Heales's History and Law of Pews. 2 vols. 8vo., 168. cloth. The HISTORY and LAW of CHURCH SEATS or PEWS. By ALFRED HEALES, F.S.A., Proctor in Doctors' Commons. Redman's Law of Arbitrations and Awards. A CONCISE TREATISE on the LAW of ARBITRATIONS and AWARDS, with an Appendix of Precedents and Statutes. By JOSEPH HAWORTH REDMAN, of the Middle Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. "A singular feature in this work is, that it has no foot notes, and this is a decided recommendation. Mr. Redman goes straight through his task, and gives his cases at the end of his propositions. Commencing with a brief introduction, his second chapter treats of who may be parties to a reference, and each succeeding chapter, divided into sections, exhausts the successive steps in the process of arbitrament. The question of costs, which is apt to cause difficulty, is very clearly put before the reader, and indeed the chief merit of the work is the singular lucidity with which the law is expounded. We give the work all the praise which it can claim when we say that the arrangement is good, the style clear, and the work exhaustive. There is a useful appendix of precedents and statutes, and a very good index."-Law Times. "This is likely to prove a useful book in practice. The only peculiarity in the work before us is the absence of notes, all the references being given in the text itself. All the ordinary law on the subject is given shortly and in a convenient and accessible form, and the index is a good one. The book is of a portable size and moderate price, and contains a fairly complete appendix of precedents. It is likely enough that it will meet a demand both in the profession and amongst lay arbitrators."-Solicitors' Journal. "Mr. Redman's book may do something to expedite matters. It is a concise statement of the law on the questions which are likely to arise in the course of a reference or in subsequent proceedings which may be taken in regard to it. We suppose the real object of the work is to prevent an arbitrator from going wrong in the course of the proceedings before him and in the award. We have no doubt but that in this way the work will be useful. The precedents of awards are clearly and concisely drawn. The arrangement of chapters is conveniently managed. The law is clearly stated, and, so far as we can judge, all the important cases bearing directly on the subject are given, while the index appears reasonably copious. These facts, combined with the smallness of the volume, ought to make the book a success."-Law Journal. "This useful and ready work of reference on this important subject is supplemented by a carefully arranged appendix of precedents and statutes."-Standard. Hunt on Frauds and Bills of Sale. The LAW relating to FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES, under the Statutes of Elizabeth and the Bankrupt Acts: with Remarks on the Law relating to Bills of Sale. By ARTHUR JOSEPH HUNT, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister at Law, Author of "The Law relating to Boundaries, Fences and Foreshores." "This work is calculated to be of service to the profession. The subject is of never-failing recurrence and the decisions are by no means easy to reconcile and to arrange, and yet each decision, without any exception that we know of, is an authority in itself. Mr. Hunt has brought to bear upon the subject a clearness of statement, an orderliness of arrangement and a subtlety of logical acuteness which carry him far towards a complete systematization of all the cases. Neither has his industry been lacking: the cases that have arisen under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, and under the Bills of Sale Act have been carefully and completely noted up and disposed of by him in their appropriate places. The index also is both accurate and careful and secures much facility of reference to the various matters which are the subjects of the work."-Law Magazine. "Though smaller in size, Mr. Hunt's book deals with fraudulent conveyances under the Bankruptcy Acts, a subject which Mr. May in his work left almost untouched, although his book has the undoubted merit of being the first to break fresh ground in treating fraudulent conveyances in a separate volume. In reviewing that book last year we took occasion, while praising the industry and care with which it was compiled, to remark on the obscurity of its style. In this respect its younger rival has considerable advantage. Mr. Hunt's book is as readable as a treatise on so technical a subject can well be made. Mr. Hunt's arrangement of his materials follows an orderly and intelligible plan. The index is apparently carefully prepared, and the table of cases shews that none of the recent cases have been overlooked. Mr. Hunt has produced a really useful book unencumbered by useless matter, which deserves great success as a manual of the law of fraudulent dispositions of property." -Law Journal. BAR EXAMINATION JOURNAL. Edited by A. D. TYSSEN and R. K. WILSON, Esqrs., Barristers at Law. Nos. 1 and 2, TRINITY and MICHAELMAS TERMS, 1871. Published in Numbers, 8vo., at 38. each, by post 38. 1d., in Trinity and Nos. 1 and 2 are now ready for Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1871, and contain Subjects of Bar Examination. Examination Papers, with the Answers. ENGLISH LAW:-Constitutional Law and Legal History; Equity; Common Law; Real Property; Jurisprudence, &c.; General Paper. INDIAN LAW:-Hindu Law; Mahomedan Law; Penal Code; Criminal Procedure Code; Civil Procedure Code; Succession Act; General Paper. LAW EXAMINATION JOURNAL AND LAW STUDENT'S MAGAZINE. Edited by HERBERT N. MOZLEY, Esq., Barrister at Law. Published on the morning of the second day after each respective Final Examination in Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas Terms in each year. Each Number price 18., by post 1s. 1d.; or annnal subscription, payable in advance, 48., by post 48. 4d. CONTENTS. No. 1. Michaelmas, 1869.-I. County Courts, their Merits and Defects as Local Tribunals: By the Editor. II. Summary of new Decisions in Banco and at Nisi Prius. III. Analysis of the more important practical Statutes of 32 & 33 Vict. IV. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers (T. T. 1869). V. Final Examination Questions and Answers (M. T. 1869). VI. Notes on the Examinations. VII. Correspondence. No. 2. Hilary, 1870.-I. Note by the Editor. II. On Attornment in Mortgages. III. Digest of important recent Decisions. IV. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers (M. T. 1869). V. Final Examination Questions and Answers (H. T. 1870). VI. Correspondence. No. 3. Easter, 1870.-I. On the Fusion of the Two Branches of the Profession: By the Editor. II. Digest of important recent Decisions. III. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers (H. T. 1870). IV. Final Examination Questions and Answers (E. T. 1870). V. Reviews of New Books. VI. Correspondence. No. 4. Trinity, 1870.-I. Leading Article on the Fusion of the Two Branches of the Legal Profession: By the Editor (concluded). II. Digest of important Legal Decisions. III. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers (Easter, 1870). IV. Final Examination Questions and Answers (Trinity, 1870). V. Reviews of New Books. VI. Correspondence. No. 5. Michaelmas, 1870.-I. On the Legislation of 1870: By the Editor. II. Digest of important Legal Decisions. III. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers (Trinity, 1870). IV. Final Examination Questions and Answers (Michaelmas, 1870). V. Reviews of New Books. VI. Correspondence. No. 6. Hilary, 1871.-I. Our Jury System: By the Editor. II. Digest of important Legal Decisions. III. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers (Michaelmas, 1870). IV. Final Examination Questions and Answers (Hilary,1871). V. Reviews of New Books. VI. Correspondence. No. 7. Easter, 1871.-I. Some Remarks on the Married Women's Property Act, 1870: By the Editor. II. Digest of important Legal Decisions. III. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers (Hilary,1871). IV. Final Examination Questions and Answers (Easter,1871). V. Reviews of New Books. VI. Correspondence. No. 8. Trinity, 1871.-I. On the Necessity of providing a Public Prosecutor: By the Editor. II. How Mr. Mansfield Denman passed his "Final :" By E. H. III. Digest of Cases: Note by the Editor. IV. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers (Easter, 1871). V. Final Examination Questions and Answers (Trinity, 1871). VI. Correspondence, &c. No. 9. Michaelmas, 1871.-I. On Examinations. II. The Subject of Public Prosecutors (continued). III. Digest of Cases. IV. Intermediate Examination Questions on Chitty, Williams and Smith, Trinity, 1871, with Answers. V. Final Examination Questions and Answers, Michaelmas Term, 1871. VI. Reviews of Books. VII. Answers to Correspondents. No. 10. Hilary, 1872.-I. Notice of the late Editor. II. The Study of the Law. III. Digest of Cases. IV. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers. V. Final Examination Questions and Answers. VI. Answers to Correspondents. No. 11. Easter, 1872.-I. The Study of the Law. II. Legislative Prospects of the Session. Married Women's Property Act Amendment Bill. Imperial Court of Appeal. III. Digest of Cases IV. Intermediate Examination Questions and Answers. Hilary Term, 1872. V. Final Examination Questions and Answers. Easter Term, 1872. VI. Answers to Correspondents. Davis's Equity and Bankruptcy in the County Courts. Just ready, 8vo., cloth. The JURISDICTION and PRACTICE of the COUNTY COURTS in EQUITY (including FRIENDLY SOCIETIES), ADMIRALTY, PROBATE of WILLS, ADMINISTRATION, and in BANKRUPTCY. By J. E. DAVIS, of the Middle Temple, Esq., Barrister-atLaw. This work, although issued separately, forms a Supplementary or Second Volume to the Fourth Edition of Davis's County Courts Practice and Evidence in Actions. Davis's County Courts Practice and Evidence.-4th Edit. 8vo. 36s. cloth. THE PRACTICE and EVIDENCE in ACTIONS in the COUNTY COURTS. By JAMES EDWARD DAVIS, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Esq., This is the only work on the County Courts which gives Forms of Plaints, and treats fully of the Law and Evidence in Actions and other Proceedings in these Courts. "Mr. Davis's work has grown with the growth of his subject, and has stood almost as long a trial as the County Courts themselves. The chapters on Evidence, clearly and tersely written, will repay the perusal of every common law practitioner, whether in the County or the Superior Courts. The book is altogether thoroughly well turned out down to its ready-cut pages, for which innovation all persons, especially reviewers, will thank the publishers."-Law Journal. "It was because these instructions were so full and accurate that Mr. Davis succeeded in so easily establishing his work as the Practice of the County Courts, and in maintaining the position he had won. All who have used it speak well of it. They say they can readily find what they want, and, better still, it contains the information they want, which cannot be said of all books of practice. This has been Mr. Davis's design in his Practice of the County Courts, "It is undoubtedly the best book on the Practice of the County Courts."-Law Times. "A text book which is well known in both branches of the Legal Profession. From a small beginning it has gradually grown into a bulky volume, and now contains an exhaustive exposition of the Law and Practice relating to the County Courts. The third part of this manual contains a valuable digest of the Law of Evidence as applicable to the procedure of the County Courts. In this particular it certainly excels all the other text books on the subject. The importance of this part of the work cannot be too highly estimated."-Law Magazine. "This is a greatly enlarged edition of Davis's County Court Practice, a work well enough known to need no introduction to the legal public, or at any rate to that portion thereof which is concerned with proceedings in the County Courts. We can safely and heartily recommend the book for the perusal of all intending prac titioners in any County Court." Soliciters' Journal. ww wwwww Goldsmith's Equity.-Sixth Edition. Post 8vo. 188. cloth. THE DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE OF EQUITY: or a concise Outline of Proceedings in the High Court of Chancery, designed principally for the Use of Students. Sixth Edition, according to the recent Statutes and Orders. By GEORGE GOLDSMITH, Esq., M.A., Barrister-atLaw. "A well-known law student's book, the best, because the most thoroughly complete, yet simplified instructor, in the principles and practice of equity that has ever been provided for him; and that its value has been recognized by those who have made use of it is proved by this-that the'r commendations have carried it to a sixth edition. The principles of e,uity are as they were, but the practice has so changed since the publication of the first edition, that every part of this division of the work has required to be rewritten almost as often as a new edition was demanded. Of course, the size of the book has grown also, and from being, as we remember it, a very little book, to be carried in the pocket, it has become a portly volume. and this fairly represents its increased merits. Now that every student aspiring to the bar is to be examined before admission, good bo ks for instruction_in the law will be more than ever in request"Law Times. It is difficult to know which to praise most, the excellence and dignity of the style, or the exhaustiveness of the information furnished to the reader. Mr. Goldsmith's plan corresponds to some extent with that adopted by Mr. Haynes in his excell nt Outlines of Equity, but his work is more complete than that of Mr. Haynes." -Law Examination Journal, "The whole work is elaborated by Mr. Goldsmith with evident care and a determination to deal with all that can come within the scope of the tile. It is characterized by comprehensiveness and at the same time conciseness, by clearness of diction and attractiveness of style and avoidance of technicalities which might prove embarrassing to the student, a. d a close adherence to the purpose as expressed in the preface. Mr. Goldsmith's volume is marked by as much originality as well can be found in a work of its kind.". Law Journal. Altogether the author's method and his execution are alike commendable-and we are of opinion that the lawyer, who, as a student, avails himself of the primary intention of Mr. Goldsmith's work by finding in it his first equity reading b ok or primer, will afterwards verify the anticipation of the author by making of it dilectu juvenili or vade mecum in his later practice."-Low Magzaine, 2nd notice. Coote's Probate Court Practice.-Sixth Edition. 8vo., 25s. cloth. THE PRACTICE of the COURT of PROBATE in COMMON FORM BUSINESS. By HENRY CHARLES COOTE, F.S.A., Proctor in Doctors' Commons, &c. Also a Treatise on the Practice of the Court in Contentious Business. By THOMAS H. TRISTRAM, D.C.L., Advocate in Doctors' Commons, and of the Inner Temple. Sixth Edition, with great Additions, and including all the Statutes, Rules, Orders, &c., to the present Time; together with a Collection of Original Forms and Bills of Costs. "In 1858 Mr. Coote published a first attempt to explain the principles which were to regulate the Common Form Practice of the then new Court of Probate. Very welcome, indeed, therefore, was his opportune book of practice, and its utility has been significantly proved by the fact that we have the sixth edition now before us bound up with Dr. Tristram's treatise on the Practice of the Court of Probate in Contentious Business."-Law Magarine. "A book of practice that has arrived at a sixth edition needs no praise. The fact itself is the best certificate of worth; for practitioners would not have continued to use it if it had not been found entirely adapted for their requirements. Of course this has followed the course of all law books and grown in bulk with each successive edition, as new statutes, new rules of practice, and new decisions accumulate year by year. But the authors have not been content with mere addition; they have performed diligently the no less important work of paring down redundancies and excising the law that has become extinct through subsequent changes. It is the book on its subject, and that is the highest praise that can be given to it."-Law Times. Every year the legal arena of probate practice extends itself, and the business which was up to the end of the year 1857 a monopoly in the hands of the ancient proctors has now become the common property of the profession. It is no marvel, then, that the book before us has in twelve years run through five editions, and that the new year of 1871 ushers in the sixth., Neither the authors nor the publishers would care to deny, that this substantial success is due, in a great measure, to the pressing need that has existed for a guide to probate practice: but we may also venture to declare, that the success of the work has been brought about as much by its own intrinsic excellence as by the great demand for a work of the kind. Coote's Probate Practice' has been the standard work for twelve years, and we see no reason to doubt that it will maintain its present position for many years to come."-Law Journal. Shelford's Companies.-2nd Edit. by Pitcairn and Latham. 8vo., 21s. cloth. SHELFORD'S LAW OF JOINT STOCK COMPANIES; containing a Digest of the Case Law on that subject; the Companies Acts, 1862, 1867, and other Acts relating to Joint Stock Companies; the Orders made under those Acts to regulate Proceedings in the Court of Chancery and County Courts, and Notes of all Cases interpreting the above Acts and Orders. Second Edition, much enlarged, and bringing the Statutes and Cases down to the date of publication. By DAVID PITCAIRN, M.A, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-atLaw; and FRANCIS LAW LATHAM, B.A, Oxon, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, author of “ A Treatise on the Law of Window Lights." "We may at once state that, in our opinion, the merits of the work are very great, and we confidently expect that it will be at least for the present the standard manual of joint stock company law. That great learning and research have been expended by Mr. Pitcairn no one can doubt who reads only a few pages of the book; the result of each case which has any bearing upon the subject under discussion is very lucidly and accurately stated. We heartily congratulate him on the appearance of this work, for which we anticipate a great suc cess. There is hardly any portion of the law at the present day so important as that which relates to joint stock companies, and that this work will be the standard authority on the subject we have not the shadow of a doubt."-Law Journal. "After a careful examination of this work we are bound to say that we know of no other which surpasses it in two all-important attributes of a law book: first, a clear conception on the part of the author of what he intends to do and how he intends to treat his subject; and secondly, a consistent, laborious and intelligent adherence to his proposed order and method. All decisions are noted and epitomised in their proper places, the practice-decisions in the notes to Acts and Rules, and the remainder in the introductory account or digest. In the digest Mr. Pitcairn goes into everything with original research, and nothing seems to escape him. It is enough for us that Mr. Pitcairn's performance is able and exhaustive. Nothing is omitted, and everything is noted at the proper place. In conclusion we have great pleasure in recommending this edition to the practitioner. Whoever possesses it, and keeps it noted up, will be armed on all parts and points of the law of joint stock companies."-Solicitors' Journal. Although nominally a second edition of Mr. Shelford s treatise, it is in reality an original work, the form and arrangement adopted by Mr. Shelford have been changed and, we think, improved by Mr. Pitcairn. A full and accurate index also adds to the value of the work, the merits of which, we can have no doubt, will be fally recognized by the profession."-Law Magazine. This book has always been the vade mecum on company law, and will, apparently, long continue to occupy that position. It is perhaps even more useful to the legal practitioner than to the man of business, but still it is the best source of information to which the latter can go."-Financier and Money Market Review. Stephen's Blackstone's Commentaries.-Sixth Edition. 4 vols. 8vo., £4: 4s. cloth. MR. SERJEANT STEPHEN'S NEW COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, partly founded on Blackstone. The Sixth Edition, by JAMES STEPHEN, LL.D., of the Middle Temple, Barristerat-Law, formerly Recorder of Poole, and late Professor of English Law at King's College, London; now Judge of County Courts for Lincolnshire Circuit No. 17. Questions on Stephen's Blackstone. 8vo., 10s. 6d. cloth. QUESTIONS for LAW STUDENTS on the SIXTH EDITION of Mr. SERJEANT STEPHEN'S NEW COMMENTARIES on the LAWS of ENGLAND. BY JAMES STEPHEN, LL.D., County Court Judge. Fawcett's Law of Landlord and Tenant. 8vo., 14s. cloth Α COMPENDIUM of the LAW of LANDLORD and TENANT. By WILLIAM MITCHELL FAWCETT, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. "This new compendium of the law on a wide and complicated subject, upon which information is constantly required by a vast number of persons, it sure to be in request. It never wanders from the point, and being intended not for students of the law, but for lessors and lessees and their immediate advisers, wisely avoids historical uisquisitions, and uses language as untechnical as the subject admits. It may safely be assumed to contain information on all the ordinary questions which either contracting party may require to be answered."-Law Journal. The author has succeeded in compressing the whole of his subject within the reasonable compass of 373 pages. It may roughly be said of Mr. Fawcett's work, that it is statutory throughout, in accordance with the predominant character of the law at the present day; and Mr. Fawcett takes advantage of this characteristic of modern law to impart to his compendium 2 degree of authenticity which greatly enhances its value as a convenient medium of reference, for he has stated the law in the very words of the authorities. We have discovered plain utility to be the aim and end of Mr. Fawcett's treatise, and an ambitious merit to be that of Mr. Smith and Mr. Soden's. Probably we should be justified in saying that Mr. Fawcett has more nearly reached his aim. lower as it is, than Mr. Smith and Mr. Soden."-Law Magazine. "The first thing which strikes us with regard to Mr. Fawcett's book is the extreme terseness and verbal accuracy of the language employed. In this respect he sets a most laudable example to text book writers. The amount of information compressed into the book is very large. The plan of the book is extremely good, and the arrangement adopted has enabled the author to put together in one place the whole law on any particular branch of the subject, and to avoid repetitions. Thus not only is it easy to find what the author has to say on any particular point, but when we have found a reference to it in one place, we may be satisfied that we have found all the book contains upon the point. In this respect, though probably from its smaller size it must conta n less information than Woodfall, it will be found far more convenient for ordinary use than that treatise, in which repetitions are so frequent that a hasty searcher usually fails to find anything like all that is contained in it upon his point. The excellence of Fawcett in this respec will make it most convenient for noting new cases, as the right place for inserting them will be found without much difficulty. Moreover, every possible assistance by marginal notes, index, headings of chapters, &c., is given for finding the contents of the book. We find far more repetitions in Mr. Cave's then in Mr. Fawcett's work, and more cases in which the whole law on any point has to be looked for, not in one place but in several; in this respect, therefore, Mr. Fawcett's book has an advantage. We may add that Mr. Fawcett's references are usually given to two sets of reports, while Mr. Cave's are to one only."-Solicitors' Journal. "Woodfall was, and perhaps is. the great authority on this subject. But his book is bulky, much of it is obsolete, and much useless, and the legislature and the judges have made many changes which sufficiently justify Mr. Fawcett in his undertaking of a new treatise on a subject of such wide-spread interest. His aim, however, is condensation. He contents himself with a plain statement of the existing law, prudently omitting all matters of merely historical interest and topics collateral to the special subjects; he has deemed it unnecessary to treat of the details of judicial procedure, or to enact a mass of precedents of leases which are already possessed by the profession in other works. Above all, it has been his purpose to state the law in the language of the authorities, presenting the principles enunciated in the very words of the judges. Another excellent feature is a concise summary of the effect of each enactment in the marginal notes. It will be seen from this that the book is thoroughly practical, and, as such, will doubtless find a favorable reception from the profession."-Law Times. "This is a work which we can confidently recommend to the notice not only of the members of the legal profession, but to such of our general readers as have anything to do with the letting of either houses or land. In the carrying out of this task he has, to our minds, beeu very successful. The arrangement of the work is good, the style clear and concise, and the range of authorities unusually wide. In the appendix Mr. Fawcett inserts forms of short leases, which will be found useful."-Public Opinion. "Giving a clear and practical view of the subject, unembarrassed by historical associations or unnecessary details of procedure, but presenting the existing law in a form as intelligible to the public as useful to the lawyer; the references are plentiful, and the indices all that they should be."-Daily Telegraph. "A Compendium of the Law of Landlord and Tenant, by Mr. William Mitchell Fawcett, seeks to present its existing state in the most condensed and practical manner."-Times. To disencumber the law of landlord and tenant of surplus words and tedious arguments is a worthy and useful design, and it is skilfully accomplished in the work before us. It is a comprehensive exposition of the important subject of the law of landlord and tenant, and cannot fail to be appreciated and generally referred to."-News of the World. |