Beaurain, Gent, v Right Hon Sir W. Scott

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date06 March 1813
Date06 March 1813
CourtHigh Court

English Reports Citation: 170 E.R. 1420

IN THE COURTS OF KING'S BENCH AND COMMON PLEAS

Beaurain
Gent
and
Right Hon Sir W. Scott

Considered, Wood v Wood, 1874, L R 9 Ex 190

[388] Saturday, March 6, 1813. beaurain, gent , v right Hox sir W. scott (An action on the case may be maintained against a Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court who excommunicates a party for refusing to obey an order which the Court has not authority to make, or where the party has not been previously served with a citation or monition, nor had due notice of the order. The practice of the Ecclesiastical Court is matter of fact to be proved by evidence, and left to the jury.) [Considered, Wood v Wood, 1874, L R 9 Ex 190 ] This was an action 011 the case, for unlawfully excommunicating the plaintiff. The declaration stated that, at the time of committing the grievance complained of, the defendant was Vicar General and Official Principal of the Consistonal and Episcopal Court of Beilby. by divine permission then Lord Bishop of London , that the plaintiff was a person of good fame, and a practising attorney ; that a cause of separation from bed and board and mutual cohabitation was then depending in the said Court, in which a minor son of the plaintiff was cited to appear before the defendant, to answer Anne Beauram his lawful wife in the said cause, but to which the plaintiff was no party ; yet that the defendant required the plaintiff to take upon himself the burthen of guardian to his said infant son, and appear in such suit as guardian ad litem ; which burthen the plaintiff wholly refused to take upon himself, as he lawfully might; that the defendant afterwards signed with his name and published a...

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