By the same Author.

HANDY-BOOK OF THE IRISH CHURCH ACT.

THE

THE IRISH CHURCH ACT, 1869, and the GLEBE LOAN ACT (IRELAND) 1870. Annotated. Rules, Forms, and Notes of Decisions by the Commissioners, Resolutions of the Church Representative Body, etc. etc., and an Index. New Edition.

Dublin: HODGES, FOSTER, & CO., Grafton Street, Publishers to the University.

SIX JUDGMENTS

OF THE

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL

IN ECCLESIASTICAL CASES,

1850-1872.

WITH

AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND INDEX.

Gt. Brit. Privy council Judicial committed

EDITED BY

WILLIAM G. BROOKE, M.A.

BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

STANFORD

LONDON:

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PREFACE.

A FEW of the more important of the ecclesiastical causes heard since the year 1850 before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will be found in this volume.

To assist the reader, a full introductory statement has been prepared and prefixed to each Judgment.

The Judgments are printed verbatim; that in the case of Sheppard v. Bennett has been reprinted from an official copy.

My best thanks are due to Mr. Edmund F. Moore, Q.C., the learned Reporter in the Court of the Judicial Committee, who, courteously waiving his copyright, has permitted me to make unrestricted use of the contents of his valuable Reports.

W. G. BROOKE.