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of equitable law administered there and of which Lord
Nottingham might be considered as the founder –
and that the consequences of introducing a Judge
who would perhaps sit upon mo more than
20 or 30 causes in a year were such as no
person could distinctly foresee.

If the business of the Court has increased
so much that the was too much for the
Chancellor to perform this was the worst possible
mode of supplying the defect. If a
permanent remedy were really necessary he should
proposed to separate them from the office of
Chancellor the duties of Speaker of the
House of Lords or the decision of Bankruptcy
causes – though to either he thought
there were strong objections. But this the plan
proposed in this report went to separate
from the duties of the Chancellor which that which
constituted the , if he might say
so, the very essence of the judicial character
of the office among. If they really – and if
they should press forward the Bill this
session they would, without that inquiry
which the importance of the subject demanded,
fabrice from the Chancellor what was essential
essential to the character and leave him only
that those duties which had been considered
as mere appendages. I am sure, he added,
that, if the matter comes to be dleiberately
weighed, it will to be brought before the

Identifier: | JB/149/218/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1	1825	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	218	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles	on the report of the commission for enquiring into the state of the court of chancery
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / / /
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[fleur de lys motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	50072
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