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1829. Sept. 15.
Collectanea for Procedure Code and Judiciary

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and eight children, and incarcerated in the Fleet ever since
July 1827, for no other cause than refusing to swear, in a
cause in which he had no interest whatever, that a man was
his uncle, whom he knew not to be so. The Solicitor General
said he would speak to the Clerk in Court about it.

A gentleman of a very different class to most of the rest, was
recognized by the Solicitor General as one against whom
he had often acted in the great cause of "Dew and Clark".
Mr. Clark had little occasion to explain his truly hard
care. He had been left by an uncle a large fortune, to the
prejudice of a daughter, to whom a small annuity was
bequeathed, as she had married against her fathers wishes.
The will was upset by the Ecclesiastical Court, and
Mr. Clark, while an appeal was pending, was seized for
contempt, and has been imprisoned more than two years
and a half. He was thus deprived of property and liberty
by being left a large fortune.

Many other cases, which it would be tedious to enumerate,
occupied Sir Edward for two days, and there is a confident
hope entertained that Government at last see the cruelty
and injustice of continuing that barbarous system of imprisonment,
often for life, of persons who are too poor or too
ignorant, to avoid contempts of Chancery. There was one
prisoner for whom Sir Edward Sugden did not send, though
to the increasing exertions of that prisoner, it is not unlikely
the whole of the enquiry and changes consequent
thereon, will be mainly owing. We feel satisfied from these
proceedings of the Solicitor General, that with regard to
Chancery we stand on the threshold of a new and more
merciful system. British Traveller –

Identifier: | JB/109/288/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1	1829-09-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Procedure Code
Folio number	288	Info in main headings field	Collectanea for Procedure Code and Judiciary
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E2
Penner		Watermarks	B&M 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	Arthur Moore; Richard Doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	35943
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