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Lords Justices of Appeal, the title of the ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal, by the Jud. Act, 1877, s. 4 (see now Jud. Act, 1925, s. 6 (3)). As to the functions of the Lords Justices sitting as a Court of Appeal from a judge without a jury, see Powell v. Streatham Manor Nursing Home, 1935, AC 243; and from a judge with a jury, Mechanical and General Inventions Co. Ltd. v. Austin Motor Co. Ltd., 1935 AC 346. Prior to the Jud. Acts there were two 'Lords Justices of Appeal, in Chancery,' to whom an appeal lay from a vice-chancellor by 14 & 15 Vict. c. 83.

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