THE REVISED REPORTS BEING A REPUBLICATION OF SUCH CASES IN THE ENGLISH COURTS OF COMMON LAW AND EQUITY, FROM THE YEAR 1785, AS ARE STILL OF PRACTICAL UTILITY. EDITED BY SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., LL.D., CORPUS PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF oxford. 4 CLARK & FINNELLY 3 10 BLIGH (N. S.) 8 SIMONS LONDON: SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE. BOSTON : LITTLE, BROWN & CO. 1899. PREFACE TO VOLUME XLII. It seems hardly worthy of the dignity of the House of the Lords to decide whether a barber's apprentice can be required to shave customers on Sunday; but they had to do so on an appeal from the Court of Session in Scotland in Phillips v. Innes, p. 19. An incident in the infancy of the London and North Western Railway Company is recorded at p. 159. Price v. Dewhurst, p. 176, is one of the small number of modern cases in which our Courts have refused to Nevertheless, there are shew that, if a flagrant recognize the validity of a foreign judgment. It is at least doubtful whether this has been done except where the defect in the proceedings amounted to a want of jurisdiction, as in this case. dicta of sufficient weight to departure from substantial justice appeared in the foreign proceedings, our Courts would hold themselves free to disregard the result. Mere technical irregularities will not avail for this purpose. See Pemberton v. Hughes, '99, 1 Ch. 781, 790. On the law of real property we have here some decisions |