312 LEGAL OPINIONS 



LEGAL OPINIONS RESPECTING 

 "GENERAL" BOOTH'S ACTS. 



IN referring to the course of action adopted by 

 "General" 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 " General " 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 " General " Booth's solicitors, 

 made on my mind. They were written and sent 

 to the printer before I saw the letter from a 

 " Barrister not Practising on the Common Law 

 Side," and those from Messrs. Clarke and Calkin 

 and Mr. George Kebbell, which appeared in the 

 " Times " of February 3rd and 4th. 



These letters fully bear out the conclusion 

 which I had formed, but which it would have 



