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In a few years, or, at least, equal distribution, and to the consequent dispatch, of when the present generation of Serjeants has passed business in the superior courts of common law at West- away, Serjeants will have become historical, and their minster," there can be no doubt. Manifold would be rank will merge in that of Queen's Counsel; for, when the evils attending, in the present state of society, an the only advantage, or supposed advantage, of the degree arrangement by which only one class of counsel should of Serjeant, that of exclusive audience in the Common be permitted to practise in any one particular court, and Pleas, shall have been destroyed, there will be no constill greater are the evils, when the arrangement is ap-ceivable inducement for a man to pay very heavy fees, plied to the business in banc only, of a court of common law. for the mere pleasure of giving rings, and wearing a wig of special structure. The extinction, however, of this venerable order, as it is justly termed by Blackstone, since its existence is clearly traced back through nearly six centuries*, though it may cause a pang to It is always of importance to the solicitor to be able to keep his case throughout its various stages in the hands of the same counsel. We do not say that it must be always of advantage for him actually to do so; because cases may occur in which the talent of one * Mr. Chitty, in his note to Blackstone, (vol. 1, p. 21, man is of a kind peculiarly suited to a particular n. (t)), says, that the first mention he has met with in our law stage of a business, or a particular tribunal, and ex- books of serjeants or counters, is in the Statute of Westmintremely unfitted for another stage of it, or another tri-ster 1, (3 Edw. 1, c. 29), and in Horn's Mirror, in the same bunal. But, speaking generally, a case is best carried through where the counsel who have advised and argued from the beginning, advise and argue till the end; at least, the suitor ought to have the right of determining for himself whether such a course is to his advantage; and nothing can be more preposterous, than to say to a suitor, whose cause is in the Common Pleas, that, unless he retains a serjeant for his counsel throughout, he must have no other continuity of counsel. The effect of the new regulation will, therefore, be beneficial in a twofold way. It will not only give to the suitor a larger class of advocates to select from, but it will enable him, when it is, in his opinion, his VOL. X. KK shewing what were the propensities, in that day, of even so reign. The statute, which is not printed, is so curious, as honourable a body of men as serjeants, and what was the despotic discipline to which the Bar was subjected, that we cannot resist the temptation of transcribing it:-" Pourveu de deceit ou de collusion en la Court le Roi, ou consente de que si nul serjaunt, count (countre), ou autre face nule manere faire la en deceite de la court, et pur enginer la court ou la partie, et de ceo soit atteint; lors eit la prison d'un an et d'un jour et mes ne soit oie en la court a counter pur nullay." The richness of the expression "pur enginer la court" is scarcely translateable. It is translated in the statute book by the words, " or to beguile the court." Happily, in the present day, it is not the practice of counsel to deceive the court, or to try to" enginer la court;" but we should be a little sur prised at the committal of a serjeant to prison, even if he did attempt such an offence. from the Great Western Railway at West Drayton to Ux. bridge, in Middlesex," and "An Act for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway at Maidenhead, in Berkshire, to the town of High Wycombe, in the county of Bucking. ham;" or to so much of an act passed in this session, [c. cclxxviii], intituled "An Act to authorise certain Extensions Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto," as authorises of the Line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton the construction of a branch railway from the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway to the town of Witney, in the county of Oxford; or to an act passed or which may be struction of a railway from Melin-y-Manach to Rhydydefydd, passed in this session of Parliament, "to authorise the conin the county of Glamorgan." the mind of those who take keen delight in historical associations,—and such are ever of the finer order of minds, ought not to be allowed to weigh against the obvious public benefit of entire freedom of selection for the suitor; and we are to remember, for the comfort and consolation of those even who would grieve over the departed glories of Serjeantcy, as over the loss of an institution, that though, in truth, the order of Serjeants is connected with much that is most to be reverenced in the history of our jurisprudence; and though, to its still greater honour, that order has had to boast of many men who, in times of political 3. That the several railways authorised to be constructed by difficulty and attacks made by privilege on the liberties an act passed in the last session of Parliament, [c. cxc], inti of the subject, have been bold as well as able, in the tuled "An Act for making a Railway, to be called 'The South Wales Railway,' cause of legitimate freedom; the men who have so ,"" and by an act also passed in the last session of Parliament, [c. cxci], intituled "An Act for making a Railadorned the order did so, not because they were Ser-way from Monmouth to Hereford, with Branches therefrom jeants at law, but because they were good and great men; and last, if not least, be it remembered, that, if, as we predict, the recent act has struck the death-blow to the order of Serjeants, it was better that that honourable and venerable order should die decently under the stab of an act of the Legislature, than moulder away, as it threatened to do, in the humiliation of a forgotten old age. Whereas it is expedient to define the gauge on which railways shall be constructed: be it enacted, &c., that, after the passing of this act, it shall not be lawful (except as hereinafter excepted) to construct any railway for the conveyance of passengers on any gauge other than four feet eight inches and half an inch in Great Britain, and five feet three inches in Ireland: Provided always, that nothing hereinbefore contained shall be deemed to forbid the maintenance and repair of any railway constructed before the passing of this act on any gauge other than those hereinbefore specified, or to forbid the laying of new rails on the same gauge on which such railway is constructed within the limits of deviation authorised by the several acts under the authority of which such railways are severally constructed. 2. That nothing hereinbefore contained shall apply to any railway constructed, or to be constructed, under the provisions of any present or future act containing any special enactment defining the gauge or gauges of such railway, or any part thereof, or to any railway which is in its whole length southward of the Great Western Railway, or to any railway in any of the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, or Somerset, for which any act has been or shall be passed in this session of Parliament, or to any railway in any of the last-mentioned counties now in the course of construction, or to the two railways severally to be constructed under the authority of two acts passed in this session of Parliament, [c. clxvi and c. ccxxxvi], severally intuled " An Act for making a Railway to Westbury and to join the Forest of Dean Railway," and by two acts passed in this session of Parliament, severally intituled way, and to authorise the Construction of an Extension, and "An Act for completing the Line of the South Wales Railcertain Alterations of the said Railway, and certain Branch Railways in connexion therewith," and [c. cv]" An Act for and the proposed South Wales Railway, in the County of making a Railway Communication between the City of Bristol Monmouth, with a Branch Railway therefrom," shall be constructed on the gauge of seven feet. 4. That it shall not be lawful, after the passing of this act, to alter the gauge of any railway used for the conveyance of passengers. 5. That nothing hereinbefore contained shall be deemed to affect the provisions of two acts passed in the last session of Parliament, [c. clxxxviii and c. cclxxxiv], respectively intituled "An Act for making a Railway from the City of Oxford to the Town of Rugby," and "An Act for making a Railway from Oxford to Worcester and Wolverhampton," with respect to the gauge on which they are to be formed, or the additional rails, which, according to the several provisions of the last two recited acts, are to be, or may be, laid down and maintained on the railways thereby authorised, or with respect to the powers thereby conferred on the commissioners of her Ma jesty's Privy Council for trade and foreign plantations concerning the construction and use of the railways thereby authorised. 6. That if any railway, used for the conveyance of pas sengers, shall be constructed or altered contrary to the provisions of this act, the company authorised to construct the railway, or, in the case of any demise or lease of such railway, the company for the time being having the control of the works of such railway, shall forfeit 101. for every mile of such railway which shall be so unlawfully constructed or altered, during every day that the same shall continue so unlawfully constructed or altered; and, in estimating the amount of any such penalty, any distance less than one mile shall be estimated as a mile. 7. That, over and above the penalty hereinbefore provided, if any railway used for the conveyance of passengers shall be constructed or altered contrary to the provisions of this act, it shall be lawful for the commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, or for the lords of the committee of her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, to abate and remove the same, or any part thereof so constructed or altered contrary its former condition. to the provisions of this act, and to restore the site thereof to 8. That all penalties under this act may be recovered from the company liable to pay and make good the same, as, under the provisions of an act passed in the last session of Parlia ment, [c. 20], intituled "An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorising the making of Railways," a penalty for any infringement of the last-recited act is recoverable against a company authorised to construct a railway. 9. That this act may be amended or repealed by any act to be passed in this session of Parliament. |