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Art.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXI.

APRIL AND JULY, 1839.

NO. XLI.

I.-LAW OF CONTRACTS. No. 3. Of the Parties.

II.—THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE Law of Equity.

III.-LIEBER'S POLITICAL ETHICS. Manual of

Political

Ethics, designed chiefly for the Use of Colleges and

Students at Law. Part I. By FRANCIS LIEBER.

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838.

IV. CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LAWS OF MODERN STATES. Col-

lection des Lois civiles et criminelles des Etats mo-

dernes, publiée sous la direction de M. VICTOR FOU-

CHER, avocat-general du Roi, près la Cour Royale de

Rennes. Rennes et Paris.

Page.

1

30

40

V.—BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THOMAS DANFORTH.

VI.-HISTORY, NATURE, AND INCIDENTS OF FELONY AND

BENEFIT OF CLERGY.

80

VII.-PROJECT OF A PENAL CODE FOR INDIA. A Penal Code

prepared by the Indian Law Commissioners, and pub-

lished by command of the Governor General of India

in Council. Calcutta: printed at the Bengal Military

Orphan Press, by G. H. Huttman, 1837.

VIII.-CURTIS'S ADMIRALTY DIGEST. A Digest of Cases ad-

judicated in the Courts of Admiralty of the United

States and in the High Court of Admiralty in Eng-

103

Art.

land; together with some topics from the Works of

Sir Leoline Jenkins, Knt., Judge of the Admiralty in

the Reign of Charles II. By GEORGE TICKNOR CUR-

TIS, of the Suffolk Bar. 8vo.

pp. 568. Little &

Page.

Brown, Boston, 1839.

111

IX.-ON THE VALIDITY OF AN INSURANCE IN CONTRAVENTION

1.-Sedgwick on the New York Court of Chancery.

233

9.-Law Case: Doe demise of Hickey v. Eggleston.

214

I.-LAW OF CONTRACTS. No. 4. Of the Consideration.

II.—PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE CRIMINAL LAW COMMIS-

SIONERS OF MASSACHUSETTS.

III.-SKETCHES OF ENGLISh Judges.

No. 2.

258

286

340

352

IV. CODIFICATION AND REFORM OF THE LAW.-No. 7.

V.-LIFE OF LORD STOWEL.

VI. LIEBER'S HERMENEUTICS. Legal and Political Her-

meneutics, or Principles of Interpretation and Con-

struction in Law and Politics, with Remarks on Pre-

cedents and Authorities. Enlarged edition. By

FRANCIS LIEBER. Boston: Charles C. Little and

James Brown, 1839. 12mo. pp. 248.

372

388

389

408

449

Massachusetts.

Indiana.

Delaware.

South Carolina.

CRITICAL NOTICES.

1.-Pothier's Treatise on the Contract of Sale.

2.-Letters on the First Charter.

3.-Laws of Mississippi. .

450

453

453

454

455

459

461

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4.-Revised Statutes of the State of Indiana.

5.-Thacher's (J. S. B.) Charge.

462

463

6. Revised Statutes of the State of Michigan.

7.-Monthly Law Magazine and Political Review.

464

466

8.-Archives of Civil Practice.

467

9.-Mittermaier on the Excuse of Insanity.

468

10.-Hilliard's Abridgment of the American Law of Real

11.-Rand's Edition of Long on Sales of Personal Pro-

perty.

471

12.-Term Reports in the English Courts of Common Law. 474

13.—Critical Journal of Foreign Jurisprudence and Legis-

lation.

475