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10 Jurid. Rev. 395 (1898)
Judicial Work of Chief Justice Cockburn

handle is hein.journals/jure10 and id is 397 raw text is: THE JUDICIAL WORK OF CHIEF JUSTICE COCKBURN. IR ALEXANDER COCKBURN was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas on 2nd November, 1856, on the death of Sir John Jervis. On Lord Palmerston's return to power in 1859 it was expected that he would be made Chancellor, but the appointment was given to Lord Campbell, who had political claims that could not be over- looked, and the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas took his seat in the Court of Queen's Bench as Lord Chief Justice of England on 24th June, 1859. In dealing with Sir Alexander Cockburn's judicial work and worth I shall depart from the strict chronological order, and endeavour to group his contributions to English case law and to jurisprudence under a few principal heads. Only his strictly judicial efforts can here be noted. No reference will, therefore, be made to the part taken by him in the Commission on Fugitive Offenders, with regard to the doctrine of the exterritoriality of warships, or to the Alabama arbitration. Chief Justice Cockburn was not, and did not pretend to be, -a great commercial lawyer. In the Court of Queen's Bench he had as one of his colleagues the late Lord- then Mr. Justice-Blackburn, and on the learning and experience of this great judge he relied, at least for some time, very much as Thurlow used to rely on Hargrave and Kenyon. Thus, in Swire v. Redman (1876, 1 Q.B.D. 536),. a case relating to the right of two joint-debtors as against a creditor with notice, to be treated as principal and surety,

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