The influence of journals and monthly publications, in the republic of letters, has of late increased in an extraordinary degree over the whole of Europe. All departments of science have called in their aid for the more easy dispersion of knowledge: the curiosity of the public follows them with avidity the learned are enabled by their means to communicate at a remote distance with their compeers in science; the studious youth rereives through them ready and general instruction in the most convenient form; the indolent find in them the amusement of their leisure, and the means of gratifying their passion for novelty. In such a state of letters, it is hoped, that there is nothing to prevent those classes of the profession, to whom such information may be useful, from calling in also the assistance of a Journal, to extend professional knowledge, and keep alive that ardent spirit of inquiry which can alone be productive of solid ́improvement. To prevent, therefore, the ill effects which may follow from the misguided attempts which might be inade by the designing or the ignoraut, the Editors have endeavoured to establish the present work, which embraces many objects of real utility. With that assistance which the leisure of many friends will enable them to supply, they hope to merit the approbation of their fellows; but at all times it will be their earnest endeavour not to sacrifice for their own interest that of the public: Their carly habits have made them acquainted with the excellencies of the British Constitution, which they hold in lasting veneration; they feel too much the importance of high rank and office, to permit them to be insidiously defamed through their means, and they have too much respect for the profession to suffer themselves ever to be diverted from the real object which they have proposed in their undertaking. This object is, the collecting of legal antiquities, legal curiosities, and legal essays, as a matter of science merely. CONTENTS. ACCOUNT OF NEW LAW BOOKS. I. Notes of Opinions and Judgments by Sir J. E. II. A compendious Law Dictionary by Thoma III. The Practice of the Commissioners, Assessors, relating to the assessed Taxes. By T. W. V. The present Practice and Costs of the High Court of Chancery, by Robert Hind Venables, VI. Hora, Juridica, Subseciva, by Charles Butler, &c. IX. Burn's Digested Index to the Modern Reports of the Courts of Common Law, previous to the Commencement of the Term Reports 14 III. Reply to Studens on the Subject of the Statute IV. Questions arising from the Act of the 43 Geo. III. c. 46, enabling Persons to deposit Mo- ney in the lands of the Sheriff in lieu of V. On the due Execution of Wills of Copyhold VI. Error in the Queries proposed by B. in No. 10 of the Law Journal, corrected by himself with additional Observations VII. On the difficulty attending the Proof of Pedi- grees arising from Irregularities in the Mode of keeping Registers, &c. VIII. Whether a good Title can be made to a Purchaser of a freehold Estate, by a leme-covert who IX. Q. What is the most advisable Mode of convey- ance where Title-deeds are lost XI. Of Thomas Lord Coventry, from an original MS. by a Cotemporary XIII. Original Readings on the Stat. of Magna Charta and other Statutes relating to the Liberty of the Subject, by Francis Ashley, XV. On the same Subject by Studens in answer to XVI. Copy of Mir. B.'s further opinion on a question whether the Power of seiling and exchanging XVII. Copy of Mr. H.'s opinion XVIII. On the Power of Commissioners, by Bargain and Sale, over Bankrupt's Estate Tail XIX. Whether a Bankrupt's Certificate divests the covery XXI. Legal Biography, No. 2-Life of Sir John Holt, XXII. Original Manuscript of Sir Edw. Coke's Com- - |