CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 567

and

the right of the brown to call in question the adverse decisions of the Chief Assistant Police Magistrates, and the method of doing it, being in fact the only questions before

me.

On the contrary. I pointed

out the curious

of language by

infelicity

which it-

has happened that the

brown is ousted of

the

bertiorari in all cases

founded on the letter of the Susumary proceedings' Ordinance of 1844, whilst that recourse of appeal is

expressly given in to defendants.

all cas

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- and I also

showed that even the

prerogative of Certioraris which the Crown hath at commo

mon now

law-had been invaded:

thereby practically fruitless

and rendered

·

It was under those circumstances of embarrassment that I advised the application for a Mandamus, in granting which the chief Justice laid down the law to the effect stated by Mr. Hudson, (Obid. Para. 6) but judicially not otherwise, as he supposes.

and