cited down to the date of publication, the 2nd November. We have, therefore, the latest notes on the recent Licensing Act, as well as the text itself. The entire plan of the work shows that its compilers are practical men, who have felt the difficulties of reference in such works as the last edition of Burns. The index is most unusually clear, and ample. All sections on procedure are collected together, in one chapter, which will be found a useful guide to that often-times puzzling matter. The chapter on 66 'arrest" and "constructions," set out under the heading "constables," is comprehensive and clear, a not unimportant point in a book which professes to be a Police Guide. The marginal notes on each section show, at once, the Act to which reference has been given, while the editors have not contented themselves with referring each case to one set of reports, but give every report in which reference to the case is made. For example: R. v. Hudson-8 Cox, CC. 305–6 Jur. N. S. 566; 2 L. T, N. S. 263; 29 L. J. M. C. 145; 24 J. P. 325.

Among some of the more notable subjects, great attention seems to be paid to Dangerous Goods, the many and difficult provisions of Factory Legislation, the Intoxicating Liquor Laws, Larceny, the law relating to Masters and Servants, the Metropolitan Police, and Hackney Carriage Acts.

It is difficult to give, in a short notice, any accurate idea of a work of nearly one thousand pages, especially so immediately upon its publication, but we trust at a future time to more closely analyze the "Magisterial and Police Guide," with a view to assist the editors in their desire to correct any inaccuracy or omission in future editions. The work has been very appropriately dedicated to Sir Thomas Henry. It has been clearly printed on good paper, and reflects great credit on the publishers. The moment for its appearance (no new edition of Stone or Oke's works having appeared) is most opportune, and we cannot but believe that the "Magisterial and Police Guide" will be found not only of great value to magistrates and the police, but to the legal profession, all local authorities, and legislators, as well as to that portion of the public who desire to study the laws of their country in an easily available and practical form.

THE REAL PROPERTY ACTS, 1874, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, by W. T. CHARLEY, D.C.L., M.P. (London: H. Sweet. 1874.)This is a highly interesting collection of the Real Property Acts passed last Session. It would seem that the harvest of legislation is best reaped in calm weather, and not when a tempest of political debate is disturbing every thing around. Every person not an M.P.

must have regarded the last session as a sort of casus omissus or dies non, considering the very quiet way in which it passed by, compared with the turbid sessions of preceding years. Yet, judging by Mr. Charley's manual, the year has not been barren of results in the way of law reforms. These are noted by the author in a light, agreeable manner. Sometimes he comments upon a leading case with all the art of an accomplished lawyer, and anon he treats the reader to a fragment of Parliamentary debate. The book has thus some pretensions to be regarded as light reading, while it certainly is as useful as it is interesting.

The second Act in the collection is the Personation Statute passed in the interest of infant heirs who may be threatened with visitors from Australia. It seems strange that such an enactment has been deemed necessary. Granting that personation in order to obtain property ought to be deemed a serious offence, the previous state of the law would seem to have sufficiently provided for the result. The present Act, however, appears to have the peculiar advantage of "not expressly connecting the person personated with the ownership of, or right or title to, the property which the guilty person seeks fraudulently to obtain." Nor will it be material that the party personated is dead. However, if the maxim ubi jus ibi remedium had any real significance in our law, such enactments ought to be deemed unnecessary.

When Lord St. Leonards had the Illusory Appointments Act passed it was seen that a coping-stone was wanted to complete the structure. This has been added by the 37 & 38 Vict., c. 37, so that it is no longer necessary to give, at least, a memorial stone to every object of a power not exclusive in terms. The Real Property Limitation Act, which shortens the period for bringing ejectments on title from twenty to twelve years, is open to question, in respect to the prudence of the measure. It is true that a person beyond seas may now return in a few days. But the attractions of a foreign domicile are a greater impediment than wind and more to a speedy return. The pines of Canada cost more labour in the felling than in their carriage to England. So is it with the voluntary exile. However, the Act does not come into operation until 1879. The Vendors' and Purchasers' Act, c. 78, is founded on a similar principle. Section 5 may raise some doubts as to whether it does not apply to a joint tenant trustee dying. But the better opinion, we think, is that the section will be construed as applying only to sole trustees. Mr. Charley's brochure is a creditable performance, and is neatly prepared with a table of cases and index.

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THE JURISDICTION AND PRACTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE AND OF THE DIVISIONAL COURTS UNDER THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE ACT, WITH AN APPENDIX OF FORMS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS. BY HERBERT AYCKBOUrn, Solicitor. (London: Wilcox & Son. IR74.) This book was written, to use Mr. Ayckbourn's own words, to give a concise and practical arrangement and exposition of the Act (Judicature Act, 1873), and of the rules and orders issued, in pursuance of it," and we may congratulate him on having executed his somewhat laborious task in a manner likely to be of use to the profession. The arrangement of a book of this description, in such a manner that the difficulties of reference are reduced to a minimum, is, of course, the first object to be attained, and whether this has been effected or not, is, of course, the test of its value. We do not purpose giving a sketch of the plan of the work, or of interpolating any remarks of our own. Our readers may judge for themselves what is likely to be its probable use as a book of reference. We do not discern any startling novelty in the method of compilation of the volume before us, but it does not suffer in our eyes on that account.

As the Judicature Act may be taken to consist of three parts, each distinct and yet belonging to one another, it is very convenient to have them dovetailed, as it were, each subject treated of under its different heading. This Mr. Ayckbourn has done. Thus are brought together the three parts of the Act we refer to in the body of the Act itself, the rules of procedure contained in the schedule, and other rules and regulations issued in pursuance of the Act. For the purpose of convenience the Rules of Procedure are referred to as rules, and the regulations as orders.

It would be useless for us to go through the whole of this volume, or, indeed, to do more than we have already done. The Act is taken section by section, and the rules and regulations are throughout arranged so that each section is appropriately explained. At the end of the book we find forms of proceedings, and also the rules of court set out in full, and we think Mr. Ayckbourn would have added to the value of his work if he had set out the rules of procedure contained in the Schedule of the Act in the same form.

BAR EXAMINATIONS.

Michaelmas Term, 1874.

At the general examination of students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's Inn Hall on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th ult., the Council of Legal Education awarded certificates of having satisfactorily passed a public examination to Mr. Yarborough Anderson, and Mr. James William Best, of the Inner Temple; Messrs. Henry Burton, Frederic James Cornish-Bowden, John William Gustave Leo Daugars, Stephen Herbert Gatty, George William Gillow, Allan Gilmour, and Francis Frederick Handley, of the Middle Temple; Mr. Daniel Robert Fearon, and Mr. Charles Albert Ianson, of Lincoln's Inn; Mr. William Izard, of the Inner Temple; Messrs. Yves Pierre Antoine Jollivett, Henry Kisch, and David Law, of the Middle Temple; Mr. Andrew Lyon, of Lincoln's Inn; Mr. Edward Marjoribanks and Mr. Herbert Percival, of the Inner Temple; Mr. Hugh Edward Pigott Platt, of Lincoln's Inn; Messrs. Walter Byron Prosser, Arthur George Rickards, Arthur William Roberts, and Ernest Frederick Silvester, of the Inner Temple; Mr. Richard Meares Sly, of the Middle Temple; Mr. Julian Russell Sturgis, of the Inner Temple ; Mr. Herbert Travers Tamplin, of the Middle Temple; Mr. John Bayldon Walker, of the Inner Temple; Mr. Arthur Thomas Waring and Mr. Thomas Rolls Warrington, of Lincoln's Inn; Mr. William Wasteneys, of the Middle Temple; Mr, Charles Newman Watts and Mr. Charles Henry Woodruff, of Lincoln's Inn. At an examination of students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's Inn Hall on the 26th and 27th ult., the Council of Legal Education awarded to Mr. Abbas Shumsoodeen Tyabjee, of Lincoln's Inn, a certificate that he has satisfactorily passed an examination in Hindoo and Mahomedan Law and Laws in force in British India.

CALLS TO THE BAR.

Michaelmas Term, 1874

The following gentlemen have been called to the Bar:Lincoln's Inn -Daniel Robert Fearon, Esq., M.A., Oxford; Douglas Close Richmond, Esq, M.A., Cambridge; Thomas Middleton Rogers, Esq., B.A, Oxford; John Baddeley Wood, Esq., B.A, Oxford; Henry Rae, Esq., B.A. and LL.B., Cambridge; Henry Edward Hirst, Esq, M.A and B C.L., Oxford ; Charles Benjamin Bright Maclaren, Esq, M.A., Edinburgh;

William Webb Spencer Follett, Esq., B A., Cambridge; Hugh Heugh Riach, Esq, Magadelen College, Oxford; William Henry Glover, Esq., Esq, LL.B, University of London; William Michael Spence, M.A, Cambridge, Fellow of Pembroke College; Edward John Payne, Esq., M.A, Oxford, Fellow of Unixersity College; John Haviland, Esq., M.A, Cambridge; Reginald John Lake, Esq., B.A., Oxford; Charles James Tennant Dunlop, Esq., M.A., Oxford; Francis Henry Pitt-Taylor, B.A., Cambridge; Robert Edward Hallett Holt, Esq.; Edward Fortescue Torriano, Esq.; Madgwick George Davidson, Esq., M.A., Oxford; William John Tanner, Esq., B A., Oxford.

Inner Temple.-Oliver Alexander Ainslie, Esq., London; Chas. Henry Walton, Esq., Oxford; Herbert Cary George Batten, Esq., B.A., Cambridge; Charles Awdry, Esq., M.A., Oxford; Ernest Frederic Silvester, Esq., Oxford; John Heywood Johnstone, B.A., Cambridge; Francis Medland Phillips, Esq, Associate of King's College; Robert Chellas Graham, Esq., B.A., Cambridge; Heighway Jones, Esq., jun., LL.B., Cambridge; Edward Boycett Jenkins, Esq., B.A., Oxford; Rudolph Eyre Melsheimer, Esq, B A., Cambridge; William Pickford, Esq., B A., Oxford; Cecil Francis Parr, Esq., Oxford; Charles Tyrrell Giles, B.A., Cambridge; Goodwin Young, Esq., B,A., Cambridge; Arthur William Roberts, Esq., B.A., Oxford; Arratoon Carapiet, Esq., B.A., Cambridge; John Alexander Apcar, Esq.; William Edward Norris, Esq.; David Jardine Jardine, Esq., B.A., Combridge; William Frederick Alphonse Archibald, Esq., M.A., Oxford; Henry John Church, Esq.; Thomas Latham, Esq., B.A., Cambridge; Cecil Isaacson, Esq., B.A., Cambridge; Edward Majoribanks, Esq.; John Frederic Clerk, Esq., B.A., Oxford; Charles Edward Jones, Esq.; James Bigg Porter, Esq.

Middle Temple.-Robert William Taylor, Esq., University of London, B.A., holder of the First Studentship from the Council of Legal Education in May, 1874; John Fletcher Moulton, Esq., of Christ's College, Cambridge, Fellow and Lecturer; Arnold Jeffries Cleaver, Esq.; Stephen Herbert Gatty, Esq., of New College, Oxford; John Temple Ashwell Cooke, Esq.; Robert William Broomfield, Esq.; Walter Annis Attenborough, Esq., of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A.; George Humphreys, Esq., of Queen's University, Dublin, B.A.; William James Howard, Esq., of Trinity College, Dublin, B.A.; George Osmond Beeby, Esq.; Charles William Buller, Esq., of All Souls' College, Oxford, B.A.; William Davey, Esq., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, B.A.; Sir David Lionel Salomons, of Caius College, Cambridge, B.A.; Frank Normandy, Esq.; Thomas Alfred Spalding, Esq.; Henry