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The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy, as founded on the recent statutes. By J. F. Archbold. Eighth edition. By John Flather. The Rise and Progress of the Laws of England and Wales; with an account of the Origin, History, and Customs,-Warlike, Domestic, and Legal,-of the several nations,-Britons, Saxons, Danes, and Normans,-who now compose the British Nation. By Owen Flintoff.

An Introduction to Conveyancing, and the History, Nature, Incidents, and Titles of Legal Estates. By Owen Flintoff.

The Law of Real Property, with the Statutes relating thereto, down to the present time. Vol. 2. By Owen Flintoff.

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.

UNITED STATES.

Theory of Legislation: by Jeremy Bentham. Translated from the French of Etienne Dumont, by R. Hildreth, author of "Banks, Banking, and Paper Currencies," "Despotism in America," "Archy Moore," &c. 2 Volumes. 12mo. Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co. 1840.

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. two volumes. Charleston: Burges and James, 1838 & 1839.

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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.

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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: Burges and James, 1839.

Machiavel's Political Discourses upon the first Decade of Livy. Interspersed with various reflections. Louisville: Prentice and Weissenger, 1840.

[An interesting tract, originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger, by Robert Wickliffe, jr., of Louisville, Ky.]

A memoir of Willian Rawle, L.L.D., President of the Historical Society, &c. By T. J. Wharton, Esq. Read at a meeting of the Council, held on the 22d day of February, 1837, and printed by order of the Society. With a letter from Peter Stephen Duponceau, Esq., to the author, containing his recollections of Mr. Rawle's life and character. Philadelphia, 1840.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature, and in the Court for the Correction of Errors of the State of New York. By John L. Wendell, Counsellor at Law. Volumes XX and XXI. Albany: Wm. & A. Gould & Co., 1840. A Treatise on the Common Law in relation to Water Courses. By Joseph K. Angell. Second Edition, much enlarged. Boston: Little & Brown, 1840.

The Practice of Courts Martial. By Alexander Macomb, majorgeneral of the army of the United States. New York: Samuel Colman, 1840.

Condensed Reports of Cases decided in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland. Edited by E. D. Ingraham, Esq., Counsellor at Law. Vol. XII. Containing the Cases decided by sir Anthony Hart, Lord Chancellor; and sir William M'Mahon, Master of the Rolls. Philadelphia: Grigg & Eliot, 1840.

A Compendious View of the Civil Law, and of the Law of the Admiralty. By Arthur Browne. First American from the second London edition, with great additions. In two volumes. New York: Halsted & Voorhies, 1840.

Reports of Select Cases decided in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, during the Spring term of the year 1839. By James G. Dana. Volume VIII. Frankfort, Ky.: Printed for the Reporter, 1840.

The Papers of James Madison, purchased by order of Congress; being his Correspondence and Reports of Debates during the Congress of the Confederation and his Reports of Debates in the Federal Convention; now published from the original manuscripts, deposited in the department of state, by direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, under the superintendence of Henry D. Gilpin. In three volumes. Washington: Langtree & O'Sullivan, 1840.

IN PRESS.

Commentaries on Equity Pleadings. By Joseph Story. 21 Edition, with additions.

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Page 480, line 14, for "latent" read "patent."

INDEX.

American Law Periodicals, 135–137.
American Reports, Digests of, 128–134.

Byfield, Nathaniel, Biographical Sketch of, 64-69.

Chase, Judge, Anecdote of, 492.

Circumstantial Evidence, Case of, 489.

Contracts, Law of, 1-23; 257-290; unlawful, 1; construction of, 257.
Critical Notices :-Attorney General's Report, 477; Carey's Lecture, 476; -
Combe's Moral Philosophy, 476; Commercial Code of Holland, 480; Crim-
inal Code (project) for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, 477;, Criminal Code
(project) for Berne, 482; Destrais on Revendication, 481; Engelmann's
Bibliotheca Juridica, 479; Judicial Chronicle, 245; Jurist Reports, 247;
Lieber's Political Ethics, 467; Lubé's Equity Pleading, 246; Metcalf &
Perkins's Digest, 246; Peters's Digest, 243; Phillipps & Amos's Law of
Evidence, 247; Revised Statutes of Arkansas, 475; Rice's Digests, 474;
Rice's Equity Reports, 478; Rocco's authority of the laws of the kingdom
of the Two Sicilies in foreign countries, 482.

Drunkenness, Effect of, on Criminal Responsibility, 290–332.

Erskine, Anecdotes of, 492.

Fualdes, Assassins of, Trial of, 95-128.

Gillespie and others v. Forsyth and others, Case of, 221-235.

Hull of a New Brig, Case of, 453-461.

International Law, Private, 73–94.

Lawyers, Fitness of for Legislation, 491.

Legislation :—of Alabama, 465; Georgia, 464; Illinois, 462; Massachusetts,
463; Michigan, 237; Rhode Island, 462; South Carolina, 465; Virginia,

236.

Light, Enjoyment and Use of, Legal rules regulating, 46–64.

Marks or Signs of Merchants and Traders, Piracy of, 138-146.

Metcalf, Theron, Testimony of Respect to, 484.

Mistakes of Law, 146-166; 371-412.

Mittermaier's German Criminal Procedure, 254.

Narrow Escape, 492.

Seamen, Obedience of to the Master of a Vessel, 70-73.

Slave-holding States, and Owners of Slaves, Rights of, 23-46, 338–366.
Stuart, Andrew, Obituary Notice of, 248-254.

Winslow, John, Biographical Sketch of, 366–370.

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