Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1

Note 28  Page 443.

Chapter X., ante, p. 411.

Note 29  Page 470.

See the note prefixed to Chapter V. Vol. II., for a full explanation of the above, and another important legal topic introduced into this work.

Note 30  Page 477.

Not many years ago, the fate of an important case turned upon the existence of a tombstone: and a forged one was produced in court!—The validity of a great Peerage case is at this moment depending upon the genuineness of one of these dumb and gloomy witnesses. [1844.]

Note 31  Page 485.

When the Judges of Assize preside in the Crown side (i. e. in the Criminal Court,) they wear their scarlet and ermine robes, and full-bottomed wigs.

Note 32  Page 486.

This is a step often taken in trials of importance, when the counsel for either party apprehends danger to his client, from his opponent's witnesses remaining in court and hearing all the evidence which they are afterwards called to contradict. Either counsel has a right thus to exclude witnesses. The Court usually, in such cases, orders all the witnesses to withdraw.

Note 33  Page 499.

See, for a discussion of this point, the preliminary note to Vol. II. ch. v.