This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...abandoned on each side when the committee re-assembled. Re-opening Case. Where an objection to a vote had been partly gone into, and through a misapprehension with regard to certain facts the counsel abandoned the objection, the committee, who in consequence of tbeir immediately adjourning bad come to no formal ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...abandoned on each side when the committee re-assembled. Re-opening Case. Where an objection to a vote had been partly gone into, and through a misapprehension with regard to certain facts the counsel abandoned the objection, the committee, who in consequence of tbeir immediately adjourning bad come to no formal conclusion on the vote, allowed the objection to be reopened and proceeded with. JIarlou; Bar. & Aust. 52. See Dundalk, 1 P. E. & D. 96. Postponement of Cases. Tbe counsel in support of the vote, at the close of the case against the votei applied to the committee to have the further consideration of the case postponed on account of the absence of a necessary witness, who had been in attendance on the previous day, but who was not then present. The committee refused the application. 1st Jlancich, 1S51, p. 175. Similar application refused, ib. p. 226. In the Heading case, F. & F. 553, the committee adjourned the consideration of a vote to enable the petitioners to procure evidence in support of it. In the Monmouth case, K. & 0. 412, the committee having decided that the evidence should be confined to those witnesses who were examined before the revising barrister, they acceded to an application that the further consideration of the vote should be deferred until those witnesses were produced. In general, committees are very unwilling to grant an adjournment or postponement of a case, when the occasion for it arises from the default of the parties themselves (a); there is not, however, the same objection to granting the postponement of a particular case, or class of cases, as there is to the adjournment of the committee, as the committee may in the former case proceed with other votes. (n) Practice, ante, p. 352. When an unexpected decisi...
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