CONTENTS OF No. XVII.

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ART. I.-THE JUDGE-MASTER QUESTION.

1. Observations on the Offices of the Masters in Chan-

cery; with Extracts from the Books and Notes of one

of the Masters. [J. W. FARRER, Esq.]

Norton, 1848.

Stevens and

2. Reports of the Select Committee on Fees in Courts of

Law and Equity, 1847 and 1848.

3. An Act to amend the Acts for facilitating the winding

up of Joint Stock Companies unable to meet their

pecuniary Engagements, and also to facilitate the Dis-

solution and winding up of Joint Stock Companies,

11 & 12 Vict. c. 45.

ART. II.-INTERNATIONAL LAW. No. 1.

ART. III.-BROOM'S LEGAL MAXIMS.

A Selection of Legal Maxims, classified and illustrated.

By HERBERT BROOM, Esq., Barrister. 2d edition.

Maxwell, 1848

ART. IV.-SCOTCH ENTAILS.

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11 & 12 Victoriæ, cap. 36. An Act for the Amendment

of the Law of Entail in Scotland. (4th August, 1848.) 58

ART. V.-LIMITED LIABILITY IN PARTNERSHIP.

Partnership "en Commandite," or Partnership with li-

mited Liabilities (according to the Commercial Prac-

tices of the Continent of Europe and the United States

of America), for the Employment of Capital, the Cir-

culation of Wages, and the Revival of our Home and

Colonial Trade. E. Wilson, 1848

ART. VI.-THE PROVINCE OF THE BAR IN ENGLAND

ART. VII.-ON THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY CONNECTED WITH

ART. VIII.-Report of the Select Committee of the House

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of Commons on Agricultural Customs. Ordered to be

printed 3d July, 1848. No. 461.

ART. IX.- FRENCH AND ENGLISH LAW OF EVIDENCE

ART. X.-NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

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I. A Letter from Lord Denman to Lord Brougham on

the final Extinction of the Slave Trade, 8vo., pp. 79.

London: Hatchard, 1848

Magna

II. - The Moral, Social, and Professional Duties of At-

tornies and Solicitors. By SAMUEL WARREN, Esq.,

F. R. S., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Wil-

liam Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London;

William Benning and Co., London. 1848.

III. The Text-Book of the Constitution.

Charta, the Petition of Right, and the Bill of Rights.

With Historical Comments, and Remarks on the pre-

sent Political Emergencies. By E. S. CREASY, M. A.,

Barrister-at-Law; Professor of History in University

College, London; late Fellow of King's College, Cam-

bridge. London: Richard Bentley. 1848

IV. - 1. A Paper, by Mr. Pulling, on the Propriety of

reviving the Action of Account for the Purpose of

facilitating the Investigation of Accounts in Courts of

Common Law, particularly in the Cases of Partners

and Agents. 1848.

2. A Practical Compendium of the Law and Usage of

Mercantile Accounts, describing the various Rules of

Law affecting them, the ordinary Mode in which they

are entered in Account Books, and the various Forms

of proceeding and Rules of Pleading, and Evidence

for the Investigation at Common Law, in Equity,

Bankruptcy, and Insolvency, or Arbitration, by ALEX-

ANDER PULLING, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-

at-Law. Butterworth, 1846

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ART. XI.-THE ACTS OF LAST SESSION, AND THE CHANGES

MADE BY THEM IN THE LAW

ART. XII. LORD BROUGHAM ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 208

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMEND-
MENT OF THE LAW

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POSTSCRIPT

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NOTE FROM MR. BOYLE

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CONTENTS OF No. XVIII.

ART. 1.-THE SUPREME COURTS IN INDIA.

Papers laid before Parliament by the Indian Law Com-

mission, 1848.

ART. II.-ON CHANGE OF SURNAME.

ART. III.-INTERNATIONAL LAW. Part II. -

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1. Copy of the Sixth Report of the Copyhold Commis

sioners to Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State

for the Home Department, pursuant to the Act 4 & 5

Vict. c. 35.

2. A Bill intituled "An Act to extend the Acts for the

Commutation of Manorial Rights, for facilitating the

Enfranchisement of Lands, and for the Improvement

of Copyhold and Customary Tenures," presented 2d

June, 1848. Amended in Committee and reprinted

17th July, 1848.

ART. V.-REPORTS OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE

AMENDMENT OF THE LAW

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Treatment of Lunatics, as amended by the Committee - 313

ART. VI.-FRENCH JUDGES SINCE THE REVOLUTION

ART. VII.-NAVAL PRIZE

ART. VIII.-Foss's JUDGES OF ENGLAND.

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344

The Judges of England; with Sketches of their Lives,

and Miscellaneous Notices connected with the Courts

at Westminster, from the Time of the Conquest. By

EDWARD FOSS, F S. A., of the Inner Temple. 2 vols.

London: 1848.

OF THE BAR IN ENGLAND.

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ART. X.-ON THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY CONNECTED WITH

RAILWAYS. No. II.

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I.-New Commentaries on the Laws of England (partly

founded on Blackstone). By HENRY JOHN STEPHEN,

Serjeant-at-Law. 2d Edit. in 4 vols. London, 1840. - 405

II.- A Supplement to a Treatise on the Law of Per-

petuity; embracing all the Authorities on the Subject

of the original Work since its publication. By WILLIAM

DAVID LEWIS, of Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn, Bar-

rister-at-Law, and Lecturer on the Law of Real Pro-

-perty, &c. in Gray's Inn

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Concise Precedents of Wills, with an Introduction

and Practical Notes. By JAMES TRAILL CHRISTIE,

Esq., Barrister. London, 1849

ART. XII.

·PROSPECTS OF THE SESSION.

1. The Delay in the Offices of the Masters in Chancery,

and the Remedy. By CHARLES PURTON COOPER,

Esq., one of Her Majesty's Counsel. Stevens and

Norton, 1849.

2. On the Economic Causes of the present State of Agri-

culture in Ireland. Parts 1 & 2. Papers read before

the Dublin Statistical Society. By NEILSON HANCOCK,

LL.B. Hodges and Smith, Dublin, 1848, 1849

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NOTE TO ART. VI. On French Jurisprudence

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMEND-