Mr. Ginx being indifferent, and Mrs. Ginx being ready to assist
in regaining the custody of her child, to be conveyed to a
Protestant Home,

"YOU ARE REQUESTED TO ADVISE:

"1. Whether a summons should be taken out before a magistrate
against the Lady Superior of the convent, for enticing away or
detaining the infant, under the 56th sect. of 24 and 25 Vict., c.
100 Or,

"2. Whether the proper remedy is by a writ of Habeas Corpus?
and, if so, whether it is necessary that the father should be
joined in the proceedings or his leave obtained to prosecute
them? Or, failing these,

3. Whether counsel is of opinion that this is a case within
Talfourd's Act, and an application might not be made to the Lord
Chancellor, or the Master of the Rolls, on the mother's behalf
for the custody of her child? And,

"4. To advise generally on behalf of the infant."


Mr. Adolphus Stigma took ten days to consider. Meanwhile, the
infant Ambrosius continued to thrive on conventual pap. Then Mr.
Stigma wrote his opinion. It was a model for a barrister. You
took the advice at your own peril--not his. Therefore I
transcribe it.