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Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries.

SECOND EDITION.

Four Vols. 8vo., Four Guineas, cloth,

(DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.)

NEW COMMENTARIES on the LAWS OF ENGLAND, in which are interwoven, under a new and original arrangement of the general subject, all such parts of the work of BLACKSTONE as are applicable to the present times; together with full but compendious expositions of the modern improvements of the law; the original and adopted materials being throughout the work typographically distinguished from each other. By HENRY JOHN STEPHEN, Serjeant at Law. SECOND EDITION. Prepared for the Press by JAMES STEPHEN, Esq., Barrister at Law.

"The correction of the Work in reference to the new Statutes and Cases and the revision of the press in general, have been confided by the Author to his Son; his own retirement from professional practice, and the transfer of his attention to official duties, rendering him less competent than formerly to labours of that description. But the sheets have been invariably laid before him during the progress of the printing, and he feels himself able to vouch for their accuracy."—Extract from the Author's Advertisement to the present Edition.

"Taking the book" (Stephen) " as a whole it is the best commentary on a great subject we ever read. Whatever in the former book" (Blackstone) " was important is fully retained and further explained,-what was immaterial is passed by,-what was confused and intricate is made plain,-what was illogical is reduced to reason, -and what was chaotic to order. The student will reap a rich harvest of knowledge from these volumes; we recommend every member of the profession, be he young or old in it, to read them."-Law Magasine.

"This work, now that it has been carried out to the fullest extent, and all the volumes been simultaneously put forth to the world in one entire edition (itself considerably altered by correction and revision from the first), challenges comparison not only with what may be termed 'other editions of Blackstone,' but with Blackstone itself."-The Times.

"We must frankly say, preferring upon the whole Serjeant Stephen's writing to Blackstone's, that we think the book before us a somewhat better book than Blackstone's would have been, could that learned judge have survived, with his likings and dislikings, to write in our day. It is a monument of conscientious labour, of diligent and scrupulous care, and of acute professional learning, with a wider scope and range than is common in Westminster Hall.”—The Examiner.

"We are proud to recognize the merits of a performance which we think will redound to the credit of the authors, while it is eminently calculated to accomplish a destiny which has been hitherto denied to all new Blackstones'-that, namely, of superseding the old one."-The Morning Chronicle.

"The attempt, we repeat, has been eminently and deservedly successful: for Serjeant Stephen has produced a work which need not fear any comparison which can be made between it and its predecessor (Blackstone's Commentaries), either with respect to style, learning, or general accuracy; whilst, we are bound to say, in the philosophical arrangement of the general subject it is decidedly superior."The Morning Post.

Questions on Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries.

8vo., 10s. 6d. cloth.

QUESTIONS for LAW STUDENTS on the SECOND EDITION of Mr. SERJEANT STEPHEN'S NEW COMMENTARIES on the LAWS of ENGLAND. By JAMES STEPHEN, Esq., of the Middle

Temple, Barrister at Law.

"We have already strongly recommended Mr. Serjeant Stephen's Commentaries. To students who have an earnest desire of reaping the store of learning to be found there, these Questions, which are neatly put and very carefully framed, will be invaluable."-Law Magazine.

Oke's Magisterial Synopsis.-Second Edition.

8vo., 18s. cloth.

THE MAGISTERIAL SYNOPSIS; comprising Summary Convictions, the Offences, Penalties, &c., and the Stages of Procedure, tabularly arranged; Indictable Offences, where each is Triable, as to Bail, Costs, &c.; and all other Proceedings before Justices out of Sessions, adapted throughout to the Law as consolidated and enacted by the Administration of Justice (or Jervis's) Acts, 11 & 12 Vict. cc. 42, 43, 44, with Forms, Copious Notes and Practical Observations, &c. SECOND EDITION, enlarged and improved. By GEORGE C. OKE, Assistant Clerk to the Newmarket Benches of Justices, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.

"Every endeavour has evidently been made by the author to make this edition complete, and in this we think he has succeeded. We may safely say the work will well maintain its character for practical utility."-Law Magazine.

"This is a new and improved edition of a work of very great practical value, for it is in fact as well as in profession a complete view of the whole magisterial duty."-Morning Herald.

"From its obvious utility, and the great care taken to render it exact and comprehensive, it will most likely become the text-book of Justices of the Peace. Nowhere will they find the same amount of instruction on their duties and jurisdiction so compactly placed before them."-Britannia.

Oke's Solicitors' Book-Keeping.

8vo., 5s. cloth,

AN IMPROVED SYSTEM of SOLICITORS' BOOKKEEPING, with Forms of the several Books, a Practical Exemplification of their Working, and Division of Profits and Losses in Cases of Partnership; Directions for Posting, Balancing, &c. By GEORGE C. OKE, Author of "The Magisterial Synopsis."

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Mr. Oke has rendered great service to the profession in compiling the above admirably arranged work. The value and necessity of such a work as this to Solicitors is obvious, and we predict for it a speedy sale."-Law Magazine.

"This is a very clever and extremely useful treatise. Such a work is of the highest value to Solicitors."-Morning Herald.

"To the Practitioner we would recommend its purchase, and if he will follow out its instructions, he will, we are sure, always consider that the trifling cost of the book was the best money he ever laid out."-Legal Practitioner.

Sets of SOLICITORS' ACCOUNT BOOKS, prepared upon Mr. OKE'S Plan, with the proper Headings, &c., and of various degrees of thickness, may be obtained of the Publisher.

Crabb's Precedents in Conveyancing.-Third Edition. 2 thick vols. royal 8vo. £3 boards.

A COMPLETE SERIES of PRECEDENTS IN CONVEYANCING and of COMMON and COMMERCIAL FORMS, in Alphabetical Order, adapted to the Present State of the Law and Practice of Conveyancing, with copious Prefaces, Observations, and Practical Notes on the several Deeds. To which are added the late Real Property Acts, with Notes, and the Decisions thereon. THE THIRD EDITION, revised and greatly enlarged. By GEORGE CRABB, Esq. of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law.

This Work, which embraces both the Principles and Practice of Conveyancing, contains likewise every description of Instrument wanted for Commercial purposes. "Crabb's Precedents are already well known to the profession. Two editions have been exhausted in a very short period, a decisive proof of the estimation in which they are held, and how useful and satisfactory they have been found in practice. The Third Edition, just published, presents a multitude of improvements, giving to it almost the value of a new work. The original design has been largely extended both in number of precedents and prefatory matter. The Transfer of Property Act has received due attention, and it has been enriched with ample and learned notes. The work thus improved, is indeed something more than a mere collection of precedents: it is an able treatise on the Law of Real Property, illustrated by examples; and as such may be read with advantage by the student. as well as consulted by the practitioner."—Law Times.

Scriven on Copyholds.-Fourth Edition.

2 vols. royal 8vo. £2 : 10s. boards.

A TREATISE on COPYHOLD, CUSTOMARY FREEHOLD, and ANCIENT DEMESNE TENURE; with the Jurisdiction of Courts Baron and Courts Leet; also an Appendix containing Rules for holding Customary Courts, Courts Baron and Courts Leet, Forms of Court Rolls, Deputations, and Copyhold Assurances, and Extracts from the relative Acts of Parliament. By JOHN SCRIVEN, Serjeant at Law. THE FOURTH EDITION, embracing all the authorities to the present period, by HENRY STALMAN, Esq. of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law.

"This Treatise is one of great practical utility, not a little enhanced by the care, industry and ability with which the present Editor, Mr. Stalman, has enriched and enlarged the original work."-Law Magazine.

"This is a careful revision of a very valuable standard work."- Legal Observer. "Mr. Stalman, the editor of the present edition, has effected considerable improvements by the application of great industry guided by sound judgment.”Law Times.

Browne on Actions at Law.
8vo. 16s. boards.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE on ACTIONS AT LAW; embracing the subjects of Notice of Action; Limitation of Actions; necessary Parties to and proper Forms of Action, the consequence of mistake therein; and the Law of Costs with reference to Damages. By RowLAND JAY BROWNE, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Special Pleader.

"The most copious and most recent information is furnished upon every subject of which he proposes to treat, and the work, which is eminently useful to Common Law practitioners in all situations, is indispensable at Nisi Prius."-Times.

Ayckbourn's New Chancery Practice.-Third Edition.

12mo., 16s. boards,

THE NEW CHANCERY PRACTICE; comprising all the Alterations effected by the RECENT ORDERS AND STATUTES; with Practical Directions, a Copious Selection of Modern Cases, and an APPENDIX OF FORMS. By HUBERT AYCKBOURN. THIRD EDITION, enlarged and carefully revised. By THOMAS H. AYCKBOURN, Esq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, and HUBERT AYCKBOurn.

"That which Archbold is to Common Law Practice Ayckbourn is to that of Chancery. The one work is quite as indispensable as the other. The present edition of Ayckbourn is a decided improvement on the former one."-Law Magazine, "In the new edition, which has almost doubled its original size, Mr. Ayckbourn has collected the decisions upon the New Orders with his accustomed care, and the work is now the completest Handbook of Chancery Practice which the profession possesses."-Law Times.

Swithinbank's QUESTIONS for LAW STUDENTS on the Third Edition of Ayckbourn's New Chancery Practice may be had, done up together with that Work, in 1 vol. 21s. boards.

Pulling's Law of Mercantile Accounts.

12mo. 9s. boards.

A PRACTICAL COMPENDIUM of the LAW and USAGE of MERCANTILE ACCOUNTS: describing the various Rules of Law affecting them, the ordinary Mode in which they are entered in Account Books, and the various Forms of Proceeding, and Rules of Pleading, and Evidence for their Investigation, at Common Law, in Equity, Bankruptcy and Insolvency, or by Arbitration. With a SUPPLEMENT, containing the Law of Joint Stock Companies' Accounts, and the Legal Regulations for their Adjustment under the Winding-up Acts of 1848 and 1849. By ALEXANDER PULLING, Esq. of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law.

"Within a small compass it combines all the rules of law regarding accounts, with the practice of Merchants as to the mode of entering them in books."-Law Magusine.

"Mr. Pulling's volume recommends itself to the profession by the excellence of the arrangement, the diligence with which the law has been collected from so many scattered sources, and the perspicuous manner in which the author expresses himself."-Law Times.

Coote's Ecclesiastical Practice.

1 thick vol. 8vo. 14. 8s. boards.

The PRACTICE of the ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS, with Forms and Tables of Costs. By HENRY CHARLES COOTE, Proctor in Doctors' Commons, &c.

"The excellent arrangement of the ample materials which he had at command is one of its greatest merits, especially as a work of reference."-Law Magazine. "Ecclesiastical Practice is now for the first time made the subject of a formal and elaborate treatise, and it has remained for Mr. Coote, by a combination of industry and experience, to give to the profession a work which has long been wanted, but which so few are competent to supply."—Law Times.

Montagu and Ayrton's Bankrupt Law.-Second Edition. 2 closely printed volumes, Svo.,

MONTAGU and AYRTON'S LAW and PRACTICE in BANKRUPTCY, as altered by the Recent Statutes, Orders, and Decisions; containing Forms, Precedents, and Practical Directions in Bankruptcy, with New Tables of Costs, &c. &c. THE SECOND EDITION. BY JOHN HERBERT KOE, Esq. one of Her Majesty's Counsel, and SAMUEL MILLER, Esq. Barrister at Law.

"We are glad to find that a New Edition has been confided to the able pens and careful superintendence of Mr. Koe and Mr. Miller. They have produced a complete, accurate, and comprehensive statement, both of the Law and Practice, and great pains and labour have evidently been bestowed."-Legal Observer.

A SUPPLEMENT to the above Work is in preparation, including the New Bankruptcy Consolidation Act, 1849-50, and all the Alterations to the latest period.

Davis's Manual of Evidence in the County Courts.

12mo. 8s. boards.

A MANUAL of the LAW of EVIDENCE on the TRIAL of ACTIONS and OTHER PROCEEDINGS in the NEW COUNTY COURTS. By JAMES EDWARD DAVIS, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law.

"It appears to be a useful and well-arranged manual."-Law Magazine.

"A volume like the present appeared to be requisite in lieu of the ponderous works of Selwyn, Starkie, and Phillips. In this Hand-Book for the County Courts' the materials have been well-arranged and concisely stated, and we doubt not it will be found a very useful book for the practitioner."-Legal Observer.

"We have examined the work and can speak of it in terms of approval; every page of it testifies that the author has industriously applied himself to compress, within a small compass, as much information as possible."-County Courts Chronicle.

Joint Stock Companies Registration Act.

18mo. 3s. 6d. boards.

An ACT (7 & 8 Vict. c. 110,) for the REGISTRATION, INCORPORATION and REGULATION of JOINT STOCK COMPANIES; with Preface and Index, by JAMES BURCHELL, Esq. and an Analysis, by CHARLES RANN KENNEDY, Esq. Barrister at Law.

Leigh's Nisi Prius.

2 vols. 8vo. £2: 8s. boards.

An ABRIDGMENT of the LAW of NISI PRIUS. By P. B. LEIGH, Esq. Barrister at Law. Author of "A Treatise on the Poor Laws," &c.

"It enters with a very laborious minuteness into the details of those branches of the law of which it treats, and deserves great praise for the industry with which the cases are collected, and the accuracy evinced in the abstract of them. The cases on the New Rules, and on the modern law in general, are very carefully collected, and the Work altogether is a very practical and a very useful Book.”

Jurist.

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