PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. BUTTERWORTH, 7, FLEET STREET, LONDON. BEDFORD'S PRELIMINARY, INTERMEDIATE & FINAL EXAMINATION GUIDES. Recently published, in 1 vol., post Svo., 6s. cloth. THE FINAL EXAMINATION GUIDE to the LAW of PROBATE and DIVORCE. Second Edition. By EDWARD HENSLOWE BEDFORD, Solicitor, Author of the "Final Examination Guide to the Practice of the Supreme Court of Judicature," &c., &c. "A student who masters this little work ought to be able to satisfy the examiners, for the questions appear to be exhaustive, whilst the answers have been compiled with skill, and convey a very great deal of information. An index to such a work, in our opinion, is unnecessary, but it is supplied for what it may be worth."-LAW TIMES. As our readers are aware, the subjects of Probate and Divorce are now introduced into the Final Examination as honour subjects. Candidates for honours who desire to distinguish themselves in these subjects cannot do better than procure the book named at the head of this review."-LAW EXAMINATION JOURNAL. "The examiners have added as extra subjects in the Final,' the Probate and Divorce Law. Mr. E. H. Bedford, Solicitor, who seems to be always anxious to keep abreast of the tide, has prepared a Guide or Manual to assist his pupils and candidates generally in the examination in acquiring due knowledge of these subjects. His Guide takes the favourite form of Questions and Answers, and seems to have been carefully and accurately compiled."-LAW JOURNAL. By the same Author, in 1 vol. 8vo., 78. 6d. cloth. THE FINAL EXAMINATION GUIDE to the PRACTICE of the SUPREME COURT of JUDICATURE: containing a Digest of the Final Examination Questions, with many new ones, with Answers, under the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts. "Every conceivable question appears to be asked, and a full answer is given in every case. Mr. Bedford knows really better than we can do what students require, and we have no doubt his compilation will be extensively used."-LAWTIMES. "Mr. Bedford, with his usual diligence and promptitude, has contemporaneously with the commencement of the operation of the Judicature Acts published for the benefit of his pupils and other law candidates for the Final Examination a Digest of Questions which are likely to be set under those Acts and the New Rules, with Answers thereto. The chief point is that the Answers should be exhaustive as well as concise, and in this respect great merit is shown in the present Digest.' -LAW JOURNAL. "Mr. Bedford's Final Examination Guide supplies a want which will be much felt by students as to what they are to read with reference to the new practice. The Guide and Time Table will be found useful helps to students in perusing the Judicature Acts."-LAW EXAMINATION JOURNAL. By the same Author, on a Sheet, 1s. A TABLE of LEADING STATUTES for the INTERMEDIATE and FINAL EXAMINATIONS in LAW, EQUITY and CONVEYANCING. SEABORNE'S LAW OF VENDORS AND PURCHASERS.-Third Edition. A CONCISE MANUAL of the LAW of VENDORS and PURCHASERS of REAL PROPERTY. By HENRY SEABORNE, Solicitor. Third Edition. This work is designed to furnish Practitioners with an easy means of reference to the Statutory Enactments and Judicial Decisions regulating the Transfer of Real Property, and also to bring these authorities in a compendious shape under the attention of students. "We are always pleased to welcome an old friend, and here is one. We have always used it in our classes and recommended it to our pupils. Seaborne is the only concise book on Practical Conveyancing that we know of, and we can recommend it very strongly."-Articled Clerks' Journal. "The value of Mr. Seaborne's work consists in its being the most concise summary yet published of one of the most important branches of the law. The student will find this book a useful introduction to a dry and difficult subject."-Law Examination Journal. "The book before us contains a good deal, especially of practical information, as to the course of conveyancing matters in solicitors' offices which may be useful to students."-Solicitors' Journal. LEWIS'S INTRODUCTION TO CONVEYANCING. 8vo., 188. cloth. PRINCIPLES of CONVEYANCING, Explained and Illustrated by concise Precedents, with an Appendix describing the operation of the Land Transfer Act, 1862, in abridging or modifying the present Forms of Conveyances. By HUBERT LEWIS, B.A., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. DREWRY'S FORMS OF CLAIMS AND DEFENCES. 1 vol., post 8ro., 98. cloth, FORMS of CLAIMS and DEFENCES in CASES intended for the CHANCERY DIVISION of the HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. With Notes, containing an Outline of the Law relating to each of the subjects treated, and an Appendix of Forms of Endorsement on the Writ of Summons. By C. STEWART DREWRY, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Author of "A Treatise on Injunctions," and of "Reports in Equity, temp. Kindersley, V.-C.," and other works. "The work is one likely to prove useful to the practitioner."-JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. "On the whole we can thoroughly recommend it to our readers."-LAW EXAMINATION JOURNAL. "He has proceeded in his work in the safest and most satisfactory manner. The forms thus introduced are concise and cannot fail to be very useful and welcome."-LAW MAGAZINE. "Mr. Drewry's plan of taking the facts for the forms from reported cases and adapting them to the new rules of pleading, seems the best that can be adopted. The forms we have looked at seem to be fairly correct."-SOLICITORS' JOURNAL. "To the younger members of the profession especially we cordially recommend the work."— IRISH LAW TIMES. TROWER ON THE PREVALENCE OF EQUITY. A MANUAL of the PREVALENCE of EQUITY under Section 25 of "The amount of information contained in a compressed form within its pages is very considerable, and on the whole it appears to be accurate. The work has been carefully revised and is well and clearly printed."-LAW TIMES. "The propositions are fairly worked out and substantiated by references. The author hopes that his pages may be useful to the common law branch of the profession which now finds itself called upon to apply the principles of Equity to practice. Mr. Trower's manual may save them some hunting in text books of Equity."-LAW JOURNAL. POWELL ON EVIDENCE.-Fourth Edition, by Cutler and Griffin. Post Sro., 18s. cloth, 22s. calf. POWELL'S PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF THE LAW OF This edition contains the alterations necessary to adapt it to the practice under the "The plan of the book is to give pretty frequently, and, as far as we can discover, in almost every chapter, a 'rule' of general application, and then to group the cases round it. These rules or axioms are printed in a distinctive type. The work has been pruned and remodelled by the light of the Judicature Acts. The authors give in an appendix the Indian Evidence Acts, with some Indian decisions thereupon, and occasionally notice these acts in the text. On the whole we think this a good edition of a good book. It brings down the cases to the latest date, and is constructed upon a model which we should like to see more generally adopted."-SOLICITORS' JOURNAL ON THE FOURTH EDITION. "The plan adopted is, we think, an admirable one for a concise handy-book on the subject. Such maxims as that hearsay is inadmissible,' are given at the head of the chapter in large type, and then follow the explanations. The Indian code of evidence given at the end of the book deserves to be read by every student, whether going to India or not. The few rules of the English law of evidence which are purely statutory are also given verbatim including the two orders of the Judicature Act, 1875, which appear to be correctly appreciated. The present form of Powell on Evidence is a handy, well printed and carefully prepared edition of a book of deserved reputation and authority."-LAW JOURNAL ON THE FOURTH EDITION. "We have received the Fourth Edition of Powell's Principles and Practice of the Law of Evidence, by Cutler and Griffin. We are informed in the preface that the results of the Judicature Acts as regards evidence have been duly noted, whilst the work itself has been rendered more comprehensive. It is an excellent summary of principles."-LAW TIMES ON THE FOURTH EDITION. "There is hardly any branch of the law of greater interest and importance, not only to the profession, but to the public at large, than the law of evidence. On this branch of the law, moreover, as well as on many others, important changes have been effected of recent years. We are, therefore, all the more inclined to welcome the appearance of the Fourth Edition of this valuable work."-LAW EXAMINATION JOURNAL ON THE FOURTH EDITION. PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. BUTTERWORTH, 7, FLEET STREET, LONDON. ROBERTS'S PRINCIPLES OF EQUITY.-Third Edition. 8vo., 188. cloth. THE PRINCIPLES OF EQUITY, AS ADMINISTERED IN THE Supreme Court of Judicature and other Courts of Equitable Jurisdiction. By THOMAS ARCHIBALD ROBERTS, of the Middle Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Third Edition. "The author tells us in the preface to this edition that he wrote the first edition for Students, but that he has carefully revised the whole work, and enlarged it with short references to books and cases, so as to adapt it not only to the wants of Students, but also for the use of practitioners. The book is praiseworthy."-LAW TIMES. "The work is calculated to prove useful to the profession, but more especially to the student class of our readers, and we cordially recommend it to them."-LAW JOURNAL. 7 "This work, by a member of the Chancery Bar, will meet a want which must have been felt by every student of equity since the passing of the Judicature Acts. Mr. Roberts' work is more extensive than Mr. Smith's, as well as more readable. The body of the work is preceded by a table of statutes and a list of principal references and abbreviations, which should be consulted by the reader. The table of statutes is especially valuable."— LAW EXAMINATION JOURNAL, No. 31, April, 1877. FULTON'S MANUAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. founded upon A MANUAL of CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, the Works of Hallam, Creasy, May, and Broom, comprising all the fundamental Principles and the Leading Cases in Constitutional Law. By FORREST FULTON, LL.B., B.A., University of London, and of the Middle Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. COOMBS' SOLICITORS' BOOKKEEPING. 1 vol. 8vo., 10s. 6d. cloth. A MANUAL of SOLICITORS' BOOKKEEPING: comprising practical exemplifications of a concise and simple plan of Double Entry, with Forms of Account and other books relating to Bills of Costs, Cash, &c., showing their operation, giving directions for keeping, posting and balancing them, and instructions for drawing Costs. Adapted for a large or small, sole or partnership business. By W. B. COOMBS, Law Accountant and Costs Draftsman. ORTOLAN'S ROMAN LAW, translated by Prichard and Nasmith. THE HISTORY OF ROMAN LAW, from the Text of ORTOLAN'S CUTLER AND GRIFFIN'S INDIAN CRIMINAL LAW. AN ANALYSIS of the INDIAN PENAL CODE; including the Indian Penal Code Amendment Act, 1870. By JOHN CUTLER, B.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barristerat-Law, Professor of English Law and Jurisprudence, and Professor of Indian Jurisprudence at King's College, London, and EDMUND FULLER GRIFFIN, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. BENHAM'S PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION JOURNAL. Now complete in 1 vol., containing the 18 numbers, and including all the Questions and Answers at the Preliminary Examinations from 1871 to 1875, bound in cloth, price 188. Nos. I. to XVIII., in 8vo., price 1s. each, by post, 1s. 1d., may still be had of the same. PEARCE'S HISTORY OF THE INNS OF COURT. A GUIDE to the INNS OF COURT and CHANCERY: with Notices of their Ancient Discipline, Rules and Orders, and Customs, Readings, Moots, Masques, Revels and Entertainments; including an Account of the Eminent Men of the Four Learned and Honourable Societies-Lincoln's Inn, the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, and Gray's Inn, &c. &c. By ROBERT R. PEARCE, Esq., of Gray's Înn, Barrister-at-Law. 8 LAW WORKS FOR STUDENTS. MOZLEY AND WHITELEY'S CONCISE LAW DICTIONARY, 1 vol. 8vo., 20s. cloth, 25s. brown calf. A CONCISE LAW DICTIONARY, containing short and simple definitions of the Terms used in the Law. By HERBERT NEWMAN MOZLEY, M.A., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., and GEORGE CRISPE WHITELEY, M.A., Cantab, of the Middle Temple, Esq., Barristers-at-Law. "This book is a great deal more modest in its views than the law dictionary we received a little while ago. Its main object is to explain briefly legal terms, both ancient and modern. In many cases, however, the authors have added a concise statement of the law. But as the work is intended both for lawyers and the public at large, it does not profess to give more than an outline of the doctrines referred to under the several headings. Having regard to this design, we think the work is well and carefully edited. It is exceedingly complete, not only giving terse explanations of legal phrases, but also notice of leading cases and short biographies of legal luminaries."-SOLICITORS' JOURNAL. "This book contains a large mass of information more or less useful. A considerable amount both of labour and learning has evidently been expended upon it, and to the general public it may be recommended as a reliable and useful guide. Law students desirous of cramming will also find it acceptable."-LAW TIMES. "Mr. Wharton's work, although it is brought down to a very recent period, is nevertheless so bulky and so costly that a more concise and "To have read this work through we do not pretend, but we have examined it partially yet not superficially, and so far as we have been able to judge it appears to be a praiseworthy performance. It should contain everything of value to be found in the other larger works, and it should be useful not merely to the legal profession but also to the general public. Now the work of Messrs. Mozley and Whiteley appears to fulfil those very conditions, and while it assists the lawyer will be no less useful to his client. On the whole, we repeat that the work is a praise worthy performance, which deserves a place in the libraries both of the legal profession and of the general public."-IRISH LAW TIMES. BOYLE'S PRÉCIS OF AN ACTION AT COMMON LAW. Just published, in Svo., 5s. cloth. PRÉCIS of an ACTION at COMMON LAW, showing at a Glance the "In this little manual, Mr. Boyle has succeeded in exhibiting a succinct and lucid outline of all the ordinary proceedings in actions governed by the practice, under the English Judicature Acts and Orders, of what used to be called the common law courts. Taking the various steps of that procedure in their natural order, he summarises the orders of court relating to each, arranging them under distinct headings, and referring to authorities upon their construction and application. Students preparing for the Final Examination By HERBERT certainly need a guide of this description, and Mr. Boyle has well supplied that need. Indeed, we do not remember having ever before seen the English procedure so well explained within so brief a compass."-IRISH LAW TIMES. "A student who is ignorant of procedure, and desires to prepare for his Final Examination, will do well to procure Mr. Boyle's work, and to use it, not in substitution for, but as auxiliary to, the study of the Rules of the Supreme Court."-LAW EXAMINATION JOURNAL. MOSELY'S ARTICLED CLERKS' HANDY-BOOK.-Second Edition by Bedford. 1 vol., post 8vo., 8s. 6d. cloth. MOSELY'S PRACTICAL HANDY-BOOK OF ELEMENTARY LAW; designed for the Use of Articled Clerks, with a Course of Study, and Hints on Reading for the Intermediate and Final Examinations. Second Edition by EDWARD HENSLOWE BEDFORD, Solicitor, Editor of the "Preliminary," "Intermediate," and Final," &c., &c. "Another book written for articled clerks, whom it will greatly assist for their examinations. It possesses the great merit of being the product of actual experience, and not merely theoretical instruction. The author appears to have done for himself while pursuing his studies as an articled clerk what he recommends others to do. Mr. Mosely presents to his readers a complete chart of study for each year of clerkship; the office work that should be learned, and the books that should be read; concluding with a chapter of hints how best to prepare for the final examinations. We can cordially commend this little volume to those apprentices to the law who are resolved to devote themselves to labour as the only sure pathway to success."-LAW TIMES. THE LAW EXAMINATION JOURNAL AND LAW STUDENT'S MAGAZINE. I. VOLUNTARY HONOURS EXAMINATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (JUNE, 1883). A. What is now your age ? I. Preliminary. B. Where, and with whom, are you serving your clerkship? II.-Principles of the Law of Real and Personal Property and the Practice of Conveyancing, 1. Q.-What statutes have been passed during the present reign to amend the tenure and assist the enfranchisement of copyholds, and what are the principal provisions contained in those Acts? A.-1. The statutes are: stats. 4 & 5 Vict. c. 35, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 23, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 55, 15 & 16 Vict. c. 51, 21 & 22 Vict. c. 94, 23 & 24 Vict. c. 59, and 31 & 32 Vict. c. 89. These Acts apply themselves to the following objects: first, to give effect to agreements for commutation of manorial burdens and restrictions, and to improve, in some other respects, the tenure itself; secondly, to facilitate the conversion of that tenure into freehold. In promotion of these views the Acts establish a Board of Copyhold Commissioners, and then proceed to enact, that the future rents, fines and heriots, and the lord's right in timber, and also (if so expressed) in mines and minerals, may in all cases be commuted by an agreement, which shall be compulsory on all parties interested in the manor, or in the lands held of the manor; provided the parties to such agreement be respectively interested in such manor and lands to the extent of threefourths at least in value, and the number of the tenants be at least threefourths of the whole; and also provided that all ecclesiastical and other corporations and patrons of livings, interested in such manner as mentioned in the Acts, be parties to the agreement; and that it be afterwards confirmed by the Copyhold Commissioners. The Acts also authorize commutation to be in like manner made between the lord of the manor and any one or more of his tenants, whatever may be the amount of their respective interests. It is also provided that it shall be lawful for the courts to make partition of copyhold lands, as well as of lands of freehold. tenure. And by stat. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 51, ss. 1, 7, it is provided that, with the consent of the Commissioners, it shall be lawful for the lord, whatever may be his interest, to enfranchise all or any of the lands holden of the manor; and that it shall be lawful for any tenant (whatever his interest), with the like consent, to accept such enfranchisement. And it is also enacted, that it shall be lawful for any copyhold tenant, other than one who holds only for life or lives, or years, without right of VOL. IV. S S |