Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...purpose. The composition of the Court thus admitted of three different combinations, consisting of those two Courts below which were not parties to the original judgment. It was abolished on the 1st November, 1875, by the Judicature Acts, which transferred its jurisdiction to the present Court of Appeal. See Judicature Act, 1873, s. 18 (4); Judicature Act, 1874, s. 2. interest and exchange the bills. The old bills had been delivered to them for a special purpose inconsistent with lien. The fair inference from the transaction was that the new bills were intended to be handed to Burn that he might deposit them in the tin box, and the accidental circumstance that by reason of his illness these particular bills happened to remain in the hands of the bankers for a longer period than usual did not affect the case. The transaction was very similar to the deposit at a bank for safe custody of plate in a locked chest, upon which there clearly is no lien. Charge on One of Several Properties comprised in Deed. In the case of Wylde v. Radford, which came before Kindersley, V.C., in 1863, a customer deposited with his bankers a deed of conveyance, including two distinct properties, giving them a memorandum charging one of the properties only as security for his general balance, and it was held that, as the charge created by the deposit was specifically limited to one of the properties only, the bankers could claim no lien on the other property. Illustration of General Lien. An interesting illustration of the effect of the bankers' general lien is afforded by the case of Davis v. Bowsher, decided in 1794, t in which a customer used from time to time to lodge bills with his bankers and obtain advances from them. The bankers charged no interest on the..
