HC Deb 11 May 1836 vol 33 cc825-6
Mr. Aglionby

wished to know from the right hon. Gentleman, the Attorney-General, whether there would be any objection, on his part, to the taking out of the Bill for securing the clause enabling customary tenants to devise their property, and the introduction of a specific Bill upon that subject.

The Attorney-General

expressed his regret at being unable to return a satisfactory answer to the hon. Member's question. A Bill containing the clause alluded to by the hon. Member had early in the present Session passed the House, and found its way to the House of Lords. There, however, it was asleep, and how its slumbers were to be disturbed he knew not. It lay in the dormitory of the other House; and, conversant as he was with difficulties, it puzzled his ingenuity to suggest any process by which its return to the House of Commons might be brought about. If the hon. Member, however, would bring in a Bill on the subject to which he alluded, he would not only not oppose it, but give it his cordial support.

Mr. Hume

would be very glad to know whereabouts the dormitory of the House of Lords lay. If he could obtain the information, Quixotic as the attempt might appear, he should feel a strong inclination to storm it. But why should the Bill be allowed to sleep in the other House? Why should not the right hon. Gentleman's legal friends in that House wake and take it up?

Subject dropped.

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