Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council

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Page 36, last line but one, for affirmed read dismissed. 67, line 31, for consuetudinem read consuetudo.

93, foot note, for pp. 293 read 493.

98, foot note, for contumacie read contumacia.

102, line 7 from the bottom, for collision read collusion. 118, line 5, for introductia read introductiá.

121, line 14, for incurit read incurrit.

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APPENDIX.

RULE issued by the Judicial Committee, directing Judges of the Courts in the Colonies and Foreign Settlements of the Crown, to give their reasons in writing for the Judgment appealed from; and to transmit the same with the Record.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 12th of February, 1845.

By the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the eighth year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled, " An Act for amending an Act passed "in the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty, enti"tled, An Act for the better administration of Justice in His Majesty's Privy Council, and to extend its jurisdiction and powers," it was enacted, "that it should be lawful for the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to make any "general rule or regulation to be binding upon all Courts in "the Colonies, and other Foreign Settlements of the Crown, requiring the Judge's notes of the evidence taken before "such Court, on any cause appealed, and of the reasons given by the Judges of such Court, or by any of them, for "or against the judgment pronounced by such Court, which "notes of evidence and reasons should by such Court be "transmitted to the Clerk of the Privy Council within one "calendar month next after the leave given by such Court to prosecute any appeal to Her Majesty in Council, and such "order of the said Committee should be binding upon all Judges of such Courts in the Colonies or Foreign Settle"ments of the Crown." Now, THEREFORE, the Lords of

RULE OF THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE, 12TH FEB. 1845.

the said Judicial Committee of the Privy Council are pleased to order, as it is hereby ordered, that when any Appeal shall be prosecuted from any judgment of any Court, in the Colonies or Foreign Settlements of the Crown, the reasons given by the Judges of such Court, or by any of such Judges, for or against such judgment, shall be, by the Judge or Judges of such Court, communicated in writing to the Registrar of such Court, or other officer, whose duty it is to prepare and certify the transcript record of the proceedings in the cause, and that the same be by him transmitted in original to the Clerk of Her Majesty's Privy Council, at the same time when the documents and proceedings proper to be laid before Her Majesty in Council upon the hearing of the Appeal are transmitted.

Whereof the Judges of all such Courts in the Colonies or Foreign Settlements of the Crown are to take notice, and govern themselves accordingly.

C. C. GREVIlle.

APPENDIX.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,

Dated the 11th of August 1842.

WHEREAS, there was this day read at the Board a representation from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, dated the 10th August instant; and in the words following:viz. "The Lords of the Judicial Committee having taken into consideration the scale on which the costs of Appeals, and other matters referred by your Majesty to this Committee, are usually taxed by the Masters of the Court of Queen's Bench, or other persons to whom your Lordships have, from time to time, referred the same; their Lordships agree humbly to represent to your Majesty, that it is expedient that the scale of costs hitherto allowed in the said proceedings before this Committee, should be reduced; and their Lordships recommend that, provisionally, and until further consideration, such costs in all Appeals, or matters not being Appeals, from the Courts of Ecclesiastical or Admiralty Jurisdiction, should be taxed and allowed by all such taxing officers as shall hereafter be directed to ascertain and report the same to the Board, according to the Schedule hereunto annexed; and that this rate of charges should be observed by Solicitors conducting business before this Committee."

Her Majesty having taken this representation into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and of what is therein recommended, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the same be duly and punctually observed, complied with, and car