210 BANSTEAD COMMONS. 
This Order came under the review of Parliament in 1893 
in a Confirmation Bill. It was bitterly and obstinately 
opposed by the mortgagees before Select’ Committees in 
both Houses of Parliament. Money was again poured 
out for lawyers’ briefs before the most expensive tribunal 
in the world, but with the result only of again encoun- 
tering defeat. Both Houses after long inquiries affirmed 
the Regulation Scheme. The Banstead Commons 
therefore are henceforward safe, not merely from any 
danger of inclosure, but from the bad treatment of their 
surface, and the neglect of the Lord of the Manor. 
Practically the Commons are taken out of the control 
and management of the lord. Conservators elected in 
the district have power to make bye-laws for the order 
and good government of the Commons, with a reservation, 
however, of any rights which the lord or his mortgagees 
may have. The case therefore forms an epoch in the 
history of Commons, and a striking example of the 
measures taken for their preservation. 
The Committee of the Banstead Commons not only 
triumphed in frustrating the most systematic and deter- 
mined effort ever made to get rid of rights of common, 
by purchase and private bargains, and to turn a Common 
into building land, but they have also asserted the 
principle that a Common may be taken out of the 
hands of the Lord of the Manor, against his will, 
and vested in those of a local committee, with powers 
to make bye-laws to preserve order and to prevent 
nuisances. The Court of Appeal has also laid down 
principles in this case, of the utmost value. It has 
