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arrangement, this volume is liable to the same criticism as the first, and would be improved by a process of condensation.

2.—A Digested Index of the Statute Law of South Carolina, from the earliest period to the year 1836, inclusive. By WILLIAM RICE. Charleston: J. S. Burges, 1838.

The plan of this work, so far as we recollect, is novel, at least in this country. It is intended to be a digest of the statute law, sufficient for most practical purposes, put into the form and expressed with the brevity of an index. It will thus be a most valuable appendix to the statutes at large of South Carolina, now a publishing, or nearly completed, and of which we have already spoken. Mr. Rice certainly deserves the praise of extraordinary diligence, this being the fifth octavo volume he has given to the public within the short space of two years.

3.-A Digest of the Cases decided in the Superior Courts of Law of the State of South Carolina; from the earliest period to the present time. With tables of the names of the cases, and of titles and references. By WILLIAM RICE, Attorney at Law. In two volumes. Charleston Burges & James, 1838 and 1839. Mr. Rice, the present state reporter of the state of South Carolina, besides publishing his two volumes of reports, noticed in our last and present numbers, has recently presented the profession with a digest of the jurisprudence of his state, in two volumes. This digest contains the cases decided in all the superior courts of South Carolina, commencing with Bay's and ending with Hill's reports, besides some of the cases in Brevard's manuscript reports, not yet published. The number of volumes digested is eighteen, namely Bay's Reports, two volumes; Treadway's Constitutional Reports, two volumes; Mill's Constitutional Reports, two volumes; Nott and M'Cord's Reports, two volumes; M'Cord's Reports, four volumes; Harper's Reports, one volume; Bailey's Reports, two volumes; Hill's Reports, two volumes; and Riley's Collection of Cases, one volume. Besides these printed reports, Mr. Rice has inserted several cases, hitherto unreported, from the

records of the court of appeals, and a portion of the cases about to be published, if not already published, from the manuscripts of the late judge Brevard. The latter were in four volumes in manuscript, of which Mr. Rice has digested the third. They will be printed, we understand, in two volumes. Mr. Rice's digest seems to us to exhibit traces of that carefulness and discrimination, which are the chief merits of a work in this department, and it can hardly fail to be of great utility to the profession of South Carolina, to whom it is very properly dedicated, besides affording much valuable help to the practising lawyers of other states.

4.-Revised Statutes of the State of Arkansas, adopted at the Octo-
ber Session of the General Assembly of said State, A. D. 1837,
in the year of our independence the sixty-second, and of the State
the second year. Revised by WILLIAM MCK. BALL and SAM. C.
ROANE. Notes and Index by ALBERT PIKE.
thority of the General Assembly. Boston:
Company, Publishers, 1838.

Published by au-
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The seventh article of the constitution of Alabama, section 9, provides, that, "Within five years after the adoption of this constitution, the laws, civil and criminal, shall be revised, digested, and arranged, and promulgated in such manner as the general assembly may direct; and a like revision, digest, and promulga, tion shall be made within every subsequent period of ten years.' In pursuance of this requisition, the general assembly, by a statute passed October 6, 1836, authorized the governor to appoint two competent persons to revise and arrange the statute laws of the state, and prepare such a code of civil and criminal laws, as might be necessary for the government of the same, to report at the next session of the general assembly. Under this statute, Messrs. Ball and Roane were appointed commissioners. Their labors were presented to the assembly in October, 1837, in which the statutes reported were acted upon, and passed with such amendments as were thought proper. The statutes thus prepared and enacted were published in the volume before us, under the editorial supervision of Mr. Pike, the present state reporter.

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This volume, besides the statutes, contains the constitutions of the United States and of Arkansas, the treaty of cession of Louisiana, the act of admission of Arkansas, and sundry other documents relating thereto. The statutes are arranged alphabetically in one hundred and fifty-nine titles. Chapters 44, entitled Criminal Jurisprudence, and 45, entitled Criminal Proceedings, constitute the criminal code.

5.-Lectures on Moral Philosophy, delivered before the Philosophical Association at Edinburgh, in the winter session of 1835, 1836. By GEORGE COMBE. Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon & Webb. 1840.

Among the important topics treated of by the author of the "Constitution of Man," in this volume, the lectures on the "causes of pauperism and the subject of criminal legislation," on the "duty of society in regard to criminal legislation and prison discipline,"-on "guardianship,"-" surety,"—and the various forms of government,—cannot but be interesting to those of our readers, who, in common with ourselves, look to the science of phrenology and the teachings of its greatest living master, for light and guidance in reference to the all important subjects to which it has been applied by him. We propose, in our next number, to present our readers with Mr. Combe's views on some, if not all, of the above-mentioned topics.

6.-An Introductory Lecture on the Study of English Law, delivered in University College, London, on Monday, December 17, 1838. By P. STAFFORD CAREY, M. A., Professor of English Law. London: Taylor & Walter, 1839.

The learned professor of English law in University College, in a well written lecture of forty odd pages, presents us with an outline of the plan of his course, and with the reasons which have induced him to depart from the plan pursued by Blackstone and other professors. The main division which he proposes, into public and private law. Under the first branch, he includes:

1, International law; 2, Constitutional law; 3, Colonial law; 4, Administrative law; 5, Ecclesiastical law; and, 6, Criminal law. The second branch, private law, embraces: 1, The law of Property; 2, The law of Torts; 3, The law of Contracts; 4, Commercial law; 5, The law of Persons; 6, The administration of justice in courts of equity; and, 7, The administration of justice in courts of common law. Each of these heads is succinctly explained. We do not think this arrangement so defective as that which it is intended to supercede; neither do we think it so scientific and philosophical as one might be made; but it perhaps will be found more practically successful, than either the old system, or any new one founded in a mere theory. With what propriety and upon what principle the professor proposes to treat of proceedings in equity, before proceedings at law, we are unable to see. It seems to us, that it would be as hopeless an undertaking to make one comprehend the former, without a previous knowledge of the latter, as it would be to explain the law of pleas in abatement, before treating of the subject of actions in general. We have been much pleased with the liberal and enlightened views which manifest themselves on every page of this well written production.

7-Entwurf eines Strafgesetzbuchs für das Grossherzogthum Hessen. Uebergelegen an die zweite Kammer der Stände des Grossherzogthums Hessen. Darmstadt, April 22, 1839.

This project is an additional example of the demand for legislative labors, for the improvement of the criminal law, in the states of Germany. It is divided into two parts, a general and a particular part, and consists of sixty-eight titles and four hundred and forty-eight articles; and was prepared in pursuance of an ordinance of June 30, 1836. It is accompanied by a short exposition, drawn up by the ministerial counsellor, Dr. Breidenbach.

8.-The Attorney General's Annual Report, 1840.

In pursuance of the statute of 1839, ch. 157, the attorney general of Massachusetts has considerably enlarged and improved

his report of the present year, by the addition of a great number of new facts connected with the perpetration and punishment of crimes. An increased attention to what is called the statistics of crime, whether on the part of the government or its officers, is gratifying; and will, it is to be hoped, contribute some day to bring about those improvements in the criminal law and its application, which are now but little more than hoped for; albeit the contempt expressed by the author of "Chartism," for "Statistic Science," be not wholly unfounded.

9.-Reports of Cases in Chancery, argued and determined in the Court of Appeals and Court of Errors, of South Carolina, from December, 1838, to May, 1839, both inclusive. By WILLIAM RICE, State Reporter. Charleston: Printed by Burges & James, 1839.

In our last number we noticed Mr. Rice's first volume of law reports, and then took occasion to quote that part of his preface, in which the present judicial organization of the state of South Carolina is described. The volume before us contains the equity cases, both in the court of appeals, and in the court of errors, for the period mentioned in its title. The duties of the reporter, in the preparation and publication of the equity cases, are the same as those which are required of him in regard to the cases at law. He is to publish only the decisions, and not the arguments of counsel. And he is required by law to do this within a year from the time when the decisions are pronounced. Understanding this requisition as Mr. Rice does, and publishing his cases in volumes instead of numbers, the practical operation of the provision is, that he is obliged to publish some of the cases, within six months of the time of their decision. This circumstance is alluded to by Mr. Rice, in his preface to the present volume, with the remark, that if the requisition applied only to "the publication of either the law or equity reports, separately and exclusively, it is believed that this period would afford little time enough to enable the reporter to bestow that carefulness and diligence in the performance of his duties, which their importance, as well as a

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