312 LEGAL OPINIONS 



LEGAL OPINIONS RESPECTING 

 &quot; GENERAL &quot; BOOTH S ACTS. 



IN referring to the course of action adopted by 

 &quot; General &quot; Booth and Mr. Bramwell Booth in 

 respect of their legal obligations to other persons, 

 or to the criminal and civil law, I have been as 

 careful as I was bound to be, to put any diffi 

 culties suggested by mere lay common-sense in 

 an interrogative or merely doubtful form ; and to 

 confine myself, for any positive expressions, to 

 citations from published declarations of the 

 judges before whom the acts of &quot; General&quot; Booth 

 came ; from reports of the Law Courts ; and from 

 the deliberate opinions of legal experts. I have 

 now some further remarks to make on these 

 topics. 



I. The observations at p. 305 express, with 

 due reserve, the impression which the counsel s 

 opinions, quoted by &quot; General &quot; Booth s solicitors, 

 made on my mind. They were written and sent 

 to the printer before I saw the letter from a 

 &quot; Barrister not Practising on the Common Law 

 Side,&quot; and those from Messrs. Clarke and Calkin 

 arid Mr. George Kebbell, which appeared in the 

 &quot; Times &quot; of February 3rd and 4th. 



These letters fully bear out the conclusion 

 which I had formed, but which it would have 



