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And so Gray Willcocks is a leading case, of which not one Ontario lawyer in a hundred has ever heard.

There never has since been any question as to the liability of lands to execution; the only question has been, "what is land?" Mr Justice (afterwards Chief Justice) Powells reasons for judgment are to be found in a very rare pamphlet (not dated) printed by R.

Stanton who became Kings Printer at York, U.

, about 1824.

1 This was the first case in which the decision of the judges of the Court of Kings Bench in Upper Canada was reported in the press.