Hanc igitur video sapientissimorum fuisse sententiam, legem neque ho.
minum ingeniis excogitatam, nec scitum aliquod esse populorum, sed æter-
num quiddam, quod universum mundum regeret, imperandi, prohibendique
sapientia.—CICERO.

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BOSTON,

FREEMAN & BOLLES—81, COURT STREET.

1830.

CONTENTS

OF

No. VII.

98

ART.

Page.

I. RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CRIMINAL LAW OF

ENGLAND

5

The Criminal Statutes of England, Analyzed and arrang-

ed alphabetically, with Notes. By John Collyer,

Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. Hoc

spectant leges, hoc volunt; incolumem esse civium

conjunctionem : quam qui dirimunt, eos morte, exilio,

vinclis, damno coercent.'

II. OPINION OF COUNSEL ON QUESTIONS OF INSURANCE 25

III. CUSTOMS-ORIGIN OF CUSTOMARY LAW

28

IV. DANE'S ABRIDGMENT

63

A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law,

with Occasional Notes and Comments. By Nathan

Dane, L. L. D. Counsellor at Law. Vol. IX.

V. SUGDEN ON POWERS

86

VI. BANKRUPT AND INSOLVENT LAWS

New York Insolvent Law.

VII. THOMAS ADDIS EMMET

116

Memoir of Thomas Addis Emmet. By Charles Glidden

Haynes. With a Biographical Notice of Mr. Haynes.

VIII. GREENLEAF'S REPORTS

132

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme

Judicial Court of the State of Maive. By Simon

Greenleaf, Counsellor at Law. Vol. V.

Digest OF RECENT DECISIONS

144

Notices, SHORT REVIEWS, AND ANALYSES.

Chitty's English Statutes

191

Tyrwhitt and Tyndale's Digest of the English Statutes

Paine and Duer's Practice

193

Mr. Willard's Address to the Worcester Bar

195

Coventry and Hughes's Index

200

Harrison's Digest

Amos and Ferard's Law of Fixtures

202

Bentham's Principles of Legislation

Pickering's Seventh and Eighth Volumes

205

Proposed Analytical Digest of the American Reports 207