... pretences the most trivial. Since that period various similar efforts have been made, and these courts have been treated by Whig law legislators with a sort of suppressed contempt which is really marvellous, considering the credit they often claimed for ...

... ng his on. After he became a Ring's Counsel, he sat in two Parliaments, for Camelford and Saltash, always siding with the Whigs, at that time not strong in number or repute. He was on terms of Strict friendship with the leaders of that party. He was retained ...

... Cottenham is not that Bickersteth. When the Whigs had the opportunity, they sent Bickerstctii to the Rolls; and into tlic high scat of Chancery they i elevated Sir Charles Pepys, a capital equity lawyer and very stanch Whig. And he has justified the choice in ...

... would patiently discuss such homely fare as the dull clauses of local courts bill. The Tories introduced the measure, and the Whigs, finding that it created sixty judgeships, and thus threw the Bar of England at their feet (for the appointments were vested ...

... many respects, with the perfect independence of the bench, and all this time, from 1856 to 1864, the proclaimed purpose of the Whig Law Reformers was to multiply, instead of diminish, the annual total of suits, for the relief of the Superior Courts and the ...

... 1842. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and in due course of tjm© uras called to the Bar, and was appointed by the Whig Government of Lords Grey and Melbourne to the post in the Bankruptcy Court, which he held until a short time before his death ...

... throughout England and Wales, to seek that redress by compulsion which they never will obtain remonstrance at all events, from the Whigs. I therefore most respectfully submit to the consideration of the County Court Clerks, the propriety of meeting in London, ...

... system of tactics universally condemned, but universally employed—in other words, outdoor manoeuvres. Accordingly a coterie of Whig merchants and traders has been set to work in the city to concoct a spontaneous effusion of opinion condemnatory of Mr. Fitzroy’s ...

... boroughs having two was arbitrarily fixed ait populations of 8000, the effect of which was that a large number of boroughs under Whig influence were retained. My proposal to take 10,000 as the limit is perfectly impartial, and reduces equally tile influences ...

... Blakeway was the owner of the shares The diicta in Ex parte Watkins are in our favour and neither parte Hayman nor Ex parte Whig, field contains any principle applicable to this ca»e The fact that calls were due on the shares, and that they were therefore ...

... from the comparative rapidity with which the Bill has gone through the Commons. A popular body returned in 1859 to carry a Whig Reform Bill, because nobody else's was good enough, and putting off the great work till 1860, and then failing to carry it ...

... 1851 Sir E. Wilmot 1842 Palmer (d) 1854,C00kc ;1819 Elsley (r) 1855 Lonsdale . 1836 Hllyard (d) . 1855 C.Temple,Q.C 1810 Whig (d) 1856Serjt. Miller .. 1826, Burnaby (d) . 1856Worlledge ,1838 Eagle (d) 1856 Saunders . ; 1829 Wlllmore (d). 1856 ...