.0 6 8 Now per folio of 72 words. 3 11. For attending each counsel with briefs for hearing of a cause, and on special petitions and motions 12. For attending counsel with instructions, and the register to draw up order, and entering on common petitions and motions of course 13. For attending Lord Chancellor, or the Master of the Roll's secretary to present every special petition, and afterwards for same 14. For attending the Court every day on which a cause or petition stands in the paper 15. Attending when heard 0 6 8 .0 6 8 16. For attending the Court on every special motion, each day 17. Ceased. For service of every order or petition on a clerk in Court 18. Ceased. For copy and service of every Master's warrant or summons on a clerk in Court 19. Altered.-For personal service of ditto on a party 2 6 20. Altered.-For service of ditto on a solicitor where no clerk in Court O For service and execution of writs, and for service of orders, notices, 26. For attendance on every Master's warrant or summons ..0 6 8 The fees for attendances on Masters' warrants are no longer regulated by the number of warrants, but according to the circumstances of each case. 27. For every attendance on the register for directions to the Accountant-General to sell or transfer stock 0 68 28. For drawing request to the Accountant-General to lay out cash on each fund 29. Attending on Accountant-General to lay out ditto 30. For every attendance at the bank to pay in money, and afterwards on Accountant-General to file cashier's 33. For attending the register on passing all other special orders 34. For attending to leave decrees and decretal orders to be entered; examining and taking same away. 0 6 8 35. For attending to file special reports at the Report Office, and afterwards for the copy • May 8, 1845. .0 6 8 * See Orders of April 22, 1850, and October 23, 1852, post. 156 - Fees in Chancery now payable to Solicitors. [LEGAL OBSERVER, 36. Ceased. For attending to join £ s. d. 152. For perusing abstracts, every £ s. d. and strike Commissioner's names for the examination of witnesses, for the solicitor who has not the charge of the Commission three brief sheets. 53. For perusing the draft of every .. 0 6 8 54. For examining the ingrossment 068 050 with the draft, for every three skins 0 10 0 55. For making all attested copies, examining and attesting same, per folio 060 56. Instructions for every special petition 068 For every writ not under order 0 6 For every writ under order, except injunction For every writ of injunction, including ingrossment aud docket, per folio. 38. Ceased-Drawing notice of taking answers or examination, and copy 39. Ceased.-Attending two Commissioners to sign the same .0 1 4 0 3 6 60. For drawing special notices of 0 10 0 64. Letters and messengers, per .0 5 0 40. Ceased.-Service thereof not exceeding two miles . 41. Ceased. Ditto at a greater distance than two miles, 1s. per mile; but not to exceed 17. 1s. 42. Ceased. For attending to take answers or examinations, each Commissioner 43. Altered.-For attending the executions of Commissions, for attending the examination of witnesses, each Commissioner and each solicitor, per day 0 13 4 2 2 0 . 0 15 0 .0 2 6 .0 6 8 -7 May 8, 1845. term .. 0 6 8 Order of November, 17. 1841. For and in respect of the preparation and service of a writ of distringas against the Bank of England, and the præcipe and attendance in respect thereof, such costs as by the rules and practice of this Court are allowed for the preparation and service and attendance in respect of a writ of subpoena to answer a bill. Order of October 26, 1842. By this Order the solicitors are to perform such duties as had theretofore been performed by the sworn clerks and waiting clerks, as attorneys, solicitors, or agents of the parties in relation to the several matters thereinafter mentioned, viz. :— The making out of writs. The serving and being served with writs, notices, orders, warrants, rules, and other documents, proceedings, and written communications, in causes and matters depending in Court. JUNE 30, 1855.] Fees in Chancery now payable to Solicitors. The signing of elections and agreements to proceed at law or in equity. The signing of petitions of re-hearing and appeal. The entering of appearances and consents The signing of consents to petitions. 12. not exceeding three, an additional £ sum of For settling minutes, passing and entering order on hearing: the same charges as on a decretal order 13. For entering a caveat. 14. For procuring certificate of no caveat The joining in commission and striking of 15. For term fee: as in a suit 68 0 6 8 And also all such fees as by the present practice of the Court they are entitled to, save such as are varied or rendered unnecessary by the same order. Order of August 7, 1852. IV. In lieu of the fees payable to solicitors for instructions for bills, for engrossing bills and claims, for copies of bills and claims, for abbreviating bills and making a brief thereof, the fees specified in Schedule (A.) viz. : 41. For instructions for bill 4 0 0 2. For making a copy of bill or claim for the printer, per folio 03. For correcting the proof sheet, per £ s. d. 1 14 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 of a bili 5. For amending each or claim to serve where there is no reprint 0 13 4 6. Instructions for brief to be al lowed on a replication being filed, or on a motion for a decree on a bill, or in an injunction cause on moving for the injunction; but so that this fee shall be charged once only in the progress of a cause 7. For amending each brief of a bill or claim where there is no reprint. 0 13 8. For perusing and considering the bill on behalf of each defendant, or set of defendants, appearing by the same solicitor Order of October 23, 1852. 110 4 1 1 0 FEES ON PROCEEDINGS IN CHAMBERS. 1. For instructions to commence proceedings originating in chambers, or to defend the same .. 0 13 4 2. For preparing an original summons for the purpose of proceedings originating in chambers, and the duplicate thereof 3. For attending at chambers to get such summons and duplicate examined and sealed. .0 13 4 4. For attending at the Record and Writ Office to file duplicate and examine copies, and get same stamped .0 6 8 5. For endorsing a summons and the copies under Order Vl. of 16th October, 1952, and attending to get same sealed 6. For entering the appearance for 0 6 8 068 9. For preparing every other sum- 0 6 020 [LEGAL OBSERVER, thereto, formerly made and deliver- £ s. d. Order of June 21, 1854. .0 0 4 From and after the 2nd day of July, 1854, all office copies and other copies of pleadings, proceedings, and documents in the Court of Chancery shall be counted and charged for after the rate of 72 words per folio, and where such copies or any portion thereof shall comprise columns containing figures, each figure shall be counted and charged for as one word. EMBEZZLEMENT BY BANKERS. THE 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 29, s. 49, enacts, that if any money, or security for the payment of money, shall be entrusted to any banker, merchant, broker, attorney, or other agent, with any direction in writing to apply such money, or any part thereof, or the proceeds, or any part of the proceeds of such security for any purpose specified in such direction, and he shall in violation of good faith, and contrary to the purpose so specified in anywise convert to his own use or benefit such money, security or proceeds, or any part thereof respectively, every such offender shall be guilty of a mis0 6 8 demeanor. . 1 Power to increase to 10 guineas.9 12. For preparing every advertise ment 13. For attending to get same ap- 10 0 6 8 0 6 8 And if any chattel, or valuable security, or any power of attorney for the sale or transfer of any share or interest in any public stock or fund, whether of this kingdom or of Great Britain, or of Ireland or of any foreign state; or in any fund of any body corporate, com0 6 8 pany, or society, shall be entrusted to any banker, &c., for safe custody or for any special purpose, without any authority to sell, negotiate, transfer, or pledge, and he shall in violation of good faith, and contrary to the object or purpose for which such chattel, security, or 1 1 0 power of attorney shall have been entrusted to him, sell, negotiate, transfer, pledge, or in any 17. Where the number exceeds five, for every additional number, not exceeding five, an additional sum of 1 10 manner convert to his own use or benefit such 18. For attending to bespeak and pro- Order of October 25, 1852. For copies of pleadings and other proceedings in the Court of Chancery, and of the documents relating • 2nd February, 1855. 0 6 8 chattel or security, or proceeds of the same, or any part thereof, or the share or interest in the stock or fund to which such power of attorney shall relate, or any part thereof, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The 50th section provides that the above enactment shall not affect trustees or mortgagees, nor prevent bankers from receiving money due on securities, or disposing of secu rities, &c., on which they have a lien. Then the 52nd section provides that the JUNE 30, 1855.] Embezzlement by Bankers.-Parlamentary Returns. above enactment shall not affect the remedy which the party aggrieved may have at Law or in Equity; and that bankers and others abovementioned shall be protected from indictment, for any act contrary to this Statute, if they have disclosed such act on oath in consequence of any compulsory process of any Court of Law or Equity at the suit of the party aggrieved, or if they shall have disclosed the same in an examination before the Commissioners of Bankruptcy. It appears, therefore, that the disclosures made by Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Bates, in their examination before the Commissioner of Bankruptcy on Monday last will exempt them from the punishment inflicted in regard to the offence alleged against them, for which they would have been liable to transportation for any term not more than 14 nor less than seven years; or fine, or imprisonment, or both; such imprisonment to be with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 29, ss. 4, 49. PARLIAMENTARY RETURNS. The following are the Dates, Title of Co missions, and Names of Commissioners. Real Property. November 24, 1829: 159 For inquiring into the Law of England reof the Commission dated 14th September, 1829. specting Real Property, &c., with a revocation John Campbell, William Henry Tinney, Francis William Sanders, Lewis Duval, June 6, 1828: For inquiring into the Law of England respecting Real Property, and the Methods and Forms in alienating, conveying, and transferring the same. John Campbell, William Henry Tinney, September 14, 1829: Ditto, ditto, with a revocation of the Commission dated 6th June, 1828. John Campbell, William Henry Tinney, Registration of Deeds. February 18, 1847: To consider as to the Burdens on Land being diminished by an effective system for the Re REAL PROPERTY, COMMON LAW, AND CHAN-gistration of Deeds, and the simplification of CERY COMMISSIONS. THE following are the Returns to an Address of the House of Commons, dated March 29, 1855, "of the number of Royal and other Commissions which have been appointed during the reigns of George the Fourth, William the Fourth, and her Majesty, to Inquire into or Report on the Law of Real Property; the Registration of Deeds and Simplification of Forms of Conveyance; the Process, Practice, and Pleading of the Superior Courts of Common Law; and the Process, Practice, and Pleading of the Court of Chancery:" "Of the Names of the Paid Commissioners appointed on each of the said Commissions; distinguishing the Names of those Commissioners who concurred in or dissented from the several Reports made to her Majesty or her predecessors, by or on behalf of every such Commission :" "Of the entire expense of the Commissions; distinguishing how much was incurred for each Commission, and the Total Sum received for Salary, Fees, or other emolument by each and every Commissioner, by Name, distinguishing the length of time each Commissioner has served:" the Forms of Conveyance. Henry Lord Langdale, Miles Thomas Lord December 10, 1829: "And of the Number and Nature of the For inquiring into the Course of Proceedings Bills prepared or approved of by such Com-in Actions, and other Civil Remedies estamissions, and afterwards laid before Parlia-blished or used in the Superior Courts of ment, and of the Names and respective Re- Common Law, with a revocation of the Communeration of the Draughtsmen of such Bills; mission dated 16th May, 1828. distinguishing all such of the said Bills as have passed into Laws from such as have not been so passed by Parliament." Sir James Parke, Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Edward Hall Alderson, Sir John Patteson, and Henry John Stephen. |