John Shaw Leigh, Esq.; John Naylor, Esq.

Directors, &c., in Liverpool:

Charles Turner, Esq., Chairman; J. Bramley-Moore, Esq., M.P. and Ralph Brocklebank, Esq., Deputy Chairmen.

FIRE BRANCH

Annual Premiums £130,000, exceeding almost every Office in the
United Kingdom.

Losses Promptly and Liberally Paid.

Security of a Large Capital actually paid up.

IMPORTANT TO THE PROPRIETORS OF CORN AND
OATMEAL MILLS.

Risks of this description accepted on a most liberal scale of rates.

LIFE BRANCH.

Stamps on Policies not Charged.

(Incorporated A.D. 1720, by Charter of George the First.) CORBET AND ARMSTRONG

Agents and Stock Brokers

No. 5, COLLEGE-GREEN, DUBLIN.

Fire, Life, and Marine Assurances on liberal terms.
Life Assurances with, or without, participation in Profits.
Divisions of Profits every Five Years.

Any sum up to £15,000 insurable on the same Life.

A liberal participation in Profits, with exemption from the liabilities of partnership.

The Reversionary Bonus has averaged nearly two per cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 43 per cent. upon the Premiums paid. It is believed that no other old established Company, affording to the Irish public the accommodation of local agencies, has maintained during the same period a rate of Bonus equal to this.

The expeuses of management, being divided between the different branches, are spread over a larger amount of business than that transacted by any other office. The charge upon each Policy is thereby reduced to a sum so small as to account for the magnitude of the Bonus which has been declared, and to afford a probability that

Forfeiture of Policy cannot take place from unintentional mistakes similar rate will be sustained at future divisions.

Medical Fees Paid-Moderate Premiums.

Large BONUS declared 1855,

Amounting to £2 per Cent. per Annum on the sum Assured, being on
Ages from Twenty to Forty, Eighty per Cent. on the Premium.

Periods of Division':

Every Five Years, from 31st December in each year.

PERCY M. DOVE, Actuary and Manager.

A. M'NEILE, 34 WESTMORELAND-ST., Agent.

This Corporation affords to the Assured a liberal participation in Profits, with exemption from the liabilities of partnership;-a rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies, with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock ;-the advantages of modern practice, with the security of an office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a century and a half.

Tables of Rates, and all other information, may be had on application to CORBET AND ARMSTRONG, Agents and Stock Brokers No. 5, College-green, Dublin.

The Irish Jurist.

DUBLIN, MAY 1, 1858.

The Probates and Letters of Administration Act (Ire. land, 1857). With Commentary, and Appendix of Acts, Rules, Orders, and Instructions to Regitrars and District Registrars; a Schedule of Fee, and a Guide to the Practice in Contentious and

Non-contentious Business in the Principal and District Registries. By JOHN SMITH GAIRDNER, of the Inland Revenue: Legacy and Succession Duty Department. Dublin E. J. Milliken. 1858.

WE believe that among the statutes for the im

provement of the legal procedure of this country, that referred to in the title to these observations was much required. The necessity which existed for it is well stated in the introduction by Mr. Gairdner to the book before us, which contains a very neat and practical summary of the nature and objects of the statute. Referring to the necessity which existed for this change in the law, he says:

mination, the law even being upon many points unsettled. But, whilst a partial jurisdiction was productive of little or no inconvenience two or three centuries ago, when few had more than one place of residence, in or about which were all their chattels, it became in more modern times a source of constant difficulties. The case is very different in days such as our own, when business men have their abodes in town and country, have monies in many hands and out on many ventures, and but a very inconsiderable part of their goods and chattels in or about their dwellings."

Of course, in considering the practice of a court thus recently created, it is not possible to give any general detail of that practice, which has, in fact, to be yet worked out; but Mr. Gairdner seems to have done all that was practicable in such a case. The statute and orders are neatly and conveniently arranged, with some good practical observations on those portions of them which seemed to require it; and what, above all, is valuable, there is an excellent index to the work, enabling the practitioner to find with facility such portions of the statute or orders as he may require.

A Tabular View of the Law relating to Judgments
and Recognizances in Ireland. By EDWARD
BURROUGHS, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
E. J. Milliken. 1858.

Dublin:

offering. There is no subject more frequently presented to those engaged in the sale or purchase of land, or in the administration of real assets, than the rights of judgment creditors as against the lands to be sold. The legislation on the law of judg. ments, has unfortunately placed this class of securities in a very complicated position. The remedies which the creditor may adopt for recovering a

Thus, a glance at the circumstances under which the testamentary jurisdiction of the Ecclesiassical Courts originated, as compared with those To the legal practitioner this sheet is a valuable of later days, seems to lead to the conclusion that it had outlived its time; and this view is strengthened by a consideration of the evils connected with it-evils which have at length led to the Act which is the subject of this volume. Heretofore there existed throughout the country various testamentary courts, having each separate and yet partial jurisdictions. These were a constant source of difficulty and embarrassment, felt in England perhaps more than even in Ireland. In that country there existed more than three hundred courts, not one of them having jurisdiction throughout all England, judgment of a particular year, cannot, it may be, whilst in this country there were twenty-nine, of be applied to his judgment of the ensuing year, and which the Prerogative alone had a province coextensive with Ireland. The others had for their limits their respective dioceses, their grants being not only inefficacious for goods out of the diocese, but void where such existed.

"Sometimes it was doubtful whether a grant should be obtained in a diocesan or in the Prerogative Court; at others, when a diocesan grant had been obtained, a troublesome creditor would insist on a prerogative grant; again, where this latter had been taken, it could be invalidated, on the ground that the deceased had goods only in one diocese. The situs of the goods became thus of importance, whilst, in the case of shares, debts, policies of insurance, and the many other shapes which assets take, it was often of no easy deter

possibly a different law is applicable to that of the third year. The table before us lays very distinctly before the practitioner the position and legal means for the recovery of judgments according to their dates, and the statutes affecting them, so as entirely to save the necessity of a reference upon every occasion to the complicated enactments affecting judgment creditors. The various positions in which judgments are placed seem to be stated with much legal accuracy, so that this guide may be regarded as a safe one, and one which we can confidently recommend to the profession.

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The THIRTY SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY was held at Edinburgh on
Monday, the 15th of February-
H. MAXWELL INGLIS, Esq, W.S, in the Chair.

THE

HE MANAGER of the Company submitted the following Statements to the Meeting

Balance Sheet certified by the Auditor and three of the Directors, in accordance with the Acts of Parliament constituting the Company. General and Comparative Statement explanatory of the Progress of the Business generally.

Report by the Directors as to the Progress of the Business during the year ended 15th November, 1857.

Report on the Books and Accounts by the professional Auditor of the Company.

THE Directors, in their Report, congratulated the Meeting on the great progress of the Company's Business, and the satisfactory position of its affairs, and the following results were communicated with reference to the operations during the past year :--

SUMS Proposed for Assurance during the year, contained in 997 Proposals.......

SUMS Assured, contained in 840 Proposals, exclusive of Annuity Transactions..
CORRESPONDING Annual Premiums on New Policies....

CLAIMS by Death paid during the year, exclusive of Bonus Additions..
ANNUAL REVENUE FOR 1857-

From Premiums....

From Interest on the Company's Invested Funds....

ACCUMULATED FUND, invested in Government Securities, in Land, in Mortgages, &c......

.£664,513 7 5

£574,839 7 5

£17,916 36

£87,925 13 3

£202,818 16 10
£62.551 11 4

£1,451,822 9 3

The following TABLE was submitted, in illustration of the progress of the business generally since 1847-that is, from the twenty-second to the thirty-second year of the Company's business:

GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY'S BUSINESS FROM 1846 TO 1857.

Claims by Death
exclusive of

Bonus
Additions.

16,666,254 12 1

515,117 7 0 609,323 7 11 516,351 6 7 5 574,839 7 5,362,141 5 6

16,650 0

3
2

20,047 18 0

237,450 19

75,640 8 0

5,556,106 17 4

16,769 3 4 17,916 3 177,290 1

254,484 10 8

75,315 2 3

5,871,276 10 O

6

265,370 8 2

87,925 13 3

6,186,187 6 11

7

Attention was drawn to the fact that during the last nine years the average amount of new business transacted by the Company was upwards of Half a Million sterling, and the average number of New Policies above 900 per annum. The Manager submitted a calculation showing the Expected and Actual Mortality among the Lives Assured during the last two years of which the following is an abstract:

A result which cannot fail to have an important effect on the Company's Profits now Accumulating for Division in 1860. a HE Report, which contained various other particulars, was unanimously approved of, and vote of thanks was presented to in the leading position which it occupies among the Life Assurance Institutions of the country. The BOARD of DIRECTORS beg to congratulate all connected with the Institution on the satisfactory results communicated in the Annual Report submitted at the General Meeting. The STANDARD has now been established for upwards of thirty-two years; it has attained its present high position in the Assurance world by the soundness of its principles and the liberality of its practice, and it has led they way for some years in all those important changes which have tended to renders Policy of Assurance a safe and reliable security under all circumstances. The Directors claim support then, in the first place, for sound principles of management and liberality of dealing, but, in the second place, they claim for the STANDARD a no less prominent position with reference to the benefits it confers on Assurers, in connection with the profits realised In the course of the business, and which are at least commensurate with those afforded by the most successful Institutions of WILLIAM THOS. THOMSON, Manager. the day. SAMUEL SMYLIE, Resident Secretary. Dublin, 66 Upper Sackville-street.

THE

SPECIAL NOTICE.

IIE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, with reference to a late decision in the Court of Common Pleas in England, request attention to the following regulations, adopted in 1856, as to the RENEWAL OF POLICIES.

A Policy, of five years' standing on the Books, cannot be forfeited unless the Annual Renewal Premium remains unpaid for thirteen months. Thirty days is the regular period allowed for payment, but the arrears can be paid at any time within thirteen months from the date when the premium fell due on payment of a fine, without a medical certificate. Should death take place within the thirty days or thirteen months, the Company hold themselves liable, on payment of the arrear and fine, whether before or after death. After the expiry of the thirteen months the Policy is forfeited, but the surrender value is held at the disposal of the parties interested for five years from the regular date of renewal. These regulations apply to all Policies of five years' standing, with certain exceptions mentioned in the Company's Prospectus. The privileges of renewal under Policies of shorter duration than five years are very liberal, and the following clause in the Company's Policy applies to them :

"In case any person assured shall die within the space of thirty days, and the party holding the Policy from the Company, or the heirs, "executors, or assignees of the Assured, or any other person on his or their behalf, shall pay the Premium due thereon before the expiration "of such thirty days, the Policy will be as valid and effectual as if the Premium had been paid when due, and in the lifetime of the person "Assured."

THE DIRECTORS of the COLONIAL LIFE the day of publication its being forwarded to the Country, by Post, on

ASSURANCE COMPANY, with reference to the late decision in the Court of Common Pleas in England, beg attention to the following Clause in the Policies of Assurance granted by this Company:

"In case any person Assured shall die within the said space of thirty "days, and the party holding the Policy from the Company, or his "Representatives, or any other person on his or their behalf, shall pay "the Premium due thereon before the expiration of such thirty days, "the Policy will be as valid and effectual as if the Premium had been "paid when due, and in the lifetime of the person Assured." By Order of the Board of Directors, SAMUEL SMYLIE,

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