HOUSE OF LORDS

CASES,

ON

APPEALS AND WRITS OF ERROR

AND

CLAIMS OF PEERAGE,

DURING THE SESSIONS

1854, 1855 AND 1856.

BY

CHARLES CLARK, ESQ.,

OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

(By Appointment of the House of Lords.)

VOL. V.

LONDON:

BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET,

Law Publishers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

HODGES, SMITH & CO., DUBLIN; T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH.

London: Printed by Henry Hansard, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

JUDGES AND LAW OFFICERS

DURING THE PERIOD OF THE DECISIONS REPORTED IN THIS VOLUME.

Lord Chancellor :

LORD CRANWORTH.

Master of the Rolls:

RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN ROMILLY.

Lords Justices:

RIGHT HON. SIR J. KNIGHT BRUCE.
RIGHT HON. SIR J. G. TURNER.

Vice-Chancellors:

SIR R. T. Kindersley.

SIR JOHN STUART.

SIR W. P. WOOD.

Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench:
LORD CAMPbell.

Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas :
RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN JERVIS.

Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer :
RIGHT HON. SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK.

Attorney-General:

SIR A. E. COCKBURN.

Solicitor-General:

SIR R. BEthell.