lawyers to whom the Emperor gave authority to interpret the law, and to give answer to such as in matter of law demanded their advice: which answers the judges, in giving judgment, were obliged by the Constitutions of the Emperor to observe; and should be like the reports of cases judged, if other judges be by the law of England bound to observe them; for the judges of the common law of England are not properly judges, but jurisconsults, of whom the judges, who are either the Lords or twelve men of the county, are, in point of law, to ask advice.”—Hobbes, Leviathan, Book ii. 26.

NOTE C, Page 21.

See this proved, as to Ireland, in the North British Review, November, 1849.-North British Review, vol. xii. p. 44, &c.

NOTE D, Page 32.

In a lecture lately delivered by Professor Otway, at the King's Inns, he traces the history of the Civil Law in England. In his masterly sketch he attributes its chief effect on our laws to an indirect and unacknowledged influence. "Our lawyers professed to glory in their ignorance of its principles and its terms. But the leaven had worked, and its effects could not be detached from that with which it had naturally and most controllingly assimilated.”—Professor Otway's second Lecture.

NOTE E, Page 34.

See Institutes, ii., 4. See Gilbert's Law of Uses, page 3; and compare Bacon's Reading on the Statute of Uses, Rowe's Edition; and see Rowe's Note.

NOTE F, Page 41.

The other chair of Law, at Belfast, is filled by Mr. Hancock, the Whately Professor of Political Economy in Dublin University.

THE END.