SITTINGS OF THE COURT.

The three Judges of the Court sit in Westminster Hall every day in term, Sundays and holidays excepted; and during the sittings after term, the Lord Chancellor and Vice Chancellor sit in Lincoln's Inn Hall, and the Master of the Rolls at his Court in Rolls Yard. The usual hours of sitting vary from ten o'clock in the morning until from three to five o'clock in the afternoon. Immediately after, and before each term, the Court usually takes a short recess; and about the middle of August adjourns for the long vacation, which lasts until the beginning of November. There are no fixed days for hearing particular branches of the business of the Court; but previous to the commencement of every sitting each Court issues a Seal paper, detailing the plan of disposing of business for each day.

Two books are made out every term, and constantly open for inspection at the Register Office, one containing the causes &c. set down for hearing before the Lord Chancellor and Vice Chancellor, and called the Court Book; and the other containing the causes before the Master of the Rolls. From these books the causes &c. are set down in succession in

the daily paper.

Neither petitions nor motions are set down in these books; the former being set down with the Secretary of the Lord Chancellor, or of the Master of the Rolls, for certain days specially appointed; and the latter being generally moved in Court on Seal days, according to the seniority of the counsel.

APPENDIX.

Form of Subpana to Appear and Answer.

Victoria, by the grace of God of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland queen, defender of the faith.

Το , greeting: We command you [" and every of you," where more than one defendant,] that within [four days if a town cause, or eight days if a country cause,] days after the service of this writ on you, exclusive of the day of such service, laying all other matters and excuses aside, you do cause an appearance to be entered for you in our High Court of Chancery to a bill [or as the case may be, "information," (or to an amended bill or information,) or "of revivor," or "revivor and supplement," or "supplemental bill," filed against you by ["and others," or "another,"] and that you do answer concerning such things as shall then and there be alleged against you, and observe what our said Court shall direct in this behalf upon pain of an attachment issuing against your person, and such other process for contempt as the Court shall award. Witness ourself at Westminster, the

of

in the

year of our reign.

day

DEVON.

The following Memorandum to be placed at the foot. Appearances are to be entered at the Six Clerks' Office, Chancery Lane, London.

Form of Subpana to Rejoin.

Victoria, &c. To greeting: We command you [and every of you], that immediately after the service of this writ you do appear in our High Court of Chancery, then and there to rejoin and join in commission, if thereunto required, in a certain cause there depending, wherein others," or "another,"] are plaintiffs, and others," or another,"] are defendants. Witness, &c.

"and

"and

DEVON.

Form of Subpana to hear Judgment.

Victoria, &c.

Το greeting: We command you [and every of you], that you appear before our Lord High Chancellor, [or, "before His Honour, the Master of the Rolls," or, before His Honour the Vice Chancellor," as the cause may be set down,] on the day of thereafter, a certain cause now depending in our High Court of Chancery, wherein "another,' are plaintiffs, and

next, or whenever

"and others," or

'and others," or

"another," are defendants, shall come on for hearing, then and there to receive and abide by such judgment and decree as shall then or thereafter be made and pronounced, upon pain of judgment being pronounced against you by default. Witness, &c.

DEVON.

Victoria, &c.

Το

Form of Subpæna for Costs.

or the bearer of these

greeting: We command you [and every of you], that you pay, or cause to be paid, immediately after the service of this writ, to presents, £ costs, by our Court of Chancery adjudged to be paid by you to the said under pain of an attachment issuing against your person, and such process of contempt as the Court shall award in default of such payment. Witness, &c.

DEVON.

Form of Subpana to testify vivá voce in Court, or to testify

Victoria, &c.

Το

before the Master.

appear

greeting: We command you [and every of you], that laying all other matters aside, and notwithstanding any excuse, you personally be and "before our Lord High Chancellor, [or, "before His Honour the Master of the Rolls, or the Vice Chancellor," or, "before one of the Masters of our High Court of Chancery," or "before commissioners named in a commission issued to them for that purpose,"] at such time and place as the bearer hereof shall by notice in writing appoint, to testify the truth according to your

and

[" and others," or ["and others," or

knowledge, in a certain suit now depending in our High Court of Chancery, wherein 66 another, are plaintiffs, and "another," are defendants, on the part of the [in case of subpoena duces tecum, add,] and that you then and there bring with you and produce, &c. And hereof fail not at your peril. Witness, &c.

Form of Subpana ad test. and duces tecum. Victoria, &c.

DEVON.

Το greeting: We command you [and every of you], that laying all other matters aside, and notwithstanding any excuse, you personally be and appear before Mr. one of the examiners of witnesses in our High Court of Chancery, at his office in Rolls' Yard, Chancery Lane, London, at such times as the bearer hereof shall by notice in writing appoint [or, "before and others,

commissioners appointed for the examination of witnesses in our Chancery, at such times and places as the bearer hereof shall by notice in writing appoint,"] to testify the truth according to your knowledge in a certain cause depending in our said Court of Chancery, wherein ["and others," or "another,"] are plaintiffs, and [" and others," or "another,"] are defendants, on the part of the [in case of subpæna duces tecum, add, "and that you then and there bring with you and produce, &c." And hereof fail not at your peril. Witness, &c. DEVON.

The conclusion of a Bill.

May it please your lordship, the premises considered, to grant unto your orator, "not only her majesty's most gracious writ of injunction, issuing out of and under the seal of this Honourable Court, to restrain the said C. D. from proceeding at law against your orator touching any of the matters in question," but also her majesty's most gracious writ of subpoena to be directed to the said C. D., and the rest of the confederates when discovered, thereby commanding them, and every of them, at a certain day, and under a certain pain therein to be limited, personally to be and appear before your lordship in this Honourable Court, and then and there to make a true, direct, and per

fect answer to all and singular the premises, and further to stand to, perform, and abide such further order, direction and decree therein, as to your lordship shall seem meet. And your orator shall ever pray, &c.

(The counsel's name.) If no injunction prayed, the words to be omitted.

The conclusion to a Bill of Revivor.

Personally to be and appear before your lordship in this Honourable Court, then and there to answer the premises, and show cause, if they can, why the said suit, and all the proceedings therein, should not stand revived, and be in the same plight and condition they were in at the time of the abatement thereof, (or at the time of the decease of the said C. D.,) and that the said cause and proceedings may be revived, and the said E. F. stand to, perform, and abide, &c.

If the object of the bill be "to revive" only, then the words "to answer, &c." are to be omitted.

After an Answer.

And this defendant denies all and all manner of unlawful combination and confederacy in and by the said bill charged, without that, that there is any other matter, cause, or thing in the complainant's said bill of complaint contained, material or effectual in the law for this defendant to make answer unto, and not herein and hereby well and sufficiently answered, avoided, traversed, or denied, is true to the knowledge and belief of this defendant. All which matters and things this defendant is ready and willing to aver, maintain, and prove, as this Honourable Court shall direct, and humbly prays to be hence dismissed, with his reasonable costs and charges in the law in this behalf most wrongfully sustained.

After a Demurrer.

Wherefore this defendant doth demur at law upon the claimant's said bill of complaint, and all the matters and things therein contained, and humbly demands judgment