LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, BY
BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET,
Law Publishers in ordinary to the Queen's most Excellent M+tyre

EDINBURGH : T. & T. CLARK, AND BELL & BRADFUTE.

DUBLIN: HODGES & SMITH,

1859.

CONTENTS.

1

Art. I.-PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT ......... Page

II.—THE TENURE OF REAL PROPERTY IN

THE ISLAND OF GUERNSEY

23

31

III.-COSTS IN THE PROBATE COURT

IX.—THE FAILURE AND FATE OF THE STA-

TUTE LAW COMMISSION...

122

145

166

XII.-BANKRUPTCY LAW REFORM

170

XIII.-LORD MURRAY......

182

XIV.-RECENT ATTACKS ON TITLES TO REAL

PROPERTY.-CONSERVATIVE LANDED

ESTATES BILLS.......

187

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A Hand-book on the Law of Marriage and Divorce.—Reports

of Cases in the Court of Probate, and in the Court for

Divorce and Matrimonial Causes. --The Practice of the

Court of Probate in Common Form Business, &c.—The

Universal Review of Politics, Literature, and Social

Science.-1. A Handy Book on the Law of Bills,

Cheques, Notes, and I. O. U.s.-2. A Handy Book on

the Law of Private Trading, Partnership ...

AMERICAN LAW LITERATURE:- A Practical Treatise

upon

the

· Law of Railways.-A Treatise on the Construction of

the Statute of Frauds, as in Force in England and the

United States.—Commentaries on the Law of Marriage

and Divorce, and Evidence on Matrimonial Suits.-A

Treatise on the Law of Attachment in the United

States.—State of New York : First Report of the Com-

missioners of the Code ....

COURTS OF REQUESTS IN CEYLON :- A Practical Treatise on

their Construction and Procedure, &c.

Recueil Général de Traités, Conventions, et autres Transactions

remarquables, servant à la connaissance des Relations

étrangères des Puissances et États dans leurs rapports

mutuels..........

245

251

252

CONTENTS.

ART. I.-SIR JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND

MR. BUCKLE

... Page 263

III.-CURIOSITIES OI AW --AN ENGLISH

BOROUGH IN THE FOURTEENTH CEN-

TURY.-CUSTUMAL OF ROMNEY.........

300

IV.—THE JURY SYSTEM IN ENGLAND

318

V.-SELWYN'S NISI PRIUS ....

344

VI.—THE LEGAL EFFECT OF WAR WITH

REFERENCE TO CONTRABAND ...... 347

VII.—THE POLITICO-ECONOMICAL VIEW OF

RENT, BY THE LATE RICHARD JONES 356

.

VIII.—THE STUDY OF THE LAW IN THE UNI-

VERSITIES AND INNS OF COURT.-DR.

LEAPINGWELL'S MANUAL OF ROMAN

CIVIL LAW

373

PAPERS OF THE LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY :-

1.-REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE

SESSION 1858-9

387

II.-ON THE PRESENT POSITION OF EXE-

CUTORS AND TRUSTEES ...

399

402

THE BAR EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE FOUR INNS

OF COURT

412