...upon his effects. Adjudicating a well-known case in 1827, Lord Eldon cited precedent for the theory that "this Court has not the means of acting, except where it has property to act upon" (qtd. Forsyth 13). It was not legally impossible for the Court of Chancery to act in parens patriae,...

...Wellesley case (2 Russ., I (1827) was affirmed by the House of Lords (2 Bligh, NS, 124 (1827): It la not from any want of Jurisdiction that It does not act, but from a want of means to exercise Us jurisdiction, because the court cannot take •upon itself the maintenance of all the children in...