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NEW STATUTES EFFECTING ALTERA-|
TIONS IN THE LAW:
Regulating the Queen's Bench Prison, 555
North American Passengers', 581
Further time for making Railways, 204
Town Police Clauses, 26
Crown and Government Security, 600
NEW BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
oint Stock Companies Regulation, 52, 429
Towns' Improvement Clauses, 54, 82
Railways, 108, 154
Roman Catholic Charitable Trusts, 154
Jewish Disabilities Relief, 279
Bankruptcy Law Amendment, 307
Audit of Railway Accounts, 358
County Rates-Justices, 358
Poor Removal, 401
Administration of Justice (No. 1), 390
Administration of Justice (No. 2), 390
Special and Petty Sessions, 390, 403
Protection of Justices, 309, 447
Lord Brougham's Bankruptcy Court Regula-
tion, 597
Appeal in Criminal Cases, 428
Administration of Oaths in Chancery, 456
Health of Towns, 477, 534
Game Certificates, 492
Petty Bag Office, 493
Unnecessary Actions Prevention, 511
Criminal Law Administration Amendment, 532
Crown and Government Security, 549, 558, 589
Clergy Offences, 578
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS RE-
LATING TO THE LAW, 141, 169, 366, 390,
408, 435, 519, 559, 607
LAW REFORM AND SUGGESTED IM-
PROVEMENTS:
Present State and future Prospects of the Pro-
fession, 1
Commercial Failures and the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, 21, 111
Exemption of Members of Parliament from Ar-
rest, 22
Statements of Debts and Assets of Insolvent
Houses, 51
Costs of Actions for Small Debts, 180
Proposed Amendment of the Law of Debtor
and Creditor, 105
Altering the Time for Holding the Epiphany
Quarter Sessions, 182
Constitution of the Ecclesiastical Courts at
Doctors' Commons, 183, 229, 335, 353
State of the Law Bills before Parliament, 181
Private arrangements between Debtor and Cre-
ditor, 201
Benchers of the Inner Temple and Mr. Hay-
ward, 249
Proposed improvement in the Practice of Short-
hand Writing, 358
Practice at the Old Bailey Bar, 2
Business of the Court of Review, 6
Opening of Parliament-Contemplated Mea-
sures relating to the Law, 77
State of Business of the Courts, 79
American Law Reform, 87
Cheap Conveyancing,-Stamp Laws, 113
Court of Appeal in Criminal Cases, 137
Imprisonment of Small Debtors, 135
Election Petitions-Members of Parliament,
153
Dr. Addams and the Bar at Doctors' Commons,
403
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law Amendment,
454, 509, 529
Lord Brougham's Bill, 597
Reform or Abolition of Ecclesiastical Courts
480
CONTENTS.-TABLE OF REPORTS DIGESTED.
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
Burton's Manual of the Law of Scotland, 24
Curtis' Treatise on the Law of Copyright in
Books, 383
Hall's Inaugural Lecture on the Common
Law, 432
Hosack's Treatise on the Conflict of the Laws
of England and Scotland, 187
Legal Year Book, Almanack, and Diary, for
1848, 138, 339
Macqueen's Rights and Liabilities of Husband
and Wife, 109
Morris's Analytical Digest of Selected Practice
Cases, 5
Pearce's History of the Inns of Court and Chan-
cery, 280
Stewart's Lectures on Transfer of Land, 602
Warren's Now and Then, 206
SHORT NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS, 160, 517
NOTES OF THE WEEK.
Meeting of Parliament, 60
New Taxing Master in Chancery, 5, 60, 169,
Illness of the Lord Chancellor, 108, 259
Commencement of Hilary Term, 236
The Irish Seals, 236
Effect of Final Order in Insolvency, 236
Public Record Depository, 291
Inconvenience of Equity Sittings at West-
minster, 291, 365
Sittings after Term-Arrears, 316
The Bench and the Bar, S16
Crown Paper in the Queen's Bench, 316
The Chief Justice of Hong Kong, 316
Conduct of Prosecutions by Government, 341
Exchequer Practice Court, 341
Mr. Warren's Lectures, 408
County Courts, 408
Colonial Law Offices, 436
New Master in Chancery, 139, 480
Easter Recess, 589
The New Solicitor-General, 537
Clerk Assistant of the House of Lords, 537
Special Constables for Keeping the Peace, 537
Vacant Mastership in Chancery, 139
PROCEEDINGS OF LAW SOCIETIES.
Inns of Court, 341
Incorporated Law Society, 60, 426, 501, 606
Metropolitan and Provincial Law Association,
211, 286, 390, 406, 585, 605
Provincial Law Societies' Association, 287
Societies, 311
Liverpool Law Society, 32
Manchester Law Association, 288, 425
Wolverhampton Law Association, 361
The Law Students' or Articled Clerks' Associ-
ation, 236
VISITS TO THE OLD LAWYERS.
Lord Kenyon, 7
Livery of Seisin-Moorish Conveyances, A. D.
1492, 141, 386
Apprenticeship in the reign of Elizabeth, 141
The late Mr. Tidd's Pupils, 257
Summary Punishment in Algeria, 387
Indian Grant of Land, 501
Memoir of William Pattisson, 339
LEGAL OBITUARY, 61, 191, 322, 502,
LAW PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS, 62, 192,
213, 237, 409, 502, 519, 557, 558
CIRCUITS, SITTINGS, CAUSE LISTS, &c.:
House of Lords Appeals, 400
Privy Council Appeals, 104
Chancery Sittings, 129, 242, 271, 350, 544
Chancery Cause Lists, 15, 131, 272, 379, 567,
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