INDEX TO VOL. XVIII.

A.

Amos, Mr., appointed a member of the Supreme Council in India, 492.

B.

Bar, members of, returned to the new Parliament, 491.

Bills on legal subjects depending in Parliament, 246.

Buller, C., his plan for the reform of Election Committees, 371.

Chancery, orders in, 233.

C.

E.

Election Committees, present vicious constitution of, 370.

Mr. C. Buller's plan for their amendment, 371.

proposed Court of appeal from the revising barristers' decisions, 373.
Evidence, Law of, in the Courts of Equity, Mr. Gresley's treatise on, reviewed,

133.

Exchequer in Equity, orders in, 242.

F.

Fane, Mr., his Letter to the Attorney-General on the privileges of the Commis-

sioners of Bankruptcy, remarks on, 28.

Fees, proposed new table of, in the Common Law Courts, 492.

Felony and its incidents, 357.

origin and import of the word felony, ib.

definition of a misdemeanour, 359.

distinction between felonies and misdemeanors in regard to their conse-

quences, 360.

as to accessories, ib.

nature of benefit of clergy, 361.

and its abolition, 362.

non-competency of felons convict, 363.

their disabilities in regard to the rights of property, 364.

doctrine of corruption of blood, 365,

and of confiscation, 366.

Foreign Legal Intelligence, 244.

France, new works on law published in, 244.

G.

Gresley, R. N., his Treatise on the Law of Evidence in the Courts of Equity,
reviewed, 133.

I.

Incumbent's right to fees on the burial of paupers, discussed, 118.
International Law, importance of the study of, 31.

Mr. Wheaton's "Elements" of, 33.

his history of international law, ib.
sources of international law, 40.

definitions of different writers, 41.

bases and sanctions of international law, 47.

Kenyon, Lord, Life of (continued), 49.

K.

his character and habits as a criminal judge, ib.

his legal acquirements, 51.

and personal peculiarities, 52.

his deficiencies in the House of Lords, 65.

his communications with the King on the Coronation Oath, 71.
his death, 73.

various anecdotes of him, 75, et seq.

on what adventure an insurance may be effected, 111.

what are unlawful adventures, ib.

the form and requisites of a policy of insurance, 302.

the difference between those effected by an assurance company and at

Lloyd's, 303.

specimens of each, 304.

rules of construction of the policy, 307.

Marine Insurance-(Continued.)

analysis of a policy of insurance, 308.

1. the name and description of the assured, ib.
2. the description of the subject insured, 311.
3. the statement of the amount insured, 316.

4. of the voyage or adventure, 319.

the termini of the risk on ship, 324.

on goods, 330.

and on freight, 337.

Mercantile Insolvency, defective state of the law relating to, 1.

expense 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 ontinuation of articles on, 85, 302.

N.

Nominal Consideration, statement of, in deeds operating under the Statute of
Uses, its effects considered, 294.

P.

Parliament, publication of printed papers by, 249.
deficiencies in the Report of the Committee, ib.
case of the Earls of Arundel and Devonshire, ib.
remarks on Thorp's case, 250.

cases as to the claim of privilege from being impleaded in personal actions,
255.

result of them, 260.

privileges of parliament examinable in the Courts of Law, 261.

real limits of parliamentary jurisdiction, 264.

opinions of Clarendon and Hallam cited, 266.

remarks on the particular case of Stockdale v. Hansard, 267.

R.

Revising Barristers, remarks on their proceedings in the present year, 492.
proposed tribunal of appeal from their decisions, 373.

Romagnosi, G. D., memoir of, 340.

T.

Talfourd, Serj. his Copyright and Custody of Infants' Bills,

W.

Wheaton, Mr., his Treatise on International Law, reviewed, 31.

Whitelocke, Lord-Keeper, Life of, 270.

his family, birth, and education, ib.

Life of Whitelocke-(Continued.)

called to the bar, 271.

Treasurer and Master of the Revels in the Middle Temple, ib.
his political opinions and associations, 272.

specimens of Hyde's correspondence with him, 274.

elected to the Long Parliament, 275.

chairman of the committee on Strafford's impeachment, ib.

his public conduct on the breaking out of the Rebellion, 277.

one of the commissioners to treat with the king at Oxford and at Uxbridge,

279, 280.

charged with correspondence with the royalist party, 279.

his disinclination towards Cromwell's party, 280.

made one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, 281.

his political and parliamentary career, 282, et seq.
complaints of the Court of Chancery, 283.

his adhesion to Cromwell, 284.
ambassador to Sweden, 289.

dismissed from the Seals, ib.

summoned to Cromwell's Upper House, 290.

his political appointments after Cromwell's death, ib.

his retirement, 292.

and death, 293.

summary of his character, ib.

ERRATA.

P. 272, 1. 6, for drollery, read drolling.
P. 273, l. 18, for researches (first time), read assistance.

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