Hunter's Suit in Equity.-Fifth Edition. Post 8vo., cloth. AN ELEMENTARY VIEW of the PROCEEDINGS in a SUIT in EQUITY. With an Appendix of Forms. By SYLVESTER J. HUNTER, B.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. Fifth Edition. By G. W. LAWRANCE, M.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. Lewis's Introduction to Equity Drafting. Post 8vo., 12s. cloth. PRINCIPLES of EQUITY DRAFTING; with an Appendix of Forms. By HUBERT LEWIS, B.A., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law; Author of "Principles of Conveyancing," &c. This Work, intended to explain the general principles of Equity Drafting, as well as to exemplify the Pleadings of the Court of Chancery, will, it is hoped, be useful to lawyers resorting to the New Equity Jurisdiction of the County Courts. "We have little doubt that this work will soon gain a favorable place in the estimation of the profession. It is written in a clear attractive style, and is plainly the result of much thoughtful and conscientious labour."-Law Magazine and Review. "Mr. Lewis's work is likely to have a much wider circle of readers than he could have anticipated when he commenced it, for almost every page will be applicable to County Court Practice, should the bill, in any shape or under any title, be retained in the new jurisdiction.— without it we fear that equity in the County Courts will be a mass of uncertainty, with it every practitioner must learn the art of equity drafting, and he will find no better teacher than Mr. Lewis "-Law Times. "This will, we think, be found a very useful work, not only to students for the bar and solicitors practising in the County Courts, as anticipated by the author, but also to the equity draftsman."-Law Journal. Lewis's Introduction to Conveyancing. 8vo., 18s. cloth. PRINCIPLES of CONVEYANCING explained and illustrated by Concise Precedents; with an Appendix on the effect of the Transfer of Land Act in modifying and shortening Conveyances. By HUBERT LEWIS, B.A., late Scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. "The preface arrested our attention, and the examination we have made of the whole treatise has given us (what may be called a new sensation) pleasure in the perusal of a work on Conveyancing. We have, indeed, read it with pleasure and profit, and we may say at once that Mr. Lewis is entitled to the credit of having produced a very useful, and, at the same time, original work. 1 his will appear from a mere outline of his plan, which is very ably worked out. The manner in which his dissertations elucidate his subject is clear and practical, and his expositions, with the help of his precedents, have the best of all qualities in such a treatise, being eminently judicious and substantial. Mr. Lewis's work is conceived in the right spirit. Although a learned and goodly volume, it may yet, with perfect propriety, be called a handy book." It is besides a courageous attempt at legal improvement; and it is, perhaps, by works of such a character that law reform may be best accomplished."-Law Magazine and Review. "It was still felt that a work explanatory and illustrative of conveyancing precedents remained a desideratum. Mr Lewis pr poses to supply this want in the work now before us The book will be of the greatest use to those who have some antecedent knowledge of real property law, but who have not had much experience in the preparation of conveyances. How to do it might well be the motto of the author, and certainly no ordinary lawyer can peruse Mr. Hubert Lewis's book without making himself much more competent to prepare and understand conveyancing than he was before. On the whole we consider that the work is deserving of high praise, both for design and execution. It is wholly free from the vice of book making, and indicates considerable reflection and learning. Mr. Lewis has, at all events, succeeded in producing a work to meet an acknowledged want, and we have no doubt he will find many grateful readers amongst more advanced, not less than among younger, students. In an appendix, devoted to the Land Transfer Act of last session there are some useful and novel criticisms on its provisions.”—Seliciters' Journal. Mr. Lewis has contributed a valuable aid to the law student. He has condensed the practice of conveyancing into a shape that will facilitate its retention by the memory, and his precedents are usefully arranged as a series of progressive lessons which may be used as either illustrations or exercises." "-Law Times. "We have long felt the want of a book of this kind. It is a work of no ordinary diffi culty, but, judging from a first perusal, it could not have fallen into better hands. The great object in compiling a book of this nature is to make it practically useful, and in this Mr. Lewis has been generally successful. The perusal of the work has given us much pleasure, it shows a thorough knowledge of the various subjects treated of and is clearly and intelligibly written. Students will now not only be able to become proficient draftsmen, but, by carefully studying Mr. Lewis's dissertations, may btain an insight into the hitherto neglected principles of conveyancing."-Legal Examiner. Tudor's Leading Cases on Real Property, &c.-Second Edition. One thick vol. royal 8vo., 42s. cloth. A SELECTION OF LEADING CASES on the LAW RELATING to REAL PROPERTY, Conveyancing, and the Construction of Wills and Deeds; with Notes. By OWEN DAVIES TUDOR, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. Author of "A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity." Second Edition. "The Second Edition is now before us, and we are able to say that the same extensive knowledge and the same laborious industry as have been exhibited by Mr. Tudor on former occasions characterize this later production of his legal authorship; and it is enough at this moment to reiterate an opinion that Mr. Tudor has well maintained the high legal reputation which his standard works have achieved in all countries where the English language is spoken, and the decisions of our Courts are quoted." -Law Magazine and Review. "The work before us comprises a digest of decisions which, if not exhaustive of all the principles of our real property code, will at least be found to leave nothing untouched or unelaborated under the numerous legal doctrines to which the cases severally relate. To Mr. Tudor's treatment of all these subjects, so complicated and so varied, we accord our entire commendation. There are no omissions of any important cases relative to the various brauches of the law comprised in the work, nor are there any omissions or defects in his statement of the law itself applicable to the cases discussed by him. We cordially recommend the work to the practitioner and the student alike, but espe cially to the former."-Solicitors' Journal. "This aud the other volumes of Mr. Tudor are almost a law library in themselves, and we are satisfied that the student would learn more law from the careful reading of them than he would acquire from double the time given to the elaborate treatises which learned professors recommend the student to peruse, with entire forgetfulness that time and brains are limited, and that to do what they advise would be the work of a life. Smith and Mr. Tudor will together give them such a knowledge of law as they could not obtain from a whole library of text books, and of law that will be useful every day, instead of law that they will not want three times in their lives. At this well the practising lawyer might beneficially refresh his memory by a draught, when a leisure hour will permit him to study a leading case. No law library should be without this most useful book."-Law Times. Benham's Student's Examination Guide. 12mo. 38. cloth. THE STUDENT'S GUIDE to the PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION for ATTORNEYS and SOLICITORS, and also to the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations and the College of Preceptors; to which are added numerous Suggestions and Examination Questions, selected from those asked at the Law Institution. By JAMES ERLE BENHAM, of King's College, London. "The book is artistically arranged. It will become a useful guide and instructor not only to law students but to every student who is preparing for a preliminary examination."-Law Journal. "The book is written in a clear and agreeable style, and will no doubt be found useful by the class of readers for whom it is intended."— Law Magazine and Review. “Mr. Benham has produced a very useful manual for the aid of intending candidates at the solicitors' preliminary examinations and the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations. He gives many suggestions on all the subjects of examination and full information thereon."— Law Examination Reporter. "It is certainly a useful guide to that curious olla podrida expected from the candidate. There are persons who can never learn to swim with out first feeling the confidence which an artificial aid gives them, and to those who are nervous at facing the troubles of dates and arithmetic it may be well to have a systematized mode of 'cram' suggested in a distinct and accurate manner."-London Review. "A useful little treatise by Mr. James Erle Benham, intended to supply to students about to encounter the examination which precedes entering into articles of clerkship the necessary information as to subjects of study "—Star. "He has succeeded in producing a book which will doubtless prove useful to those students who desire to prepare themselves for examination without the ass stance of a tutor. The sets of examination papers appear to be judiciously selected and are tolerably full."Irish Law Times. Tomkins and Jencken's Modern Roman Law. Just published, 8vo., 14s. cloth. COMPENDIUM of the MODERN ROMAN LAW. Founded upon the Treatises of Puchta, Von Vangerow, Arndts, Franz Mohler and the Corpus Juris Civilis. By FREDERICK J. TOMKINS, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., Author of the "Institutes of Roman Law," Translator of "Gaius," &c., and HENRY DIEDRICH JENCKEN, Esq., Barristers at Law, of Lincoln's Inn. Latham's Law of Window Lights. Post 8vo., 10s. cloth. A TREATISE on the LAW of WINDOW LIGHTS. By FRANCIS LAW LATHAM, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister at Law. "This is not merely a valuable addition to the law library of the practitioner, it is a book that every law student will read with profit. It exhausts the subject of which it treats."-Law Times. "His arrangement is logical, and he discusses fully each point of his subject. The work, in our opinion, is both perspicuous and able, and we cannot but compliment the author on it "-Law Journal. "A treatise on this subject was wanted, and Mr. Latham has succeeded in meeting that want."-Athenaum. "Mr. Latham is evidently one of those authors who like to have a complete skeleton of their subject elaborated before putting pen to paper; and the consequence is, that this little work is one which we have much pleasure in recommending to the profession. The sequence of discussion is well ordered, and the author's plan well adhered to; and although the text comprises less than 250 octavo pages, the subject is quite exhaustively treated. To solicitors the volume will, we think, be particularly serviceable. Armed with the work we have now reviewed, the practitioner will be in a fair way to cope successfully with the most exigent client who comes to consult him about his windows."—Solicitors Journal. "This subject has acquired a general commercial interest, and a clear concise work upon it is, at this time, very opportune. Mr. Latham's treatise on the Law of Window Lights appears to supply in a convenient form all the information which, in a general way, may be required. The text throughout is lucid and is well supported by precedents."— Building News. "The ancient light question, owing to the demand for enlarged buildings within the area of our large towns, becomes more important every day, and Mr. Latham has done well in providing a new treatise on the subject, and setting forth some of the more recent decisions of our courts. It is well arranged and clearly written. We recommend the book.”—Builder. Tudor's Law of Charitable Trusts.-Second Edition. Post 8vo., 18s. cloth. THE LAW OF CHARITABLE TRUSTS; with the Statutes to the end of Session 1862, the Orders, Regulations and Instructions, issued pursuant thereto; and a Selection of Schemes. By OWEN DAVIES TUDOR, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law; Author of "Leading Cases in Equity;""Real Property and Conveyancing;" &c. Second Edition. "Mr. Tudor in the present edition of his work has struck out beyond his original intention, and has made it a complete compendium of the law of charities. In carrying out this intention his object appears to have been to produce a practical and concise summary of this branch of the law. No living writer is more capable than Mr. Tudor of producing such a work: his Leading Cases in Equity, and also on the Law of Real Property, have deservedly earned for him the highest reputation as a learned, careful and judicious text-writer. The main feature of the work is the manner in which Mr. Tudor has dealt with all the recent statutes relating to this subject: we have only to add that the index is very carefully compiled."-Solicitors' Journal. "Mr. Tudor's excellent little book on Charitable Trusts. It is indeed no longer a little book but a bulky one of some 650 pages. Mr. Tudor however is a singular painstaking author, his books, as the profession well knows, are models of industry and care, and hence their popularity. This second edition has collected the cases decided since the issue of the first, and their number is surprising-upwards of one thousand. Mr. Tudor has made his work complete by the introduction of several schemes for the settlement of charities, so that it is in all respects the text-book for the lawyer, as well as a hand-book for reference by trustees and others engaged in the management of charities."-Law Times. Gaius's Roman Law, by Tomkins and Lemon. Complete in 1 vol. 8vo., 27s. cloth extra. (Dedicated by permission to Lord Chancellor Hatherley.) THE COMMENTARIES OF GAIUS ON THE ROMAN LAW: with an English Translation and Annotations. By FREDERICK J. TOMKINS, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., and WILLIAM GEORGE LEMON, Esq., LL.B. Barristers at Law, of Lincoln's Inn. "We congratulate the authors on the production of a work creditable alike in its inception and its progress. The translation is on the whole satisfactory: the annotations are often valuable and compiled from trustworthy sources."-Law Journal. "They have done a good service to the study of Roman Law, and deserve the thanks of those who take an interest in legal literature." -Solicitors' Journal. "After a careful perusal of the present work, we feel bound to speak in the highest terms of the manner in which Mr. Tomkins and Mr. Lemon have executed their task. We have no hesitation in pronouncing the work to be a most valuable contribution to Juristical learning, and we unhesitatingly recommend its careful perusal to all students of Roman Law."-Law Magazine. "The translation is carefully executed, and the annotations show extensive knowledge of the Roman Law."-Athenæum. "The book is in every respect one of the most valuable contributions, from an English source, to our legal literature which the last half century has witnessed."-Edinburgh Evening Courant. "The want of an edition of the Commentaries of Gaius for English students has now been supplied by Dr. Tomkins and Mr. Lemon in a manner which leaves nothing to be desired. The translation of the Latin text is excellent; and the notes, upon which the value of the work mainly depends, are full of the most ample learning upon the matter of the text."-Irish Law Times. "This is the first time that the text of Gaius has been translated into English, and it is remarkably well done by Messrs. Tomkins and Lemon in the part before us, who have also enriched the text by many valuable notes."-Law Examination Reporter. Mosely's Articled Clerks' Handy-Book. 12mo., 7s. cloth. A 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. By M. S. MOSELY, Solicitor, Clifford's Inn Prizeman, M. T. 1867. CONTENTS:-INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.-CHAP. I.-THE FIRST YEAR.-Introduction to the office-What may be learned by copying a Draft-Explanation of technical terms-The profession, and its subdivisions-Conveyancing; Equity; Common Law; Bankruptcy Law -Office work and office routine-Course of reading for the first year-Practical hints on reading-System of self-examination. CHAP. II.-THE SECOND YEAR.-Practical view of the ordinary routine of Conveyancing-Investigation of Titles-Purchases-Leases-Mortgages-Settlements-Wills-Course of reading for the second year-Introduction to the Statute-law-General analysis of the Statutes at large, preliminary to their study. CHAP. III. THE THIRD YEAR.-Office work-Suggestions for acquiring a knowledge of the Details of Common-law practice-The Courts-Nisi Prius business-The Brief and its preparationMarshalling the Evidence-General rules of Evidence-A short practical view of the ordinary steps in an Action, with examples-Course of reading for the third year: the Intermediate Examination-Points to be attended to in reading for it-Method of answering the Examiners' questions-The Statue-law (continued). CHAP. IV.-THE FOURTH YEAR.-The County Courts-Method of acquiring a knowledge of Practice-Hints on Advocacy-Course of reading for the fourth year. CHAP. V.-THE LAST YEAR.-Assignment of ArticlesThe town agent's office-London professional life-Attendance at Chambers-Rules of Pleading-General view of points to be attended to during the last year under ArticlesCourse of reading for the fifth year: Résumé of old books-Analysis of Case law. CHAP. VI. The final Examination-Practical suggestions on reading for the Examination-Notes and Commonplace-book-The Examiners' standard-"Coaches," their advantages and disadvantages-Reading for honours-Routine of the Examination-Admission-Conclusion. APPENDIX. (A.) Practical directions for Examination and Admission. (B.) List of standard books on special subjects. "This useful little book is intended for the use of articled clerks during the period of their articles. The style of this book is peculiar: it is an exaggeration of the style adopted by Mr. Haynes in his admirable Outlines of Equity.' The author seems to think the adoption of such a style the only way to make the study of the law popular, and we are not prepared to say he is wrong. "-Law Magazine and Review. "The design of this little book is to combine instruction, advice and amusement, if anything amusing can be extracted from the routine of a solicitor's office and the studies of articled clerks. The book will certainly be found useful by any articled clerk, for it contains much information which it is sometimes very troublesome to find, and the facetiousness of Mr. Mosely's manner will doubtless help to grease the course of a rough and uneasy subject."-Law Journal. "There are few who read this book with care who will not readily admit that on many intricate points of law their notions have become much clearer than before their acquaintance with it. Both parts are well worked out, and will be found useful; but in the second division of each chapter the law student will find most valuable information, as there Mr. Mosely not only marks out the course of reading which he recommends for each year, but also carefully analyses the contents of each book, and points out those chapters and subjects which it will be most advantageous for the student to master at the first reading, and those which he ought to defer till a second perusal and a wider experience have made him more competent to understand them. The style is remarkably good, and, considering the subject, free from technical expressions.”Irish Law Times. Christie's Crabb's Conveyancing.-Fifth Edit. by Shelford. Two vols. royal 8vo., 31. cloth. CRABB'S COMPLETE SERIES of PRECEDENTS in CONVEYANCING and of COMMON and COMMERCIAL FORMS in Alphabetical Order, adapted to the Present State of the Law and the Practice of Conveyancing; with copious Prefaces, Observations and Notes on the several Deeds. By J. T. CHRISTIE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Fifth Edition, with numerous Corrections and Additions, by LEONARD SHELFORD, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. The This Work, which embraces both the Principles and Practice of Conreyancing, contains likewise every description of Instrument wanted for Commercial Purposes. General Table of Heads of Prefaces and Forms. Abstracts. Accounts. - Acknowledgments.-Acquittances.-Admittances.-Affidavits, Affirmations or Declarations.-Agreements: to relinquish Business: to Guarantee: for a Lease before Marriage: for a Partition: between Principal and Agent: for the Sale and Purchase of Estates: for Sale of Copyhold Estates: for Sale of Leaseholds: for Sale of an Advowson.-Annuity: secured on Copyholds.-Annuities: Assigments of.-Appointments of Guardians.-Apportionment.-Apprenticeship: to the Sea Service: to an Attorney: Assignment of.-Arbitration: Award.-Assignments: Bonds: Leases: Patents: Pews Policies of Insurance: Reversionary Interests.-Attestations.-Attornments.— Auctions Particulars of Sale.-Bargains and Sales: of Timber.-Bills of Sale of Goods. -Bonds: Administration: Receiver pending Suit: Post Obit: Stamps on.-Certificates. -Composition: Conveyances in Trust for Creditors.-Conditions: of Sale.-Confirmations. -Consents.-Copartnership: Dissolution of Copartnership.-Covenants: Stamps on: for Production of Title Deeds.-Declarations.-Deeds: I. Nature of Deeds in General: II. Requisites of a Deed: III. Formal parts of Deeds: IV. Where a Deed is necessary or otherwise: V. Construction of Deeds: VI. Avoiding of Deeds: VII. Proof of Deeds: VIII. Admission of Parol Evidence as to Deeds: IX. Possession of Deeds: X. Stamp Duty on Deeds.-Defeasances.-Demises--Deputation.-Disclaimers.-Disentailing Deeds. -Distress: Notices of.-Dower.-Enfranchisements.-Exchanges.-Feoffments.-Further Charges.-Gifts.-Grants.-Grants of Way or Road.-Indemnities.-Leases: I. Nature of Leases in General: II. Requisites to a Lease: III. Parts of a Lease: IV. Incidents to a Lease: V. Stamps on Leases.-Letters of Credit.-Licences.-Mortgages: of Copyholds: of Leaseholds: Transfer of: Stamp Duty on.-Notes, Orders, Warrants, &c.-Notices: to Quit.-Partition.-Powers of Attorney.-Presentation.-Purchase Deeds: Conveyance of Copyholds: Assignments of Leaseholds: Stamps on.-Recitals.-Releases or Conveyances: or Discharges.-Renunciations or Disclaimers.-Resignations.-Revocations.-Separation, -Settlements: Stamp Duty on.-Shipping: Bills of Lading: Bills of Sale: Bottomry and Respondentia Bonds: Charter Parties.-Surrenders.-Wills: 1. Definition of Will and Codicil: 2. To what Wills the Act 7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26 does not apply: 3. What may be disposed of by Will: 4. Of the capacity of Persons to make Wills: 5. Who may or may not be Deviзees; 6. Execution of Wills: 7. Publication of Wills: 8. Revocation of Wills: 9. Lapse of Devises and Bequests: 10. Provisions and Clauses in Wills: 11. Construction of Wills. From the Law Times. "The preparation of it could not have been confided to more able hands than those of Mr. Shelford, the veteran authority on real property law. With the industry that distinguishes him he has done ample justice to his task. In carefulness we have in him a second Crabb, in erudition Crabb's superior; and the result is a work of which the original author would have been proud, could it have appeared under his own auspices. It is not a book to be quoted, nor indeed could its merits be exhibited by quotation. It is essentially a book of practice, which can only be described in rude outline and dismissed with applause, and a recommendation of it to the notice of those for whose service it has been so laboriously compiled." From the Solicitors' Journal. "The collection of precedents contained in these two volumes are all that could be desired. They are particularly well adapted for Solicitors, being of a really practical character. They are moreover free from the useless repetitions of common forms that so much increase the bulk and expense of some collections that we could name. Weknow not of any collection of conveyancing precedents that would make it so possible for a tyro to put together a presentable draft at an exigency, or which are more handy in every respect, even for the experienced draftsman. Mr. Shelford has proved himself in this task to be not unworthy of his former reputation. To those familiar with his other works it will be a sufficient recommendation of this." |
