Gardner Boggs, William Taylor, and William Shand the PETER JAMES KIRBY, Newgate-street, London, pin and younger, Great Winchester-street, London, merchants, Dec. needle manufacturer, dealer and chapman, Dec. 21 at half- 14 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, pr. d.-C. past 1, and Jan. 18 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Bindley, Chapel-street, Spitalfields, Middlesex, trimming maOff. Ass. Edwards; Sols. Mardon & Pritchard, Christ-nufacturer, Dec. 17 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, last church-chambers, Newgate-street.-Fiat dated Dec. 2. ex.-James Gordon the younger, East India-chambers, Lea

denhall-street, London, and Albany-road, Camberwell, Surrey, ship broker, Dec, 16 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, last ex.-Andrew Jopp, Cornhill, London, ship broker, Dec. 16 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-John Gale, Live Oaks Farm, Chapel Hill and Chepstow, Monmouthshire, wine merchant, Dec. 28 at 11, District Court of Bank-siness, Dec. 23 at 10, County Court of Cambridgeshire, at ruptcy, Bristol, aud. ac.-Waples Warden, Birmingham, corn agent, Dec. 23 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham, aud. ac.—Henry Chas. Broom, Lawrence Pountney-hill, London, grocer, Dec. 16 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Thos. Lawrance, Reading, Berkshire, draper, Dec. 16 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Edw. Dorling, Ipswich, Suffolk, Berlin wool dealer, Dec. 27 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.

CERTIFICATES.

To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before the Day of Meeting.

George Coombs, Bristol, carpenter, Jan. 3 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol.-Isaac Hicks, Brislington, Somersetshire, tailor, Dec. 30 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol.-Thomas Walkden, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, scrivener, Dec. 24 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Sheffield.--James Spence, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 24 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool.-J. Sharples the younger, Daisy field, near Blackburn, Lancashire, cotton spinner, Dec. 24 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester.

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To be allowed by the Court of Review in Bankruptcy, unless
Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before Dec. 24.
Edward Rogers, Great Urtley, Worcestershire, surgeon.-
Thos. Tily, Dursley, Gloucestershire, veterinary surgeon.-
Isaac Robinson, East Dean, Gloucestershire, grocer.-Jos. C.
Player, Dursley, Gloucestershire, draper.-Edw. Pettet and
W. Newton, Lancaster-place, Strand, Middlesex, navy agents.
-John Jones, Ledbury, Herefordshire, brewer.-Abraham
Huddleston, Boston, Yorkshire, corn miller.-W. Williams,
Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, timber merchant.-Christ. D.
Johnson, Liverpool, victualler.-John Hall, Bristol, mason.
PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED.

of Cambridgeshire, at Cambridge.-Edw. Voce, Swithland, Leicestershire, out of business, Dec. 20 at 11, County Court of Leicestershire, at Loughborough.-Wm. Motteram, Cambridge, publican, Dec. 23 at 10, County Court of Cambridgeshire, at Cambridge.-John Furbank, Cambridge, out of buCambridge.-Wm. Casey, Clifton, Oxfordshire, bricklayer, Dec. 20 at 10, County Court of Oxfordshire, at Oxford.Wm. Scott, Upper Heeley, Sheffield, Yorkshire, brace bit grinder, Jan. 5 at 10, County Court of Yorkshire, at Sheffield. -Thos. Noyes, Shirley, Hampshire, out of business, Dec. 15 at 11, County Court of Hampshire, at Bishop's Waltham.Hen. S. Morris, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, draper's assistant, Dec. 13 at 10, County Court of Hampshire, at Newport. -Wm. Rule, Royston, Cambridge, veterinary surgeon, Dec. 22 at 10, County Court of Hertfordshire, at Royston.-T. Knowles, Bradford, Yorkshire, shoemaker, Dec. 10 at 11, County Court of Yorkshire, at Bradford.―Millicent Osborne, Rothley, near Loughborough, Leicestershire, housekeeper to a surgeon, Dec. 20 at 11, County Court of Leicestershire, at Loughborough.-George Wilkin, Sheffield, Yorkshire, lamp lighter, Dec. 15 at 3, County Court of Yorkshire, at Sheffield.

Henry Cooper, Somerville, Sheffield, Yorkshire, cabinet maker, Jan. 5 at 10, County Court-house of Yorkshire, at Sheffield.-Henry Kay, Handsworth, Yorkshire, edge tool forger, Jan. 5 at 11, County Court of Yorkshire, at Sheffield. The following Persons, who, on their several Petitions filed in the Court, have obtained Interim Orders for Protection from Process, are required to appear in Court as hereinafter mentioned, at the Court-house, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn, as follows, to be examined and dealt with according to the Statute:

Dec. 20 at 10, before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER. Edmund Greensted, Cleveland-street, Mile-end-road, Middlesex, baker.—Henry Francis Wood, Murray-street, Hoxton New-town, Middlesex, wholesale milliner.

ROBES.-T. HARRISON most respectfully solicits the

attention of the Legal Profession to his Establishment for Robes of every description. The best qualities only are used, and the prices are moderate. The Richest Queen's Counsel Silk Gown. 7 Guineas. The very best Bar Gown .488. Ditto Clerk's or Attorney's County Courts Gown..50s. HARRISON, State and Law Robe Maker, 21, Brownlow-street, Bed

ford-row.

Hugh Miller, Rutherglen, victualler.-Geo. Brebner, Aberdeen, post horse master.-John Johnston, Glasgow, manufacturer. Wm. Weir, Kilbowie, West Kilpatrick, Dumbartonshire, farmer.—Alex. Hastie, Holytoun, Bothwell, joiner.- CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASRobt. Traill, Pittenweem, merchant.-Hen. Glassford, Esq., Douglaston, dealer in timber.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
Edward Fenton, Dec. 9 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS

Who have filed their Petitions in the Court of Bankruptcy,
and have obtained an Interim Order for Protection from
Process.

SURANCE SOCIETY.

In addition to Assurances on Healthy Lives, this Society continues to grant Policies on the Lives of Persons subject to Gout, Asthma, Rupture, and other Diseases, on the payment of a Premium proportioned to originated with this office in the beginning of 1824. the increased risk. The plan of granting Assurances on Invalid Lives

age.

BONUSES.

Every description of Assurance may be effected with this Society, and Policies are granted on the Lives of Persons in any station, and of every The two first Divisions averaged 227. per cent. on the Premiums paid; the third, 281. per cent. The fourth bonus, declared Jan. 1847, averaged rather more than 361. per cent.; and from the large amount of Profit reserved for future appropriation and other causes, the Bonuses hereafter Tables of Rates, with a full Report, (recently printed), can be obtained of the Society's Agents, or by addressing a letter to GEO. H. PINCKARD, Actuary. No. 99, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London.

are expected to exceed that amount.

MORRIS' DIGEST OF PRACTICE CASES.
In royal 12mo, price 16s. cloth, lettered,

T. Johnston, Liverpool, traveller, Dec. 13 at 10, Liverpool District County Court, at Liverpool.-John Robinson, Liverpool, shoe maker, Dec. 13 at 10, Liverpool District County Court, at Liverpool.-Wm. H. Brathwaite, Oxford, carver, Dec. 20 at 10, County Court of Oxfordshire, at Oxford.Thos. Baker, Honiton, Devonshire, common carrier, Dec. 15 at 10, County Court of Devonshire, at Honiton.-William Hearrop, Sheffield, Yorkshire, table knife manufacturer, Dec. 15 at 3, County Court of Yorkshire, at Sheffield.-Henry Watkins, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, mason, Dec. 16 at 9, County Court of Monmouthshire, at Abergavenny.-Jos. Welch, Bromyard, Herefordshire, printer, Dec. 24 at 9, County Court of Herefordshire, at Bromyard.-Wm. Henry Court, Titton, near Stourport, Worcestershire, out of business, COMMENTARIES on the CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Dec. 22 at 9, County Court of Worcestershire, at Kiddermin-
ster.-B. Thornton, Redditch, Worcestershire, knitting pin ma-
nufacturer, Dec. 17 at 1, County Court of Worcestershire, at

Redditch.-Wm. Gilbert, Cambridge, butcher, Dec. 23 at 10,
County Court of Cambridgeshire, at Cambridge.-W. Plane,
Cambridge, blacksmith, Dec. 23 at 10, County Court of
Cambridgeshire, at Cambridge.-Edw. Jarman, Barnwell,
Cambridge, fishmonger, Dec. 23 at 10, County Court of
Cambridgeshire, at Cambridge.-Dan. Hayward, Cambridge,
instructor in the game of cricket, Dec 23 at 10, County Court
of Cambridgeshire, at Cambridge.-Thomas Pamplin, Great
Shelford, Cambridge, beer seller, Dec. 23 at 10, County Court

AN ANALYTICAL DIGEST of Selected' PRACTICE

CASES decided in the COMMON LAW COURTS, to Trinity Term, 1847; arranged under the several heads of practice, for the facility of reference. By RICHARD MORRIS, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Stevens & Norton, Bell-yard, Lincoln's Inn; and 194, Fleet-street.

Barrister at Law.

of ENGLAND. By GEORGE BOWYER, D.C.L., Barrister at
Law. In royal 8vo., price 11. 28. cloth boards.
Stevens & Norton, Law Booksellers and Publishers, 26, Bell-yard,
Lincoln's-inn, and 194, Fleet-street.

DEEDS for EXECUTION ABROAD.-Messrs. J. & R.
M'CRACKEN, Foreign Agents, 7, Old Jewry, beg to inform the
Legal Profession that they undertake to forward Deeds for Execution by
Parties Abroad, through their Correspondents on the Continent, for the
Costs of Transmission and a simple Commission.

List of Correspondents, and for further information, apply as above. Messrs. J. & R. M'CRACKEN are also Agents to the ROYAL ACADEMY, and devote their attention to the Receipt of Works of Art, Baggage, &c. sent home by Travellers on the Continent for passing through the Custom-house. They also undertake to ship Goods to all Parts of the World.

THE PALACE COURT versus the COUNTY COURTS

and the LONDON ATTORNIES.-A Working Committee is about to be formed for the purpose of taking the necessary steps to close the Palace Court, or to throw it open to the Profession generally. Those gentlemen of the Legal Profession willing to aid and assist, and who feel interested in the subject, will be good enough to communicate at once with Mr. Clarke, Featherstone-buildings, Holborn.

CHAMBERS, LINCOLN'S INN.-To be LET from

Christmas next Five Rooms on the second floor of No. 10, Newsquare, Lincoln's-inn, with a fire place in each room, and a coal cellar on the basement. The Chambers form, at present, two separate sets, of three rooms and two rooms, with distinct entrances. They will be let either as one set or separately; and if let in one set, they may be made to communicate throughout by the opening of an internal door. Apply to Messrs. Law & Tindal, 10, New-square, Lincoln's-inn.

THE LAW OF RAILWAYS.

Now ready, in 8vo.,

SMITHFIELD CLUB PRIZE CATTLE SHOW, 1847.—

The Annual Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Implements, &c., 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th December, at the HORSE BAZAAR, KING STREET, PORTMAN SQUARE. Ladies are enabled to view this National Exhibition with perfect comfort; and, for the better aecommodation of visitors, a large saloon for refreshments is this year added. Open from Daylight till Nine in the Evening. Admittance ONE SHILLING.

Just published, in 600 closely-printed pages, Svo., price 1.

MOSELEY'S COUNTY COURTS.-Under the follow

A TREATISE on the LAW of RAILWAY COMPANIES, mand-Nature of the Demand, &c.-Jurisdiction, how enforced-by

in their Formation, Incorporation, and Government, with an Abstract of the Statutes, and a Table of Forms. By THOMAS CHAMBERS and A. T. T. PETERSON, Esqs., of the Middle Temple, Barristers at Law.

London: W. Benning & Co., Law Booksellers, 43, Fleet-street.
Now ready, price 2s. 6d. in a wrapper,

AN INAUGURAL ADDRESS on the STUDY of the

ENGLISH LAWS of REAL PROPERTY; delivered in the Hall of Gray's Inn, on Thursday, the 4th of November, 1847. By WILLIAM DAVID LEWIS, Esq., Lecturer on the Law of Real Property and Conveyancing, appointed by the Society of Gray's Inn, and Author of "A Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity.' With an Outline of the proposed Course of Lectures.

London: Wm. Benning & Co., Law Publishers, 43, Fleet-street.

This day is published, price 5s. bound in cloth,

ing Titles all the Statutory Enactments and Rules of Court, made in pursuance thereof, and all the Common Law and Practice of the Superior Courts as applicable thereto :-COURTS, creation of-nature ofwhen and where held-style and seal of. OFFICERS, appointment of→ Interest in Office-Powers and Duties of-Deputies-Fees of-Compessation to-Sale of Office-Bribery-Extortion. JURISDICTION, as to Persons-as Dwelling-Carrying on Business, &c.-As to Place (district) where Action must be brought-As to Things-Amount of DPlea, or Motion in Abatement, &c. PLAINTS, how-when-by whom entered. PROCESS, Entitlement of-Parties' Name in-Endorsement on-Service of how served-when-where-by whom-on whom served -Irregularity in Process-application to set aside for-Summons to Defendants-particulars of Demand-to Witnesses-to Jurors-Judges' Orders-Notices. TRIAL, Appearance by Counsel, &c.—when Parties do not appear, &c.-Right to begin-Examination of Witnesses-Defence-Reply-Judgment. EXECUTION-how-where-on what Goods made-Interpleaders-Commitments for Fraud-Granting Possession

Replevin, &c.

This treatise shows considerable learning and research on so much of the common law as may be applicable to cases coming before the New County Courts. There are various editions of the Small Debts Act, with useful notes and criticisms, but Mr. Moseley has not limited his labours to mere annotations on the Act, he has enlarged his view to the rules and principles of law, as they may be, or ought to be, administered in these

THE LEGAL YEAR BOOK, ALMANACK, and DIARY Courts."-Legal Observer, Sept. 18, 1847.

FOR 1848. By the EDITOR of the "LEGAL OBSERVER." PART I.-The KALENDAR and TIME TABLE.

PART II.-PARLIAMENT. Statutes effecting alterations in the Law. (With Notes). 10 & 11 Vict. [The Statutes are arranged in the order of their general importance, and classed according to their respective subjects.]-1. Law of Parliment.-II. The Courts.-III. Poor Law.-IV. Law of Property.-V. Ecclesiastical.—VI. Criminal Law. -VII. General.

List of Public, Local, Personal, and Private Acts.
STANDING ORDERS relating to Private Bills.

The MINISTRY.-Houses of Parliament, and Officers.-LAWYERS in
Parliament.

PART III.-The COURTS.-New Rules and Orders.-Judges and

"In preparing this second part of his treatise on the law and practice of the County Courts, Mr. Moseley has evidently resolved to do justice to his theme, and instead of a mere re-arrangement of the Statute, with extracts from another book of the editor, by way of notes, as we have seen one treatise on the New Courts to consist of, Mr. Moseley has scarcely fail to be a standard one. The present part opens with a review produced a work which may claim to be an original one, and which can of the jurisdiction of the Courts as to persons, places, and things, and how it is to be enforced, or how answered by suggestion, by pleading in abatement, or claim of conusance."-Law Times, Aug. 14, 1847. Stevens & Norton, Bell-yard, Lincoln's-inn; and 194, Fleet-street. Just published, price 17. 18s. cloth boards,

Officers in all the Courts-Magistrates and Law Officers of London_Re A LAW LEXICON, or DICTIONARY of JURIS

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PART IV.-COMMISSIONERS of PUBLIC BOARDS.-Perpetual Commissioners, &c.

PART V.-The BAR.-The latest Regulations of the Inns of Court for the Admission of Students and Calling to the Bar-Queen's Counsel and Serjeants in Order of Precedence-Barristers called in 1846-7.

PART VI-ATTORNEYS and SOLICITORS.-Annual Registrations-Examination Rules and Practical Directions-Examiners-Government Solicitors-Town Clerks-Parliamentary Agents-The various Law Societies-Plan of Solicitor's Accounts.

PRUDENCE; explaining all the Technical Words and Phrases employed in the several Departments of English Law; including, also, the various Legal Terms used in Commercial Transactions; together with an Explanatory as well as Literal Translation of the Latin Maxims contained in the Writings of the Ancient and Modern Commentators. By J. J. S. WHARTON, Esq., S. C. L., Oxon, of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, &c. Spettigue & Farrance, Law Booksellers, 67, Chancery-lane.

This day is published, price 12s. boards,

PART VII-GENERAL.-Stamps-Taxes-Distribution of Intes- THE PRACTICE of INSOLVENCY and SUMMONS

tate's Estates-Expectation of Life-Rates of Insurance-Post Office
Regulations-Railway Information-Tables of Interest, &c.

Legal Table-Annual Summary of Legal Business-Legal Obituary.
DIARY FOR 1848.

With Notes of Business to be transacted, and Times of Proceeding,
under numerous Statutes, Legal and General, &c.

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SCRIVEN on the LAW of COPYHOLDS, by STALMAN.

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MONTAGU & AYRTON'S BANKRUPT LAW, by KOE and
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EQUITY and LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,

No. 26, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London.

TRUSTEES.

The Right Hon. Lord Monteagle.
The Right Hon. the Lord Chief
Baron.

The Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge.
The Hon. Mr. Justice Erle.

Nassau W. Senior, Esq., Master in
Chancery.

C. P. Cooper, Esq., Q.C., LL.D.,
F.R.S.

George Capron, Esq.

Parties assuring within Six Months from their last Birth-day are allowed a diminution of Half-a-year in the Premium charged, and Premiums may be made payable Half-yearly or Quarterly.

Policies in which third parties are interested, if the Life assured go beyond the prescribed limits without the knowledge of such parties, may be renewed.

The Tables, calculated from the national returns, are especially favourable to young and middle-aged Lives.

Assurances may be effected on an ascending Scale, at a very reduced rate, for the first Seven Years.

80 per Cent. of the Profits are divided amongst the assured.
The usual Commission allowed.

Office hours between 10 and 4. Applications to be addressed to the
Secretary.

J. J. SYLVESTER, Actuary and Secretary.

Printed by LUKE JAMES HANSARD, PRINTER, residing at No. 7, Southampton Street, in the Parish of St. George, Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, at his Printing Office, situate in Parker Street, in the Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, in the County aforesaid; and Published at No. 3, CHANCERY LANE, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, by HENRY SWEET, LAW BOOKSELLER and PUBLISHER, residing at No. 11, John Street, Bedford Row, in the County of Middlesex. Saturday, December 4, 1847,

DECEMBER 11, 1847.

*The following are the Names of the Gentlemen who favour THE JURIST with Reports of Cases argued and decided in the several Courts of Law and Equity: