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ever, in which something like re- 

 gular principles are laid down. 

 The learned judge then referred, 

 in particular, to the case of the 

 " Attorney-General v. Panther," in 

 which there was an issue from the 

 court of Chancery, to try the sanity 

 of a person who had executed a 

 deed, then in question, between 

 the parties in the cause, and quoted 

 the opinions of lords Thurlow 

 and Kenyon upon that case. No 

 two cases, however formed of cir- 

 cumstances, were alike ; but each 

 must be judged of, in a consider- 

 able degree, by its own peculiar 

 features. In the present case, the 

 proof of the existence of a lucid in- 

 terval, at the time of making the 

 second codicil, could only be had 

 from the solicitor who prepared it, 

 tKe subscribing witnesses appearing 

 to know nothing of the matter. 

 The learned judge then entered 

 into an examination of this evi- 

 dence, which, he was of opinion, 

 was insufficient to sustain the ex- 

 istence of a lucid interval, so as to 

 defeat the presumption of law aris- 

 ing from the evidence adduced, of 

 the general and habitual insanity of 

 the testator at the time of making 

 the second codicil : he, therefore, 

 pronounced for the validity of the 

 will and first codicil, but declared 

 the second null and void. 



MATRIMONIAL CAUSES. 



Arches Court, Doctors Commons. 

 —Reeves v. Reeves. — This was a 

 proceeding for a divorce at the 

 instance of Mr. William Thomas 

 Pugh Reeves, of Holborn-bridge, 

 London, against Frances Reeves, 

 hu wife, on the ground of adul- 

 tery. 



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It appeai'ed in evidence, that the 

 husband is tlie son of Mr. Reeves, 

 a respectable colour manufacturer, 

 of Holborn-bridge, and first be- 

 came acquainted with his wife in 

 the summer of 1808. An inter- 

 course ensued between them, and 

 they passed for man and wife, 

 under an assumed name, at various 

 lodgings, until June, 1809, when 

 the marriage took place. The 

 connexion continued for some time 

 longer, and was kept, by the young 

 man, a secret from his friends, on 

 account of his being a minor, and 

 an apprentice to his father, and 

 therefore unable to provide for his 

 wife should he incur his displea- 

 sure: but Mr. Reeves was at length 

 informed of it by an anonymous 

 letter. This discovery, added to 

 suspicions he had previously had 

 reason to entertain of his wife's 

 fidelitvs induced Mr. Reeves, jun. 

 to leave his house: a reconciliation, 

 however, was afterwards effected 

 between him andhis father, through 

 the medium of a maternal uncle, 

 and he returned to town ; but his 

 suspicions having been confirmed 

 by the inquiries which his friends 

 had made, in the mean time, into 

 his wife's character, which was 

 found to be little better than that 

 of a common prostitute, he yielded 

 to their recommendations to quit 

 the country, and accordingly em- 

 barked for America, where he has 

 remained ever since, leaving an 

 authority for the commencement 

 of the present suit. Various acts 

 of adultery were then detailed in 

 evidence, as having afterwards 

 taken place between the wife and 

 a Mr. Dunbar, a lieutenant in one 

 of the London militia regiments, 

 at his chambers in Lyon's Inn, 

 upon which, it was contended, 



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