The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—THURSDAY.
EX-PARTE BLUNDELL.
Mr. Cowling moved, in this case, to quash a coroner's
inquisition founded on the following facts:—Two labourers
ascending from a coal-mine, near Wigan, met their death*
by the breaking of a rope. An inquest was held on the
bodies, and the coroner's jury returned that the deceased
had come to their deaths by the breaking of the rope, and
they assessed separate deodands, of £23 in each case, on
the rope, the basket attached to the rope, and the engine.
employed to draw up the rope. The two sums of 25
were levied on Mr. Blundell the owner of the colliery,
and he sought to set the inquisition aside, upon the ground,
amongst others, that the rope in question was known to
be defective ; that he had given strict orders that it should
not be used in the mine; and that the deceased used it in
direct contravention of those orders. The learned counsel
also submitted that, as the engine was not moving to the
death of the persons upon whom the inquest was held, no
deodand could be levied on it, and that, in any event, as
there was but one accident, though two lives were lost,
there should be but one deodand, as the deodand was, in
fact, the value of the article causing the death. The
court granted a rule to show cause.
WEDNESDAY.-BURON V. DENMAN.
Sir Thomas Wilde was heard on the part of the Hon.
Capt.Denman, defendant in an action brought by Buron,
a Spanish merchant, whose warehouse on the coast of
Africa Captain Denman had destroyed, besides libe-
rating a number of slaves, the property of Buron. Sir
Thomas Wilde contended that Captain Denman had
acted in accordance both with the laws of Spain and Eng-
land for the suppression of the slave trade, and had merely
obeyed instructions for which not he but his government
was responsible. If wrong bad hem done the govern-
ment of Spain should claim compensation from that of
England. Some laughter was created by Baron Alder-
son's asking if it was contended by the plaintiff that the
Ameers of Sinde might bring an action against Lord
Ellenborough for false imprisonment ? Mr. Kelly saw no
reason why they should not. Baron Alderson : " Perhaps
Sir Charles Napier and Lord Ellenborough might be
jointly sued." The Court declared its intention of taking
time to consider its judgment.

ROLL'S COURT.—THURSDAY.
CROSSKILL V. GROUNSELL.
In this case, which was tried at the last Liverpool
Assizes, an injunction was granted to restrain the defen-
dant from making or selling the machine mentioned in the
plaintiff's bill, for crushing clods of earth for agricultural
purposes, or any imitation of the machine.

The senior Queen's Counsel in years' standing at the
bar is Sir C. Wetherell; the junior Queen's Counsel, in
point of time at the bar, is Mr. Roebuck.
WINTER CIRCUIT.—Mr. Justice Coleridge will pro-
ceed to York, and City, Nov. 28—Durham, Dec. 18.
Mr. Baron Gurney wiil hold a Session at Chester, and
City, Dec. 2—Liverpool, Dec. 14.
DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT ANDREWS.—ThiS unfor-
tunate gentleman, who inflicted a wound in his throat on
Thursday last, expired on Wednesday morning, at his re-
sidence at Hampstead. The Learned Sergeant, who was
in his seventy-third year, was the senior sergeant-at-law,
and held his appointment by virtue of a patent granted in
the reign of George the Third.
LAW OF MARRIAGE.—The Rev. J. Daniel, incumbent
of East Ardsley, has sent to the Wakefield Journal the
following important decision of the Registrar General,
conveyed to him recently in answer to a reference which
he felt it his duty to make :—" A clergyman is not legally
bound to marry parties under the authority of a Superin-
tendent Registrar's Certificate, unless one of them be
resident within his parish.