Star.
London, England, 1811-02-07 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
WOOD (CLERK) V. MILEOLTRNE AND OTRIRS.
The cause between the Rev. Basil Wood, of Bath,
Rector of Tborp Bassett, in the East Riding. of the I
county of York,'and his parishioners, respect►ng the
tythes of that parish, was heard on Thursday lasts
when a Recree was made in favour of the Rector,
establishing his right to tythes in kind ; and the de-
fendants were ordered to account with the Rector for
four years, the time of his incumbency, and to pay
the costs of suit.
The defence set up was, that, awards fot money
pnyments, accompanied with allotments of land, made
in 1695 and 1718, amounting to a composition real,
si(nci ioned by the then Archbishop of York, the Dio-
cesan ; the Earl of Carlisle, Lord of the Manor and
Patron ; and the Rev. Bernard Lewis, the then Rec-
tor ; and • confirmed by a Decree in the Court of
Chancery in 1722, were bin4ing on future Rectors.
By the present Decree it is completely established
that no award or decree as to an existing Rector, or
any composition real, since the statute of the 13th
Elie.. can deprive a future incumbent of his common
law right to tythes in kind.
FEB. 6.--PRIVIGEOE FROM ARREST.

This was a question of some interest to the Corn-
• inertial world, and its result useful to all persons sub-
ject to the Bankrupt Laws, to be acquainted with.—
It was the petition of a Mr. Wood, who is detained
at Manchester Castle, under an arrest for debt, being
arrested by one creditor while he was on his way
home, after his first examination and surrender under
the Commission of Bankruptcy sued out against him
by his creditors at large.
An Act of Parliament, the 56 of George the Se-
cond, was the criterion of this question, whether the
freedom from arrest of a bankrupt begins at his
surrender and first examination, or at the time he
is G..zetted. Mr. Cross, a barrister, being of opinion
in favour of the arrest, and Mr. Dampier, a barrister,
of a contrary opinion, while the bankrupt was still de-
tained in custody.
The attorney of the plaintiff, a Mr. Bastard, a re-
' spectable character, and the Sheriff's officer, one Lo-
max, represented this day by Mr. RICHARDO in exte-
nuation, as a poor, man with children, and ignorant of
the law, were at a loss how to act on the occasion at
Manchester, and now submitted to the judgment of
ihe Court. .
Mr. LEACH, who made the motion for the bank-
rupt on a former day, had left it with the Chancellor
to do justice in this oppressive case, and to..put the
true construction in favour of the bankrupt, en the
Act of Parliament.
His Lordship observed, that Mr. Dampier's opinion
was right on this occasion, respecting privilege, as it wa s
like the case a few nights ago of a Lady, arrested,
brought before the House of Lords, and discharged.
The Gankrupt must be put, he said, into the same
state he was in when the arvest took place, and the
officer must stiffer by payment of costs, for the breach
of privilege.—Judgment for the bankrupt.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 5.

The ATTORSEY-GBNERAL made a communication
to the Court on the subject of the impressed man, to
bring up whose body a rule of nisi for a haivas corpus
bad been granted, upon the ground that he was the
master of the vessel; and that if it were lawful to int-
press men in his situation, Captains, or even higher
oaken in the mercantile service, might be impressed
equally with common seamen. The Attorney-Ge-
- neral stated, that, in point of fact, the man had been
svirhdtawn from the Standard before that ship sailed
on foreign service, and was now removed to the Sal-
vador del Mundo, where be now was, having never
been sent to sea on any service whatever. The At-
torney-General was anxious that this circumstance
should he made known, as it would• serve to correct
• t'te animadversion that had very properly fallen from
the Court, under its erroneous impression, that the
• sown had teen sent abroad pending the application to
Lordrhips for tzu to bring up his body.
Lord ELLlgillOgOlitill expressed his. satislactiou