the proem, 2; analytical account of
books, 4; the author's resolutions, ib.;
his hints for the relief of mental ex-
haustion, 5; objections to most of the
published courses of law reading, 7;
suggestions for the student's guidance,
8 et seq.; selection of a pleader, 12;
requisites of an advocate, 13; expe-
diency of attending debating clubs, 18;
attendance in court, 25; quotations
from Serjt. Talfourd's article on this
subject in the London Magazine, 26;
remarks thereon, 32

Law, W. J., his supplementary paper to
the report on bankruptcy and insol-
vency, xxvii. 249

Lawyers, duties of, Mr. O'Brien's work

on, reviewed; xxxi. 1; account of the
author, ib.; duty of a barrister in un-
dertaking and conducting a cause, 4;
how far he represents his client, 9;
Mr. O'Brien's remarks on the lawyer's
choice of a calling, 16; the lawyer ad-
vising on evidence, 17; consultations,

18;
the lawyer pleading in civil causes,
19; drawing of deeds and wills, 22;
the lawyer on circuit, 23; duties with
respect to fees, 24; the lawyer's cour-
tesy, and intercourse with attorneys, 26
Lawyers, political, of the 17th century,

Mr. Townsend's memoirs of, xxx. 350;
Maynard, 355; Sawyer, 362; Wil-
liams, 365; Price, 370; Shower, 373;
Lechmere, 376

Leases, renewable for lives, law relating

to, discussed, xx. 124; liability of equi-
table mortgagees of leases to perform
the covenants, xxiii. 295
Legacies, interest on, xxx. 218
Legal estate, the protection to be derived

to purchasers from getting it in, con-
sidered, xx. 310

Legitimation, law of England relating to,
considered, xxix. 267. See Marriage.
Lerminier, M., editor of Le Droit, his
curious account of English law and
lawyers, xv. 233

Lewis, G. C., his appointment as one of
the Poor Law Commissioners, xxi. 230;
his essay on the government of depen-
dencies reviewed, xxviii. 122 et seq.
Libel and Defamation Bill, Lord Camp-
bell's, alterations introduced by, xxx.
152; remarks thereon, ib.
Lien, for repairs of ship, law relating to,
xiv. 98; the doctrine of and authorities
relating to equitable lien discussed, xv.
60-82,98-118; circumstances under
which it is extinguished, 99 et seq.; of
owner and master of ship for freight and
charges, 370; xvi. 337

Lincoln's Inn, new hall and library of,
described, xxix. 108

Littledale, Mr. Justice, his resignation,

xxv. 244

Littleton, notice of his life, xxvi. 285
Lloyd, J. H., his edition of Paley on the
law of principal and agent, xxiii, 1
Local Courts Bill, the new, xxv. 310;
Mr. Fox Maule's pretensions as a law
reformer, 311; absurdities of the bill,
313; small number of judges, ib.;
working of the system in Ireland, 314;
form of summons, 318; mode of ser-
vice, 321; warrants, ib.; evils arising
from the want of proper juries, 322;
obstructions in the way of plaintiffs,
326; adjudications between landlords
and tenants, 328; examination of the
clauses of the bill, 331; new bills in-
troduced, xxvii. 485; remarks thereon,
xxix. 508; its provisions examined,
xxxi. 364

London Police Bill, impolitic concession
of the government on, xxi. 450
London Review, observations upon an

article on Law Reform in, xiv. 486, 487
Loughborough, Lord Chancellor, life of,
xiii. 59; his family, birth, and educa-
tion, the Scottish clubs of his day, ib.;
interruption of his practice at the Scotch
bar, 61; comes to practise in London,
ib.; his fondness for dramatic society,
62; called to the bar, 63; returned to
parliament, 64; specimens of his par-
liamentary oratory, 64-70; appointed
solicitor-general, 70; his invective
against Franklin, 71; made attorney-
general, 72; chief justice of the com-
mon pleas, 73; raised to the peerage,
ib.; presides at the trial of the rioters
of 1780, ib.; his character as a common
law judge, 75; his political career, 76;
appointed lord chancellor, 78; his ju-
dicial character and merits, 79; resigns,
86; created Earl Rosslyn, ib.; his
death, 87; various anecdotes of him,
87-89; his measures of legislation,
89; his treatise on prison discipline,
92; his patronage of literary men, 95;
general summary of his character, 99
Ludlow, Serjt., appointed a bankrupt com-
missioner, xxviii. 513

Lunacy, law of, xx. i.; character of Mr.
Stock's work on, ib.; various jurisdic-
tions over, 2; their different degrees of
dispatch, 3; different amount of proof
required by them, 4; unsatisfactory
nature of the criminal jurisdiction in
cases of lunacy, 11; law and practice
as to criminal lunatics stated, ib. et seq.;
remarks on Thom's case, 15: Scotch
proceedings in lunacy, xxii. 386; bill
for remedying the law of, xxiii. 266;
new commissioners under it, 513
Lush, R., his edition of the Wills Act,

xix. 132, 150 and of the Imprison-
ment for Debt Act, xx. 328 et seq: his
Practice of the Superior Courts re-
viewed and commended, xxiv. 388
Lynch, Mr., his plan of an appellate ju-
risdiction, xv. 236

Lyndhurst, Lord, appointed a second time
lord chancellor, xiii. 276; his resigna-
tion, 534; his observations on the cor-
poration commissioners, xiv. 486; ap-
pointed the third time lord chancellor,
xxvi. 476

Lyne, James, his Treatise on renewable
leases for lives, xx. 124

M.

M'Naughton, trial of, xxix. 378; prin-
ciples of exemption from punishment
by reason of unsoundness of mind, how
far elucidated thereby, ib.; speeches of
the counsel, 378, 380; summary of
the evidence, 386; examination of the
supposed tests of insanity as a defence
in criminal cases, 391; value of medi-
cal testimony in these cases, 395; exa-
mination of the evidence of insanity in
M'Naughton's case, 396; expediency
and justice of punishment in such a case
as his considered, 401

Macqueen, John, his Treatise on the ap-
pellate jurisdiction of the House of
Lords and Privy Council reviewed and
commended, xxix. 1 et seq.

Malta, ordinance relating to the press in,
xxi. 451

Marine insurance, law of, xviii. 85; prin-
ciples of, ib.; legal effect of the con-
tract of insurance, 86; history of the
law of marine insurance, ib.; by whom
an insurance may be effected, 91; and
on what, 93; ships, 94; goods, 95;
freight, ib.; the profit on goods, 96;
the interest necessary for that purpose,
99; statute relating thereto, 100; the
interest in the ship, 106; in freight,
108; and in goods, ib.; on what ad-
venture an insurance may be effected,
111; what are unlawful adventures,
ib.; form and requisites of a policy of
insurance, 302; difference between
those effected by insurance companies
and at Lloyd's, 303; specimens of each,
304; rules of construction of the policy,
307; analysis of a policy of insurance,
308; 1st, the name and description of
the assured, ib.; 2d, the description of
the subject insured, 311; 3d, the state-
ment of the amount insured, 318; 4th,
the statement of the voyage or adven-
ture, 319; termini of the risk on ship,
324; on goods, 336; and on freight,

337; the course of the voyage, xix. 319;
construction of the clause for liberty to
touch, &c. 320; time policies, 325; the
perils insured against, 326 et seq.; perils
of the sea, 327; fire, ib.; capture, ib.;
losses by piracy, &c. ib.; jettison, ib.;
arrest and detentions by foreign powers,
ib.; barratry, 329; general misadven-
tures, 332; the memorandum of war-
ranty against particular average, ib.;
construction of it, 334; and of the
clause as to stranding, 335; what is a
stranding, 336; the premium, 340;
the subscription to the policy, ib.; the
stamp, ib.; express warranties intro-
duced into policies, 342; warranty to
sail, ib.; that the ship was safe on a
given day, 346; to depart with con-
voy, ib.; that the property is neutral,
347; that the ship shall be free from
seizure in port, 348; the question what
is a loss within the policy investigated,
xx. 87; the loss must result immediately
from the peril insured against, 89;
cases illustrative of this principle, ib.;
distinction between a total and an
average loss, 93; law of abandonment,
94; when a loss is to be deemed total,
95; in an insurance on ship, ib.; on
goods, 98; on freight, 99; when aban-
donment is not necessary, 100; when
it is necessary in order to a claim for a
total loss, 104; when effectual for that
purpose, 105; how to be made, 112;
when binding, 113; exceptions which
invalidate or reduce the claim of the
assured upon a loss, xxi. 87; objections
to the form of the policy, ib.; to its
substance, ib.; what is a misrepresen-
tation or concealement so as to avoid
the policy, 89, 94; effect of breaches
of warranty, 103; conditions implied
in the policy, ib.; of seaworthiness, ib. ;
against unreasonable delay, 106; ex-
ceptions which discharge the obligation
of the insurer after it has attached, 109;
deviation, cases relating to, 110; change
of the ship, 119; breach of warranty of
neutrality, 120; fraud or illegality, ib.
Maritime right of search, discussed, xxvi.
88-97

Marriage, legitimation, and divorce, law of

England relating to, considered, xxix.
267; requisites of a legal marriage, ib.
et seq.; insufficiency of the present
marriage law, 269; necessity of greater
parental restraint, ib.; suggested altera-
tion in the publication of banns, 272;
evils of the Scotch law, ib. ; doctrine of
legitimation by subsequent marriage
beneficial, 277; English law as to bas-
tards condemned, 284; conflict of the
Scotch and English law of divorce, ib.;

proposed amendment of both, ib. 298;
evils and absurdities of the English law
of adultery and divorce, 285 et seq.;
indissolubility of marriage, except by
parliament, considered, 291; summary
of proposed amendments, 304; list of
Scotch decrees of divorce, 305
Marriage, within the prohibited degrees,

new act relating to, xiv. 238; with the
sister of a deceased wife, legality of,
xxi. 371; history of this question, 372;
necessity for legislative interference,
375; conflict of the English and Scotch
law of marriage considered, xxvi. 125-
138; marriages in Ireland, act for the
confirmation of, xxviii. 503; whether a
clergyman refusing to solemnize a mar-
riage, is punishable at law, xxx. 337
Marriage settlement, sale under power in,
after mortgage by tenant for life, xxvi.

346

Married women, their contracts at law and

in equity, statement of the law relating
to, xxvi. 288; in what cases a married
woman cannot be sued at law, though
separated from her husband, ib.; when
she may sue or be sued, notwithstand-
ing her coverture. 295; her capacity to
bind her separate estate in equity by
her contracts, 300; on the protection of,
in criminal cases, xxix. 371
Masters' Offices, facts and suggestions
respecting, xxv. 97; Mr. Pemberton's
description of the alleged evils, ib.;
answers thereto, 99

Maugham, Robert, his edition of the new

Attorneys' and Solicitors' Act, xxx. 394
Maule, Sir W. H., his appointment to the
bench, xxi. 229; transferred from the
Exchequer to the Common Pleas, xxiii.

229

Mercantile insolvency, defective state of
the law relating to, xviii. 1; expence of
bankruptcy proceedings, 4; superiority
of the law in the continental states, 10;
and in Scotland, 17; imperfections of
the recent alterations in the law of
bankruptcy, 23; remarks on Mr. Fane's
letter to the attorney-general, 28
Mercantile law, series of papers on, con-

tinued, xiii. 100, 365; xiv. 97, 297;
xv. 83, 354; xvi. 119; xvii, 297; xviii.
85, 302; xix. 319; xx. 87; xxi. 87
Merchant shipping, law of, xiii. 100; col-
lections of maritime laws of various
countries, 101; law of England as to
the ownership of merchant vessels, by
building, 103; by purchase, 104; and
by capture, 110; particular provisions
as to the ownership of British vessels,
112; sketch of the history of the Navi-
gation Laws, ib.; provisions of the ex-
isting Navigation Act, 115-118; and
of the Registry Act, 118-134; mutual

legal rights of part owners, 365 et seq.;
authority and liabilities of ship's hus-
band, 372; rights and liabilities of
part owners in relation to strangers,
374; provisions of the Navigation Act
as to the master and crew, 376; ap-
pointment of the master, 379; his dis-
missal, 381; his rights against the
owners, 382; his responsibility and
powers, 383; his liability on contracts
made by him as agent, 386; who are
chargeable on contracts for repairs and
furnishing, 388; and to what extent,
398; nature of the charge, 400: the
same subject continued, xiv. 97; specific
charge created by lien, ib.; and by hy-
pothecation, 99; nature and incidents
of the contract of bottomry ib.; requi-
sites of a valid hypothecation, 103;
master's authority to sell the ship, 107;
relative duties and liabilities of the
master and crew, 110; law relating to
pilots, 113; and to convoy, 119; law
relating to the hiring, service, &c., of
merchant seamen, 297 et seq. ; the
hiring, 298; the service, 306; their
remuneration, 313; earning of the
wages, 314; time and mode of payment,
326; remedies for enforcing it, 330;
law relating to apprentices on board
merchant ships, ib. ; observations on the
new Merchant Seamen's Act, 335: con-
tract of affreightment described, xv. 85;
the charter party, ib.; freight, applica-
tion of the term, 86; various kinds of
hiring under the contract of affreight-
ment, illustrated, ib.; and applied to
the case of a ship, 87; mutual relations
of the owner and charterer in each case,
94-100; the obligations created by
contract, 100; bill of lading, 101; its
form, 102; the obligations created
thereby relating to the shipment, 103;
as they affect the freighter, 104; and
the owner, 112; the obligations relating
to the carriage and delivery, 354; duties
of the owner as a carrier for hire, ib. ;
as to the preparation for the voyage,
355; the seaworthiness and equipment
of the vessel, ih.; as to the voyage it-
self, 360; clearing out and sailing, ib.;
convoy, 361; in respect to deviation,
362; resistance to hostile attacks, 363;
in case of injury by perils of the sea,
364; or on the breaking out of war,
366; precautions to be observed as to
the security of the cargo, ib.; discharge
and delivery of the cargo, 367; effect
of the stoppage in transitu, 368; lien
of the owner or master on the cargo for
freight and charges, 370; controlling
authority of the law over express cove-
nants of charter parties, ib.; reservations
of law in favour of the owner, 373;

distinctions between the liability of the
owner and the master, 376; statutory
provisions on this subject, 378 et seq.;
obligations relating to the payment of
the charges, xvi. 119; law of freight,
ib.; modes in which it is reserved, 120;
when and how earned, 125; payment
of freight where the goods arrive at their
destination, but damaged and reduced
in value, 138; where a part only arrive,
140; and where they are carried to a
point short of the port of destination,
ib.; by and to whom freight is payable,
154; means whereby it may be en-
forced, 337; by lien, ib.; by action
against the freighter, ih.; demurrage,
342; law as to general average and sal-
vage, 346; jettison, 351; other cases
of general average loss enumerated,
355 et seq. on what the contribution
of general average is to be assessed,
xvii. 297; principle and mode of assess-
ment, ib.; salvage, definition of, 303;
the acts which confer a right to salvage,
305; the statutes relating to it, 308;
the rate of remuneration, and tribunals
whereby it is adjusted and enforced,
314; apportionment of the shares among
the claimants, 321; the parties by whom
and interest on which salvage is payable,
324; law of collision, 326
Mence, R., his pamphlet on the mutual
rights of husband and wife, xxi. 171
Merewether, Serjeant, and A. H. Ste-
phens, their History of Boroughs and
Municipal Corporations reviewed, xiii.

400

Metropolitan police offices, report of the

select committee on, xx. 481: Police
Courts' Act, observations on, xxii. 488
Military law, xiv. 1; utility of a general
acquaintance with it, 2; Blackstone's
misstatements on it, ib.; history and
origin of the Mutiny Acts, 4; sketch
of the provisions of the existing act, 6;
the royal authority in military matters,
ib.; nature of the several kinds of
courts martial, 9; their jurisdiction
and practice, 11 et seq.; punishments
they may inflict, 23; revision of their
sentences, 26; liability of members of
them to actions, &c. 29

Mill, J. B., his notions on law reform,
xiv. 487

Miller, John, his pamphlet on the unset-

tled condition of the law, xxi. 338,
xxiii. 357; changes in public opinion
since the appearance of his inquiry into
the civil law of England, 357; his sum-
mary of recent legislative changes in
the law, 359; measures recommended
by him, 366; present state of the.com-
mon law courts, 369; appointments of
judges, 372

Mittermaier, M., paper by, on criminal
legislation and jurisprudence in Ger-
many and Switzerland, xv. 119: his
essay on the effect of drunkenness on
criminal responsibility, xxvi. 392
Mohl, Robert, his system of preventive
police, xxiii. 370, 3837227
Moile, N. T., his specimen of a new edi-fo

tion of the state trials in verse, xxi. 328
More, Sir John, notice of his life, xxvii.398
Mortgagees and mortgagors :-remedies
of mortgagees for the recovery of rent
discussed, xvi. 305; in the case of a !
mortgagee who has the legal estate, iba;
where the tenant is in under a demise
prior to the mortgage, ib.; where under
a demise subséquent, 306; remedies in 7
the case of a second mortgagee, or the
mortgagee of a mere equity, 308; rẻ..."
medies of a mortgagor for rent, 311:
rights of mortgagee against a tenant,
xxiv. 113; as to title deeds remaining
with a mortgagor, 352
Mortgages, remarks on Mr. Cruise's sum-
mary of the law relating thereto, xiv.
362 imperfections of the existing form
of, xxii. 312; proposed form of, 315:
further inconveniences of the present
form stated, xxv. 393; proposed form,
396;
remarks thereon, 404: mortgages
and conveyances, stamp duties on,
xxvii. 67

Moxon, Mr. Serjeant Talfourd's defence
of for the publication of Shelley's works,
xxvi. 139

Next of kin, limitations to, summary of
the authorities on, xiv. 121; conflicting
decisions on this subject, 123; obser-
vations, 130 et seq.

Nominal consideration, statement of, in
deeds operating under the Statute of
Uses, its effects considered, xviii. 294
Non compotes mentis, law of, xx. 1. See
Lunacy.

Non-intrusion, discussion of the questions
agitated in the Scotch church relating
to, xxiv. 131-165; legality of the or-
dinances of the General Assembly con-
sidered, ib.

Notice by equitable incumbrancers, doc-
trine of, xiv. 365

Notice to quit, law relating to, collected,
xxii. 85 et seq.

"

Palgrave, Sir F., his Rise and Progress
of the Anglo-Saxon Commonwealth,
xxviii. 388; picture of a Witenagemot
by, 404..

Pardessus, M., his admirable collection
of maritime laws, xiii. 100.
Parishes, liability of, to contribute to the
repair of turnpike roads, law relating
to, discussed, xxiii. 96 et seq.
Park, Mr. Justice, death of, xxi. 229.
Parliament, publication of printed papers
by, xviii. 249; deficiencies in the re-
port of the committee thereon, ib.;
case of the Earls of Arundel and De-
vonshire, ib.; remarks on Thorp's
case, 250; cases as to the claim of
privilege from being impleaded in per-
sonal actions, 255; result of them,
260; privileges of parliament exa-
minable in the courts of law, 264;
opinions of Clarendon and Hallam
cited, 266; remarks on the particular
case of Stockdale v. Hansard, 267:
state of the question, xix. 241: dis-
cussion on the parliamentary privilege
in Stockdale v. Hansard, xxi. 452: re-
marks on the same question, xxiii. 227;
termination of the question, 450.
Parochial Assessment Act, considered, xx.
152.

Partition of an estate with an exception
of coal mines, observations on, xxv. 50.
Partners, retiring and continuing, rights
joint creditors on the bankruptcy of
and liabilities of, xxi. 320; rights of
continuing partners, ib.: a partner's
share of real estate, devolution of, xxiii.
98.

Partnership, law of, and accounts, Mr.

Cory's work on, reviewed, xxv. 1;
system of mercantile accounts, ib.;
partnership accounts, 5; mercantile
principle of a partnership, ib.; expe-
diency of giving partnerships a corporate
character, 7; anomalies in the law of
partnership, 8; especially in case of
bankruptcy, 16: bequest of a share in,
operation of, xxx. 128.

Patteson, Mr. Justice, unfair attack on
him in the Times newspaper, xxv. 242.
Pay and pensions, assignability of, review
of the cases on, xxvi. 350.

Penitentiaries of America, xiv. 31. See
American Penitentiaries.

Pepys, Sir C. C., appointed Lord Chan-
cellor, and created Baron Cottenham,
xv. 235.

Perpetuities, remarks on the rule against,
xxix. 70.

Perry, Erskine, appointed a judge at
Bombay, xxv. 246.

Phillips, C., appointed a bankrupt com-
missioner, xxviii. 513.

Pilots, regulations of the laws as 'to, xiv.
113.

Piracy of marks or signs of merchants and
traders, law relating to, xxii. 148.
"Plea for the imprisoned," extracts from
and remarks on this pamphlet, xxvii.

35.

Plowden, notice of the life of, xxix. 335.
Police, rural, report of the commissioners

on, reviewed, xxi. 258; general re-
marks thereon, 259; number of habi-
tual depredators in rural districts, 261;
migratory habits of thieves, 264; ac-
counts of their own habits furnished by
thieves, 266; arts of pocket-picking,
275; gypsies, 277; flash houses, ib.;
farm robberies, 279; stealing from la-
bourers, 280; incapacity of parish
constables, 282-292; Welsh mobs,
283; insecurity of travellers, 289;
thefts on canals, &c. 286; wreckers,
288; strikes and unlawful combina-
tions, 291; necessity and effects of
voluntary associations for the protec-
tion of property, 295; inefficiency of
the Cheshire constabulary force, 298;
number and expense of the requisite
police force, 301; appointment and
management, ib.; propositions of the
commissioners, 302; benefits and evils
of centralization, 304; preventive po-
lice, establishment and details of, con-
sidered, xxiii. 376 et seq. 16
Pollock, Sir F., appointed Attorney-Ge-
neral, xiii. 278: his resignation, 534:
re-appointed, xxvi. 476 appointed
chief baron of the Exchequer, xxxi. 483
Poor Law Amendment Act, suggestions
relating to the bastardy clauses of, xiii.
274: progress of the new law, xv. 500.
Poor Law Commissioners, their proceed-
ings, xiii. 422; picture of the evils'
and results of able-bodied pauperism,
423 et seq.; prudent dealing of the
commissioners with this system, 433;
formation of unions, 434; union régu-
lations, 435; regulations as to relief,
437; successful progress of the poor
law reform, 438: observations on their
first annual report, xiv. 484: their
second report, xvii. 226; their power of
interference in parishes governed by
local acts, 351