the to the March had not been made" His Honour
of
spects of this order simply
as a consent order for the
re-cillochment of the Dangwee.
It
denno me
to
that it
virtually
rescimted all previous preceedings, and
- restored the parties to the position they occupied
by the previous order of March to the
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A
Submission Not The letter from the Minister to
the Chief Justice (Appendix F).
1874
in March
This letter was delivered by Rai Sin in
and
is quite
the
first seizing of the ship: it certainly ought to prevent
the order of March to the
March to the being
still more
treated as a
submission
considered as made by
from being cons
the
or ad
being emphatically
"an
admission by the King
"express consent "of the King.
absolutely
and irrevocably
of his indebtedness to Landstein He
Sexbmission
4 and 5 The notice and order for
change of Attornies (appendices D and E).
As the cause had slumbered since the order
of April 14th the change of Attornies could be no fresh
submission unless the
King
was
to be held bound
Mad
part of his credentials. His Honour
was mistaken in supposing
it to have been dated
in November 1873, the actual date in figures (4.1.
27th year of In Due) at the end show that it could
not have been written earlier than
February.
and the
receipt of it can
Honour to make a communication to the Colonial
therefore scarcely have induced His
Secretary
in the early stages of the suit. I can
scarcely think that the minister of a King
can
be taken to be
an
official letter written
to a
Judge
could in
by
any
by the sting of his
personal immunity from suit: especially in a case in which the plaintiff alleges
that he is
owing