 On 15 March 1855 he delivered a speech in which he showed emphatically "the crying injustice of the law".On 11 August 1854 he passed the Real Estate Charges Act, under which mortgages after the debtor's demise limit themselves to the property itself (they "descend with and bear their own burdens").Without this mortgagees in possession could seek an order at court to trace certain contemporaneous held classes of property among beneficiaries.