THE

LAW MAGAZINE;

OR

QUARTERLY REVIEW

OF

JURISPRUDENCE,

FOR FEBRUARY, 1844; AND MAY, 1844.

VOL. XXXI.

LONDON:

WM BENNING AND CO., LAW BOOKSELLERS,
(LATE SAUNDERS AND BENNING,)

43, FLEET STREET.

1844.

CONTENTS.

ART. I.-DUTIES OF LAWYERS.

The Lawyer: His Character and Rule of Holy Life.

After the Manner of George Herbert's "Coun-

try Parson." By Edward O'Brien, Barrister-

at-Law

ART. II.-ADMINISTRATION OF ASSETS

ART. III.-LEGAL RETROSPECTIONS

ART. IV.--THE LAW RELATING TO RACING

ART. V.-NOTICES OF EARLY ENGLISH LAWYERS.-No. V.

ART. VI.-THE ATTORNEY AND SOLICITOR'S ACT, 6 & 7 VICT.

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ART. VII.-PRACTICAL POINTS IN CONVEYANCING.

1.-Memoranda on the Purchase of a Share of a

Reversionary Trust Fund

2.-On Bequests to Charities

ART. VIII. LIABILITY OF INFANTS IN RESPECT OF CON-

TRACTS

ART. IX. THe Grandeur of the Law.

The Grandeur of the Law; or, The Legal Peers of

England with Sketches of their Professional

Career. By Edward Foss, Esq. F.S.A. . . 140

CONTENTS.

ART. I.-DEFECTS OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

Observations on the Inutility of Grand Juries, and

Suggestions for their Abolition. By W. C.

Humphreys, Attorney at Law.

Forms of Writs and other Proceedings on the

Crown Side of the Court of Queen's Bench,

with Practical Directions. By Mr. A. B. Corner,

of the Crown Office.

On Peremptory Challenge of Jurors. By Henry

H. Joy, Esq. Barrister at Law.

Local Courts not the Remedy for the defects of

the Law; with Suggestions of a Plan of Legal

By B. Boothby, Esq. Barrister at

Reform.

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ART. IV.-MEMOIR OF THE LATE SERJEANT HILI.

331

A Treatise on Wills. By Thomas Jarman, Esq.

of the Middle Temple Barrister, at Law.

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