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UNIV. OF MGM LAW LIBRARY

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Registrar, Final 1909, Admitted; assistant two years in Conveyancing and general practice, including much Conveyancing, Probates,estates winding-up, all office accounts, Compensation, and general; subsequently practising alone, while giving two days weekly to another office, about two years; small war service abroad; municipal experience as Assistant and Deputy Town Clerk (two County Boroughs), War Pensions organisation, Parliamentary, and usual, also previously, experience Poor Law, Rural, and Urban District Councils; one year sole legal adviser to Shipbuilding Department of Admiralty controlling all merchant ship building and ship repairs for Empire and auxiliary ships for Navy, Regulations for control all harbour boards, supply contracts, electricity and water contracts; long terms for national yards with financial clauses, Admiralty infringement patents, decision of and compensation, and other work; additional six months same work with an ex-Chief Justice, co-operating continuously; working since Final, with exception of war service and period after; two months after Armistice commenced practice alone in tropical colony as combined Barrister and Solicitor, some Conveyancing, and almost continuous litigation on commercial contracts and shipping, some criminal, has since added junior partner from England. Advertiser wishes give up work in climate, where family cannot join him, at an early date; desires correspondence with gentleman or good firm practising at home (or with large company or combine with view to becoming wholetime adviser) not in immediate hurry for assistance, leading to offer, subject to interview, of position at home; desires understanding as to permanency of position, subject to safeguards and the unexpected, and opportunity partnership later years, or before if wished for by advertiser, but not immediately; country or coast by no means objected to; salary according to position offered and locality.“ Abroad (No. 4056), "Law Times" Office, Bream's-buildings, E.C. 4.

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ATHERTONS LIMITED invite negotiation with members of the LEGAL PROFESSION in all matters relating to Sale and Purchase of Practices, Arrangement of Partnerships or Amalga mations, and every branch of he actual business side of the Profession, requiring their assistance, on the following grounds :

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AW.-STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.-A qualified SOLICITOR or BARRISTER is REQUIRED as ASSISTANT to a leading firm of Advocates and Solicitors in the Straits Settlements; Public School or University man preferred; applicants must have had some experience in Conveyancing and be willing to undertake Advocacy work; unmarried, age 25-33: salary £500 per annum, rising to £700; agreement three and a half years; first-class passage paid; good health essential.-Write, giving full partienlars, to "N. D. and L.," care of Street's, 30, Cornhill, E.C. 3.

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GENERAL CLERK, admitted or unadmitted.-Apply, stating age, experience, and salary required, "E. C. C." (No. 4057), Law Times" Office, Bream'sbuildings, E.C. 4.

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YOUNTY BOROUGH of SWANSEA.

DEPUTY TOWN CLERKSHIP.-Applications are invited from Solicitors for the position of DEPUTY TOWN CLERK; salary £600 per annum; experience in Municipal and Parliamentary practice and procedure essential. Applications, indorsed "Deputy Town Clerk," with copies of three recent testimonials, to be received by the undersigned not later than Jan. 8, 1921.-H. LANG COATH, Town Clerk, Guildhall, Swansea. December, 1920.

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SOLICITOR.-The Cambridgeshire Standing to receive APPLICommittee Joint the for of CATIONS ASSISTANT POSITION SOLICITOR to the Clerk of the Peace and of the County Council. The gentleman appointed will be required to reside in or near Cambridge, and to devote The salary his whole time to the duties of the office. offered is £400 per annum, rising by four annual increments of £25 to £500; there is no bonus in addition.-Applications, stating the candidate's present position, previous experience (particularly in Local Government work, Conveyancing, and Advocacy), and war service, and accompanied by copies of three recent testimonials (which need not be printed), should be sent to the Clerk of the Peace for Cambridgeshire, at the County Hall, Cambridge, on or before Monday, the 10th January, 1921.

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Offices to be Let.

NE ROOM WANTED as office by Architect for occasional use close to a Bakerloo Station; low rent.-J. K. BATEMAN, 4, Queen-streetplace, E.C. 4.

HOUSE, for immediate occupation, of

four large rooms and scullery and the upper part of five rooms (now let off at £65 per annum) in June next; fine position near two railway stations, Putney: lease of 62 years for sale at £750.-Apply W. N. WARE, 3, Chelsham-road, Clapham, S.W.

and JANE NUGENT

WILLIAM FOX rm of Solicitors who were

inquiring about eight years ago for the whereabouts of the above please communicate with SHELTON and Co., 3, New-court, Lincoln's-inn?

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Agriculture Act, Mistakes in the, 142
Agriculture, new Bill, 245

Aircraft, Criminal jurisdiction over foreign,

81

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Bonus shares, 397

Branson, Mr. G. A. H., The new judge,

291

British and American claims awards, 387
British Empire exhibition, power of Board of
Trade to guarantee expenses, 8
British prize court, 107

Building Society, Mortgage to a, 92
Business in the courts (Jan. 29), 73

Compromise of injured workman's claim to compensation, 381

Compulsion as an excuse for crime, 336
Compulsory hiring of small houses, new power
for local authorities, 245

Compulsory voting in new Bill, 318
Conditions of sale, 331

Confirming Authorities Bill, 281

Constitution, British, General Smuts on the,
437

Constitutional conference of the Empire,
Problems for, 43

Constitutional practice and King Edward VII.,

23

Contracting out of the Rent Restriction Act 1920, 211

Contracts, Power to annul, 55

Copy drafts, 243

Business in the High Court, Strength of Bench Copyholds and the Settled Land Act 1882, 128

compared with U.S.A., 413

Business in the courts (April 30), 291
Business in the courts (May 14), 329
Business in the courts (March 25), 209
Business in the High Courts, 397
Business in the King's Bench, 127

Cabinet, and law officers of the Crown, 319
Cabinet and presidential systems, 181
Cabinet, effect of retirement of member on
position of Prime Minister, 216
Cambridge house, 79

Canada and the judicial committee, 141
Canadian and United States Bars, 165
Carriers and delivery to buyers, see County

courts, 135

Carson, Sir E., New lord of appeal, 357, 386
Cause lists, Easter, 227, 241
Cause lists, Hilary, 19

Cessation of Ministries, Measure to determine,

214

Charitable trusts, Reverter in, 276
Charities and cy-pres, 161

Charteris, Mr. A. H., appointment to Univer-
sity of Sydney, 8

Chattels real, Husband and wife, 358
Chelmsford Lord, notes on his career, 247
Cheques, Delay in presenting, 414

Chief justiceship and the peerage, 300
Children eating poisonous berries-" Allure-
ment," 211

Civil contingencies fund and Dr. Addison's
salary, 436

Claim and counter-claim, Costs of, 380
Claims under Agricultural Holdings Acts, 35
Clarke, Mr. Champ, Death of, 232

Clerks and covenants-restraint of trade, 209
Clients and legal advisers, communications
confidential, 200

Collateral agreements, 329
Compensation, Delay in making claim for, 108
Compensation for conversion
Assessment for, 109
Compound settlements, 173, 212

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workman, Dependents
estopped by previous claim, 109
Deceptive similarity in trade marks, 414
Declaration of right, Lord R. Cecil's Bill, 435
Deeds, Execution of, by corporations, 212
Defamation, The standard in actions for, 380
Defence force and insurance, new Bill, 318
Delay in making claim for compensation, 108
Dental law in France, 62
Dentists' Bill, 22

Dentists Act, report of committee, 347
of
into tillage, Dependants
deceased workman
estopped by his previous claim, 109
Derogation from grant, 275

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Devolution, new Bill to relieve Parliament,, Income tax and mortgage interest, 358
334

Dinners on grand days of Hilary term, 78
Directors' remuneration, Apportionability of,

108

Divorce arrears, see The Lord Chancellor and the arrears, 275

Divorce court arrears, 379

Divorce, Bigamy and, 143
Divorce, new Bill, 178

Divorce business, 35

Divorces, Indian, Validity of, 191

Donatio mortis causa and domicil, 36
Drafts and copy drafts, 243

Easter and the calendar, 148
Easter cause lists, 227, 241

Edinburgh Corporation, Gift to, of documents
of interest to lawyers, 79

Edinburgh, faculty of advocates' library, gifts to, 98

Education, consolidating Bill, 318

Emergency remedies, Saturday sittings, 357
Estate agent, Authority of, to sell, 161
Estate duty-gift-exclusion

donor, 144

of benefit to

Evolution, The, of the president, 421
Excess profits duty, Applicability of, 381
Execution of deeds by corporations, 212
Executors, see Probate, 193
Executors' powers to grant leases, 38
Ex-judges and arrears of business, 261
Exoneration of personality, 227
Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, 8
Extra-judicial duties, Judges and, 141

"Failure" to nominate market trustees, 109
Finance Bill, second reading, 385

Fisher, Hon. F. M. B., on overseas dominions and autonomy, 135

Flats-income tax and rent, 276

Foreign bankruptcies and English assets, 380
Forfeiture of lease on bankruptcy of lessee, 38
Fortune-telling, 298

France, Press laws in, 351

France, Crime in, 1914-1919, 281

France, formation of new cabinet, 80

France, Juvenile crime in, 98

France, landlords and tenants, 180

France, State insurance in, 351

France, Status of foreigners in, 165
Franchise, proposed changes, 298

Franking letters, privileges for members of
Parliament, 23

French code pénal, M. Bonnevay explains
recent amendments, 246

French courts, Work in the, 78
French law, a paternity case, 22

French law for the suppression of anti-
militarist intrigues, 438

French law on German importations, 301

French minister of justice, letter to prison
governors, 165

French parallel to Wolfe Tone's case, 79
French war memorial, Objection to, 336
Fullerton, Lord, Lord Strathclyde on, 149

German counsel's methods, 386
German Reparations Bill, 198

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Gift, Presumption of advancement or,
Husband and wife, 345

Goddard's Easements, 348

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Income tax, Basis of assessment for,
revenue Bill, 266
Income tax-deduction from rent, 243
Income tax-flats, 276

new

Income tax on salaries of members of Parlia-
ment, 40

Increase of Rent, etc., Act, Sect. 2, 280

Members and their emoluments, 329
Members of Parliament, qualification needed,
405

Mersey, Lord, return to high court, 261
Middle Temple year books, The, 9
Miners' right to unemployment insurance
benefit during stoppage of work, 246
Mines and minerals-subsidence, 20

Increase of Rent, etc. (Restrictions) Act 1920, Ministers without portfolio, 267

list of recent cases, 413
India, Lord Reading and, 35, 44

India and a Bar association, 149
Indian divorces, Validity of, 191
Indian law students, 23

Indian students in the U.K., 348

Indictable Offences Act, circular letter from
Home Office, 424

Infant foundlings in Inn precincts, 180
Insurance notes, 118, 182, 268, 337, 406
Intention, 331

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International court of justice established, 62
International health questions and the
League of Nations, Sir W. Collins on, 348
International labour obligations, 135
International law, The Lord Chancellor's
address, 421

Intestacy, see Rights of next of kin, 383
Ireland, special statutory court-martial, 166
Ireland, The parliament of northern, 422
Irish Bar, alleged infringement of privileges,

233

Irish Bar, meeting of 1798, 247

Irish ministers must be privy councillors,
under Home Rule Act, 134
Irish viceroy, Position of, 298

"Judge" instead of "Mr. Justice," 79
Judges and extra-judicial duties, 141
Judges' salaries, Lord Birkenhead on, 43
Judicial committee and Canada, 79
Jury address, 55

Jury, Omission to apply for a, 110
Juvenile court of Old Street, 42

King's Bench, The, Stagnation in, 159
King's Bench causes (May 21), 343
King's counsel, New, 141

"Knock out," Legality of, 109

Labour obligations, International, 135
Land law reform, current in England, 182
Landlord and tenant-outgoings, 382

Law and progressive societies, The gap be-
tween, 436

Law courts, Some impressions at the, 349
Law of adoption, The, 388

Law of Property Bill, 429

Law reform, Lord Birkenhead and, 19
Law Society report, 429, 440

League of Nations, publications from secre-
tariat, 117

Lectures at University College, 293
Lectureship in Roman-Dutch law in memory
of C. H. Monro, 149

Legacies, Specific, Cost of delivering, 161
Legal musical society's concert, 232
Legal lectures, Publication of, 107

Legality of the "Knock-out" at auctions, 109
Legislation by reference, 23, 141

Legislation by reference in Australia, 165
Leipsic trials, The, 397

Leipsic trials and "superior orders," 436
Liability of barge owners, new legislation, 8
Liability of trade union members to pay
solicitor's costs, 36

Libraries of the Inns of Court, 149
Licensing Justices Bill, 281

Licensing, proposed new legislation, 297
Lincoln's Inn librarian, Mr. H. I. Whitaker,
149

Lincoln's Inn war memorial, Ceremony of
unveiling, 217

Lord Birkenhead and law reform, 19
Lord Chancellor, The, on arrears in the
courts, 275, 379

Lord Chancellor's peerage, The, 404

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"Pigeons of the Temple," 8

Pitfalls in appointments, 91

Poisonous berries, Children eating, 211

Poland's new constitution, 246

Pollock, The family of, 420

Poor persons, solicitors to act, 430
Power of advancement, 330

Power of revocation and new appointment--
express reference to power, 92

Power of sale, see Trust for sale, 345

Power to annul contracts, 55

Powers, Substantial exercise of, 431
Powers of executors to grant leases, 38
Powers of trustees and executors after an
order for administration, 192
Precedence, Judicial, 281
Pre-determination of sentence, 388
President, The evolution of the, 421
President of U.S.A., Functions of, 180
Press laws in France, 351
Prevention of unemployment, new Bill, 436
"Princes of Royal blood are commoners,
Prison reform in Belgium, 424

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Hearsay rule, Admissions as an exception to Lord Chancellor, The, and the future of inter- Privilege between two Houses of Parliament, the, 439

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