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304: 75: 463: 714: 203:, secretary in the legislative department, was mainly responsible for the measures passed during Hobhouse's term of office, with the important exception of the Specific Relief Act, 1877, in which Hobhouse as an equity lawyer took an especial interest, and a revision of the law relating to the transfer of property, which became a statute after he left India. Of strong liberal sentiment, Hobhouse had small sympathy with the general policy of the government of India during the opening of 680: 283:, which involved the respective limits of the power of the dominion and provincial legislatures to regulate banks, Hobhouse's judgment upheld the right of the province to tax banks and insurance companies constituted by Act of the dominion legislature. In a case from India in 1899 (26 Indian Appeals, Law Reports 113) which necessitated the review of a number of conflicting decisions of the Indian courts, Hobhouse settled a long disputed point in 470: 29: 536: 331:
in regard to members of the Judicial Committee; but Hobhouse did not take up the work of a judge in the House of Lords. He only sat there to try three cases, in two of which, Russell v. Countess of Russell (1897 Appeal Cases 395) and the Kempton Park case (1899 Appeal Cases 143), he was in a
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Hobhouse, "on his departure for India received strong hints that it would be desirable for him to slacken the pace of the legislative machine", which had been quickened by the consolidating and codifying activities of Fitzjames Stephen and of Stephen's immediate predecessor,
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To the last an advanced liberal and constructive legal reformer, Hobhouse, all of whose judicial work was done gratuitously, urged many legal changes, which won adoption very slowly. Much influence is assignable to an address by him before the
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dissenting minority. As a judge Hobhouse, who was always careful and painstaking, invariably stated the various arguments fully and fairly, but he was tenacious of his deliberately formed opinion.
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and decided, contrary to much tradition, that when an individual person was adopted as an only son, the also gave the judgment of the Privy Council in
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While engaged on the Judicial Committee, Hobhouse devoted much energy to local government of London. From 1877 to 1899 he was a vestryman of
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and a bencher of his inn, serving the office of treasurer in 1880–1 and practised in the Rolls Court (the civil division of the
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in 1868 on the law relating to the property of married women (1869; new edition 1870), and to
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could sit to hear appeals had been overlooked. In 1887 the disqualification was removed by
111: 158:). A severe illness in 1866 led him to retire from practice and accept the appointment of 8: 974: 925: 828: 727: 349: 292: 979: 956: 920: 910: 902: 871: 580: 385: 159: 151: 941: 328: 276: 135: 107: 66:(10 November 1819 – 6 December 1904) was an English lawyer and judge. 62: 134:
on 22 April 1841, he was called to the bar on 6 May 1845, and soon acquired a large
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was especially repugnant. He served from 1875 to 1877 as Vice-Chancellor of the
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This article is about the English judge. For the English politician, see
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after the death of Henry's father in 1862. Henry's grandson
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Lord Hobhouse married, on 10 August 1848, the campaigner
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Members of the Council of the Governor General of India
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Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
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in 1840 with a first class in classics, and proceeded
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Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria
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Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
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That suggestion he approved. 654: 628:"Hobhouse, Sir John Richard". 568: 384:, on 6 December 1904, and was 346:London Municipal Reform League 1: 738:Peerage of the United Kingdom 508: 407:Appreciation and publications 207:viceroyalty. The attitude to 648:UK public library membership 615:UK public library membership 584:. 3 July 1885. p. 3060. 311:In 1885 Hobhouse accepted a 7: 1036:Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee 1018:Bhaskarananda Ray Chaudhuri 352:. Upon the creation of the 342:St George's, Hanover Square 180:Sir James Fitzjames Stephen 10: 1138: 726:; Hammond, John Lawrence, 724:Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny 541:Bedwell, C. E. A. 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Arthur Hobhouse

KCSI
CIE
PC
KC

Hadspen House
Somerset
Henry Hobhouse
Home Office
Edmund Hobhouse
Bishop of Nelson
Reginald Hobhouse
Archdeacon of Bodmin
Eton
Balliol College, Oxford
B.A.
M.A.
Lincoln's Inn
chancery
conveyancing
Queen's Counsel
Court of Appeal
charity commissioner
Endowed Schools Act, 1869
Lord Lyttelton
House of Lords
Emanuel Hospital
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen

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