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Excerpt from Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, Vol. 2: During the Time of Lord Chancellor Cottenham and the Lords Commissioners; 1849; 12& 13 Vict;; 1850; 13& 14 Vict At the end of Trinity Term, 1850, Lord Cottenham resigned the Great Seal, which was thereupon put into Commission. The Commissioners were Lord Langdale, the Master of the Rolls; Sir Lancelot Shadwell, Vice-Chancellor of England; and Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer: and they first took their seats as Lords Commissioners on the 20th of June, 1850. In Trinity Vacation, 1850, Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, was appointed Lord Chancellor, and was created Baron Truro. He first took his seat as Lord Chancellor on the 17th of July, 1850. Sir John Jervis, her Majesty's Attorney-General, succeeded Lord Truro, as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and was succeeded as Attorney-General by Sir John Romilly. Alexander James Edward Cockburn, Esq., was appointed Solicitor-General in the place of Sir John Romilly; and, shortly afterwards, received the honor of Knighthood. Sir Lancelot Shadwell, Vice-Chancellor of England, died in July, 1850; and shortly afterwards, Sir James Wigram, Vice-Chancellor, resigned his office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.