ENGLISH REPORTS

IN LAW AND EQUITY:

CONTAINING REPORTS OF CASES IN THE

House of Lords, Privy Council,

COURTS OF EQUITY AND COMMON LAW;

AND IN THE

Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Courts;

INCLUDING ALSO

CASES IN BANKRUPTCY AND CROWN CASES RESERVED.

EDITED BY

EDMUND H. BENNETT & CHAUNCEY SMITH, ESQRS.,

COUNSELLORS AT LAW.

VOLUME V.

Containing Cases in the House of Lords, in all the Courts of Equity and Common Law,
in the High Court of Admiralty, and the Ecclesiastical Courts, during the year 1851.

BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.

1851.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

LITTLE AND BROWN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

L 1312

APR 7 1930

STEREOTYPED AT THE

BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

HOUGHTON AND HAYWOOD, PRINTERS,

CAMBRIDGE.

JUDGES OF THE SEVERAL COURTS

DURING THE PERIOD OF THE DECISIONS REPORTED IN THIS VOLUME.

THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.

Right Hon. Lord TRURO, Lord.High Chancellor.

Right Hon. Sir JOHN ROMILLY, Master of the Rolls.

Right Hon. Lord CRANWORTH, Vice Chancellor of England.

Right Hon. Sir JAMES LEWIS KNIGHT BRUCE, Knt.,

Right Hon. Sir GEORGE JAMES TURNER, Knt.,

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Vice Chancellors.

QUEEN'S BENCH.

Right Hon. Lord CAMPBELL, Lord Chief Justice.

Sir JOHN PATTESON, Knt.

Sir JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Knt.

Sir WILLIAM WIGHTMAN, Knt.

Sir WILLIAM ERLE, Knt.

COMMON PLEAS.

Right Hon. Sir JOHN JERVIS, Knt., Lord Chief Justice.

Sir WILLIAM HENRY Maule, Knt.

Sir CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, Knt.

Sir EDWARD VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Knt.

Sir THOMAS NOON TALFOURD, Knt.