Elucidations to Tables IX, X, XI

(e)

(Dismissed not being prosecuted) An Appeal is, for want of being prosecuted, dismissed of course, to either of two cases: 1. if, on the day appointed, as above, the Appellant omitts to distribute the printed cases: 2. if, having made such distribution, when the Appeal comes to be called on, on the regular day (viz. when, after having been set down for hearing, it stands first upon the list, all those that had been presented before it having disposed of) no person appears in support of it.

N.B. In Mr. Urquhart's Book, intituled the Solicitors Practice in the House of Lords 1773, dismission is not stated as taking place on any other occasion than that of a compromise. [pp.47, 48, 49]

[e] (Arrears of each year) Whether, at the commencement of this period, there existed any of what arrear, does not appear from the accounts: if any, the probability is that it could not have been considerable enough to be in any practical point of view worthy of regard.

[f] [Gained upon arrear] The comparative degree of dispatch given under the management of Lord Loughborough, is an object that will naturally attract notice.

[g] [Total amount of Arrear] Then three last tests, deduced as they are from the preceding ones, are here added to the official accounts. The results are deduced, by subtracting from the number presented, the numbers disposed of in one or other of the three several ways, viz. by the Appeals being heard, withdrawn or dismissed. To exhibit the total number of the appeals which, as the time of giving in their Account (in March 1807) were at the Bar of the supreme Imperial judicatory calling in vain for justice, the arrear already in existence at the commencement of the period comprized in these accounts would require to be added: viz. if any such there was but, from the rate of dispatch that took place during the 1 st period, it may be inferred that there was none.