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THE

697

REVISED REPORTS

BEING

A REPUBLICATION OF SUCH CASES

IN THE

ENGLISH COURTS OF COMMON LAW AND EQUITY,

FROM THE YEAR 1785,

AS ARE STILL OF PRACTICAL UTILITY.

EDITED BY

SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., D.C.L., LL.D.,

[blocks in formation]

SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN & CO.

1908.

BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS

LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.

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PREFACE TO VOL. C.

Bishop v. Countess of Jersey, p. 51, is in the line of interesting and often difficult cases on the extent to which the fraudulent action of an individual partner will affect the firm. It will be observed that nothing is said about the normal practice of bankers in the way of giving information to their clients upon proposed investments. Here the investment was privately suggested by a member of the firm, was of an unusual kind, and was not effected through the bank save that the client drew an open cheque on her current account. No such conclusion can be drawn from Kindersley, V.-C.'s judgment as that a bank does not warrant the ordinary competence of its investment clerk advising clients in the accustomed manner, or of any principal who intervenes. It is well known that, as a rule, the advice so given properly leans to the side of caution, and people who want to be encouraged in adventurous investments consult any one rather than their bankers.

The same learned Vice-Chancellor discussed the doctrine and history of a married woman's capacity to bind her separate estate by her "engagements" in the several stages of Vaughan v. Vanderstegen, pp. 65, 140, 173, 176. It is surprising that, after his refutation of the two untenable theories that a married woman's "engagement" operated by way of appointment under a constructive power and that it operated as a charge, Lord Romilly attempted many years later to revive the theory of specific charge. Compare Lord Cottenham's judgment in Owens v. Dickenson, 54 R. R. at p. 198, and London Chartered Bank of Australia v. Lemprière (1873) L. R.

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