiff.
It appeared clear that the horses were soarers; and
one of the defendant's witnesses admitted that they
were unsound at the time of the sale:-

The defence set up was, that no warranty had been
given, and that the receipt for the purchase money
contair.ed none; that the plaintiff was well acquaint-
ed with the horses before he bought them ; and that
their disorder was aggravated, if not brought on, by
the treatment they had experienced while ssith him.
Two witnesses (one of whom was present when
Walker met the defendant on the road, and the other,
when the plaintiff came to the stables) then stated,
that they did not hear the defendant give any war
ranty ; another, that the plaintiff had frequently seen
the horses when in possession of Lady Wilson, their
last owner; a fourth stated, that the horses having
been out of work for some time before they wet e -old,
the plaintiff was told not to work them hard till he
had I.hysicked and bled them; but it had 'geared
that the plaintiff drove them eighteen miles two day
after he purchased them, without any such precau-
tions. However, he was three hours and a bait going
the eighteen miles ; and the plaintiff's coachman
stated, that the horses had sudicient rest and proper
food all the time they were under his care. The
fendant's son, a Captain's Seward on board an lndi
man, said that the horses were 1.2:::0 worse at the tin
they were offered to be returned. The defendant h.
said he would take them back, upon being paid
the use of them ; but this ;vas refused ; and the hors
after having been bought in as Tattersall's, where
only 19 and 21 guineas were bid fur them, were sent
to a livery stable, with notice to the defendant
take them.
Chief.F.stice AEPOTT left the question of warrat
to the Jury, upon the credit of the plzintiff's ccac
man, observing that, in order to censtinite a wartant.
the words I warrant" were not necessary ; but that
any answer to a question conr.T:-ning the qtrty
the article sold, implying that it was good in its ki
amounted to a warranty ; and that the warrant's
appearing upon the receipt given fur the purch;
money, did not preclude the production of other c
Bence to establish it. The defendant, he raid, -had
no demand at law, for the use of the horses between
the time of their sale and return.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, al
Hundred and Fifteen Pound Ten Shillings, being
price paid by him for the horses.
SMITH V. HENSHAW.
This was an action brought to recover damages I
false imprisonment,under the following circurnstanc,
The plaintiff having drank acid smoked in the

fendani's puLlic•house—, tendered a £1 note for pa'
meat, which the defendant suspected was not a gt,
one ; he accordingly went out to get change, or make
some inquiries about the note at the beadle's. Abuu►
the same time, his waiter went to lookfor the bead'
at the watch-house, and, not finding him, mend°,
to two officers who were present, that there was a
picious note in his master's house.
The two officers immediately fOlowed him,

one of them now awed), upon their own mere
tion, and without orders from any body; eventualt
they took the plaintiff into custody, and locked
up in the watch-house all nil;ht. The note turned
out to be good, and the plaintiff now brought his -
tion against El onshaw, on the round that he had p.
cured the officees to take the plaintiff into onto&
However, it ectild not be proved, either that the e'
fendant had given any orders to the officers, or
he was even present in the roam when the plain
was taken. The latter was, therefore, nonsuited.
COCRT OF COMMON PLEAS DEC. 16.
PROVTCX r. HAM..IO:7D.
In this case the plaintiff gave a bill of sale of a'
belonging to him to the defendant, to secure the
Iwent of a certain sum of money, which the latter
('nt to the former. Defendant owed the plaintiff
tween S and I:400, and gave him also a bond
IEIOOO, on account of the value of the brig., '
time alter this transaction the defendant old the
for £l4OO contrary to the express wish of the pl
tiff. On the sale being effects'!, however, plai
called upon defendant for tlf balance, but the '
declined to comply with this demand, open
grounds; first, that he had nct yet made up hi
counts; and secondly, that apprehending the plait
was about to become bankrupt, he would not pa'
balance, lest he should again become liable to
assignees of the bankruptcy. The defendant was
rested for the amount of the plaintiff's-demand.
Scrjeant COPLEY and Mr. POLLOCK took an obi
tion in point of law to the plaintiff's riht of ac
as he 111‘1 by the bill of sale abandoned all
claim to the brig in question. Upon this, however,
the Cuter J.:sr= obserl ei, that as the objection
was mere:y technical 1w would leave tire case to
urv. At the same time he must say, that the deli
dart had been hardly dealt with, for he should
been allowed an opportunity for malting up his
counts before a writ was issued for his arrest.
verdict was taken for the defendant, subject to 4
ference for the investigation and settlement of
accounts between the parties.

A young ;Tian, a Clerk in the Aberdeen Post
fice, has been brought to E iinburgb, charged
abstracting money troni letters.