CONTENTS OF VOLUME LII. Public Health Supplemental Act, 171 Insurance on Lives (Abatement of Income Tax) Industrial and Provident Societies, 204 Joint Stock Companies, 218, 235, 251, 339, 353 County Courts Acts Amendment, 266, 285, 299, Administration of Intestates' Estates, 299 Leases and Sales of Settled Estates, 265, 315 Mercantile Law Amendment, 1856, 332 Evidence in Matters pending before Foreign Administration of Criminal Justice Amendment, Police (Counties and Boroughs), 362 Exemption of Roman Catholic Charities, 382 Formation of New Parishes, 394 Marriage and Registration, 411 Mercantile Law (Scotland) Amendment, 442 Marriage Law (Scotland) Amending, 444 Reformation of Juvenile Criminals, 459 Metropolis Local Management, 462 Commons Inclosure (No. 2), 493 Court of Chancery (Ireland) Receivers, 493 Court of Appeal in Chancery (Ireland), 508 Corrupt Practices Prevention, 511 Common Law Procedure Amendment (Ireland), Judicial Procedure (Scotland), 524 Poor-law Amendment (Scotland), 557 LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS, 451, 497 PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT, 217, 438 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS AND RETURNS. Chancery Commissioners' Third Report, 5, 25 Common Law Procedure Act, 1852, 145, 496, 512 Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, 305, 401, 527, City of London Small Debts Act, 175 New County Courts Act, 251, 345 Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 361 Bankers' Draft Act, 393, 489, 511 Administration of Intestates' Estate Act, 393 Evidence before Foreign Tribunals Act, 394 Equity Jurisdiction Improvement Act, 417, 446 Ecclesiastical Courts—Testamentary and Matri- monial Jurisdiction, 22, 169, 272, 335 Administration of Criminal Law, 34 Procedure and Evidence, 43, 121 Appellate Jurisdiction of House of Lords, 81, 103, Joint-Stock Limited Liability, 137 Administration of Intestates Estates, 154 Evidence in Foreign Suits, 190 Copyhold Acts Amendment, 209, 224 Abolishing Archidiaconal and Peculiar Courts, Abolition of Office of Cursitor Baron, 214 Chancery Registrar's Office, 474 PROGRESS OF, 15, 21, 56, 63, 97, 101, 149, 153, New Law Courts and Offices, &c., 41, 114, 149, Evils of Pretended Assurance Offices, 131 House of Lords as Court of Appeal, 159 Enfranchisement of Copyholds, 36, 85, 388 Compulsory References and Compromises, 162, 339 Results of the Session, 233, 257 Statute Law Consolidation, 239 Saturday Half-holiday, 14, 17, 52 Appointment of Public Prosecutors and District Criminal Law Amendment, by Mr. Greaves, 382 Trevor's Taxes on Succession, 66 Administration of Real and Personal Property, 486 Williams's Pleading, 571 Common Law Commission of Inquiry, 505, 521 Woolrych on the Metropolitan Building Act, 140 Testamentary Jurisdiction, 539 NEW RULES AND ORDERS. Lectures and Examination, 12, 97, 307, 323 Education for the Bar, 399, 506 Alterations in County Court Districts, 172, 446 Q. C. attending Equity Courts, 132 Bills of Exchange Act, Extension to Local Duties of Common Law Masters, 193 Common Law Procedure Act-Extension to Local Memoir of G. A. A'Beckett, 326 Mr. Warren's Charge to Grand Jury at Hull, 448 Coroners for Dorsetshire, 259 Opinions of the Press, 449 Judicial Changes, 457, 489 New Solicitor-General, 512 Circuits of the Judges, 147, 513 Accountant-General's Office, 175 Vacation Bankruptcy Commissioners, 148 Leases and Sales of Settled Estates, 494 Business at Judge's Chambers, 495 15, 16, 31, 33, 36, 49, 51, 68, 84, 88, 96, 97, 98, 106, 109, 142, 143, 145, 155, 160, 165, Saturday Half-holiday, 36 178, 181, 190, 192, 193, 213, 229, 230, 242, 260, 273, 281, 792, 309, 325, 372, 373, 388, 404, 416, 418, 434, 447, 185, 500, 512, 513, 516, 527, 560 House of Lords' Appeals, 454, 470 Scotch Appeals to the House of Lords, 311, 328 Incorporated Law Society, 163, 302, 319, 475 Chancery Appeals, 359, 374, 389, 406, 550 Law Amendment Society, 465 Law Life Insurance Office, 277 Legal and General Assurance Company, 277 Liverpool Law Society, 481 London and Provincial Insurance Company, 277 Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association, 179, LAW OF VENDOR AND PURCHASER, 338, 357, 369 Society of Solicitors of Supreme Courts in Scot- United Law Clerks' Society, 164, 193 11, 68, 145, 160, 178, 192, 214, 228, 260, 276, 293, 305, 322, 338, 370, 388, 401, 417, 435, 445, 468, 485, 496, 526, 543, 559. Information relating to, 16, 56, 109, 181, 437, Judicial and Official Salaries, 173 501 Distinctions, &c., 226, 245, 308, 329, 357, 485 Mr. Kerr's Lecture on, 475 MISCELLANEA. Bainbridge on the Law of Mines and Minerals, 291 Number of Modern Acts of Parliament, 325 Prizes in Paris faculties of law, 331 Antient deed of Earl Derwentwater, 371 Palmer's case, 401 Railways, professional charges, and Mr. Cort's in- Grant's Law of Banking, 572 LEGAL ETHICS. Privileged communications-Fraud, 278 SELECTIONS FROM CORRESPONDENCE, 36, 55, 95, 133, 165, 308, 405, 418, 451, 486 Oke's Magisterial Synopsis, 445 Robinson's Practices of Courts in England and NOTES OF THE WEEK, 17, 36, 98, 117, 133, 181, 198, 230, 246, 262, 278, 309, 358, 389, 405, 422, 438, Scott on Costs in the Superior Courts, 29 454, 469, 486, 501, 516, 530, 547, 562 Smith's (J. S.) Principles of Equity, 464 | BUSINESS OF THE COURTS, 70, 150, 246, 263, 468. Tapping on Joint Stock Companies, 573 And see Notes of the Week, passim. Thring's Joint-Stock Companies Act, 1856, 558 | Law APPOINTMENTS. See Notes of the Week, passim. The Legal Observer, AND SOLICITORS JOURNAL. "Still attorneyed at your service."-Shakespeare. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1856. THE TREATY OF PEACÉ. lits result not only increase the prosperity of this great Commercial Country throughout In the former state of the Law relating all its various classes, (depending as they to the contents of Newspapers, we should not do on each other,) but largely tend to the have been permitted to set forth or descant advantage of the Legal Profession, for whaton the great Treaty of Peace which was an- ever promotes the wealth, and increases the nounced to both Houses of Parliament on population of a country, must enhance the Monday last, the 28th April. It must be interests of those whose clients multiply acknowledged, however, that we were libe- both in number and riches. We trust, inrally dealt with by the Government autho-deed, that “a good time is coming," which rities in the construction of the Statutes will re-instate our brethren in that prosagainst the publication of “news or obser- perity which they formerly possessed ; and vations on public events.” Our humble that, notwithstanding the ravages which Journal, as the first Weekly Law Periodical, have been perpetrated by hasty and illhas often been noticed in Parliament and advised changes in the rules of Law and the Courts of Law on questions relating to the regulations of professional Practice, an publications devoted chiefly to science and honourable, well-educated, energetic, and literature, but which sometimes animad- intelligent body of men must still continue verted on transactions of a political nature to conduct the practical business of the or which affected the community at large. Courts, and advise, guide, and aid the Indeed, it may be admitted that in stat- suitors in their varied, important, and often ing and commenting upon the various mea- complicated affairs. sures of Law Reform (for which purpose Although the Treaty of Peace, and its the Legal Observer was chiefly established) appendant Conventions, have appeared in all we were frequently dealing with topics not the papers, we think our readers will aplimited to the Profession alone in any of its prove of its being permanently recorded in branches, but importantly affecting the these pages. Every intelligent lawyer, inpublic in general. We believe that there is deed, ought to be acquainted with the scarcely any subject in the wide range of several clauses of these remarkable State newspaper topics so interesting to the ma- documents, which we trust will long conjority of Englishmen as the due administra- tinue as a great Chapter in the International tion of Justice in all its various departments; Law of the Seven Kingdoms, the rulers of and this general feeling proves convincingly which are parties thereto. the high sense of justice which prevails The several articles of the Treaty which throughout the kingdom. Hence we see a more particularly affect the interests of large and prominent space allotted to “ Law Great Britain are the 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, Reports and Intelligence” in all our daily 16th, 17th, and 23rd. In addition to which papers. is the following Convention relating to the We consider also that this more than important subject of Maritime Law :European Compact, which well-nigh esta-“That Maritime Law, in time of war, has blishes the peace of the whole world, will in long been the subject of deplorable disputes; VOL, LII. No. 1,469. в |