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Inns of Court Lectures.

In his Private Lectures the Reader, after examining the History of the Reign of Elizabeth, will follow in greater detail the course mentioned above.

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(c) The Doctrine of Approximation, or CyPres.

(d) Estates created under Powers of Appointment.

(e) The Acuumulation of Income, 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 98.

II. The Law of Judgments, as it affects Real Property: 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 11; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 82; 18 Vict. c. 15.

Millar's View of the English Constitution; Hallam's Chapters on the Reigns of the Stuart Kings and the Reign of William the Third; Rapin's History of the same Reigns; Clarendon's History, and May's The Lectures to be delivered to the Private History; The State Trials; Stephens' Classes will comprise the following subjects:Blackstone; Macaulay's History, 4th vol. With the Senior Class, the Transmissibility of The Reader on Constitutional Law and Le- Powers of Saie, and the Liability of Purchasers gal History will deliver his Public Lectures at to see to the application of their PurchaseLáncoln's Inn Hall, on Wednesday in each Money, will be discussed. In the Junior Class, week during the Educational Term, commenc- the Elementary Principles of the Law of Pering at Two P.M. The first Lecture to be de- petuity, and the application of the Doctrine to livered on the 16th of April. The Reader will the various modes of settling Real and Perreceive his Private Classes on Tuesday, Thurs-sonal Property, will be explained. day, and Saturday morning, at half-past Nine o'clock, in the Benchers' Reading Room.

Equity.

The Reader on Equity proposes to deliver, during the ensuing Educational Term, Twelve Lectures on the following Subjects: I.-The Rights and Liabilities of Mortgagor and Mortgagee (continued).

II.-The Jurisdiction of Equity to Enforce the Specific Performance of Agreements.

III.-The Equitable conversion of Real and Personal Estate.

IV.-The Jurisdiction of Equity over Principal and Surety.

V.-The Jurisdiction of Equity in Cases of Accident and Mistake.

VI.-Transactions between Parties, one of whom possesses undue advantage over the other.

The Reader will continue with his Senior and Junior Classes the general course of Equity already commenced, using, as before Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence for a textbook. He will also continue in the Senior Class, and commence in the Junior to explain the leading rules of Pleading in Equity from the work of Lord Redesdale.

The Reader will deliver his Public Lectures in Lincoln's Inn Hall, on Thursday in each week during the Educational Term, commencing at Two o'clock P.M. The first Lecture to be delivered on the 17th April. The Reader will receive his Private Classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, from 7 to 9 o'clock, in the Benchers' Reading Room.

Law of Real Property, &c.
The Reader on the Law of Real Property,
&c., proposes to deliver, in the ensuing
Educational Term, a Course of Twelve
Public Lectures on the following subjects:
I. The Law of Perpetuity considered in re-
lation to-

(a) Limitations of Real and Personal Estate
after the Failure of Issue of the Person to
whom a prior Interest is limited.
(b) The Rule in Shelley's Case.

The Public Lectures will be delivered at Gray's Inn Hall, on Friday in each week, at Two P.M. The first Lecture to be delivered on the 18th of April, 1856. The Private Classes will be held in the North Library of Gray's Inn, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Mornings, from a quarter to Twelve to a quarter to Two o'clock.

Jurisprudence and the Civil Law. The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law proposes, in the ensuing Educational Term, to deliver a Course of Twelve Public Lectures on the following subjects :— tinued from last Term)-The Principles of the The Law of Testamentary Succession (conContract-Law-Ancient and Modern Theories Roman Law of Legacies-Ancient and Modern concerning Crimes and Delicts-Roman ForPleading-The Technicalities of the oldest mulary Pleading and English Common Law Roman Law compared with those of the Law of England.

The Junior Private Class will read the Roman Law of Contract, Quasi-Contract, and Delict in the Institutiones Juris Romani Privati of Warnkönig, and the Roman Law of Civil Process in the Fourth Book of the Commentaries of Gaius. The Senior Class will read selected Titles of the Digest, particularly such as illustrate the principles of the Roman Law of Contracts and Legacies.

The Private Classes will assemble at the Class Room in Garden Court, Middle Temple, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at a quarter to 4 p. m.; the first meeting to take place on April 22nd.

The First Lecture of the Public Course will be delivered on Tuesday, April 22nd, in the Middle Temple Hall.

Common Law.

The Reader on Common Law proposes to deliver, during the Educational Term commencing April 15th, 1856, Twelve Public Lectures, of which the first Six will be devoted to an Inquiry concerning Wrongs Remediable by Action; and the conclud

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Inns of Court Lectures.-Proposed Saturday Half-Holiday.

ing Lectures will treat of Wrongs Criminally Punishable.

The principal matters to be discussed in this Course of Lectures will be arranged as under:

THE LAW OF TORTS.

Lectures I. and II.-The Nature and Classification of Actionable Wrongs; Signification of the word "Duty," and of the phrase "Breach of Duty," in connection with Rights of Action ex Delicto.

Lectures III. and IV. will treat of Wrongs to the Person and Reputation, and especially of Actions within the operation of Lord Campbell's Acts, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96, and 9 & 10 Vict. c. 93; and of Sir J. Jervis's Act, 11 & 12 Vict.

The Lectures and Classes will be suspended after Thursday, 8th May, to be resumed on and after Monday, the 26th May.

PROPOSED SATURDAY HALF-
HOLIDAY.

Mr. LILWALL, the Honorary Secretary of "The Early Closing Association," has rendered good service to the cause in which he is so zealously and ably engaged, by publishing a Pamphlet in which the HalfHoliday Question is considered, and to which is added some Thoughts on the Instructive and Healthful Recreations of the Lectures V. and VI.-Of Torts to Property Industrial Classes. Amongst the industrial under Bailment, particularly of Actions against classes may certainly be reckoned the LawLand Carriers, Railway Companies, and Inn-yers of all grades from the Judicial Bench keepers. down to the humblest copying clerk in an Attorney's office. Mr. Liiwall, in his preliminary remarks, notices that—

c. 44.

CRIMINAL LAW.

Lecture VII.-The Principles of our Criminal Law examined, and the meaning of the word "Crime" considered.

Lecture VIII. Of the various Tribunals which take cognizance of Criminal Acts and their Respective Jurisdictions.

Lecture IX.-Of the Indictment-its Office and Requisites.

Lectures X. to XII. will treat of the Several Species of Homicide, and the Evidence necessary to Support an Indictment for Murder or for Manslaughter. Also of Simple Larceny, and some other ordinary offences.

"The Saturday half-holiday has become, since it has been advocated by the Early Closing Association, and is daily becoming, increasingly popular. My desire is to give an additional impetus to this movement, the importance of which cannot, I think, well be over-rated, and to submit certain suggestions with a view to turning the additional leisure, where gained, to a profitable account.

that excessive labour has been, almost up to "It is at length pretty generally admitted, the present time, one of the monster evils of this country. We have, as a people, allowed ourselves to be engrossed by the occupation of money-getting, to the neglect of pursuits of a more refined and elevated character.

The

With his Private Class the Reader on Common Law will pursue the line of inquiry above marked out, treating seriatim of Civil Wrongs and Criminal Offences, with frequent references to decided cases. In carrying out this plan he will principally folly of this should have been obvious enmake use of the following books-Smith's ough; yet, notwithstanding, until a comparaLeading Cases (4th ed., just published); tively recent period, it was no uncommon thing Broom's Commentaries on the Common Law, to hear this immolation at the foot of the golden books iii. and iv.; and Archbold's Criminal calf eulogised as something laudable. Of all morbid desires, that for the accumulation of Pleading (by Welsby). wealth is ordinarily one of the most insatiable. Each new acquisition too often only increases Carried away by this the thirst for more. feverish passion, men have foolishly sacrificed to the procuring an undue amount of that which is, at best, but the mere means of living, the great and glorious purposes for which life was given; and, indeed, the very capacity itself for true happiness, even of a temporal character. In the beautiful language of Tupper,

The Lectures on Common Law during the ensuing Educational Term will be delivered, and the Private Classes will meet, in the Hall of the Inner Temple as under :

The Public Lectures will be delivered in the Hall of the Inner Temple, on Mondays at 2 P.M. (The first Lecture on Monday, April 21st.)

The Private Class will be held in the Hall on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings, from a quarter to 12 to a quarter to 2 o'clock. (The first Private Class to be held on Tuesday, April 22nd.) By Order of the Council, (Signed) RICHARD BETHELL, Chairman. Council Chamber, Lincoln's Inn,

7th April, 1856. Note.-The Educational Term commences

on the 15th April, and ends on the 31st July, 1856.

The first Meeting of each Private Class will take place on the usual morning or evening of meeting after the first Public Lecture on the same subject.

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Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth,

But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, The mind and the power to enjoy it." Whilst treating their cattle consistently with the laws of their nature, but forgetting that the human frame is similar in its organization, employers have been too much accustomed to

act towards themselves and those in their ser

vice as though they were composed not of flesh and fibre, but of wood and iron, allowing their respective families to grow up destitute of a father's superintendence and care, and wearing

Proposed Saturday Half-Holiday.-Proceedings in Parliament.—Admission of Solicitors. 15

out themselves and their dependants long before the allotted period of human life.

Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes (consolidation).—Sir F. Kelly.

Drafts on Bankers. Passed.
House of Lords Appeals.-Mr. Bowyer.
Obsolete Statutes' Repeal.-Mr. Locke King.
Oath of Abjuration. Mr. Milner Gibson.
In Committee, May 2.
Property Qualification. Mr. Murrough.
Poor Removal.-Mr. Bouverie. For 2nd
reading, May 2.

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Minister of Justice Department. Mr. Napier.

Church Rates Abolition.-Sir W. Clay. In Committee, May 2.

Church Rates.-Marquis of Blandford. For 2nd reading, May 21.

"This system has been attended with lamentable consequences to all exposed to its sway, robbing them of their health, perverting their every social and generous feeling, crushing all noble aspirations, assisting to crowd our madhouses, and consigning thousands yearly to a premature, and all but necessarily unprepared-for, grave. It must have been so, involving, as it has, a direct violation of God's moral and physical laws, all of which say in effect, Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther.' "Thanks, however, to the valued assistance of the Pulpit and the Press, so kindly extended to the Early Closing Association, the public are gradually becoming awakened to a sense of this evil. It is also due to Employers to say, that they too, as a body, at length, more or less admit the system in question to be one of the greatest curses which afflict the trading classes. Reversionary Interests of Married Women. "The practical effect of this conviction,--Mr. Malins. For 3rd reading, May 8. that excessive labour, whether mental, physical, or both conjoined, is attended with these disastrous results,-has been a marked improvement in the hours of suspending business more or less in its every department, although very much yet remains to be achieved ere the reformation in question can be affirmed to be complete."

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Amended Formation of Parishes.-Marquis of Blandford. Re-committed for May 1. Advowsons.-Mr. Child. For 2nd reading May 21.

Specialty and Simple Contract Debts.-Mr.
Malins. For 2nd reading, May 22.
Tithe Commutation Rent Charge.-Mr. R.
Phillimore. For 2nd reading, May 7.
Salaries of County Court Judges.—Mr.
Roebuck.

Fire Insurances. For 2nd reading, May 2.
Medical Profession. Mr. Headlam. In
Select Committee.

Medical Qualification and Registration.Lord Elcho. For 2nd reading.

Trust Property Criminal Appropriation.Attorney-General.

County and Borough Police.-Sir G. Grey. Re-committed with Amendments, May 2. Public Prosecutors.-Mr. J. G. Phillimore. In Select Committee.

Offences against the Person (consolidation).

Divorce and Matrimonial Causes. - Lord-Sir F. Kelly. Chancellor. For 2nd reading.

Mercantile Law Amendment.-Lord Chancellor. Consideration of Amended Bills. May 2. County Courts Act Amendment. Chancellor. For 2nd reading.

Lord

Charitable Uses. For 2nd reading, May 2.
Leases and Sales of Settled Estates, passed.

House of Commons.

Aggravated Assaults.-Mr. Dillwyn For 2nd reading, May 7.

Summary Jurisdiction of Justices of Peace.
-Mr. Locke King. For 2nd reading, May 8.
Circuit of Judges.-Mr. Collier.
Grand Juries, &c.-Mr. Locke King.
Qualification of Justices of the Peace.-Mr.
Colville. In Committee, May 5.
Metropolis Management Local Act Amend-
In Committee,
May 9.
London Corporation.-Sir G. Grey. For
2nd reading, May 9.

Leases and Sales of Settled Estates. For ment. Attorney-General. 2nd reading, May 9.

Law of Partnership (No. 2).-Mr. Lowe. For 2nd reading, May 2.

Joint-Stock Companies.-Mr. Lowe. Recommitted, with amendments, May 2.

Shipping Tolls, &c., Abolition.—Mr. Lowe. In Select Committee.

Judgments, Execution, &c.—Mr. Craufurd. For 2nd reading, May 8.

Amendment of Procedure and Evidence.Sir F. Kelly. For 2nd reading, May 8.

Court of Probate of Wills and Grants of Administration.-Solicitor-General. For 2nd reading, May 2.

Ecclesiastical Courts.-Mr. Collier. For 2nd reading, May 5,

Testamentary Jurisdiction transfer to distinct Court.-Mr. Mullings, after Easter.

ADMISSION OF SOLICITORS.

THE Master of the Rolls has appointed Thursday, the 8th May, 1856, at the Rolls Court, Chancery Lane, at 4 in the afternoon, for swearing Solicitors.

Every person desirous of being sworn on the above day must leave his Common Law Admission or his Certificate of Practice for the current year at the Secretary's Office, Rolls Yard, Chancery Lane, on or before Wednesday, the 7th May instant.

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Selections from Correspondence.-Notes of the Week.

SELECTIONS FROM CORRE-
SPONDENCE.

COUNSEL QUASI ATTORNEYS.

A GENTLEMAN, several years ago, carried on a considerable business in a large manufacturing town, in conjunction with a partner, as attorneys. He subsequently dissolved the partnership, and in due time was, several years ago, called to the Bar where he now practises; and yet the business of attorneys, of considerable extent, is still carried on in the joint

names.

on these subjects. Instead of an increase of 239 to the present number of Attorneys, the actual number examined this Term was 88! The number of Attorneys has not increased during the last 10 years more than one in a thousand, although both the wealth of the country and its population has increased nearly 15 per cent., or 150 per thousand. There is consequently a decline in the number of Attorneys, occasianed, no doubt, by the decrease in their emoluments."

Is not this infra dig. in the barrister but quondam attorney, if not improper? Certainly JUSTICES OF THE PEACE such things ought not so to be.

The matter may be worth the consideration of the Law Society. I doubt whether some notice should not be taken of it.

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PARTNERSHIP OF ATTORNEYS. — OVER-
DRAWING SHARE.

A. and B. are partners as attorneys, and the
articles of partnership stipulate that each part-
ner is to draw 401. a month. A. draws on
several occasions a sum exceeding that amount.
but on three subsequent occasions B. draws
with his own hand sums of 250l., 300l., and
100%., and pays the amount to the private ac-
counts of himself and his partner. The
tion is, are such payments a waiver of the
previous infraction of the articles?
April 25, 1856.

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CLERICUS,

BILL.

QUALIFICATION

We are informed that Mr. Colville, who brought in this Bill, has acceded to the amendment proposed in the petition of the Incorporated Law Society,-enabling Attorneys and Solicitors to be County Magistrates, but precluding them (as was proposed) from acting in any County where they or their partners carry on business, either at the General or Petty Sessions or before any Justice of the Peace. We understand also, that the Government have no objection to this amendment, as

so modified.

NOVEL CONTRACT BETWEEN SOLICITOR
AND COUNSEL.

"A Country Solicitor of rather extensive

[The Letters of B.; "Amicus;" and J. W. L., Coveyancing Practice, is desirous of agreeing are unavoidably postponed.]

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

RESULT OF THE EASTER TERM EXAMI
NATION.

THE printed Lists for this Term comprised the names of 83 Candidates, but a considerable number to be examined were not included in the Admission Lists, the total being 116. Of these not more than 93 completed their testimonials. The Examiners met on Tuesday; viz.-Master Gordon, Mr. Bolton, Mr. Cookson, Mr. Leman, and Mr. Murray. Five of the Candidates did not attend; and the result has been that 77 were passed and 11 postponed.

INCREASE OF ATTORNEYS.

Under the head of "Plague of Locusts," the caterer for the Morning Chronicle of 24th April states, that "on Tuesday notices required by the Act were given in the Court of Queen's Bench to the number of 239 to be placed on the Roll of Attorneys, already numbering up

wards o. 10,000."

The proprietors or editor should employ some person to collect accurate information

with a safe and experienced Barrister for the perusing of his Abstracts and drawing his Drafts, both complicated and simple, and will be glad to communicate confidentially on the subject with any Gentleman who will address A. E. (No. 682), Law Times Office, 29, Essex Street, Strand."

[Is this to be a partnership between the Solicitor and the Barrister? or is the Barrister to be paid a fee in gross, and the Solicitor apportion it amongst his clients? What next?]

SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

At 10 minutes past 3 o'clock on the 26th April, Lord Campbell inquired whether any gentleman had any motion to make. As no one rose, his lordship and the other Judges rose from their seats, and Mr. Ching, the chief usher, made the usual proclamation of "Void the bar."

Court are known to all the world as delighting Lord Campbell and the other Judges of this in hard work, but we trust that this first step in the right direction, though a small one will not be without its effect, not only as an example, but also as a precedent for a further advance in the same direction. We happen to know that it was most cordially appreciated by the Bar, whose gratitude in this matter is not

Notes of the Week.-Superior Courts: Court of Chancery.

unlike that of the politician, which consisted in "a lively expectation of benefits to be received."-From the Times of 28th April.

COMMON PLEAS SITTINGS.

This Court did not sit on the 26th April, their Lordships being in the Court of Criminal Appeal in which Court it was announced that judgment would be delivered on Saturday next in those cases which were then standing over for judgment.

EXCHEQUER OF PLEAS.

This Court rose at 2 o'clock on the 26th April, in consequence of the absence of counsel in several cases in the New Trial Paper. At its rising,

The Lord Chief Baron said, that as this was the second occasion on which this Court had inadequately employed the day for the same reason, he wished to give notice that on Tuesday Mr. Baron Martin would attend, when the Court would dispose of those cases in the New Trial Paper in which Mr. Baron Bramwell had been engaged as counsel, and that after those were heard the cases would be peremptorily taken in their order. If the parties should fail to appear in any case, the Court would read the report and decide the point as best they might, leaving the parties to their appeal, if any existed, it being determined that no excuse for the absence of counsel would be accepted.

Mr. Baron Alderson.-The Judges are in attendance ready to do their work, and it is a great shame that the suitors should be delayed in this way. From the Times of 28th April.

LAW APPOINTMENTS.

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Thomas Sydenham Clarke, Esq., Barristerat-Law has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Liberties of the Cinque Ports.

Mr. Philip Hitchen Palmer, Solicitor, Norwich, has been appointed Deputy Coroner for the Norwich District of the County of Norfolk.

Mr. John Michael Blagg, Solicitor, has been appointed Clerk to the Commissioners of Land and Assessed Taxes for the newly formed division of Cheadle, Staffordshire.

Mr. E. Grey has been appointed Second Assistant to the Accountant-General to the Government of India.-Civil Service Gazette.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Offley Martin, Esq., William Davey Boase, Esq., and John Simons, Esq., to be additional Inspectors for the purposes of the Charitable Trusts Acts.

The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon William Henry Holmes, Esq., of the Civil Service, British Guiana. From the London Gazette of 22nd April.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alan Ker, Esq., now Chief Justice of the island of Nevis, to be Chief Justice of the island of Dominica; and David Cameron, Esq., to be Chief Justice of Vancouver's Island.From the London Gazette of 29th April.

John Reilly, Esq., son-in-law of Lord St. Leonards, and formerly Secretary to the Master of the Rolls, has been appointed Deputy Keeper of the Rolls in Ireland, in the room of Mr. Robert Wogan, resigned.

Mr. W. R. C. Smith, son of the Master, has succeeded Mr. Reilly as Secretary to the Master of the Rolls in Ireland.-Times.

RECENT DECISIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS.

Court of Chancery.

(Coram Lord Chancellor and Lords Justices.) Martineau v. Rogers. April 26, 1856. WILL.-CONSTRUCTION.-LIFE INTEREST IN

LEGACY.

the parent's legacy, as by his will directed; if
either of his said nephews before his legacy
no will, equally; but in case of the death of
was payable his legacy to go to the survivor of
his said nephews. It appeared that both the
nephews had attained 21 but had no issue, and
under the 13 & 14 Vict. c. 35, as to the in-
the question now arose on this special case
terest they took under the will.

and Pigott for the trustees.
Elmsley and Boyle for the nephews; Daniel

The Court said, that the nephews were only entitled to the income of the legacies for life.

April 26, 29, 1856.

A testator, by his will, gave a sum of money to each of his two nephews if they should respectively survive and attain the age of 21, when the legacies were to be paid. In case of the death of either of such nephews leaving issue, such issue to take the parent's legacy as by his will directed; if no will equally; but in case of the death of either of his nephews before his legacy was In re Palmer, exparte Crabbe and another. payable his legacy to go to the survivor: Held, that, on both the nephews attaining 21 but having no issue, they were only entitled to the income of the legacies for life. THE testator, by his will, dated March 20, gave 2,000l. to each of his two nephews, if they should respectively survive and attain the age of 21 years, when the legacies were to be paid. In case of the death of either of his said nephews leaving issue such issue to take

BANKRUPTCY.-JURISDICTION OF COURT OF
APPEAL, ALTHOUGH NO ORDER OF AD-
JUDICATION.

Held, that the Court of Appeal in bank-
ruptcy has jurisdiction under the 12 & 13
Vict. c. 106, s. 12, to hear an appeal on
the merits, although the Commissioner has
not made an order of adjudication, and to
declare whether on the evidence the Com-

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