THE LAW MAGAZINE AND LAW REVIEW; OR, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudencę. MARCH TO AUGUST, 1869. VOLUME XXVII. LONDON: BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, AND BELL & BRADFUTE. MELBOURNE: GEORGE ROBERTSON. 1869. INDEX TO VOL. XXVII. OF THE Law Magazine and Law Review. Lord Wensleydale, 15. Necrology, 183, 377. Notices of New Books, 147, 346. Representation of Intention and Honorary Engagements, 185. Sketch of Lord Cottenham as a Judge, 264. Some Considerations on the Estimates for Law Offices, 38. The Claim to the Earldom of Wiltes, 228. The Codes of New York, 312. The Election Inquiries, 82. The First Report of the Judicature Commission, 143. The Historical Manuscripts Commission, 273. The Law Digest Commission, 1. The Scotch Bar Two Centuries Ago, 219. The Site of the New Law Courts, 128. Todd's Parliamentary Government in England, 302. THE Law Magazinę and Law Review: OR QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE. No. LIII. ART. I.—THE LAW DIGEST COMMISSION. MR. JOHN STUART MILL observes (Logic, Book III.) that the chief work of philosophers in future will be Although induction is the watchword of his school, and their shibboleth in philosophic battle, yet its sphere is thus confessedly limited. deduction and not induction. Though powerful for much, it cannot fulfil all the desires of a philosophic heart. Upon practical grounds, therefore, it must sometimes yield to a successor of a different kind. As, on account of its own practical merits, it is supposed to have superseded the syllogism in logical science, so, "from the very constitution of its nature," it must, in turn, leave the stage for more practical hands to complete the philosophic structure. Law, like philosophy, appears to have certain stages of development and perhaps decay. creative period, when from the force of circumstances arises some First comes the great great legislator, Ollam the Good, or an Edward I., who has the happy foresight of seeing the necessity of adding authority to certain established customs. Indeed, it is in the first stage of every art or science that its most brilliant VOL. XXVII.-NO. LIII. B |