A.

Acts of Parliament, private, 1-5.
Acts of Parliament, difficulty of inter-
pretation of explained, 262-remedy,

262.

Affidavits, inconvenient mode of swear-
ing, 184.
Alien, 3, 4.

Amendment of the law not opposed by
the profession, 432.

America, practice in, as to proof of
handwriting, 294, 300.
Ancients, universities of the, 45.
Assignees of bankrupts selling under
special conditions of sale, 84.
Assignment of lease under special con-
ditions of sale, 84.

Attorney. See Solicitor-Lien.
Auction. See Conditions of Sale.

B.

Bankrupt laws, Lord Eldon's opinion
of them, 278.

Bastardy, 144.

Biddings at auction, 86.

Bills, Government, how prepared, 261
-should be confided to a board and
superintended by minister of justice,

262.

Blair, Lord President, Memoir of, 341
-birth and education, 342-ap-
pointed Solicitor-General of Scot-
land, 344 refusal of the office of
Justice Clerk, 344-appointed Lord
President, 346-his death, 346-
private character, 347-character at
the Bar, and on the Bench, 347.
Board of Trade, 1-to report to Par-
liament on railway schemes, 17-
constitution of the Board, 19—its
functions, 20-open to abuse, 25.
Brougham, Lord, his letter to Sir
Samuel Romilly on Charitable
Trusts, 197-his speech on Law
Reform, 405, 416-his speech of
7th February, 1828, 434- Bills in-

Camden, Lord Chancellor, correspond.
ence with the Duke of Grafton, 308.
312. 314.

Canterbury, Viscount, notice of his
death, 501.

Catherwood v. Caslon, 136. 161.
Chancellor, Lord, 259-his functions,
both administrative and judicial, 246.
248-evils of this union, 248-le-
gal patronage, 252.
Chancellor, Lord, (Lyndhurst), Bill
introduced by him to amend the law
of real property, 413-support given
by him to the bills for amending the
law of real property, 434.
Chancery, Court of, practice in, how
improved by Lord Eldon, 281.
Chancery, Court of, (Ireland), Lord
Chancellor Sugden's new Code of
Orders, 181-189.

Charitable trusts, 190- Statutes of
Elizabeth, 191 Commissioners
of Charitable Uses, 192- Charity

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informations by the Attorney-Ge-
neral, 193- Gilbert's Parliamentary
Returns, 195-Sir Samuel Romilly's
Act, 195- the Education Commit-
tee, 196-Commissions of Inquiry,
196-199― Lord Brougham's Let-
ter to Sir Samuel Romilly, 197 —
Grammar Schools' Act, 200— Mr.
Hine's opinion on Charitable Trusts,
200- Bill introduced by Govern-
ment for establishing a permanent
board, 202.

Chatham, Earl of, Letter to Duke of
Grafton, 305.

Chief Justice of the King's Bench
should not be a commoner, 259.
Commutation of heriots, 273.
Company's Clauses Consolidation Act,
68. 365.

Compurgators, 389.

Conditions of sale, the law relating to,
81-special conditions of sale, 81

leaning of Courts of Equity, 83-
assignees of bankrupts, 84-assign-
ment of lease, 84-sale by trustee,
84-three classes of conditions of
sale, 86-conditions preliminary, 86
-biddings, 86-written contract,
87-conditions concurrent, 88-re-
strictive, 88-recitals in title deeds,
88-production of deeds and other
documents, 90-purchaser not bound
to accept a defective title, 90-ob-
jections to title, 93-conditions re-
medial, 96-recissory, 96-delivery
of imperfect abstract, 103-condi-
tions compensatory, 107 — errors, 108
- misdescriptions, 109-conditions
posterior, 112.

Construction of written documents rests
with the judge, 41-when the wri-
ting forms the subject of an indict-
ment or an action on the case, it rests
with the jury, 43.

Contract, written, signed by purchaser
of lands at auction, 87.
Conveyance of real property, Act to

facilitate the, 405. 417.
Conveyancing reform, 405-public
opinion as to length of deeds, 406-
Report on the plans for shortening
legal instruments, presented to the
Law Amendment Society, 407-
Lease for a Year Act, 407-advan-
tages of abridgment of forms, 412--
advantages of present forms, 412—
Act to simplify the transfer of pro-
perty, 413- Act to amend the law
of real property, 413- Lord Broug-
ham's speech on law reform, 416-
Act to facilitate the conveyance of
real property, 417- Act to facilitate

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the granting of certain leases, 424.
advantages of the Acts, 430—remu-
neration for short forms, 431-the
profession not opposed to amendment
of the law, 432.

Copyhold Enfranchisement and Com-
mutation Act, 274.

Costs, lien of solicitor for, 318.
Cranstoun, Mr. (afterwards Lord Core-
house), 345.

Crown, the, has the sole right to issue
a peer's summons, 10.
Counsel, speeches of, before private
bill committees, 68-Dr. Johnson's
advice to counsel on addressing the
House of Commons, 69.
County Court, 373, 389.

D.

Dalrymple v. Dalrymple, 136, 158.
Deeds, title, production of, 90.
Degradation in the Universities, power
of, 45.

Degree, academical, 45.

Dissenters, marriages of, 150, 153.
Divorce, 3, 4. 9-contemplated transfer
of jurisdiction to the Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council, 10-
Select Committee of the House of
Commons on divorce bills, 59.
Documentary Evidence Act, 432.
Documents, written, interpreted by the
judge, 41-by the jury, 43.

E.

Ecclesiastical courts, history of their
jurisdiction of marriage, 139-ex-
clusive jurisdiction on the validity of
marriage de jure, 142— practice as
to proof of handwriting, 294.
Eldon, Lord, as a law reformer, 276—
his reported judgments, 277—his
opinion of the bankrupt laws, 278—
trustees, 279-jury in civil cases
originated by him, 280-his opinion
as to the amendment of the law of real
property, 281-improved practice in
the Court of Chancery, 281-in-
junctions rare before his time, 282.
Election committees of the House of
Commons, 7.

Elections, contested, should be decided
by a court of law, 8.
Elizabeth, statutes of, 191.
Enfranchisement from heriots, 274-
terms suggested by the copyhold
commissioners, 274-terms adopted
under the Copyhold Act, 275.
Equity, chief judge in, 259.
Equity procedure, English, compared
with Irish, 181.