THE LEGAL OBSERVER, Digest, AND JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE. . PUBLISHED WEEKLY. MAY TO OCTOBER, 1851. INCLUSIVE. -“Quod magis ad nos HORAT. VOL. XLII. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, 32, BELL YARD, LINCOLN'S INN. AND HODGES AND SMITH, DUBLIN. 1851. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLII. ANALYTICAL DIGEST OF CASES, REPORTED IN ALL THE COURTS : House of Lords’ Appeals, 16 Courts of Equity : Law of Costs, 163 Joint-Stock Companies Winding-up Act, 204, 246, 265 Evidence, 306, 326 And see Table of Titles, 517. RECENT DECISIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS, See Digest and Names of Cases, p. 506. Equity Reform : Trial of Issues—Examination of Witnesses, 63 Sale of Arsenic Regulation, 135 County Court Equitable Jurisdiction, 94 Prevention of Offences, 253 Assistance of Solicitors, 196 Landlord and Tenant-Emblements, 276 Business despatcbed by Sir John Leach, 196 Law of Evidence Amendment, 291 Decree for taking an account in 1579, 196 Arrest of Absconding Debtors, S12 Taxing Master's Salary and Compensation, 198 Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 331 Masters' jurisdiction, 232 Registration of Compound Householders, 353 Objections of l'ice-Chancellor Turner, 432 Criminal Justice Improvement, 371 Interests of Married Women, 320 Administration of Justice in Chancery-Lords Proposed Judicial and Official Alterations, 369 Justices of Appeal, &c., 391 Examining Witnesses vivâ voce, 389 Expenses of Prosecutions, 414 Progress of Commissioners, 422 Regulation of Attorneys and Solicitors, 430 Comparative number of bills and claims, 474 Parliamentary Franchise, 455 Recent Improvements and Remedies, 497 Inbabited House Duty, 472 Suggested Improvements in Procedure, 312 Special Juries delay, 49 Rule to Plead-Demand of Plea, 179 Recommendations, 211, 234, 257 180, 260, 280, 321, 482 Plea of Infancy, 240 PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS & RETURNS. Forfeiture of Leaseholds, 240 Law of Divorce, 80 Conveyancing Reform- Registration of Assurances : Petition of Incorporated Law Society, 213 NEW BILLS IN PARLIAMENT. Petition of Solicitors at Birmingham, 113 Copybold Enfranchisement, No. 2, 45 Kent Law Society, 60 Arrest of Absconding Debtors, 57 Meeting of Solicitors at Lincolo, 111 Charitable Institutions' Notices, 94 Manchester Petition, 24 Sequestration of Benefices for Debt, 60 Northamptonshire Petition, 25 Charitable Trusts, 113, 153, 171, 194, 232, 250 Meeting at Wakefield-Mr. Shaw's Speech, 41 Chancery Administration Improvement, 129, Petition from Worcester, 133 153 Address of Solicitors of West Riding, 3 Petition of Landed Proprietors, 94 The Lord Chancellor and tbe Bill, 73 Lord Campbell and the Country Solicitors, 75 Progress of the Bill, 151, 231 To our Readers and Subscribers, 1 Report of Select Committee, 60 Amalgamation of Law and Equity, 2, 29, 280 Amended Bill, 75, 91, 232 Lord Denman on the Law of Evidence, 21 Observations, 359 Interests of the Profession, 28 Local and Metropolitan Registry compared, 133 Law Bills before Parliament, 109, 179 Candidates for Office of Deputy Registrar, 24 Arbitration Courts, 119 Oliver Cromwell's plan, 377 Patent Law Amendment, 213 Expense of Registering Deeds, 28 The Lord Chancellor, the Law Reformers, and Registration of Mortgages, 476 the Profession, 229 Judgments affecting Land, 197 COUNTY COURTS. Treasurers of, 23 Grand Jury System, 341 Concurrent jurisdiction of Superior Courts, 27 Opinions of the Press, 474 Unfitness to decide suits in Equity, 29 |