Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, of East Carleton in the County of Norfolk PC QC ( born November 29, 1828 in Acton Green, † December 13, 1921 ) was a British jurist, who served as 1897-1900 the office of Master of the Rolls and most recently as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer was also a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Lawyer and judge

Lindley, son of the famous botanist John Lindley (1799-1865) graduated, after attending the University College School in Hampstead to study law at University College London and received in 1850 his legal approval to the Chamber of Lawyers ( Inns of Court ) of the Middle Temple. He then began working as a barrister and was (Queen 's Counsel ) appointed Attorney-General for his lawyer's achievements in 1872 and 1874 so-called " Bencher " of the Bar of the Middle Temple.

After 1875 he was for a short time both Serjeant -at-Law, as well as judges for general complaints that he was also appointed as a judge in 1875 to the newly founded and for England and Wales competent High Court of Justice, where he was first in the chamber for general complaints ( Common Pleas Division ) and then from 1880 to 1881 judges in the chamber of Civil Cases (Queen 's Bench Division ) was. At the same time he was defeated in 1875 Knight Bachelor and led since then the additional name "Sir".

Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice and the House of Lords member

Upon completion of this activity took place in 1881 judge his appeal to the judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) at the Court of Appeal, which is responsible for England and Wales Court of Appeal, where he worked until 1897. In addition, he was appointed to the Privy Councillor in 1881 also. In 1897 he took over from William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher the influential post of Master of the Rolls and was up to his replacement by Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone President of the Chamber of Civil Cases in this supreme court of appeals.

Last Lindley was appointed by Letters Patent of May 10, 1900 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer with the title Baron Lindley, of East Carleton in the County of Norfolk, a member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until 1905 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).

Significant judgments as Lord Justice

During his tenure as Lord Justice, he worked in important decisions such as:

  • Taff Vale Railway Co v Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (1901 ): In this procedure, from the labor led to the landmark decision by the common law, that unions in the event of a strike for lost profits are liable for damages. The process contributed to establishing the Labour Party, while the judgment by the Trade Disputes Act was revised in 1906.
  • Quinn v Leathem (1901 ): In this procedure from the Tort Law it came to economic damages based on tort, and injury from conspiracies in the then Labour.
  • Bannatyne v Overtoun (1904 ): In this method, it was about a protracted legal battle between the United Free Church of Scotland (an association of the majority of the Free Church of Scotland with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland ) and the minority of the recent Free Church of Scotland. This in Scotland mockingly Wee Frees ( " The small / tiny free church " ) called direction obtained by the process far beyond Scotland attention than it managed on this right way, the legal successor of the "old" Free Church determined to be, and thus their entire assets and all property awarded to get. The conflict was finally resolved by the British Parliament, The memorandum divided the disputed ownership, while the new Free Church on its meaning also shares in this zusprach.
  • Colls v Home and Colonial Stores ( 1904): In this procedure from the Tort Law it was about the so-called "right to light " ( Right to Light), an easement, the longtime owner of a building with windows a right to the balance of natural lighting its building with natural light. These rights were generally acquired due to the Prescription Act 1832.

Progeny

From his 1858 marriage to Sarah Katherine Teale closed a total of nine children were born, which also took important functions in part.

His eldest son, John Edward Lindley (1860-1925) was brigadier general and at the beginning of the First World War, 1914-1915 Commander ( Commanding Officer) of the Welsh Division of the Territorial Force. The second son Walter Harry Lindley was also a barrister and judge, and the third son Lennox Hannay Lindley doctor and for a time physician to the Shah of Persia, while the fifth and youngest son of Francis Oswald Lindley was (1872-1949) diplomat and ambassador to Austria (1920 to 1921 ), Greece ( 1922-1923 ), Norway ( 1929-1931 ), Portugal ( 1929-1930 ) and Japan (1931 served until 1934 ) and among others, the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George was awarded.

Furthermore, his second daughter was married to the politician William Cameron Gull, which was 1900-1905 Member of the House of Commons and there represented the constituency Barnstaple.

Publications

  • An Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence, 1855
  • A treatise on the law of partnership, 1860
  • A treatise on the law of companies, 1889
  • A treatise on the law of companies, Considered as a branch of the law of partnership, 1902
  • A supplement to Lord Lindley 's Treatise on the law of partnership, 1909
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