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MR. SERJEANT STEPHEN'S NEW COMMENTARIES ON THE
LAWS OF ENGLAND.-THIRD EDITION.
Just published, 4 vols. 8vo., 47. 48. cloth, (dedicated, by permission, to
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AW PARTNERSHIP.-A SOLICITOR, admitted in 1853, having a small but respectable Practice in the City, is desirons of joining a Gentleman of longer standing, as WORKING PARTNER, upon payment of a moderate premium. Address, stating amount of premium required, and full particulars, to A. B., Ladd's, NEW COMMENTARIES on the LAWS of ENGLAND, Post-office, Harrow road. Principals only will be treated with.

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VOL. I.-NEW SERIES.

in which are interwoven, under a new and original arrangement of the general subject, all such parts of the WORK of BLACKSTONE as are applicable to the present times. Together with full but compendious Expositions of the Modern Improvements of the Law up to the latest period, the original and adopted materials being throughout the work typographically distinguished from each other. By HENRY JOHN STEPHEN, Serjeant at Law. Third Edition. Prepared for the press by JAMES STEPHEN, of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, and Professor of English Law, &c. at King's College, London. From the Law Magazine.-"We have long regarded this as the most valuable law-book extant. We make no exception. We believe, moreover, the labour saved to the student by this work to be invaluable. Nor are we sure that any amount of labour could give him the same comprehensive insight to the science he is about to enter upon. It is the grammar of the law. It is sheer nonsense to talk of the worth of should read him now would have to unread half the work contains, and Blackstone now-a-days. We undertake to say that the student who Blackstone knew. This results not merely from the changes which add as much more to his information when he had exhausted all that have since taken place, but from the diffuse and often verbose style in which Blackstone wrote his very faulty work, which it has been the fashion of a comparatively illiterate age to laud and extol. We venture to suggest to Serjeant Stephen to discard Blackstone altogether, and to rewrite the passages he has modestly but injudiciously interpolated in great care taken by Mr. James Stephen, to whom much credit is due his own infinitely superior composition. We may here allude to the for the intelligent zeal and diligence he has evinced in preparing this edition of Stephen's Commentaries for the press."

From the Legal Observer.-" We welcome a new and third edition of Mr. Serjeant Stephen's Commentaries on the Laws of England, founded on the text of Blackstone. In this edition the learned author has been ably assisted by his son, Mr. James Stephen. They have, with great diligence and accuracy, digested the chief alterations in the quiring no ordinary knowledge of the law as it was and as it is, with an law since the last edition of the work-a task of great difficulty, reextraordinary power of condensing and arranging the changes which year to year. The arduous task of this new edition has been ably performed. We know not any work which, taken as a whole, can be compared with the Commentaries as the first introduction to the study of the laws of England, whether for the use of the lawyer, the legislator, or the private gentleman."

have been effected in nearly all departments of our judicial system from

From the Justice of the Peace.-"To speak in terms of approbation of a work on which the fiat of public opinion has so unmistakeably set its stamp would be altogether an act of supererogation. Every one knows that the last four or five years have been a stirring time in the way of legal reform. He will therefore be quite prepared to learn that the present edition of the New Commentaries bears the mark of alteration, either in text or note, in almost every chapter throughout the work, if not in every page. We honestly and heartily advise him to turn to the work itself, and he will find that it not only contains the latest information upon almost every subject he may require to be informed upon, but that as in former editions, so in this, whatever is handled is treated in that perspicuous and scientific manner which has hitherto contributed to extend the reputation of the New Commentaries."

From the Law Times.-"Assuming that all prudent practitioners and students will wash their hands of the past, and begin to form small practical libraries entirely of the recent law, they could not find a better foundation than this third and new edition of Serjeant Stephen's Commentaries, which has been moulded throughout to the present state of the law, and comprises all the recent alterations. Every lawyer knows the worth of this famous work as it came from the hands of its author; we can assure them that it has lost none of its value in the hands of his son, who has performed his laborious task of editing all, and rewriting much, with the same care, the same industry, the same mastery of the principles of our law, and in the same clear and graceful style, that recommended the compositions of his father to popularity, even more than the fulness of learning, without its parade, that distinguishes these Commentaries. We heartily recommend these Commentaries as beyond measure the best book that has ever appeared to form a foundation for the study of the law of England."

QUESTIONS ON STEPHEN'S NEW COMMENTARIES. Also, just published, 8vo., 10s. 6d. cloth, QUESTIONS for LAW STUDENTS on the THIRD EDITION of Mr. SERJEANT STEPHEN'S NEW COMMEN TARIES on the LAWS of ENGLAND. By JAMES STEPHEN of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, and Professor of English Law, &c. at King's College, London.

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IN a recent case in the Court of Bankruptcy* it appeared that the bankrupts, who were auctioneers, had speculated with deposits received by them in the way of their business, and the presiding commissioner is reported to have said, that, in strictness, auctioneers had no right to speculate with deposits intrusted to their care, but that a contrary opinion prevailed throughout the mercantile community. We believe that the learned commissioner was in error as to the prevalence of any such opinion, and that the community to whom it was attributed were as much surprised as any one else to hear that deposits had thus been dealt

with.

We are confirmed in this view by a letter recently published in "The Times," bearing the signature of a respectable firm of auctioneers, stating that "it is not customary for auctioneers to speculate with deposits. . . . The only advantage derived by an auctioneer from a deposit is such interest as a banker will allow upon a deposit account; and as the money is held for a short and uncertain time only, such interest is never more than commensurate with the trouble and risk attending the deposit."

This is the proper and only use to which deposits

*Re Messrs. Shuttleworth, Dec. 18, 1854, before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.

should be applied while they remain in the hands of auctioneers, who are in the position of stakeholders or depositaries in respect of such funds. The deposit paid by the purchaser on a sale by auction is held by the auctioneer for both vendor and purchaser, and he ought not to part with it (except by the consent of both parties) until default has been made by one or the other, which may authorise the return or payment over of the money, or until the purchase has been completed, in which case it is handed over to the vendor as part of the purchase money.

The following observations and decisions relating to the law of deposits paid on sales by auction are taken from Sugden's Concise View of Vendors and Purchasers, (c. 1, s. 3), and are well worthy of perusal both by auctioneers and that large class of the public who frequent the auction mart:

"Where the auctioneer was also the attorney of the seller, and paid over the money to the seller after he knew that objections to the title had been raised, an action against him for the deposit was sustained. In a later case, where the auctioneer had paid over the deposit to the vendor, without any notice from the purchaser not to do so, and before any defect of title was discovered, it was held that the purchaser | (the title being defective) might recover the deposit from the auctioneer. If a good title is not made out, the purchaser becomes entitled to his deposit; and, in strictness, an action may be maintained for it without giving notice of the default to the auctioneer. But if a purchaser has agreed that the payment to an agent shall be considered as a payment personally to the vendor, his remedy for his deposit will be against the latter. If both the parties claim the deposit, the auctioneer may file a bill of interpleader, and pray for an injunction, which will be granted upon payment into court of the deposit... An auctioneer cannot maintain a bill of interpleader if he insist upon retaining his commission out of the deposit; formerly the same rule applied to the auction duty. If, upon a bill filed for an injunction, the Court order the deposit to be paid into court, it will, it seems, be after deducting the auctioneer's charges and expenses; although, perhaps, this deserves re-consideration, for the purchaser's deposit may not ultimately be the fund out of which those charges are to be paid: but this is done without prejudice to any question as to so much of the deposit as is retained. Under the Interpleader Act, by which authority is given to a Court of law to make such order between the defendant and the plaintiff, as to costs and other matters, as may appear just, the Court has said, that in the first instance, upon application for a rule to interplead, the fund shall bear the costs, and the party in the wrong shall afterwards make up the fund. This operates severely against the right of a purchaser entitled to a return of his deposit. Where 1000l. was paid as a deposit to an auctioneer, according to the conditions of sale, and the vendor opposed two motions by the purchaser for the payment of the deposit into court, and the auctioneer became bankrupt, the loss was holden to fall on the vendor, although the second motion had succeeded, and the day named for payment of the money into court was subsequent to the bankruptcy; and perhaps a loss by the insolvency of the auctioneer will in every case fall on the vendor, who nominates him, and whose agent he properly is*. Executors or trustees selling an estate are not answerable for the loss of the deposit by the insolvency of the auctioneer, if they take proper steps in due time to recover it. Unless an auctioneer disclose the name of his principal at the time of the sale, an action will lie against him for damages on breach of contract. Generally speaking, an auctioneer is not liable for * That is, unless there is a stipulation to the contrary in the conditions of sale, or other contract between the parties.-ED.

interest. An auctioneer, being only an agent, may safely pay over the proceeds of the sale to the seller, his principal, although the latter is, to his knowledge, in embarrassed circumstances. It must be a very special case in which he can set up the jus tertii. Where a man is completely the agent of the vendor, a payment to him is, in law, a payment to the principal; and in an action against the latter for the recovery of the deposit, it is immaterial whether it has actually been paid over to him or not. If, pending a suit for specific performance, a deposit be laid out in the public funds, under the authority of the Court, it will be binding on both vendor and vendee; and if laid out without opposition by the seller, it must be presumed to be with his assent; and in either case he must take the stock as he finds it. If a purchaser is entitled to a return of his deposit, he is not compellable to take the stock in which it may have been invested, unless such investment were under the authority of the Court, or with his assent; and an assent will not be implied against a party because notice was given to him of the investment, to which he made no reply. Therefore, where the deposit is considerable, and it is probable that the purchase may not be completed for a long time, it seems advisable for the parties to enter into an arrangement for the investment of it. As a vendor will not be subject to any loss by the investment of the purchase money in the funds without his assent, so he will not be entitled to any benefit by a rise in the funds, although the purchaser gave him notice of the investment, unless he (the vendor) agreed to be bound by the appropriation. No objection can be made to the whole of the deposit required by the conditions not being paid by the purchaser, if the vendor after the sale agree to accept a less sum. A purchaser has no right to elect to put an end to the agreement by forfeiting the deposit. Although the deposit be forfeited at law, yet equity will in general relieve the purchaser upon his putting the vendor in the same situation as he would have been in had the contract been performed at the time agreed upon. But if a bill by a purchaser for a specific performance is dismissed, the Court cannot order the deposit to be returned, as that would be decreeing relief; although a refusal of the seller may influence the costs. Where the seller files the bill, he submits to the jurisdiction; and although his bill is dismissed, the Court will compel him to repay the deposit, and with interest, where that ought to be paid; but of course not if he be still at liberty to bring an action for breach of contract."

We ought not to take leave of this subject without observing that the trust reposed in auctioneers by paying deposits to them has been but rarely abused; and we can by no means agree with the opinion of those universal "fusionists" who think that attornies ought to be converted into auctioneers. We do not see any necessity for such a change, and, for the sake of attornies as well as for that of auctioneers, we think it ought to be opposed.

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Corruption of Public Men-Veto of the Crown-Toleration Act-Liberty of the Press-Improvements in the Constitution. If these subjects do not fill up the Term, the Reader will proceed to the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.

The works to which the Reader refers will be :Rapin (continued)-Millar's Constitutional History -Somerville's History-Somers' Tracts-Dalrymple's Memoirs- Hardwicke Papers-Statute Book-State Trials-Parliamentary History-Foster's Crown Law. The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History will deliver his Public Lectures at Lincoln's Inn Hall on Wednesday in each week, (the first Lecture to be delivered on the 17th January, 1855), commencing at two P. M. The Reader will receive his Private Classes on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings, at half-past nine, in the Benchers' Reading Room at Lincoln's Inn Hall.

EQUITY.

The Reader on Equity proposes to deliver, during the ensuing Educational Term, a course of Nine Lectures on the Doctrine of the Court of Chancery respecting Trusts in Real and Personal Property, including the subject of Voluntary Conveyances and Assignments; on the Rights of Married Women exclusively recognised by the Court; and on the Jurisdiction under the Sign-manual in Lunacy.

The Reader on Equity will deliver his Public Lectures at Lincoln's Inn Hall on Thursday in each week during the Educational Term, commencing at two o'clock P.M., (the first Lecture to be delivered on the 18th January, 1855). The Reader will receive his Private Classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, from seven to nine o'clock, in the Benchers' Reading Room at Lincoln's Inn Hall.

LAW OF REAL PROPERTY, &c.

The Reader on the Law of Real Property, &c. proposes to deliver, in the ensuing Educational Term, a course of Nine Public Lectures on the following subjects:

1. The Accumulation Act, 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 98Construction of the 2nd section with reference to Portions-Accumulation independent of the statute.

II. Title by Prescription-at Common Law-by stat. 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 71-Rights of Common, Way, and Light; 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 100-Tithes, Moduses, and Exemptions.

III. Title by Non-claim-3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27, s. 29; Church Property-sects. 30, 31; Advowsons-sect. 3; Estates in Possession-sect. 28; Mortgagor and Mortgagee-sects. 3, 5; Estates in Reversion-sect. 16; Savings from Disabilities-sects. 25, 27; Trusts and Equitable Interests-sect. 40; Money charged upon Land; Legacies; Judgments-3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42, s. 3. IV. Title by Descent at Common Law-alterations introduced by 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 106.

V. Assignment of Satisfied Terms-8 & 9 Vict.

c. 112.

The Lectures to be delivered to the Private Classes will comprise the following subjects:-For the Senior Class, the text of Sugden on Powers, c. iii, s. 1, c. 18, will form the basis of the Lectures; and the latest decisions illustrating the principles there laid down will be examined and commented on. In the Junior Class, the subject of the Lectures will be "Remainders," and the text-book, 2 Cruise's Dig., tit. XVI.

The Public Lectures will be delivered at Gray's Inn Hall on Friday in each week, at two P. M., (the first Lecture to be delivered on the 19th January, 1855). The Private Classes will be held in the North Library of Gray's Inn on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, from a quarter to twelve to a quarter to two o'clock.

JURISPRUDENCE AND THE CIVIL LAW.

in the course of the ensuing Educational Term, deliver Nine Public Lectures on the following subjects:

I. On Sovereignty-The Nature, Limits, and Criteria of Territorial Sovereignty-The History of the Conception, and its Importance in Theories of Jurisprudence-On some complex Forms of Sovereignty, with Reference more particularly to the United States of America and to the Germanic Confederation.

II. On the Law of Persons-On some Peculiarities in the Condition of early Societies, and the durable Effects which they have produced on Ancient and Modern Jurisprudence-The Power of the Father, and the Tutelage of Women and Pupils-On the Original Character and Objects of these Institutions, and the Agencies by which they were progressively modified— On Legal Fictions, and their Place in JurisprudenceOn the Prætorian Equity, and the Principles descended from it to Modern Law.

III. On the Law of Things-On the Order and Connexion of the Departments of Law-On the different Classes of Rights, and their relation to each otherOn Universities of Rights, and Universal Successions On Ownership, and its Modifications-On Obligation, Contract, and Delict.

With his Private Class the Reader proposes to discuss the Roman Law of Contracts, Testaments, and Legacies, employing as his text-book the Institutiones Juris Romani Privati of Warnkönig. It is desirable that students should provide themselves with the text of Justinian's Institutes, and of the Commentaries of Gaius; and also, if possible, with the Explication Historique des Instituts of Ortolan, or with the English edition of the Institutes by Sandars. Copies of the entire Corpus Juris will be found in the Lecture Room.

The Public Lectures will be delivered in the Hall of the Middle Temple on Tuesday in each week, at two P. M., (the first Lecture of the course on Tuesday, the 16th January, 1855).

The Private Classes will assemble at the Class-room in Garden-court on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings, from seven to nine o'clock.

COMMON LAW.

The Reader on Common Law proposes to deliver, during the Educational Term, commencing on the 11th January, 1855, a course of Nine Public Lectures on the Law of Contracts, the subjects to be treated in which will be as under:

Lecture I.-Remarks as to Contracts generally-their obligatory force and classification.

Lectures II and III.-Contracts of Record and by Specialty examined-Inquiry as to the Operation of the Doctrine of Merger and of Estoppel.

Lectures IV and V.-Of Contracts between Landlord and Tenant.

Lecture VI.-Of Simple Contracts, written and oral -Analysis of a Simple Contract-the request, the consideration, the promise.

Lecture VII-Of Contracts void on the ground of illegality and of fraud.

Lectures VIII and IX.-The Capacity to contract, how affected by infancy, coverture, mental imbecility, or otherwise.

With his Private Class the Reader on Common Law proposes to discuss the Law of Contracts, according to the plan above indicated. The books to be principally made use of during this Course will be Smith's Lectures on Contracts, Chitty on Contracts, and Woodfall's Landlord and Tenant.

The Lectures on Common Law during the ensuing Educational Term will be delivered, and the Private Classes will meet, in the Hall of the Inner Temple, as under :

The Public Lecture on Monday in each week, at two P.M., (the first Lecture to be delivered on the 15th

The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law will, | January, 1855).

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