CONTENT S. ART. I.—THE DISCIPLINE OF THE BAR............ Page II. THE RIGHTS, DISABILITIES, AND USAGES IX.-JUDICIAL STATISTICS, 1861. — ENGLAND Greenhow's Shipping Law Manual.-Smith's Elementary View of the Practice of Conveyancing in Solicitors' Offices.-Shelford's Law of Joint-Stock Companies.- Streeten and Allnutt's Analytical Digest of Cases pub- lished in the New Series of the "Law Journal " Reports, etc.-Shaw's Principles of the Law of Scotland.- Simmons's Remarks on the Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial.-Cave's Supplement to the Seventh Edition of Stone's Practice of Petty Sessions.-Leonards' Handy Book on Property Law. - Hawkins' Concise Treatise on the Construction of Wills.-Grady's Handy Book on the Diminution of the Poor Rates.-Smith's Elementary View of the Proceedings in an Action at Law. Coote's Practice of the Court of Probate in Common Form Business.-Greaves' Criminal Law Con- Contents of No. XXVII. (NOVEMBER, 1862.) The Rights, Disabilities, and Usages of the Ancient English Peasantry. Contents of No. XXVIII. Report of the Trial of the Cause Seymour v. Butterworth, for CONTENTS. ART. I.-THE LAW OF LIBEL, AS APPLIED TO 300 NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS : Tudor's Selection of Leading Cases on Real Property, Conveyancing, and the Construction of Wills and Deeds.Phillips's Jurisprudence.-A New Pantomime.-Cox's Institutions of the English Government.-Fischel's English Constitution; translated from the German, by R. J. Shee, Esq.-Questions for Law Students on Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Law of England.-Urlin and Key's Notes, Orders, Forms, &c., on the Transfer of Land and Declaration of Title Acts, 1862.-Shall we Register Title? or Objections to Registry Stated and Answered.--Hawkins's Treatise on the Construction of Wills...... 393 399 409 410 The Rights, Disabilities, and Usages of the Ancient English Peasantry. Report of the Trial of the Cause Seymour v. Butterworth, for THE Law Magazine and Law Review: OR QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE. No. XXIX. ART. I.-THE DISCIPLINE OF THE BAR.* EXCUSES are hardly needed, except such as are personal to myself, for bringing forward before this Society a subject which has attracted of late much attention on the part of the public. That attention has been roused partly by the painful investigations recently held on the conduct of members, who, to the outer world, at least, appeared to be in the foremost ranks of the Bar-resulting, in one case, in the expulsion from the profession of a barrister holding the rank and honours of a Queen's Counsel, a Recorder, and a Member of Parliament; and, in another, also that of a barrister, holding the same honours, in the severe censure by the benchers of his Inn upon his professional conduct; and partly by a recent case which has been decided by the Court of Common Pleas, involving one of the most serious questions which can arise between a counsel and his client. These unfortunate cases naturally lead us to the consideration of the important question whether the organization of the A Paper by Mr. G. Shaw Lefevre, read at a General Meeting of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, held on Monday, 2nd Feb., 1863. VOL. XV.-NO. XXIX. B |