BY WM. MAXWELL, (LATE ALEXANDER MAXWELL AND SON,)

32, BELL YARD, LINCOLN'S INN.

SOLD BY SHERWOOD AND CO., PATERNOSTER ROW;

ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH;

AND HODGES AND SMITH, DUBLIN.

1851.

RECENT DECISIONS IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS,
See Digest and Names of Cases, p. 506.
Equity Reform :

NEW STATUTES.

Protection of Apprentices and Servants, 76
Sale of Arsenic Regulation, 135
Prevention of Offences, 253

Landlord and Tenant-Emblements, 276
Law of Evidence Amendment, 291
Arrest of Absconding Debtors, $12
Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 331

Registration of Compound Householders, 353
Criminal Justice Improvement, 371

Administration of Justice in Chancery-Lords
Justices of Appeal, &c., 391

Expenses of Prosecutions, 414

Regulation of Attorneys and Solicitors, 430

Parliamentary Franchise, 455

Inhabited House Duty, 472

Trial of Issues-Examination of Witnesses, 63
County Court Equitable Jurisdiction, 94
Assistance of Solicitors, 196

Business despatched by Sir John Leach, 196
Decree for taking an account in 1579, 196
Taxing Master's Salary and Compensation, 198
Masters' jurisdiction, 232

Objections of Vice-Chancellor Turner, 432
Interests of Married Women, 320

Proposed Judicial and Official Alterations, 369
Examining Witnesses vivá voce, 389
Progress of Commissioners, 422

Comparative number of bills and claims, 474
Recent Improvements and Remedies, 497
Suggested Improvements in Procedure, 312

Copy hold, Tythe, Inclosure Commissions, 494 Common Law Reform
Local Acts, 496

LIST OF STATUTES RELATING TO THE LAW, 279
PROGRESS OF BILLS IN PARLIAMENT, passim
NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THE NEXT SESSION, 300
NEW MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, 10, 29, 98, 141,
180, 260, 280, 321, 482

PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS & RETURNS.
Law of Divorce, 80

NEW BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.
Copyhold Enfranchisement, No. 2, 45
Arrest of Absconding Debtors, 57
Charitable Institutions' Notices, 94
Sequestration of Benefices for Debt, 60
Charitable Trusts, 113, 153, 171, 194, 232, 250
Chancery Administration Improvement, 129,

153

Special Juries delay, 49

Delays in the Trial of Actions, 156
Rule to Plead-Demand of Plea, 179
First Report of Commissioners, 209
Recommendations, 211, 234, 255:
Plea of Infancy, 240

Forfeiture of Leaseholds, 240

Conveyancing Reform-Registration of Assurances:
Petition of Incorporated Law Society, 213
Petition of Solicitors at Birmingham, 113
Kent Law Society, 60

Meeting of Solicitors at Lincoln, 111
Manchester Petition, 24
Northamptonshire Petition, 25

Meeting at Wakefield-Mr. Shaw's Speech, 41
Petition from Worcester, 153

Address of Solicitors of West Riding, 5
Petition of Landed Proprietors, 94
Duty of Solicitors-Meeting in 1834, 93
The Lord Chancellor and the Bill, 73
Lord Campbell and the Country Solicitors, 75
Progress of the Bill, 151, 231
Report of Select Committee, 60
Amended Bill, 75, 91, 232
Observations, 359

Local and Metropolitan Registry compared, 133
Candidates for Office of Deputy Registrar, 24
Oliver Cromwell's plan, 377

Expense of Registering Deeds, 28
Registration of Mortgages, 476

Judgments affecting Land, 197

COUNTY COURTS.

Treasurers of, 23

Concurrent jurisdiction of Superior Courts, 27
Unfitness to decide suits in Equity, 29