SEPTEI... GR, 1870, TO FEBRUARY, 1871.

VOLUME XXX.

LONDON :
BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET,

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Law Publishers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, AND BELL & BRADFUTE.

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1871.

INDEX TO VOL. XXX.

OF THE

Law Magazine and Law Rebiew. .

American Legal Notes, 281.

Defective State of International Law, 59.

Digests and Codes, 20.

Digest of Cases in Court of Session (Scotland) on Questions

of General Application, 312.

Digest of Scotch Decisions on General Points of Law, 141.

Early English Codes, 192.

Events of the Quarter, &c., 159, 338.

Habitual Drunkenness, 108.

Necrology, 175, 355.

New Books on Roman Law, 290.

Notices of New Books, 146, 317.

Novation of Contract, 96.

On the Universal and Necessary Relatious of Church and

State, 227.

Our Patent Laws, 1.

Records of Counties, 260.

The Administration of Justice in India-No. II., 27.
The Bible and the Public Schools, 48.
The Case of the Ex-Nawab of Tonk, 307.
The Church Building Acts, 251.
The Game Laws Jurisprudentially Considered, 177.
The late Professor Von Vangerow, 118.
The late Sir Frederick Pollock, 200.
The Law of Compensation for Closed Churchyards, 301.
The Law of Ulterior Destination as Bearing on Contraband

of War, 73.
The Legal Education Association, 126.
The Lord Chancellors of Ireland, 239.
The Lords’ Amendments to the Married Women's Property

Bill, 90.
The Judges and Judicature of England, 217.

THE

Law Magazing and Law Review :

OR

QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE.

No. LIX.

Art. 1.-OUR PATENT LAWS: THEIR ORIGIN
ART

AND POLICY, WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR
THEIR AMENDMENT. By JOHN LASCELLES,
Esq., Barrister-at-Law.

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of us

T no remote period, our patent laws will engage the

attention of the Legislature, and upon its right determination respecting them depend the interests of that large class of inventors which England has the good fortune to possess, and whose genius and perseverance have done so much towards giving her that supremacy in manufacturing industry which she has long enjoyed without dispute. Some

are perhaps actively connected with manufactures which have been created and improved by inventive genius, and which are still capable of greater improvement. Others, perhaps, only take a general interest in the subject, and yet that general interest cannot fail to be a deep interest, if we realise the effect which enterprise of this kind has had upon the welfare of the country at large and of ourselves individually, by cheapening and improving articles of utility and of daily requirement.

Whether the patent laws should be amended or abolished, and if amended, how they should be amended, so as to make

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