Reports Of Cases Upon Appeals And Writs Of Error In The High Court Of Parliament From The Year 1701 To The Year 1779 With Tables Notes And Refer

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1789 edition. Excerpt: ...Bench; but that upon search made, it appeared no enrollment was ever duly made, but that respondent, being then and still a clerk in the Crown-office, had, with his own hand transcribed the pretended deeds upon two rolls of parchment, with a memorandum expressing, that they had been acknowledged in Court, and had procured them to be filed amongst the rolls in the Crown-office five years after the pretended acknowledgment, by affirming to the officer, that the mark which was to warrant the enrollment had been written by a third person; which afterwards, upon an examination in the King's Bench, appeared to be untrue, respondent confessing in open Court, that such mark was made with his own hand; and that for this ill practice, the lady was ready to move against respondent, and for vacating the present enrollment; and that to prevent this, respondent, un known known to her, applied to Mr. Mtthuen, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, her father, who thereupon informed her, that respondent would refer all matters to him, and that she was to do the like, and inclosed to her in a letter a submission ready drawn, to execute and return to him, which she did, not doubting but she might safely confide in such a referee; but that before the parties were heard, or any witness examined on either side, her father sent for her to see him make his award; and that she attended, and found him filling up blanks in a paper, which he presently after executed as his award; and that she was at the same time made to sign a receipt upon the award, for part of the monies awarded, which was brought ready to be paiJ her; and that slie was from thence immediately carried to Doctors Commons, to renounce her executory sliipi and that she had then neither read the award nor...

Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.