Fees to be taken in Court and contentious business, in the Court of Probate Fees to be taken by Officers of the County Courts, in respect of business under the Fees to be taken for their own use by the Proctors, Solicitors, and Attorneys prac- tising in the Court of Probate in conten- Fees to be taken for the use of other per- sons, by the Proctors, Solicitors, and li Rules, Orders, and Instructions-continud. Fees to be taken in the Principal Registry of the Court of Probate, in non-conten- Fees to be taken for their own use by Proctors, Solicitors, and Attorneys prac- tising in the Court of Probate, and in the 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, |