practice in the state courts is exceedingly diversified, and is undergoing constant changes. That of New-York in particular has been essentially altered by the late revision of the statute law; and the science of special pleading, (curious, logical, and masterly as it is,) has fallen into very considerable disuse and neglect in almost every part of the country, without the prospect, or perhaps the hopes of revival. The general principles of equity have also been stated in the course of the work, so far as they were applicable to the various subjects which came successively under review; but, for the reasons already mentioned, in reference to suits at law, I have not undertaken to meddle with the remedial branch of equity jurisprudence. The law of crimes and punishments is, no doubt, a very important part of our legal system, but this is a code that rests in each state upon an exact knowledge of local law; and, since the institution of the penitentiary system, and the almost total abolition of corporal punishment, it has become quite simple in its principles, and concise and uniform in its details. Our criminal codes bear no kind of comparison with the complex and appalling catalogue of crimes and punishments, which, in England, constitutes the basis of the system of the pleas of the crown.

I trust I have already sufficiently discharged my engagements with the public, and I now respectfully submit these volumes to the candour of the profession, though not without being conscious of the imperfection of the plan, and still more so of the manner of the execution.

THE END.

INDEX.

N. B.-The Roman numerals refer to the volume, and the
figures to the page.

i. 295. Bailment, locatio operis, u. 457.

Appellate jurisdiction,
Supreme Court U. S. 303. 305.
Appendant of common, iii. 323.
Appointment under a power, iv.

340.

to offices, U. S., i.

268.

Appointor of a power, iv. 310.
Appointee of a power, iv. 310.
Apportionment of rent, iii. 374.
377.
of representation
in Congress, i. 216.
Apprentices, ii. 211-214.
Appurtenant of common, iii. 324.
Aquatic rights, iii. 344.
Armed neutrality, i. 118. 120.
Articles of confederation, i.

Assets in futuro, iv. 350.

463.

carriers, ii. 464.
Bank, U. S. i. 253–239.
not taxable, i. 398.
Bankruptcy, ii. 356.
Bankrupt laws, ii. 321, 322.
Banks of rivers, iii. 330. 342. 345.
Bargain and sale, iv. 237, 483.
Barratry, iii. 252.
Bastards, ii. 173-179. iv. 409.

putative father, ii. 178.
[See N. Y. Revised Laws, vol.
i. 640-656.]
Benefices, iii. 395.
Biddings at mortgage sales, iv.
184, 185.
Bill of lading, ii. 433.iii. 162.
Bills. their history, iii. 43.

192-Bigamy, ii. 4-8.

203.

marshalled, iv. 416.
Assignee of covenants, iv. 450.
Assignment by insolvents, ii. 420.
- of a policy, iii. 209.
of dower, iv. 62.
of breaches on cove-
nants, iv. 466.

Assistance to other nations, i. 24.
Attachment of property, ii. 327.
Attendant terms, iv. 86-94.
Attorney General, U. S. i. 287.
Attorneys, U. S. i. 286.
Attorney's lien, ii. 502.
Average, general or gross, iii. 185.
-jettison, iii. 185.

wages and provisions, iii,

187-190.

losses by necessity, iii.

190.

essential qualities, iii. 46.
rights of holder, iii. 51.
consideration, iii. 52. 61.
acceptance, iii. 54. 57.
endorsement, iii. 58.
demand and protest, in. 63.
place of demand, iiì. 66.
days of grace, iii. 69.
notice of non-payment, iii.

72-76.

notice waived, iii. 76.
giving time, iii. 77.
measure of damages, iii. 80.
Bills of right, ii. 4—8.
Bill of sale of a ship, iii. 94.

grand bill of sale, iii.

96.

recital of the register,
iii. 109.

Colonial trade of the enemy, i. Conflictus legum, ii. 93.