(WALLACE v. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL). REPORTED BY FREDERICK WAYMOUTH GIBBS, C. B., BARRISTER-AT-LAW, LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. LONDON: Law Publishers, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. 1877. PREFACE. THE Judgment of the Lords Justices in the case of Wallace v. The Attorney-General, delivered December 21, 1867, upon the meaning of the words, " Hospices de Londres," in the phrase, "les Hospices de Paris et de Londres,” employed in the will of the late Lord Henry Seymour, was not reported in any of the Law Reports of that time, in consequence of the special character of the point decided. But it has been thought that the case, from its literary interest and the number of the parties affected by the decision, ought not to be left unreported; and having been one of the counsel in the case, I undertook to prepare a Report of it. The Report has grown under my hands, and its publication has been delayed beyond the time originally intended. I found that, to be complete, it ought to be expanded so as to contain an account of the proceedings in France, the country of principal administration of the estate of the testator, and a notice of a claim to which the Hospices de Paris et de Londres have succeeded under his will to a share in an Italian property |