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Pleading and Practice in the Superior Courts of Common
Law."

It was agreed that the Report should be printed, and further considered at the next Meeting.

The following reference was made to the Committee on the Law of Property:

"To consider the Law of Property as far as it relates to Married Women."

SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING, November 18th, 1850.— M. D. HILL, Esq., Q.C., in the Chair.

Mr. David Dudley Field, of New York, one of the Commissioners who have prepared the New York Code of Procedure, gave, at the invitation of the Council, some information to the Society with respect to that Code. -The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Field.-Adjourned.

GENERAL MEETING, December 9th, 1850.-M. D. HILL, Esq., Q.C., in the Chair.

The Minutes of the two last Meetings (the 11th and 18th of November last) were read and confirmed.

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The following Gentlemen were balloted for and elected: James Wyld, Esq., M.P., 8, Park Ville, West, Regent's Park. John D. Fitzgerald, Esq., Q.C., 1, Merrion Square, Dublin. William Howard Russell, Esq., Barrister, 4, Garden Court. Jelinger C. Symons, Esq., Barrister, 1, Harcourt Buildings, Temple.

G. Hammond Whalley, Esq., Barrister, 2, Paper Buildings, Temple.

John Rees Mogg, Esq., Solicitor, Temple Cloud, near Bristol.

It was resolved-That having reference to the proceedings of this Society on the 18th of November last, when Mr. David Dudley Field explained the operation of the New York Code, (by which the distinction of procedure in the Court of Law and Equity has been abolished,) questions relating to the working of this Code should be extensively circulated among Lawyers, Merchants, and others residing in New York and other States of America.

The First Report of the Committee on Common Law on the following reference:- "To consider the present state of the Law relating to Process, Pleading and Practice in the Superior Courts of Common Law," was received.

It was resolved-" That the Secretary be instructed to write to the County Court Judges to ask whether, in their judgment, the Law which enables parties to be examined as witnesses in the County Courts had worked well or ill?"

GENERAL MEETING, January 13th, 1851.-MR. COMMISSIONER FANE, in the Chair.

The Minutes of the last Meeting (the 9th of December last) were read and confirmed.

The following Gentlemen were balloted for and elected : Robert Lowe, Esq., Barrister, 2, Paper Buildings, Temple. James Lord, Esq., Barrister, 31, Bedford Square.

Acton, S. Ayrton, Esq., of the Middle Temple, 43, Dover Street, Piccadilly.

A Communication from Mr. David Dudley Field, containing the opinion of some of the Judges of the State of New York as to the operation of the New Code, was read; and

It was resolved-That a Committee be appointed, to consider whether the principles of Law and Equity could not be administered in the same Courts, and in the same form of proceeding; and in making such inquiry the Committee are requested to take into consideration the provisions of the New York Code. The Committee to consist of the following Members :

Mr. Commissioner Fane; Mr. M. D. Hill, Q. C.; Mr. Bethell,
Q. C.; Mr. Pitt Taylor; Mr. Creasy; Mr. Trower; Mr.
Vansittart Neale; Mr. James Stewart; Mr. D. Power; Mr.
Massey; Mr. William Hawes; Mr. Alderman Salomons;
Mr. Elliott; Mr. Robert Lowe; and Mr. Acton S. Ayrton.

The Secretary having (according to the instructions of the Society at the last Meeting) written to the County Court Judges, to ask whether, in their judgment, the Law which enables parties to be examined as witnesses in the County Courts, had worked well or ill? the several answers received were communicated to the Society, and ordered to lie upon the table; and

It was resolved-That the thanks of the Society be returned, individually, to those County Court Judges who have so kindly given their opinion on the subject.

Adjourned till Monday, the 10th day of February next, at Eight o' Clock in the Evening precisely.

GRAY'S INN, Hilary Term, 1851.-The Lecturer has given Notice (with the consent of the Benchers), that the Annual Voluntary Examination in Law of Students for the Bar will take place in the Hall of the Society, in next Trinity Term, viz., on the 5th and 6th days of June. The competition for honours, and for the Lecturer's prize (a set of the Reports of Vesey, jun.), is restricted to those Students who, from the present Term to the time of Examination, may be attending Mr. Lewis's Lectures.

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