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Law Magazine and Law Review:

OR,

QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE.

No. XXI.

ART. I.-THE ESSAYS AND REVIEWS CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO THE LEGAL LIABILITIES OF THE WRITERS.

1. Essays and Reviews. London: Longman, 1861.

2. Specific Evidence of Unsoundness in the volume entitled Essays and Reviews. By R. N. JELF, D.D.

J. H. Parker. London: Rivington, 1861.

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Oxford:

HE volume entitled "Essays and Reviews," being of a theological description, would not have called for discussion in our pages if it were not connected with grave legal questions threatened to be raised. Yet no apology need be offered to the readers of the Law Magazine even if we entered in detail upon the consideration of the topics of which the book treats; for the lawyer is not only bound to understand the legal rights and remedies connected with tithes, rates, pews, and with the legal relation of bishops, rectors, vicars, and curates, but it devolves, after all, upon the lawyer to decide what are orthodoxy, heresy, and schism. Prelates and priests may denounce each other in convocation or in deputation; clerkly persons, in ministering at the altar, or mouthing at Exeter Hall and the social tea-table, may depose positively as to what is true and what is false doc

VOL. XI. NO. XXI.

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