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LINDLEY, NATHANIEL LINDLEY, See also:BARON (1828- ) , See also:English See also:judge, son of See also:John Lindley (q.v.), was See also:born at See also:Acton See also:Green, See also:Middlesex, on the 29th of See also:November 1828. He was educated at University See also:College School, and studied for a See also:time at University College, See also:London. He was called to the See also:bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 185o, and began practice in the See also:Court of See also:Chancery. In 1855 he published An Introduction to the Study of See also:Jurisprudence, consisting of a See also:translation of the See also:general See also:part of See also:Thibaut's See also:System See also:des Pandekten Rechts, with copious notes. In 186o he published in two volumes his See also:Treatise on the See also:Law of See also:Partnership, including its Application to See also:Joint Stock and other Companies, and in 1862 a supplement including the Companies See also:Act of 1862. This See also:work has since been See also:developed into two See also:text-books well known to lawyers as Lindley on Companies and Lindley on Partnership. He became a Q.C. in See also:January 1872. In 1894 he was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple, of which he was treasurer in 1894. In 1875 he was appointed a See also:justice of See also:common pleas, the See also:appointment of a chancery See also:barrister to a common-law court being justified by the See also:fusion of law and See also:equity then shortly to be brought about, in theory at all events, by the Judicature Acts. In pursuance of the changes now made be became a justice of the common pleas See also:division of the High Court of Justice, and in 188o of the See also:queen's See also:bench division. In 1881 he was raised to the Court of See also:Appeal and made a privy councillor. In 1897, See also:Lord Justice Lindley succeeded Lord See also:Esher as See also:master of the rolls, and in 1900 he was made a lord of appeal in See also:ordinary with a See also:life See also:peerage and the See also:title of Baron Lindley.

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post in 1905. Lord Lindley was the last See also:serjeant-at-law appointed, and the last judge to See also:wear the serjeant's See also:coif, or rather the See also:black patch representing it, on the judicial See also:wig. He married in 1858 Sarah Katherine, daughter of See also:Edward John Teale of See also:Leeds.

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