Vice-Chancellor Sir Charles Hall died on Wednesday night, after a
paralytic attack that came on near a year and a half ago, in June, 1882, from which he bad in some degree recovered before the relapse came in which he died. He was one of the most sagacious of real-property lawyers, and in his earlier days might often have been seen drowsily nodding over a pupil's draft settlement or draft will, and yet as surely pulled up by any slip in the drafting as a dozing nurse who knows her business will be by the least change in the symptoms of the patient beside
whose bed she sits. Sir Charles Hall never took silk, but gained a very large income as a stuff gownsman—an income which is said to have passed £10,000 a year for the last few years of his life at the Bar—but accepted a Vice-Chancellorship in the year 1873 If "unconscious cerebration" ever rightly describes the process of intellectual judgment, Sir Charles Hall's greatness as a lawyer was due to the sure processes of his " unconscious cerebration.. " It was not to intellectual vigilance so much as to an almost auto- matic sympathy with legal rules and legal methods of judgment, that he owed his almost unerring judgment on all questions of real property.
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