CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF HALSBURY,
LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD ALVERSTONE,
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR RICHARD HENN COLLINS,
MASTER OF THE ROLLS.

THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE WRIGHT

SIR R. B. FINLAY, K.C.,
ATTORNEY-GENERAL

GENERAL EDITOR

A. WOOD RENTON, Esq., PUISNE JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF MAURITIUS.

ASSISTED BY

MAX. A. ROBERTSON, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

THE

ENGLISH REPORTS

VOLUME XV

PRIVY COUNCIL

IV

CONTAINING

MOORE, P.C., VOLUMES 13 to 15; N.S., 1 and 2.

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STEVENS & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON

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December 1901

LIST OF THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE MOST HON. PRIVY

COUNCIL, DURING THE PERIOD COVERED BY MOORE,
VOLUMES XIII-XV., AND MOORE, NEW SERIES, VOLUMES
I. AND II. (1859-65).

The Earl GRANVILLE, Lord President.

The Duke of BUCCLEUGH, formerly Lord President.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, formerly Lord President.
The Earl LONSDALE, formerly Lord President.

The Marquis of SALISBURY, formerly Lord President.
Lord CAMPBELL, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord WESTBURY, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord CRANWORTH, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord LYNDHURST, formerly Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord BROUGHAM, formerly Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord ST. LEONARDS, formerly Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord CHELMSFORD, formerly Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Lord WENSLEYDALE, formerly one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer.

Lord KINGSDOWN, Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall.

The Right Hon. THOMAS ERSKINE, formerly one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.

The Right Hon. STEPHEN LUSHINGTON, D.C.L., Judge of the Admiralty Court. The Right Hon. Sir JAMES LEWIS KNIGHT BRUCE, Knt., one of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery.

The Right Hon. Sir JAMES WIGRAM, Knt., formerly one of the Vice-Chancellors. The Right Hon. Sir EDWARD RYAN, Knt., formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme

Court at Calcutta.

The Right Hon. Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, Knt., Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer.

The Hight Hon. Sir JOHN ROMILLY, Knt., Master of the Rolls..

The Right Hon. Sir GEORGE JAMES TURNER, Knt., one of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery.

The Right Hon. Sir JOHN PATTESON, Knt., formerly one of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench.

The Right Hon. Sir ALEXANDER JAMES EDMUND COCKBURN, Bart., Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench.

The Right Hon. Sir CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, Knt., Judge of Her Majesty's Court of Probate and Divorce.

The Right Hon. Sir JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Knt., formerly one of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench.

The Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM ERLE, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

The Right Hon. Sir EDWARD VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Knt., formerly one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.

The Right Hon. Sir JAMES PLAISTED WILDE, Knt., Judge of Her Majesty's Court of Probate and Divorce.

PRIVY COUNCILLORS, ASSESSORS.

The Right Hon. Sir LAWRENCE PEEL, Knt., formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta.

The Right Hon. Sir JAMES WILLIAM COLVILE, Knt., formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta.