ERRATA ET CORRIGENDA. At page 365, line 19, from top, read "lien," instead of "general lien." At page 620, line 4, from top, read that the plaintiff had "a general verdict," instead of "MERRINGTON v. CHARLES BECKETT, Gent. one, &c."— In some of the copies of the Third Volume of these Reports, (p. 231,) this cause was mis-printed "MERRINGTON v. A'BECKETT, Gent. one, &c." a few of which got into circulation, and led to the mistake being copied into the Supplement to Mr. J. B. Moore's Digested Index to the Term Reports.-The Publishers are anxious the error CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH, IN HILARY TERM, IN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH YEARS OF THE REIGN MEMORANDA. DURING the vacation, Sir Robert Dallas, Knight, retired from the office of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and was succeeded by Sir Robert Gifford, Knight, the King's Attorney General, who was called to the degree of Serjeant at Law. The motto on his rings was "Secundis Laboribus." On the first day of this Term, he took his seat on the bench, and was shortly afterwards raised to the dignity of a peer of Great Britain, by the title of Baron Gifford, of St. Leonard's, in the county of Devon. In the course of last Michaelmas Term, Sir Richard Richards, Knight, Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, died, at his house in Great Ormond Street. William Alexander, Esq. one of the Masters in Chancery, being appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1824. 1824. was called to the degree of Serjeant at Law, and gave rings with the motto "Secundis Laboribus." On the first day of this Term he took his seat on the bench. Sir John Singleton Copley, Knight, the King's Solicitor General, was appointed to the office of Attorney General. Charles Wetherell, of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Esq., was appointed to the office of Solicitor General. William Wingfield, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel learned in the law, having resigned the office of Chief Justice of the Brecon Circuit, succeeded to the office of one of the Masters in Chancery, vacant by the death of Sir John Simeon, Knight. James Farrer, of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. was appointed to the office of one of the Masters in Chancery, vacant by the promotion of William Alexander, Esq. Michael Nolan, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel learned in the law, was appointed to the office of Chief Justice of the Brecon Circuit, vacant by the resignation of William Wingfield, Esq. |