§ 18. Mr. ELLIS DAVIESasked the Home Secretary in what number of civil cases, besides those involving questions of libel, slander, seduction, and breach of promise of marriage, the trial was by jury during the year 1917?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe figures for 1917 are not yet available; but in 1916 the number of actions tried for libel, slander, seduction, and breach of promise of marriage was 203, and the total number of cases tried before juries in the same year was 909.