The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

LAW OF MORTMAIN.—The Bishop of London, the
Bevthr. 7 homas Sherburne arid Francis Trapues, two
Roman Catholic priests, and Thomas Eastwood, Esq.,
of Brindle Lodge, near this town, were examined before
the select committee of the Law f Moitmain List week.
Mr. Eastwood's evidence occupied the whole bitting of
the committee on the Thursday.

In the Court of Bankruptcy, William Bromley under-
went another examination, which disclosed facts of a most
painful nature, and frauds to• an enormous extent. The
debts and liabilities amount in round numbers to about
£140,000, principally through breaches of trust, and some
of them appear to have extended so. far back as 1824.
The Right lion. Dr. Lusicington, and the Rev. Arch-
deacon Brymer, of Bath, were present on the bench,
they having. in ;heir capacity of co-trustees with the bank-
rupt in te Wilkinson, been defrauded of no leers a sum
than £:29,01.10. 'I he further bearing was adjourned.
CAUTION TO PERSONS MAKING WILLS —On Wed-
nesday last, Dr. Lushington, the Judge of the Preroga-
.tive Court, set aside as invalid under the statute of Wills,
I•Vic. 26; sec. 9, a will which had been signed by two
witnesses neither of whom had seen the signature of the
testator to the document, he having brought the doru-
.ment into the room to ask their signatures with the paper
so folded that it is impossible they could have seen the
signature if' it had been there. The leered judge held
that insufficient. They had seen no signatori,, and'they
could not witness the acknowledgment cf that they did
not see.
THE BAR.—In consequence of the recent changes which
have taken place at the bar by promotions and death, and
which have bad the effect of causing a great arrear at
Nisi Prins, the Lord Chancellor and the Judges, have
caused the following gentlemen to be called within the
bar, and on Monday they obtained their silk gowns :
Mr. Kinslake, of the Northern circuit; Mr. Alexander,
of the Western circuit; Mr. Whitchurst, of the Midland,
one of the juniors of the Oxford circuit Land Mr.. Chad-
wick Jones, tf the Home circuit and the Central Crimi-
nal Court, is made a Serjeant, and was invested with the
coif before the Lord Chief Justices and Judge of Com-
mon Pleas.

ACTIONS FOR GAMING DISCONTINUANCE BILL.—A
bill further to stay proceedings in certain actions under
the provisions of several statutes for the prevention of
excessive gaming, and to prevent any similar proceedings
being taken under those statutes during such further
limited
.time, has been brought in by Visccunt Palmers-
ton and Mr. Tufnell, M.P. By the first clause qui tam
actions for the recovery of gaming penalt'e3 ale further
suspended until the end of the next session of parlia-
ment—that is, we presume, until about the month of
August, 1845. The second clause enacts, that in any case
where actions nre prosecuted contrary to the provisions of
Ibis act, a verdict is to be found for the defendants. The
bill is, we believe, awaiting a second reading on the
tMe of the house of which Lord Palmerston is so distin-
guished a member.

foofrTmhseeacrMor
inaadgriernisagig,:e,
cichurches
u .Celebrationr.ct:es d ea,ttißi just,talti chapels
two introducedir:lisipc.ehatiiinni
districts
r ittehhtees
House of Lords by the Bishop cf London, and "waiting
publicationd
. of. banns of matrimony, and the celebration
shall have been assigned under certain of the Church
Building Acts." The preamble recites the acts 1 and 2
William IV, c 38; 1 and 2 Victoria, c. 107, and .3 and 4
'Victoria, c. 60 ; and then continues to set forth, that
"doubts are entertained whether banns of matrimony can
be published, or marriages be celebrated or solemnized,
in churches or chapels to which districts have been as-
signed, or may hereafter be assigned, under the said acts,
or either of them, and that it is expedient to remove such
doubts." The clauses enact, that where,districts have
been assigned under the recited acts, the Church Building
Commissioners, or the Bishop, may decide as to the pub-
lication of banns and celebration of marriages. Mar-
riages solemnized in •churches or chapels built under the
said acts are declared valid, but nothing in the bill is to
affect licenses for solemnising marriages in churches, &c.,
under:the act 6 and 7 William IV, c. 85.
YORKSHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES.—The Yorkshire Suni-
mer Assizes commenced at York on Wednesday last.
The arrival of the High Sheriff, Timothy Hutton, Esq.,
of Clifton Castle, was announced by a sonorous peal from
the Minster new bells on the previous evening, about
half-past five o'clock. Up to a late period it was not
known in what manner the learned Judges of assize would
enter the city, but in consequence of an intimation then
received from their Lordships, the High Sheriff and the
City Sheriff (James Chadwick, Esq.) proceeded to Dring-
houses, with their respective retinues, to meet them. The
Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Creswell arrived at
the Copmanthorpe station, on the York and North Mid-
land Railway, by the afternoon train from London, whence
they proceeded in their private carriages, each drawn by
tour horses, to Dringhouses, %here they were received by
the High Sheriff for the county, and having taken their
seats in his carriage, the cortege returned to the city, and
thence proceeded to the castle, where the commissions of
assizes were opened and read. The High Sheriff then
duly made the returns to the writs to him directed, and
the court wits adjourned to the following day (Thursday),
at noon. Their lordships then proceeded to the Guildhall
in the city, where the assizes for the city were opened with
the like formalities.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JULY G.—At:RAMAN v. COO-
PER AND OTHERS.—This was an action of trover, to re-
cover, £10,300, the alleged value of the scrip for 300
shares in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The
defendants, who arc barkers, claim a lien on the scrip for
advances made upon this and other securities deposited
with them by Culls, Thompson, and Co., the plaintiff's
bill brokers. The case was tried at the sittings after last
Michaelmas Term by Lord Abinger, one of the juries
found for the defendants, and the second for the plaintiff.
The two cases were afterwards brought under considera-
tion of the Court of Exchequer, and a new trial was &-
rested in the present cage. The Lord Chief Baron
opinion that if the plaintiff was aware when he deposi was of
the scrip with Coils, T h rn pfon, and Co., it wasp a trar!s-
feyable security uplin the bill brokers miht ratse
money, the aetkon could net be traintained.—Af!( ran ab.
B,enee of nearly an hour the jury returned a verdict for the
uefendarts. The foremen at the same time stated that
ted

al,hnukh the jury felt themselves constrained, after the
evidence of the hill brokers, to return a verdict for the de-
fentlant-i, they had heard: with extreme surprise that it
'was the prat tice of the bill brokers to rai,e money on col-
lateral securities, I deed with them. Thry thought it a
most dangerous prectice for the mercantile world to rai.e
money upon collateral securities, whilst tl.eoriginal secu-
rities were still running and available.—The Chief Baron
asked the jury it they considered the scrip receirts a trans.
ferahle security ? 7he toren an replied that the jury con-
sidered it a transferable hut not a negociAle secuiit y, and
thrt the mercantile world were ignorant rf the custcm de-
post dto by the brokers. lhe verdict was then entered
fur the detcndants.