House of Lords

Webb has been affirmed in the House of Lords, ’95, A.

But the House of Lords refused to make any distinction on that score, and held the doctrine of Acton v.

But the tendency was effectually checked by the decision of the House of Lords in Smith v.

He was transferred to the House of Lords as Lord Wensleydale a few years after the drastic reformation, by the Common Law Procedure Act of 1852, of the system he had so zealously maintained in the Court of Exchequer.

Later still, not much more than half a century ago, came the action for procuring breach of contract, allowed against learned and weighty dissent, continued in the face of more dissent and severe criticism, in jeopardy, as it seemed, within quite recent memory, and finally confirmed in England, and set on its true footing, only by judgments in the House of Lords and the Court of Appeal so recent t …

I do not think the later authorities (including the decisions by which the House of Lords forced the doctrine on Scotland in its full extent) go much beyond repeating his reasons with variations.

and Brougham played the doctrinaire in the House of Lords.

During his later life he placed much confidence in Palmerston, but when that most aristocratic of Liberal Premiers perceived what Bagehot has termed “the inestimable and unprecedented opportunity” of reforming the House of Lords without agitation, Lord Shaftesbury pronounced the proposal to create life peers to be as pernicious as it was specious, and foreboded that it would end in making the Hous …

In the light of the above considerations I some time ago drafted an Adulteration Bill which was read a first time in the House of Lords in 1886.