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INTRODUCTION.

THE first foundation of the Probate Act was laid twenty-seven years ago. In 1830, a Commission was issued by the Crown to inquire into the practice and jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in England and Wales. In 1832, the Commissioners, consisting of Six Prelates, the Chief Justices of the Superior Courts of Common Law, the judges of the Ecclesiastical Courts, and a few other eminent individuals, made their final Report. In the following year, a Bill for the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts, based upon the recommendation of the Commissioners, was introduced into the House of Lords by Lord Brougham, then Lord Chancellor, but at so late a period of the session that it was not pressed forward. In 1833, a committee of the House of Commons, of which Sir Robert Peel was chairman, investigated the subject. Bills, with some considerable variety in principle and detail, were introduced successively, by Sir F. Pollock, A. G., in 1835; by his successor in office,

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