Digest of, 1 Leigh's Reports, 6 Greenleaf's, 1 Breese's, 203; 1 Dev-
ereux's, 1 Blackford's, 344; 2 Paige Chancery, 389; of English
common law reports, 419; of recent English equity cases, 436.
Discharge of seamen in foreign ports, the policy of the laws
against the, 43; the laws relative to, commented on, 44.
Deposits, nature and different species of, 150.

Depositions of absent witnesses, allowing them to be taken under
a commission recommended by commissioners in England, 311.
Devises, rules as to construction of, article upon, 332.
Devereux's North Carolina Reports, digest of, 344.

Dow and Clark's common law reports, cases selected from 1st and
2d parts of 2d vol. of, 419.

Dow and Clark's equity reports, cases selected from 1st and 2d
part of 2d vol. of, 436.

E

Eloquence of Daniel Webster, character of, 102.

England, legislation in, 446.

English Reports, compared with American, 266 to 272.

Equity, see Chancery.

Exchequer, sketch of the judges of the English court of, 254.
Encyclopedia Americana, extracts from, as to rewards to informers.

468.

F

Feudal system, privileges belonging to boroughs under, 291 to 294.
Forensic arguments of Daniel Webster, remarks upon, 112; in
Dartmouth College case, 113 to 119; on Prescott's trial, 119;
in steamboat case 119.

Fraud, cases on possession by venders of chattels being conclusive
evidence of, reviewed, 20 to 29.

Freight, opinion as to salvage paid on cargo, ultimately carried to
the port of destination, being a charge diminishing, 318; the
principle that it is the mother of wages, commented upon 341.

G

Garrow, Baron of the exchequer, sketch of, 256.

Gaselee, Judge of C. C. Pleas in England, sketch of, 254.
Georgia, legislation in, 441.

Governments, distinction between free and arbitrary, 61.

Gray, Francis C. extracts from his address at the anniversary of

Washington's birth day, 448.

Great Britain, legislation in, 446.

Greenleaf's Reports, digest of vol. 6, 203.

Gratuitous loans, nature of, 168; law relative to, 169.

H

Hammond's, Charles, Ohio Reports, article upon, 261; extracts
from them, 273.

Hardwick, Lord, character of, by Lord Chesterfield, 457.

Husband and wife, see Baron and Feme.

Hiring, law relative to contract of, 185.

Informers, reward to, 468.

I

Innkeepers, law relative to, 193; who are such, 195.
Inheritance, bill proposed in British parliament for the amendment

of the law of, 450.

Infant's contract for service, article upon, 322.

Illinois, digest of 1st vol. Breese's Reports in, 203.

Improvements in pleading, recommended by the commissioners in
England, 82; in practice, 298.

Indiana, legislation in, 239; sketch of the constitution of the
Supreme Court in, 326; remarks upon the reports, 327; ab-
stracts from them, 323 to 330; digest of principal casesin, 344.
Interpleader, at law, former proceeding by, 311; objections to it,
312; objections to bill of interpleader in equity, 312; substitute
proposed by commissioners in England, 312 to 314.

Insurance of seamen's wages, considered, 339.

Jones, Sir William, remarks upon his work upon the law of bail-
137.

ments,

Judiciary, independence of, essential to liberty, 448.

Judges, ancient salaries of, in England, 458.

Jurists, distinction between the English and foreign, 137.

Jury, the rule requiring unanimity to support the verdict of, con-
sidered, 317; modifications suggested, 318.

Justinian Code, remarks upon, 58.

K

Knapp's reports of cases decided in privy council, extracts from,

439.

L

Letting, law relative to contract of, 185.

Libel, in the Admiralty, damages may be recovered for illegal
detention of seaman's clothes in, 46.

Law publications, quarterly list of, 257, 471.

Law, profession of the, in the United States, remarks upon by
Chief Justice Shaw, 56.

Law, study of, advice as to, 452.

Law Commissioners in England, extracts from the second and
third reports of, 81; further extracts, 298.

Leigh's reports, Virginia, digest of vol. 1st, 203.

Loans, gratuitous, nature of, 168.

Legislation in Indiana, 239; in Georgia, 441; in Great Britain,
446.

Limitation to actions on specialties, on making twenty years an
absolute, 93.

Louisiana, proceedings of bar of New Orleans relative to an appli-
cation for two additional judges to Supreme Court, and the estab-
lishment of a Circuit Court of the United States for that district,
248.

Lyndhurst, Lord, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, sketch of, 255.

M

Manning and Ryland's reports, cases selected from 2d part of 4th
vol., 419.

Master, see Seamen.

Master and servant, infant's contract for service, 322.

Mate, when justified, by the captain's order, in punishing a sea-
man, 73.

Mandates, nature of, 164.

Mortgage, distinction between, and pledge, 19, 176; possession
by mortgagee not necessary to its validity, 22, 29.

Moore and Payne's reports, cases selected from 1st, 2d, and 3d
parts of, 419.

Moody and Malkin's reports, cases selected from 4th part of 1st
vol., 419.

Medical jurisprudence, effects of burning on human body, 460.
Misnomer, abolition of plea of, proposed, 95; substitute for it, 96.
N

North Carolina reports, by Devereux, digest of, 344.
Non Assumpsit, alteration in respect to plea of, 89.

Ohio reports, by Charles Hammond, 262; extracts from them, 273.
Offset, what may be filed in, 40; a claim for unliquidated dama-
ges cannot be, 41; a claim of a seaman for damages for tortious
discharge in a foreign port cannot be, 42.

P

Paige's chancery reports, digest of 2d vol., 389.

Park, Judge of C. C. Pleas in England, sketch of, 253.
Pawn, nature of, 176.

Pleading, improvements in, recommended by commissioners in
England, as to several counts, 82; as to general issue, 87; as to
non-joinder and mis-joinder, 91; as to misnomer, 95.

Pledge, distinction between and mortgage, 19, 176.

Parties, remarks upon the expediency of, being compelled to testify,

303 to 313.

Powers, notice of Mr. Chance's work on, 247.

Postmasters, law relative to, 193.

Prescott, J. impeachment of, remarks upon Webster's argument
on the, 119, 120.

Practice, improvements in, recommended by the English law
commissioners in their second and third reports, 298; in proof
of written documents, 299; compelling parties to testify, 303;
allowing witnesses abroad to be examined under commission,
311; allowing a summary proceeding at law in place of bill of
interpleader in equity, 312; regulation of the arguments of
counsel, 314; dispensing with unanimity in juries under certain
modifications, 317.

Privy Council, extracts from cases decided in, 439.

93.

Real Actions, notice of the 2d edition of Stearns on, 246.
Records, on making 20 years an absolute bar to actions on,
Reports, their utility, 260; objections to their multiplication con-
sidered, 263, 266; English and American compared, 266 to
272; character of Ohio Reports, by C. Hammond, 272.
Revocation. See countermand.

Rewards to informers, 468.

Riots, extract from Judge Thacher's charge to grand jury rela-
tive to, 243.

Salaries, ancient, of Judges in England, 458.

Sale of chattels, what possession necessary to complete it, 20; when
to be taken, 24.

Shaw, Ch. J. extracts from his address to the Suffolk Bar, May,
1827, 56.

Sheriff of County of Suffolk, duty of, in case of riots, 242.

Salvage, right to, may be forfeited by embezzlement or fraud on

the part of salvors, 33; opinion as to salvage paid for cargo, ulti-
mately carried to the port of destination, being a charge dimin-
ishing freight, 318.

Seamen, not entitled to wages after shipwreck and abandonment,
and a salvage by others, 37; cases on the subject examined, 34
to 37; what are legal causes for discharging a seaman in foreign
port considered, 42; the measure of damages for illegal dis
charge, 45; when and to what extent seamen may be punished
considered, 74; insurance of their wages considered, 339.

Simon's equity Reports, cases selected from 1st part of 3d vol;
and 4th part of 4th vol., 436.

Sherman, Judge (Ohio) his opinion, as to who are lite pendente
purchasers, 274.

Slavery, the general practice of, in the early ages of the world 5,
its first introduction into America.

Slave trade, origin of, 7.

Slaves, character of, 17.

Set-off, See offset.

Specialties, on making 20 years an absolute bar to actions on, 193.
Speeches of Daniel Webster, remarks upon, 101 to 112.

Stearns on Real actions, notice of 2d edition of, 246.

Story J. commentaries on law of bailments by, reviewed, 128.
Study, mode of, for articled clerks, 452.

T

Taxes, combination to refuse the payment of, is an indictable
offence, 454.

242.

Thacher Judge, notice of his charge to grand jury,
Trespasser, when a mate may be sued as such, for punishment in-
flicted on a seaman by order of the master, considered, 73.
Tindal, Sir N. C. Ch. J. of the English C. C. Pleas, sketch of,
250.

Twyne's case commented on, 26.

Tyrwitt's Reports, cases selected from 1st vol. of, 419.

V

Variance, law of, alterations proposed by commissioners in Eng-
land relative to, 82.

Vaughan, baron of the Exchequer, sketch of, 256.

Vendee of chattels, what possession by, necessary to protect his
claim against creditors or subsequent purchasers of vender, 20,
29.

Verdict, the rule requiring unanimity in a jury to support, consid-
ered, 317; modifications suggested, 318.

Villeins, nature of their duties and occupation, 293.

Virginia, slavery in, when first introduced, 7; prejudices against
slaves, 7; their rapid increase, 10; laws relatives to slaves as
property, 11; as persons, 13; punishments for offences of slaves
against the commonwealth, 14; for offences against persons and
property, 15; digest of reports in, 203.

W

Wages, the contract of seamen for, is dissolved by shipwreck and
their abandoning the vessel, 34; the policy of law to connect
the right to wages with safety of the ship, 32; the insurance of
them considered, 339.