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 to 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 3d and 4th. 



These letters fully bear out the conclusion 

 which I had formed, but which it would have 



