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ARCHBOLD'S PRACTICE OF THE QUEEN'S BENCH.-EIGHTH EDITION.

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ARCHBOLD'S PRACTICE of the COURT of QUEEN'S

BENCH in PERSONAL ACTIONS and EJECTMENT. The Eighth Edition. By THOMAS CHITTY, Esq., of the Inner Temple; including the PRACTICE of the COURTS of COMMON PLEAS and EXCHEQUER.

Also, in 1 vol. royal 12mo., price 228. boards, FORMS of PRACTICAL PROCEEDINGS in the COURTS of QUEEN'S BENCH, COMMON PLEAS, and EXCHEQUER of PLEAS. By THOMAS CHITTY, Esq., of the Inner Temple.

S. Sweet, 1, Chancery-lane; and V. and R. Stevens & G. S. Norton, 26 and 39, Bell-yard, Lincoln's Inn.

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The NEW STATUTES relating to INSOLVENCY and BANKRUPTCY, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 116, and 7 & 8 Vict. cc. 70, 96, and 111, and the NEW RULES and ORDERS; intended as a SUPPLEMENT to ARCHBOLD'S BANKRUPT LAW; with Forms, and a copious Index. By JOHN FLATHER, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., Barrister at Law.

ARCHBOLD'S BANKRUPT LAW, BY FLATHER.-TENTH EDITION.

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FACTORS AND BROKERS.

A TREATISE on the LAWS relating to FACTORS and BROKERS; with an Appendix of Statutes, Rules, Orders, and Regulations, &c. By JOHN A. RUSSELL, B.A., of Gray's Inn, Barrister at Law. In 1 vol. 12mo., price 8s. boards.

BURN'S ECCLESIASTICAL LAW.

In 4 thick Vols., 8vo., price 31. 16s. boards, BURN'S ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. The Ninth Edition, corrected, with very considerable Additions, including the Statutes and Cases to the present Time. By ROBERT PHILLIMORE, Advocate in Doctors' Commons, Barrister of the Middle Temple, &c. &c.

Very considerable Additions have been made by the present Editor-several Chapters are entirely new; such, among others, are those on the Legal Status of the Church in Ireland and Scotland, in the Colonies, and in Foreign Dominions-on the Practice of the Courts in Doctors' Commons-on the Ecclesiastical Commissioners-on the Marriage Acts -on Chaplains on the Councils of the Church, &c. Throughout have been added copious Marginal Notes, both to the Old and New Text, and to all the principal Chapters a Table of Contents, with pages of reference to the subject.

SHELFORD ON TITHES.-THIRD EDITION. The ACTS for the COMMUTATION of TITHES in ENGLAND and WALES, with the LAW of TITHES in reference to those Acts, and Directions and Forms as settled by the Commissioners; also the Report as to Special Adjudications, &c., and the Plans. By LEONARD SHELFORD, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. Third Edition, price 16s. boards.

SHELFORD'S LAW OF HIGHWAYS.

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The GENERAL HIGHWAY ACT, 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50, and the subsequent Statutes, with copious Notes on the Law of Highways; also new Forms and General Rules for making and repairing Roads. Second Edition, corrected and enlarged. By LEONARD SHELFORD, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE on the LAW of MORTMAIN and CHARITABLE USES and TRUSTS, with an Appendix of Statutes and Forms. By LEONARD SHELFORD, Esq., Barrister at Law. In 8vo., price 1. 118. 6d. bds.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE on the LAW of MARRIAGE and DIVORCE, and REGISTRATION, as altered by the recent Statutes; containing also the Mode of Proceeding on Divorces in the Ecclesiastical Courts and in Parliament; the Right to the Custody of Children; Voluntary Separation between Husband and Wife; the Husband's Liability to Wife's Debts; and the Conflict between the Laws of England and Scotland respecting Divorce and Legitimacy. With an Appendix of Statutes. By LEONARD SHELFORD, Esq., of the Middle Temple Barrister at Law, price 17. 108. in boards.

VESEY JUN.'S REPORTS IN CHANCERY.-Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, from 29 Geo. 3, 1789, to 56 Geo. 3, 1817. Second Edition. By FRANCIS VESEY, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. In 19 Vols., price 261. 58. boards. VESEY'S DIGESTED INDEX.-A General Digested Table and Index to Vesey Jun.'s Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, commencing in the year 1789, and ending in the year 1817. By F. VESEY, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law' Price 1. 88. boards.

SUPPLEMENT TO VESEY JUN.'S REPORTS.-A Supplement to Vesey Jun.'s Reports of Cases in Chancery, containing Notes, occasionally illustrated by Cases decided by Lords Hardwicke, King, &c., from the MSS. of Mr. Forrester. By J. E. HOVENDEN, Esq., of Gray's Inn. In 2 Vols., price 21. 10s. boards.

CASES on a WIFE'S SEPARATE ESTATE, and EQUITY to a SETTLEMENT out of Property held in Trust for her; viz. Scarborough v. Borman, Tullett v. Armstrong, Dixon v. Dixon, Nedby v. Nedby, Stead v. Nelson, Newlands v. Holmes, and Sturges v. Champneys. With Notices of the earlier Cases. By GEORGE SWEET, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. Price 2s. 6d.

Just published, in 2 vols. royal 12mo., price 17. 18s. boards, the Fifth Edition of

GRANT'S CHANCERY PRACTICE, composed anew,

and according to all the existing Operative Orders of Court, including the last of 8th May, 1845.

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In Six very thick octavo Volumes, price 67. 10s. in strong cloth bds., BURN'S JUSTICE of the PEACE and PARISH OFFICER. The Twenty-ninth Edition, corrected and greatly enlarged, containing the Statutes and Cases to 7 & 8 Vict., inclusive, with a New Collection of Precedents. The Title "Poor" by Mr. Commissioner BERE, of the Exeter District Court of Bankruptcy; the rest of the Work by THOMAS CHITTY, Esq., of the Inner Temple.

On introducing a new and greatly improved edition of an old-estalished book, like "Burn's Justice," to the notice of the Members of the Magistracy and the Legal Profession, the Publishers need only point attention to the claims which it has upon two such large and influential bodies, to ensure a success similar to that which has attended all previous editions. Since the year 1837 (the date of the last edition) a considerable number of important Statutes have been passed; by several of those Statutes the executive power of the Magistrate has been somewhat restricted, and by others extended, while the whole duties of the office have undergone too many changes not to render a New Edition (embodying every Act and decision to the present time) a valuable and necessary addition to the Libraries of Gentlemen engaged in the Local Administration of Justice. The Six Volumes have received a thorough revision; the Forms have been re-modelled, and carefully adapted to the recent changes; several new Titles (created by modern enactments) have been introduced, and great exertions have been made to ensure a correct and full development of the Law as it now stands. The title "Poor," pared by Mr. Commissioner Bere; and his object has been to furnish the which occupies the whole of the Fourth Volume, has again been precases at full length, being satisfied that no compendious abstract, however carefully made, would supply a satisfactory Manual for those who attend the Quarter Sessions. The Marginal Notes and the Index are, however, abridgments of the Cases, so that the general principles of the Law may be ascertained without reading the fuller statement. The great utility of the Work as an authority, presenting the cases in detail, and superseding the Reports themselves, is thereby preserved, at the same time that the necessity of reading the whole is obviated by the fulness of the Marginal Note.

CHITTY'S BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES. In 4 vols. 8vo., price 31. 38. boards, COMMENTARIES of the LAWS of ENGLAND. A New Edition, with copious Notes embracing all the Changes in the Law. The whole of the Text is preserved; such of the Annotations of the late J. CHITTY, Esq., as were considered useful, have been retained; and the Four Volumes have received extensive Additions by the following GentlemensVol. I., by JOHN F. HARGRAVE, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn; Vol. II, by GEORGE SWEET, Esq., of the Inner Temple; Vol. III., by RICHARD COUCH, Esq., of the Middle Temple; Vol. IV., by W. N. WELSBY, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barristers at Law.

HARRISON'S DIGESTED INDEX TO THE COMMON LAW REPORTS.

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HARRISON'S ANALYTICAL DIGEST OF ALL THE RE PORTED CASES determined in the House of Lords, the several Courts of Common Law, in Barc and at Nisi Prius, and the Court of Bankruptcy, from 1756 to 1843; including also the Crown Cases reserved, and a full Selection of Equity Decisions, with the MS. Cases cited in the best Modern Treatises not elsewhere reported. The Third Edition. By R. TARRANT HARRISON, Esq., of the Middle Temple.

WORTHINGTON ON WILLS.-FOURTH EDITION.
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A GENERAL PRECEDENT for WILLS, with copious Practical Notes. By GEORGE WORTHINGTON, Esq. The Fourth Edition, with considerable Additions and Alterations, bringing all the Decisions on the recent Statute of Wills down to the present time.

PALEY ON SUMMARY CONVICTIONS.

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The LAW and PRACTICE of SUMMARY CONVICTIONS on PENAL STATUTES by JUSTICES of the PEACE; including Pro ceedings preliminary and subsequent to Conviction, and on Appeal and Removal. Also, the Responsibility and Indemnity of convicting Magis trates and their Officers. With an Appendix of Practical Forms and Precedents of Convictions. Third Edition. By E. E. DEACON, Esq.,

Barrister at Law.

SHELFORD'S REAL PROPERTY STATUTES.-FOURTH EDITION.
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liam IV. and Victoria; including Prescription, Limitation of Actions,
THE REAL PROPERTY STATUTES passed in the Reigns of Wil-
Abolition of Fines, &c., and Judgments, &c. With copious Notes and
Forms of Deeds. Fourth Edition, corrected and enlarged, with new
Temple, Barrister at Law.
Cases and Statutes. By LEONARD SHELFORD, Esq., of the Middle

The GENERAL HIGHWAY ACT, 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50, with Notes, Turnpike Act. Together with Appendices, containing Statutes and parts Forms, and Index. By J. BATEMAN, Esq., Editor of the General of Statutes referred to in the Act; Alphabetical List of Persons liable to for repairing Roads, issued by the Parliamentary Commissioners of the be rated; Table or Calculation for regulating Team Work; General Rules Holyhead Roads, with Plates. In one Vol. 12mo., price 5s. boards. COLLYER'S LAW OF PARTNERSHIP. Second Edition, greatly enlarged,

A PRACTICAL TREATISE on the LAW of PARTNERSHIP, (including Partnerships in Mines, Joint-Stock Companies, and Ships) with an Appendix of Forms. By JOHN COLLYER, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law.

DANIELL'S CHANCERY PRACTICE.

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THE PRACTICE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY. THE STATUTE LAW relating to RAILWAYS.

By EDMUND ROBERT DANIELL, F.R. S. Second Edition, with several New Chapters, and considerable alterations and additions; adapting the Text to the last General Orders of May, 1845, and the Decisions of the Court up to the time of publication. By T. E. HEADLAM, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law.

"In nothing has Mr. Headlam been more successful than in the plan by which he has adapted the new Practice, occasioned by the New Orders of May, 1845, to the general Practice of the Court. He has in every case incorporated any of the New Orders by which the practice has been varied with the text of the original work, and he has given expositions of the effect, actual and probable, of those Orders, which exhibit much tact and professional acumen."-Law Mag., No. 7, N. S.

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MILLER'S ORDERS IN CHANCERY.-Second Edition.

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THE ORDERS of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, from HILARY TERM, 1800, to MICHAELMAS TERM, 1845, with an Analysis of the Orders; the Statutes relating to Pleading and Practice in

This Work contains all the Statutes at Length, including the Jointstock Companies Registration Act, 7 & 8 Viet. c. 110, with Observations pointing out its Operation on Railway Companies; also the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 8 Vict. c. 16; the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 8 Vict. c. 17; and the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 8 Vict. c. 18; with a complete Analysis of their Contents, and a copious Index. By W. HODGES, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister.

Also preparing for Publication by the same Author,

A PRACTICAL TREATISE on the LAW of RAILWAYS. — CONTENTS:

Procedure of Railway Bills through Parliament.-Standing Orders in Parliament.-Jurisdiction of the Board of Trade: first, by Parliamentary Resolutions; secondly, by the Statute Law.-Registration of Companies under 7 & 8 Vict. c. 110.-Compensation Cases-On Mandamus. On Injunction-Liabilities of Shareholders and Holders of Scrip.-Rating of Railways. Forms of Pleadings-Reports of Railway Committees; and all the Statutes.-Forms of Deeds, &c. S. Sweet, 1, Chancery-lane.

LIABILITIES OF RAILWAY SUBSCRIBERS. This day is published, price 3s. cloth,

that Court, including Sugden's Acts, with Notes of the Decisions upon A TREATISE on the LIABILITIES of a SUBSCRIBER

the above Orders and Statutes, and Explanatory Observations. Second Edition. By SAMUEL MILLER, Esq., Barrister at Law.

SMITH'S MANUAL OF EQUITY JURISPRUDENCE.
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A MANUAL of EQUITY JURISPRUDENCE, as administered in England, founded on the Commentaries of Joseph Story, LL.D., and comprising, in a small compass, a numerous collection of POINTS constantly occurring in CHANCERY and CONVEYANCING, and in the general practice of a Solicitor. By JOSIAH W. SMITH, B.C.L., of Lincoln's-inn, Barrister at Law.

"A manual especially adapted to the exigences of a solicitor's practice."-Jurist, No. 465.

VEAL'S RECORD AND WRIT PRACTICE.-New Edition. In 12mo., price 5s. bds., under the Orders of 8th May, 1845, THE RECORD and WRIT PRACTICE of the COURT of CHANCERY. BY JOHN VEAL, Esq., Clerk of Records and Writs. Second Edition, adapted to the New Orders, and considerably enlarged.

STARKIE'S LAW of evidenCE.-THIRD EDITION. In 3 Vols. royal 8vo., price 41. 14s. 6d. boards, A PRACTICAL TREATISE of the LAW of EVIDENCE, and DIGEST of PROOFS in CIVIL and CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. Third Edition, with very considerable Alterations and Additions. By THOMAS STARKIE, Esq., of the Inner Temple, one of her Majesty's

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SEL WYN'S NISI PRIUS.-ELEVENTH EDITION,
Dedicated to his Royal Highness, Prince Albert.
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An ABRIDGMENT of the LAW of NISI PRIUS. Eleventh Edition, enlarged and much improved, with the Statutes and Cases brought down to Hilary Term, 1845. By WILLIAM SELWYN, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, one of her Majesty's Counsel, late Recorder of Portsmouth.

LITTLETON'S TENURES.

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BURTON ON REAL PROPERTY.-SIXTH Edition. In 8vo., price 17. 4s. boards, BURTON on REAL PROPERTY, with Notes shewing the recent Alterations by Enactment and Decision. The Sixth Edition. By EDWARD P. COOPER, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. PETERSDORFF'S NEW ABRIDGMENT.

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A PRACTICAL and ELEMENTARY ABRIDGMENT of the
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THE LAW OF INFERIOR COURTS.
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The LAW of INFERIOR COURTS, with the NEW ACT, and all the CASES decided thereon. By J. MOSELEY, Esq., Barrister at Law. -PART 1 contains Courts, Officers, Jurisdiction, Process, Pleadings, Trial, &c., Prohibition, Certiorari, Writ of Error, Quo Warranto, &c.PART 2: Courts of Request, County Courts, Hundred Courts, Courts Baron, Borough Courts."

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ORDERS IN CHANCERY.-BY AUTHORITY.

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SIR EDWARD SUGDEN'S TREATISE ON POWERS.
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE on POWERS. By the Right Hon Sir EDWARD SUGDEN. The Seventh Edition.

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QUESTIONS on the LAW of EVIDENCE, with THE ANSWERS. By a BARRISTER. Price 4s. 6d. boards.

QUESTIONS on CONVEYANCING and the LAW of REAL PROPERTY, with Answers. By a MEMBER of the BAR. Price 88. bds. QUESTIONS on the PRACTICE of the COURTS of COMMON LAW, with ANSWERS. By WM. THEOBALD, Esq., Barrister at Law. Price 6s. boards.

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PRINCIPLES of the LAW of REAL PROPERTY, intended as a

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"The want which the Student has felt, of an Elementary Guide to the Law of Real Property as it exists, and as it is practically important at the present day, Mr. Williams (who was already favourably known to the 1837) has endeavoured to supply by his present Work, and, we think, Profession by an edition of Watkins's Treatise on Descents, published in He has developed his plan with great clearness of method, in a lively and agreeable style."-Jurist. "In many important respects, a decided improvement upon its pre

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THE GENERAL ORDERS and RULES of the HIGH COURT of decessors; and when the names of some of these are remembered, we CHANCERY, issued by the Lord High Chancellor, 8th May, 1845.

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A SUPPLEMENT to a TREATISE on ALIENS and

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REPORTS IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY IN IRELAND.

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REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGH

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In a few days will be published, REPORTS of CASES argued and determined in the HIGH COURT

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THE notice which has lately been attracted to the mode of election to the office of Bencher of the Inner Temple will probably, as frequently happens in similar cases, lead to an inquiry having much more extensive objects than that would seem to require. We fear the inns of court will prove to be like an old and badly constructed building, of which no part can be disturbed without causing the fall of the whole. For years, we may almost say for centuries past, the governing bodies of these societies have claimed and exercised an uncontrolled and irresponsible power, acquiesced in probably because no one who had the inclination has had the power, or, having the power, has had the inclination, to make any inquiry upon the subject. But the case is now altered. The recent exercise of the mode of election was too startling, and affected too seriously the feelings of the Bar generally, not to call for a searching investigation into its legality, and the right of the Benchers to lay down any such rule as that upon which they have acted; and an inquiry into that has necessarily led to an inquiry into other matters connected with the office of a Bencher, and the privileges and duties attached to it. Accordingly, we find an article in an able cotemporary*, the writer of which, after adverting to the question immediately at issue, proceeds to examine into the early history of the inns of court, and to consider the office of Bencher, and his power over the members of the Bar.

Our readers are all well acquainted with Blackstone's account of the origin of the inns of court, but few probably have read Coke's account of the mode in which degrees were formerly conferred in them, and from which the present ranks in the Profession have been

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derived. "Now, for the degrees of the law," says he, 66 as there be in the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford divers degrees, as general sophisters, bachelors, masters, doctors, of whom be chosen men for eminent and judicial places, both in the Church and in the ecclesiastical courts; so, in the profession of the law, there are mootemen, (which are those that argue reader's cases in houses of Chancery, both in terms and grand vacations). Of mootemen, after eight years' study t, or thereabouts, are chosen utter-barister: of these are chosen readers in inns of Chancery. Of utter-baristers, after they have been of that degree twelve years at least, are chosen benchers or ancients, of which one, that is of the puisne sort, reads yearly in Summer Vacation, and is called 'a single reader;' and one of the ancients that had formerly read reads in Lent Vacation, and is called 'a double reader,' and commonly it is, between his first and second reading, about nine or ten years. And out of these the king makes choice of his attorney and solicitor-general, his attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and attorney of the Duchy. And of these readers are serjeants elected by the king, and are, by the king's writ, called 'ad statum et gradum servientis ad legem;' and out of these the king electeth one, two, or three, as please him, to be his serjeants, which are called The King's Serjeants."

The Benchers or ancients were the rulers of the inn, and, as the writer we have quoted observes, their overactive zeal was in exact proportion to the apathy of modern Benchers. With regard to lectures and tuition, these latter, indeed, seem to have carried their apathy so far, as to have forgotten their original character, and to have considered themselves more as an association or club of gentlemen, than a public body, intrusted with

+ In modern times, we know not for what reason, a much shorter preparation is deemed sufficient.

important functions, and answerable for the proper ex

ercise of them.

In the debate upon Mr. O'Connell's motion in the House of Commons, May 14, 1834, the late Lord Abinger asserted that the whole of the property of the inns of court was the result of subscriptions amongst themselves, which had been handed down from one set of trustees to another, and was, in fact, as much private property as that which belonged to any gentleman in the House. If Lord Abinger had ever seen the document which the writer in The Law Review has brought to light, he would not have ventured to make such an assertion. It appears, by letters-patent, (which are to be seen in the Rolls Chapel), that James I, in the sixth year of his reign, made a grant to the Societies of the Middle and Inner Temple of the land and buildings which they had held as tenants to the Knights Hospitallers till the suppression of the order in the reign of Henry VIII, and afterwards of the Crown by lease. The grant is "to Sir Julius Cæsar, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and fifty others, by name, probably Benchers, but who are not so described, and their heirs, in trust pro hospitacatione et educatione professorum et studiosorum legum Angliæ." It is clear from this, that, in the Middle and Inner Temple, at least, the Benchers were trustees, and, if so, to whom were they responsible for the performance of their trust? We shall see that there is abundance of authority to shew that they were subject to a superior jurisdiction. They were, in fact, under the control of the Crown, and of the judges as representing the Crown; and various instances are given in the work we have quoted of orders respecting the government of the inns of court, made sometimes by the advice of the Privy Council and judges, sometimes by the judges only, and sometimes by the Benchers, by the advice and discretion of the judges, proceeding from the king's suggestion. The following is one of them :

"Orders necessary for the Government of the Innes of Court, established by the Commandement of the Queen's Majesty, with the Advice of her Privy Counsell and the Justices of her Bench and the Common Place at Westminster, in Easter Term, an. 16 Regina Elizabethæ, 1574.

"Imprimis, That no more in number be admitted from henceforth than the chambers of the houses will receive after two to a chamber; nor that any more chambers shall be builded to increase the number, saving that, in the Middle Temple, they may convert their old hall into chambers, not exceeding the number of ten chambers.

"Item. None hereafter admitted shall enjoy any chamber, or be in commons, unless he do exercise moots and other exercises of learning within three years after his admission, and be allowed a student or inner barrister by the Bench,

"Item. None to be called to the utter bar but by the ordinary counsell of the house, in their general ordinary counsells in the term time."

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"At Serjeants Inn, 20 Junii, anno 38 Eliz., It was agreed by all the judges, by the assent of the Benchers of the four innes of court, that hereafter none should be admitted into innes of court till he may have a chamber within the house.

"That the readers hereafter be chosen for their learning, for their duly keeping of the exercises of their house, for their honest behaviour and good disposition, and such as for their experience and practice be able to serve the commonwealth.

"That no Benchers be called but such as be fittest both for their learning, practice, good and honest conversation; and that they call not to the bench too often, but very sparingly, in respect of the great multitude that there is already."

We should like to know what was then thought a great multitude; something, we expect, far short of the number at the present day.

We will only add one of the general orders of 36 Eliz., addressed to all the inns, in which the controlling power of the judges is strikingly exemplified. It is as follows:

"That, before any be called to read, a note of the names of three or four next in turn to read be delivered to the justices of the house where the same shall be; and, in default of such justice, to the chief justices and chief baron for the time being, to the end that they may give their advice therein."

These and similar instances which we might quote shew conclusively that the judges formerly exercised the power of regulating the inns of court; and if so, when have they ever been deprived of it? That it has not been exercised in modern times is true, but that is because no case has ever been properly brought before them. Besides, mere non-user would not destroy their right, and the power they had in the time of Queen Elizabeth they must still possess, and may exercise when an occasion requires it. And what is the result of this? Let the Benchers of the different inns consider well their position. That they and their predecessors for many years past have been guilty of supineness and thing towards carrying out the object of their instituapathy, none can doubt; that they have not done any tion, have not performed the trust on which, in two at least of the inns of court, they hold their property, is not to be denied; indeed, the late movement at the Middle Temple confesses it. It behoves them then to rouse themselves to do that, which, if they fail to do, the time will inevitably come, when their power will be taken away from them, and placed in more active and willing hands.

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We here find the Crown and judges making regulaMASTER IN CHANCERY.-The Lord Chancellor has tions as to the number to be admitted, and as to call-appointed James Perrin, of Wotton-under-Edge, Glouing to the bar. The next instance relates more parti-cestershire, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the cularly to Benchers :

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high Court of Chancery.

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