The Court of Chancery Act 1852
WHEREAS Proceedings before the Masters in Ordinary of the High Court of Chancery are attended with great Delay and Expense, and it is expedient that the Business now disposed of in the Office of such Masters should be transacted by and under the more immediate Direction and Control of the Judges of the said Court: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assemb...