"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.''
