Note 159 — Chapter IX · PRECEDENT.
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London Street Tramways Company v. London County Council, (1898) A. C. 375, at p. 379. This is said to be so even when the House of Lords is equally divided in opinion, so that the judgment appealed from stands unreversed and so authoritative. Beamish v. Beamish, 9 H. L. C. p. 338; Att.-Gen. v. Dean of Windsor, 8 H. L. C. p. 392. As to the equal division of other courts, see The Vera Cruz, 9 P. D. p. 98.