§ MR. FAWCETTasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether, as his predecessor stated on the 7th August 1876, that the Law Officers of the Crown were considering the legality of an inclosure made a short time previously near Stony Cross, in the manor of Minestead, in the New Forest, he can now inform the House what conclusion has been arrived at as to the legality of the said inclosure; and whether, if it is illegal, the Government intend to take any action in the matter?
§ SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSON, in reply, said, that the opinion given by the Law Officers had been to the effect that they could not say that any rights of the Crown which it would be possible to enforce had been infringed by the in- 1655 closures made by the lord of the manor of Minestead. In these circumstances, it was impossible for the Government to take any action in the matter.
§ MR. FAWCETTasked whether there would be any objection to lay the opinion on the Table?