BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, Law Publishers in ordinary to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. 1856. CONTENTS. ART. I.-SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY,-AS AN ADVO- CATE, A JURIST, AND A LEGISLATOR... Page 1 Alexander v. Brame, Ware v. Cumberlege, Edwards v. Hall, Incorporated Church Building Society v. Coles, 168; The Attorney-General v. Alford, 171; Bond v. England, 172; Hill v. The Great Northern Railway Company, 173; Benn v. Griffiths, 174; In Re Lister's Hospital, 174; Re Howard, Fletcher v. Tayleur, 177; Leech v. Lamb, 178; Taylor v. The Crowland Gas and Coke Company, 178; Evans v. Robinson, THE LAW MAGAZINE; OR, QUARTERLY REVIEW OF JURISPRUDENCE. No. CX. ART. I.-SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY,-AS AN ADVOCATE, A JURIST, AND A LEGISLATOR.1 HE name of Sir Samuel Romilly, like the spell of an enchanter, awakens every feeling that responds to all that is good, and noble, and elevated in human nature. One cannot but feel that the whole of his existence was devoted to the benefit and amelioration of his species. He was the third surviving child and second son of Mr. Peter Romilly, and was born in the city of London on the 1st of March, 1757. His father was descended from a highly respectable and influential French Protestant family, who had been obliged to quit their country-the south of France-by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the great Toleration Act of France, and who, for several years preceding the birth of Romilly, had been settled in England. The circumstances of his early youth, and the characters of his parents, are feelingly portrayed by himself in a narrative which he penned in 1796; and his own position in life, and the progress he had made in his profession, in another narrative, which he subsequently composed in the year 1813. These have both been given to the world in the "Memoirs of his Life, and a Selection from The substance of this paper was read before the Juridical Society, December 17, 1855. It has been kindly contributed by its author, W. H. Bennet, Esq. VOL. LV. NO. CX. B |