TERM

REPORTS

IN THE

Court of King's Bench:

BY

CHARLES DURNFORD AND EDWARD HYDE EAST,

OF THE TEMPLE, ESQRS. BARRISTERS AT LAW.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. VIII.

CONTAINING

MICHAELMAS TERM, 39th GEORGE III. 1798,

TO

TRINITY TERM, 40th GEORGE III. 1800,

BOTH INCLUSIVE;

WITH TABLES OF THE NAMES OF CASES AND PRINCIPAL MATTERS.

A NEW EDITION,

WITH REFERENCES TO THE SUBSEQUENT CASES.

Si quid novisti rectius istis,
Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.

HOR.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. BUTTERWORTH AND SON, FLEET-STREET;
AND J. COOKE, ORMOND-QUAY, DUBLIN.

JUDGES

OF THE

COURT OF KING'S BENCH,

During the Time of this VOLUME of REPORTS.

The Right Honourable LLOYD Lord KENYON, Lord Chief Justice.

Honourable Sir WILLIAM HENRY ASHHURST, Knt. (resigned in Trinity Term, 1799.)

Honourable Sir NASH GROSE, Knt.

Honourable Sir SOULDEN LAWRENCE, Knt.

Honourable Sir SIMON LE BLANC, Knt. (appointed in June 1799.)

Sir JOHN SCOTT, Knt. Attorney-General, (created a Peer of Great Britain, and appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Trinity Vacation, 1799.)

Sir JOHN MITFORD, Knt. Attorney-General, (appointed in Trinity Vacation, 1799.)

Sir JOHN MITFORD, Knt. Solicitor-General, (promoted in Trinity Vacation, 1799.)

Sir WILLIAM GRANT, Knt. Solicitor-General, (appointed in Trinity Vacation, 1799.)