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By G. J. P. SMITH and W. B. BRETT, Barristers at Law.

Carpenter v. Dunsmure. (Devise Construction
"To heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns
pur autre vie"-Special occupant)....
Hughes v. Humphreys.-(Sale of wheat by "hobbet"
— Weights and measures-5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 63, s. 6) 42

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IN Wenman v. Ash (17 Jur., part 1, p. 579; 22 L. J.,
C. P., 190) the Court of Common Pleas decided that
an action is maintainable for sending a letter to a mar-
ried woman containing a libel upon her husband. It
was sought in vain to put the case in the same cate-
gory with those, in which it had been held that sending
a libel to the plaintiff himself was no publication. The
Court disregarded the old fiction of unity of person,
"quia sunt duæ animæ in carne unâ;" and Maule, J.,
said, "As to the argument, that in the eye of the law
husband and wife are but one person, that is not so
for all purposes. If a man kills his wife he commits
murder, not suicide." In a more recent case*, in the
same court, the question has been raised, whether a
man is liable to an action for sending to his wife a
letter containing a libel on a third person, it being
shewn that he was at the time actuated by express
malice against such third person. Although the parties
have come to an arrangement without any judicial de-
cision upon
the point, it involves considerations of suf-
ficient interest for us to discuss it in our pages.
There is no doubt that communications between
husband and wife belong to the highest class of privi-
leged communications, and as such they have been
excepted by the recent statute (16 & 17 Vict. c. 83,
s. 3) from the testimony which husband and wife may
be compelled to give against each other. The sacred
character attached to words and letters which pass be-

* Lefroy v. Cridland, (Hil. T., 1855).

No. 2, VOL. I., NEW SERIES.

tween persons filling this relation does not rest on any
refinement or fiction of the common or canon law, but
upon grounds of public policy, for the sake of domestic
confidence, peace, and happiness. It differs from the
privilege accorded to other communications, which are
dependent upon the particular occasion on which they
are made: this is independent of all occasions; it arises
out of a permanent relationship, and is co-extensive
with it-nay, extends beyond it; for not even after
the husband's death can anything be extracted from
the bosom of the wife which has been confided there
by him*. The privilege is unlimited, unqualified, and
may well be subject to incidents different from those
which prevail with regard to ordinary privileged com-
munications. The latter may, no doubt, be rebutted
and neutralised. The protection cast around the occa-
sion which justified the communication is removed as
soon as actual malice is shewn to have instigated the
party making it. There is no inconvenience, no in-
justice, no aggression on public policy by the adop-
tion of this rule. But how different is the case when
the conversation of the home, in the moments of
unrestrained confidence, of relaxation, of “castled se-
curity," is to be divulged in a public court, perhaps
by a servant who heard the words; and all this would
be done before the question of malice or no malice
could be entertained. There are surely cogent reasons
for not allowing this privilege to be affected even by
malice itself-not for the sake of protecting malice,
but of preventing investigations, the possibility of
which would be a great public evil, outweighing a

* See Monroe v. Twistleton, (Peake's Ev., App., xxxix);

O'Connor v. Marjoribanks, (4 Man. & G. 444, per Tindal,

C. J.); and Stein v. Bowman, (13 Peters, 223, Amer. Rep.)

B

At a meeting of the Law Amendment Society, (Jan. 15), a paper was read by Mr. Woolrych, recommending the extension of the summary jurisdiction of magistrates to all cases of petty larceny.

regard for the private injury that may have been in-plaintiff's counsel applies for it. Immediate execution ficted. In O'Connor v. Marjoribanks (4 Man. & G. will be granted only on production of a sufficient affidavit for that purpose. 445) it was held that a widow was not admissible as a witness to shew that she pledged goods by her husband's authority, in an action brought by his executors to recover the goods; and Maule, J., there (p. 445) uses words illustrative of the present question-"The textlooks generally give, as the reason for the rule as to excluding the testimony of husband or wife, the neessity of preserving the confidence of the conjugal elation; and that may be so. But it by no means follows that the rule is co-extensive with the reason given in support of it; and indeed it would be very inconvenient if it were so, as the question would frequeatly be raised as to whether or not some particular communication or fact occurring between husband and

wife was of a confidential character, which would give

rise to endless embarrassment and distrust."

It would not be an anomalous case were this rule to le adopted, as we believe, when the point again arises, it will be, to the full extent for which we are contending.

There are other instances of communications being highly privileged, upon principles of public policy, as not to be affected by the presence of malice. Thus, for libels published or slander uttered in the que course of parliamentary or judicial proceedings, action of libel or slander can be maintained, what ever may have been the malice of the defaming party. (See Lord Beauchamps v. Sir Richard Croft, Dy. 285 a; Astley v. Younge, 2 Burr. 807; Anfield v. Ferhill, 2 Bulst. 269; Roll. Ab. 87, pl. 4; 1 Stark. Libel, 246, note (u); and Stockdale v. Hansard, 9 Ad. & El. 1).

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The Court of Queen's Bench (Jan. 13) discharged the rule for a criminal information obtained against Mr. Marshall, the judge of the Yorkshire County Court, for refusing to allow Mr. Shaw, a barrister, to practise before him, but discharged it without costs, and on the ground that Mr. Shaw had made a previous application in the matter to the Lord Chancellor.

In the case of Gibson v. Sturge, in the Court of Exchequer, (Jan. 13), it appeared that wheat, which had been shipped at Odessa, had become swollen by reason, of moisture during the voyage, whereby it measured a greater number of quarters at the port of delivery than at the shipping port. The Court (Martin, B., dissentiente) held, that in the absence of any contract to the courary, freight was payable on the quantity shipped, and not on the quantity delivered.

In Gore v. Lowser, Sir J. Stuart, V. C., has held (Jan. 15){that an equitable interest in leasehold proporty may be reached under a fi. fa. issued upon a judgment which had not been registered in pursuance of the 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110*.

The practice adopted during the Nisi Prius Sittings

in this term is to allow execution in undefended causes tissue in four (instead of fourteen) days, when the

*See 1 Chit. Arch. Prac. 579.

Dr. Waddilove read a paper upon the Law of Blockade. At a meeting of the Statistical Society, (Jan. 15), Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M. P., addressing a meeting at Tynemouth on the 11th January, observed that the form of the charterparty still used in England was verbatim the same as in the days of the Dutch war and Lord Camperdown; but the French adopted a simple form, like that used in the merchant service, and were in this respect greatly in advance of us.

Fifteen of the sixty county court judges have had their salaries raised to the maximum, 15007., instead of the minimum, 12001. per annum.

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TO THE EDITOR OF "THE JURIST."
SIR,-In your leading article in last Saturday's
JURIST (18 Jur., part 2, p. 521) you notice the act of
the 27 Hen. 6, c. 5, prohibiting the holding of fairs on
Sundays, "the four Sundays in harvest except."

I infer, from the omission of all notice of it, that you have overlooked a recent act repealing the exception, and take the liberty of directing your attention to it.

The act I refer to is the 13 Vict. c. 23, which, after reciting the 27 Hen. 6, c. 5, enacts, "that the exception of the four Sundays in harvest contained in the said act shall be repealed, and the said act shall be construed as if such exception were not inserted therein." I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, ARTHUR JOHN WOOD.

4, New-square, Lincoln's-inn,

Jan. 10, 1855.

[We are much obliged to our correspondent for calling our attention to the above statute, which we had overlooked.—ED.]

PHOTOGRAPHY A CRIMINAL DETECTOR.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE JURIST." SIR,-The importance of applying the discoveries o science to the detection of criminals, and the prevention of future crime, will be sufficient excuse for my troubling you with the inclosed extract from the Glasgow Daily Mail, which will form an appropriate "rider" to the paragraph which appeared upon this of taking a prisoner's likeness" was, on his admissubject in your last week's paper. The former mode sion, to place him in an ante-room, and for all the officers of the gaol to pass by him-a dismal train, like the ghosts that appeared before Macbeth-until they But such a likeness was not transmissible from prison had become acquainted with his personal lineaments. to prison. The doers of dark deeds will hate the light more than ever, when it not only discloses their present actions, but throws its full glare upon their antecedent history. The extract is as follows:

that Captain Smart, the superintendent of police in "We lately called attention to the circumstance, Glasgow, contemplated the introduction of a system of taking the portraits of the thieves and vagabonds who passed through his hands, by the photographic process, for the purpose of facilitating their detection and of

bringing them to justice, in the event of their removing to other localities. We were then shewn an earnest of that gentleman's intentions in a very authentic likeness of an old Welsh beggar, who had been picked up for sorning. Since that period, however, the subject has been in abeyance. From the first we saw it was beset with difficulties, but we hesitated not to say that these would disappear before the progress of the art, and that photography would eventually be turned to good account in detecting and repressing crime. A short time ago an Edinburgh contemporary very clearly pointed out the change which crime had assumed since the introduction of railroads and steamers. It had become much more migratory and peripatetic in its character. New classes of thieves had sprung up, designed to suit the changed habits of the people, on the plunder of whom they existed. One class continuously travelled by steamer, while another was closely attached to railway stations. These never confined their operations to one part of the country for any length of time, but were continually changing their habitats to avoid detection. Our contemporary proposed to meet this growing and dangerous evil by establishing a national police, to be composed of men who, without assuming any distinctive uniform by which they could be recognised as police detectives, might travel anywhere and everywhere over the great channels of conveyance throughout the country, and who would make it their study to dodge, hunt down, and bring to justice those migratory professional thieves. The scheme is plausible, and well fitted to root out the evil; but it is nevertheless yet far distant, for it could only be introduced by a considerable change in the present police machinery of the country, which we see no early prospect of obtaining. As an approximation to this system, however, the photographic plan offers great advantages, in illustration of which we might give a case which occurred last week, where a young man and woman were convicted before one of our police courts of shoplifting, and sent for sixty days to prison. The offence was a grave one, and the award was the extreme limit the magistrate could give. The prisoners were total strangers to the police. One gentleman, however, connected with the detective force, perhaps from motives of curiosity, communicated a minute description of them to the Dublin police, suspecting from the accent of the prisoners that they came from that city. The result proved that the man had been no less than eighteen times in prison in Dublin, twelve of these for thefts, and the woman six times in prison for the same offence; in short, that they were professional thieves, who had just changed the scene of their predations from Dublin to Glasgow. Had this been known before their case was disposed of, they could have been dealt with as habit and repute thieves; but under the present system they may pass on from one locality to another, running the course of the petty courts, and being treated as persons brought up for the first time, instead of being transferred to the highest criminal court in the country, and disposed of in terms of their deserts. Now, the aid photography would give in discovering the real character of such offenders will be at once apparent. A mutual interchange of portraits of noted thieves would form a most valuable and interesting pertinent of the police establishment of a great city.'

I am, Sir, yours &c.,

A. 1.

Jan. 15, 1855. The Right Hon. Sir John Jervis, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, has appointed Edward Brown Fiske, of Beccles, Suffolk, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, in and for the county of Suffolk.

To Correspondents.

WE have received several letters from esteemed correspondents upon the subject of the alterations which we have adopted with regard to the form of THE JURIST. While in the main approving of them, they advise us "stare super antiquas vias" with reference to the Table of Cases at the commencement of each number. We should be happy to comply with this suggestion, but the space required for advertisements precludes the possibility of our doing so; we have, however, made the Index, as will be seen, more distinctive than in our last number.

In future the outer pages, containing the advertisements, will not be paged, and the number of Tas JURIST will be placed at the foot of the first page of the Reports.

We are much obliged to those gentlemen who have favoured us with their suggestions, which we shall at all times be happy to receive.

REGULE GENERALES.

ORDERS IN LUNACY.-Jan. 12, 1855. Chancellor of Great Britain, intrusted, by virtue of her I, ROBERT MONSEY Baron CRANWORTH, Lord High commitment of the custody of the persons and estates Majesty the Queen's sign-manual, with the care and of persons found idiot, lunatic, or of unsound mind, lo, with the advice and assistance of the Right Hon. Sir JAMES LEWIS KNIGHT BRUCE and the Right Hon. Sir GEORGE JAMES TURNER, the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, also being intrusted as aforesaid, and by virtue and in exercise of the powers or authorities in this behalf vested in me by the Lunacy authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, order Regulation Act, 1853, and of every other power or

as follows:

I. That the Masters in Lunacy do from time to time furnish the visitors of lunatics with abstracts of their reports as to the fortune, income, and maintenance of each lunatic, and of the orders confirming such reports, and inform the said visitors of any increase which may have accrued in the fortune of, and of any change which may have been made in the allowance or scheme for the maintenance of, any lunatic, so that at all thes the said visitors may be fully acquainted with the amount of the fortune and income of every lunati, and with the scheme approved and the allowance made for his maintenance.

II. That the medical visitors of lunatics do, on each occasion of visiting any lunatic, inquire and examine whether such lunatic is maintained in a suitable and proper manner, having regard to the then existing amount of the allowance ordered to be paid, and the then existing scheme approved of, for the maintenanes of such lunatic; and also whether, having regard to the then fortune and income of such lunatic, it appears expedient that any and what addition should be ma le to his comforts, or any and what alterations should be made in the scheme for or manner of his maintenance.

III. That if the said visitors shall on such inquiry and examination consider that the lunatic is not maintained in such suitable and proper manner as is aloresaid; or that the allowance provided for his maintenance is not duly applied; or that any provision in the scheme for his maintenance, either for his personal comfort or enjoyment or otherwise, is not duly observe 1, or that any addition to the comforts, or any alteration in the manner of the maintenance, of the lunatic shoald be made, which his then fortune or income is capable of providing, they shall forthwith make a special réit,

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