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 A Century of English Judicature. of imported fruit and supplying the trade. The complainants, a firm of wholesale grocers, sought an injunction against the managing committee of the club; they claimed that the committee had formed a scheme to get exclusive possession of the

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it was illegal. Nevertheless, Lord Eldon took occasion to denounce the organization in vigorous terms, saying that it was, first, a conspiracy against the vendors, and, sec ondly, a conspiracy against the world at large!

_^__^_^_ SIR ROBERT OIFFORD.

trade and compel all the dealers to buy from them, reciting that the committee had bought at low prices and resold at high prices, had refused to have further dealings with buyers who had bought of others without first apply ing to them, and had in this way obtained possession of the market. The plaintiff had made a purchase of the committee as a foun dation for suit. Curiously enough, the com mittee conceded on behalf of the club that

His historical position must always re main conspicuous, for he definitely brought to a conclusion the work of binding down the chancellor's discretion. "The doctrines of this court," he said in Gee v. Pritchard, 2 Swanst. 414, "ought to be as well settled and made as uniform almost as those of the common law, laying down fixed principles, but taking care that they are to be applied according to the circumstances of each case.