The following Draft Order as to Fees is published pursuant to the a Publication Act: Not specified. June 24, 1904. (See sect. 37.) March 26, 1903, or such other day, not being more than eighteen months later, as the Board of Education may appoint, and different days may bo appointed for different purposes and for different provisions of this Act, and for different Councils. Also see sect. 27, sub-sect. 3, Where the value of the land does £2. £2 for the first £1,000, and £1 for every £1,000, or part of £1,000, up to a maximum of £33 for over £31,000. 3. The remainder of the fee shall be noted on the register as deferred, and shall be defrayed by the payment, by subsequent applicants, of additional fees not exceeding double fees on transfers The following provisions shall apply to the fees payable on applica- for value and charges, until the whole has been paid. 4. may at any if he wishes, pay off fr absolute title in cases where the applicant is a purchaser on a pass and is already registered or in course of registration 1. The register, propietat of the deferred foe for the time being a possessory title, but only in a district where registration is com- remaining unpaid. ry on sale. Rule 3 of the Order of the 27th of October, er of the 27th of October, 1898, shall, at the request of the appli- incurred by the registry on the application shall be borne by the the fees prescribed by paragraph D of the Fee 15. Notwithstanding reyancing counsel and any costs or expenses of and unless the Registrar in his discretion determines the con- registry. be deferred as hereinafter provided. The following sums shall in any event be paid on the delivery Order of the 27th of October, 1898, is rescinded, and the following 6. As regards cases to which these rules apply, Rule 2 of the Fee application, namely: rule is substituted for it : B 2 RULE 72c. Nothing in Rule 72A and 72в shall apply to land held for charitable uses which can be sold without the consent of the Charity Commissioners. And if the Charity Commissioners, by a writing under the hand of their Secretary, certify in any case that any land can be sold without their consent, such certificate shall be conclusive for the purposes of registration. 4. After Rule 100 the following Rule shall be inserted:RULE 100A. The Official Trustee of Charity Lands may be registerel as proprietor of land (subject to a restriction in Form 10A in the first Schedule hereto) on the production of the following evidence, namely (1) Where the administering trustees of a Charity are registerei as proprietors of the land, on the production of an official copy of an Order of the Court or an Order of the Charity Commissioners vesting the land in him. (2) Where the administering trustees are not so registered, on the production of a transfer to them, and (a) an official copy of an Order of the Court, or (b) an Order of the said Commissioners vesting the land in him. He may likewise be so registered on an application showing that under some statute the land has become 7. Rule 17 of the Fee Order of the 29th of June, 1899, shall not vested in him, and the production of evidence that the requirements apply to any title against which a deferred fee is noted. Copies may be obtained on application at the Lord Chancellor's Office, House of Lords, S. W. LAND TRANSFER RULES. REGISTRATION, The following Draft Rules are published pursuant to the Rules Publication Act: 1. In these Rules the references to "Rules" are to the Land Transfer Rules, 1898. 2. These Rules may be cited as the Land Transfer Rules, December, 1902. Each Rule may be cited separately by the heading thereof with reference to the Land Transfer Rules, 1898. 3. After Rule 72 the two following Rules shall be inserted : LAND HELD FOR CHARITABLE USES. RULE 72A. The person or persons in whom is vested any land for the sale of which the consent of the Charity Commissioners is by statute required, and (where any land is vested in the Official Trustee of Charity Land) the administering trustees of the charity shall for the purposes of section 68 of the Act of 1875 be deemed to be trustees of the land with a power of sale, and the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales shall for the purposes of that section be deemed to be persons whose consent is required to the exercise of the power of sale, and may consent to an application made under that section accordingly. When the land is vested in the administering trustees they shall on an application made with such consent be registered as When the land is vested in the Official the first proprietors of it. Trustee of Charity Lands he shall be registered as the first proprietor of it. (1) on the production of a conveyance to him, or (2) on the production of an official copy of the order of the Court, or an order of the said Commissioners vesting the land in him, accompanied in either case by a conveyance (if any) to the administering trustees. The official trustee may also on an application showing that under one statute the land is vested in him, and the production of evidence that the requirements of such statute have been complied with, be registered as proprietor. In either case a restriction shall be entered in the register and in the Land Certificate in Form 10A in the 1st schedule hereto. RULE 72B. The Charity Commissioners for England and Wales may, by a writing under the hand of their Secretary, give a general consent to the registration of lands held for charitable ust 8, or a consent limited to certain classes of cases, and upon such terms, as to notices restrictions and otherwise, as they may, with concurrence of the Registrar, think it, of such statute have been complied with. In all cases the application shall be accompanied by the Land Certificate. 5. In the First Schedule, after Form 10, the following Form shall be inserted:FORM 10A. Restriction. Until further order no disposition is to be registered without the consent of the Charity Commissioners. Copies may be obtained on application at the Lord Chancellor's Office, House of Lords, S. W. SUPREME COURT FEES. DRAFT ORDER. The following Draft Order is published, pursuant to the Rules Publication Act. I, the Right Honourable Hardinge Stanley, Earl of Halsbury, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by and with the advice and consent of the undersigned Judges of the Supreme Court, and with the cocurrence of The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, do hereby in pursuance and execution of the powers given by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875, and all other powers authorities enabling me in this behalf order and direct in manner following as to proceedings before an Official Referee;~ 1. On every Reference on entering a case for trial. 3. On every Reference (not in London or Middlesex) And for every hour or part of an hour the referee is occupied beyond two full days 4. On every sitting elsewhere than in London or Middlesex, a further fee for every night the referee shall be absent from Londen And for his clerk and 100 0.10 500 0.10 1 11 015 conduct of the case from day to day as the case proceeds. All fees shall be payable in advance by the party having thei In any case in which a party may have paid an amount in excess of the fees due, the party so paying shall be entitled to the return any amount to paid in excess upon the certificate in writing of the Official Referee indorsed upon his certificate report award or order. but where there is no such certificate report award or order then upon the form provided for that purpose. Copies may be obtained on application at the Lord Chancellor's Office, House of Lords, S W. ། HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. PROBATE, DIVORCE, AND ADMIRALTY DIVISION. PROBATE AND MATRIMONIAL. HILARY SITTINGS, 1903. The Causes set down for trial will be taken in the following order: UNDEFENDED MATRIMONIAL CAUSES may be taken on Monday, 12th, Tuesday, 13th, Wednesday, 14th, Thursday, 15th, and Friday, 16th January, and each Monday during the Sittings after Motions. Parties must be ready with these Cases, but notice wil be published of| any alterations. SPECIAL JURY CAUSES will be taken on and after Tuesday, 20th January. Probate an 1 Matrimonial Special Jury Causes will form one List, and be taken in the order in which they are set down. PROBATE AND DEFENDED MATRIMONIAL CAUSES FOR HEARING BEFORE THE COURT ITSELF will be taken after the Special Juries are finished, and may also be taken in Court II., after 19th January, when Admiralty Cases are not appointed to be heard. Probate and Defended Matrimonial Causes will form one List, and be taken in the order in which they are set down. COMMON JURY CAUSES will be taken on and after Tuesday, 3rd March. Probate and Matrimonial Common Jury Causes will form one List, and be taken in the order in which they are set down. DIVISIONAL COURT, Tuesdays, 3rd February, 3rd March, and 7th April. MOTIONS AND SUMMONSES. Motions will be heard in Court at 11 o'clock on Monday, 12th January, and on each succeeding Monday during the Sittings, and Summonses before the Judge will be heard at half-past 10 o'clock on Saturday, 17th January, and on each succeeding Saturday during the Sittings. Summonses before the Registrars will be heard at the Probate Registry, Somerset House, on each Tuesday and Friday during the Sittings, at half-past 11 o'clock. All Papers for Motions on Mondays must be left in the Contentious Department of the Principal Probate Registry at Somerset House before 2 o'clock p.m. on the preceding Wednesday. J. PAWLEY BATE, ESQ. Assistant Reader S. H. LEONARD, ESQ. During Hilary Term the READER proposes to Lecture as follows:— 1. ROMAN LAW.-On Mondays (at 2 p.m.) and on Thursdays (at 2 p.m.) he will continue his course of Lectures on Roman Law. This course is so arranged as to cover in the educational year the topies ordinarily treated of in commentaries upon the Institutes of Justinian, more attention being paid to the developed Roman Law than to the antiquities of Roman Legal History. the READER Compares the Roman with the English Law, and shows In particular ADMIRALTY. THE COURT will sit in the Royal Courts of Justice At 10.30 A.M. on every Week-day, except Monday, and at 11 A.M. on every Monday, from Monday, January 12th, until Wednesday, April 8th, inclusive. A Divisional Court will sit on the first Tuesday in each month during the Sittings, when necessary. Summonses in Chambers will be taken at 11, and Motions in Court at 11.30 every Monday during the Sittings. All Papers for Motions and for Summonses to be heard before the Judge must be left in the Admiralty Registry, Royal Courts of Justice (Room 738), on the Wednesday preceding. Summonses before the Registrar will be heard at the Admiralty Registry, Royal Courts of Justice (Room 730 or 729), at 11 A.M. on every Wednesday and Saturday during the same period. The Admiralty Registry and the Marshal's Office are on the Third Floor of the West Wing, in Rooms Nos. 729 to 744, and are open from 10 to 4, except on Saturday, and during the Long Vacation, the Christmas Vacation, and on Whit Tuesday, when the hours are from 10 to 2. The Long Vacation is from August 13th to October 23rd, and the Christmas Vacation from December 24th to January 6th, inclusive. The Offices are closed on Good Friday, Easter Eve, Easter Monday and Tuesday, and Whit Monday, also on Christmas Day, and the next following working day. Registrar's Room, 730; Assistant Registrar's Room, 729; Reference Room, 743; Marshal's Room, 740. 6. Legacies. Fideicommissa. Codicils. 7. Intestate Succession. 8 Insolvency. II. JURISPRUDENCE.-On Wednesdays (at 11 a.m.) the READER will deliver a series of Lectures on the First Book (the "General Part") of the new German Civil Code. These Lectures will be a study in Comparative Jurisprudence, and comparison will especially be made between English Law and the provisions of the Code. III. INTERNATIONAL LAW.-On Tuesdays (at 5 p.m.) the READER will continue his course of Lectures on Private International Law, The following topics with especial reference to English doctrine. will be dealt with in Hilary Term :— CRIMINAL LAW. The READER will be glad to advise gentlemen, or to answer EVIDENCE, PROCEDURE (CIVIL AND CRIMINAL), AND difficulties, in connection with the subjects named above, after any of his Lectures, or by appointment at his Chambers, 11, New Square, Lincoln's Inn. In particular he will be glad to see new students at his Chambers on Monday, January 12th, between 3 and 5 p.m. The ASSISTANT READER proposes to deliver Lectures and hold Classes upon the following subjects: I. Obligations ex Delicto. Their nature. Their place and treatment in Roman Law. Distinction between Torts and Crimes. SelfRedress. (a) Furtum. The meaning of the several terms employed in its definition. Compared with Larceny in English Law. What Furtum includes. Furtum (a) manifestum and (b) nec manifestum. Remedies for Furtum. Ancient Forms of Action. Atrox Injuria. II. Quasi Delicts. Pauperics. Deditio noxa causa. (In connection with Subjects I. and I., the text of Justinian's Institutes, Book IV., Chapters I. to V. (incl.), will be discussed in detail.) III. The Outlines of the Roman Law of Procedure. (Reference will be made to Excursus X. in Moyle's Institutes of Justinian.) IV. The Sources of Roman Law historically considered and compared with the Sources of English Law. V. Libertas and Servitus. The Enfranchisement of Slaves. Freedmen. The ASSISTANT READER's first Lecture will be held on Monday 12th January, at 12 o'clock, and will be continued at the same hour on subsequent Mondays. The ASSISTANT READER's first Class will be held on Tuesday, 13th January, at 3 o'clock, and the Classes will be continued at the same hour on subsequent Wednesdays and Tuesdays. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (ENGLISH AND COLONIAL) Reader A. T. CARTER, ESQ. Reader W. BLAKE ODGERS, ESQ., K.C. During Hilary Term the READER proposes to deliver Lectures and hold Classes as follows: EVIDENCE, ORAL AND DOCUMENTARY, with especial reference to the conduct of a case at Nisi Prius. Having dealt with "Relevancy" last term, he will now proceed with "Proof." The first Lecture will be delivered on Tuesday, January 13th, at 4 p.m., and the Lectures will be continued at the same hour on subsequent Tuesdays. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. The first Lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, January 14th, at 5 p.m., and the Lectures will be continued at the same hour on subsequent Wednesdays. Should the subject of Criminal Procedure be disposed of before the end of the term, the READER will then proceed to lecture on CRIMINAL LAW: OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE. PROCEDURE IN AN ACTION FOR THE RECOVERY OF LAND. This course is intended not only for Students, but also for gentlemen recently called to the Bar. The first Lecture will be delivered on Thursday, January 15th, at 4 p.m., and the course will be continuol at the same hour on subsequent Thursdays. PROCEDURE IN A CIVIL ACTION IN THE KING'S BENCH DIVISION, FROM APPEARANCE TO TRIAL. In his Class on Saturdays the READER will deal with the above subject, with practical illustrations taken from actual summonses, pleadings, interrogatories, &c. The first Class will be held on Saturday, January 17th, at 11 a.m. An oppor tunity will be given in the Class for any student to ask questions as to any subject discussed in that Class or in the preceding Lectures of the week. The READER will be glad to see any gentleman who desires to consult him informally us to his reading, at his Chambers, 4, Elm Court, Temple, E.C., on Monday, January 12th, from 5 to 6 p.m. During Hilary Term the READER will treat in his Lectures and 1 Classes of the following topics : I. Of Profits à prendre, e.g. rights of pasturage, turbage, de rights of fishing, shooting, hunting, and other sporting rights; rights of mining, quarrying, &c. II. Of certain public or quasi public rights analogous to Eas ments or Profits à prendre, such as public rights of way and of fishing and rights of recreation. The READER's first Lecture will be delivered on Monday, 12th January, at 4 o'clock, and the Lectures will be continued on subse Classification of Colonies. The Law of the Colony. The Execu-quent Fridays at 5 o'clock and Mondays at 4 o'clock. tive. The Governor, the Nature of his Office and his Relation to the Crown. During Hilary Term the READER in Constitutional Law will Lecture on the Law relating to the Colonies. The Colony and the Privy Council. Statutes. Leading Cases. The Colony and the Imperial Parliament. 2 o'clock, and the Classes will be continued on subsequent Wedies The first Lecture will be delivered on Monday, 12th January, at 3 o'clock, and the Lectures will be continued at the same hour on subsequent Thursdays, Fridays, and Mondays. In the Classes the READER proposes to deal with the History of some portions of the Substantive Law of England. The first Class will be held on Friday, 16th January, at 11 o'clock, and the Classes will be continued at the same hour on subsequent Fridays. The READER will be glad to see any gentleman who desires to consult him informally as to his reading at the end of the first Lecture or the first Class. "THE LAW OF WILLS." The ASSISTANT READER's first Lecture will be delivered on Monday, 12th January, at 11 o'clock, and the Lectures will be continued at the same hour on subsequent Mondays. The ASSISTANT READER's first Class will be held on Wednesday, 14th January, at 2 o'clock, and will be continued on subsequent Thursdays at 11 o'clock, and Wednesdays at 2 o'clock, The first Lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, 14th January, at 4 o'clock, and the Lectures will be continued at the same hour on absequent Wednesdays. The above subjects will be dealt with more in detail in the READER'S Classes on Friday mornings at 10 o'clock. The first Class will be held on Friday, 16th January, at 10 o'clock, and subsequent Classes on Fridays at the same hour. The READER will endeavour to make the Lectures and Classes as practical as possible, and opportunities of discussing the subjects dealt with will afforded to gentlemen attending the Classes. The first Lecture will be delivered on Monday, 12th January, at 10 o'clock, and the Lectures will be continued at the same hour on subsequent Mondays. The above subjects will be dealt with more in detail in the READER's The first of such Classes will be held on Monday, 12th January, at Suclock, and the Classes will be continued at the same hour on sub&quent Mondays. ing Lecture will be afforded to gentlemen attending the Classes. portunities of discussing the subjects dealt with in the precedThe ASSISTANT READER proposes to continue his Classes on THE ELEMENTS OF THE LAW OF CONTRACT. Consideration. Capacity. Mistake. Misrepresentation. Duress and Undue Influence. Illegality. Assignment of Contract. Discharge of Contract. 10a.m., and the first Class will be held on Tuesday, 13th January. Reader Assistant Reader EQUITY. A. UNDERHILL, ESQ. A. F. TOPHAM, Esq. "THE LAW RELATING TO PRIVATE TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES." The first Lecture will be delivered on Tuesday, 13th January, at 12 o'clock, and the Lectures will be continued at the same hour on subsequent Tuesdays. The Classes will be divided into two; viz, one on Wednesdays and one on Fridays; and Students are not expected to attend both Wednesday's and Friday's Class unless they wish. The first Senior Class will be held on Wednesday, 14th January, at 10 o'clock, and the Classes will be continued on subsequent Fridays at 4 o'clock and Wednesdays at 10 o'clock. The READER will also, on Thursday, 15th January, at 5 o'clock, and on subsequent Thursdays, at the same hour, continue his course of Lectures on the Principles of Equity, with particular reference to the subjects set for the Final Examination. These Lectures are intended primarily, but not exclusively, for Students who cannot attend at any earlier hour in the day. The ASSISTANT READER proposes to lecture on "THE MAXIMS OF EQUITY," commencing as follows: The first Junior Lecture will be delivered on Tuesday, 13th January at 11 o'clock, and the subsequent Lectures on Thurs lays at 12 o'clock Fridays at 2 o'clock, and Tuesdays at 11 o'clock. ARTICLED CLERKS. the Lectures and Classes on payment of half the fees payable by Clerks serving under Articles of Clerkship to Solicitors may attend other persons not being Members of an Inn of Court, the Council of the Incorporated Law Society having agreed with the Council of Legal Education for payment of the remainder. Articled Clerks may obtain Vouchers for Tickets by application to, the Secretary at the Hall of the Incorporated Law Society, Chancery, Lane, W.C. Particulars as to Fees payable by gentlemen, not being Members of an Inn of Court, may be obtained upon application to the Clerk of the Council, Lincoln's Inn Hall, W.C. MACNAGHTEN, Chairman of Council of Legal Education. ALFRED G. MARTEN, Chairman of Board of Studies. COUNCIL CHAMBER, LINCOLN'S INN. December, 1902. Before the Lectures for next Term commence, the READERS would be glad to see any of the Students who desire advice as to their studies, and to discuss and arrange with them which books they should read, and which Lectures and Classes they should attend. In order to afford an opportunity for this Mr. BATE will be in his Chambers, 11, New Square, Lincoln's Inn, on Monday, January 12th, between 3 and 5 p.m. Continue his course of Lectures on Tuesdays, and to hold Classes on Wednesdays and Fridays, on Daring Hilary Term the READER (Mr. UNDERHILL) proposes to Inn, on Monday, January 12th, between 5 and 5.30 p.m. Mr. UNDERHILL will be in his Chambers, 5, New Square, Lincoln's Mr. SCULLY will be in his Chambers, 15, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, on Monday, January 12th, between 2.30 and 4 p.m. |