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Adam, Lord Chief Commissioner, his work on Trial by Jury in Civil Causes in Attornies, examination of, 225. B. Eills on legal subjects pending, 225, 471. Buller, Mr. Justice, life of, 27. his birth, family, and education, ib. his legal studies, 28. called to the bar, ib. his great success, 29. his treatise on Nisi Prius, 30. appointed puisne judge on the Chester circuit, 31. and judge in the K. B. ib. his judicial merits, 32. created a baronet, 34. retires into the Common Pleas, 35. trial of Captain Donellan, 36. opinions of Buller's rigour as a criminal judge, 41. presides at the special commission for trial of O'Connor, &c. for treason, 44. his altercations with Erskine, 47. his illness and death, 48. his fortune, ib. his person, manners, &c. 49. his patronage of young men at the bar, 50. Burroughs, Sir J., death of, 473. C. Campbell, Sir John, his letter to Lord Stanley, on Church Rates, examined, 375. principle laid down in recent cases, questioned, ib. original authority on the question investigated, 52, et seq. importance of the point, 71. Chambers, J. D., his pamphlet on the Registration of Voters' Bills, 122. the Attorney-General's letter to Lord Stanley on, examined, ib. County Rates, 332. their nature, and the purposes to which they are applicable, 333. extracts from Mr. Mullins's treatise on the subject, 335. unequal distribution of county rates, 339. beneficial effects of new valuations, in several counties, 341. plan of Mr. Hume's bill, 347. Courts of Chancery and King's Bench, accumulation in the arrears of business in, 224. Criminal Law Commissioners, proceedings of, 224, 471.` Interpretation of Law, as exemplified in the case of The King v. The Poor Law necessity of rules of interpretation, ib. uncertainty of the law, 352. continual neglect of the proper principles of interpretation, 353. case of The King v. Poor Law Commissioners, 356. generality of the provisions of the Poor Laws Amendment Act on the subject, observations on the arguments and deductions of the judges in this case, 359; et seq. Interpretation of Law (&c.) synopsis of the proposed course of illustration of the process of interpretation Jekyll, Mr., death of, 473. Justices of the Peace. J. objections urged to the administration of the law by unpaid justices, 1. sketch of the origin, nature and extent of their judicial powers, 3. their judicial functions in sessions, 7. remedies for the correction of their legal errors, 9. summary convictions, 13. proceeding by certiorari, 18. collateral effects of the institution of unpaid magistrates, 19. suggested reforms in the system, 22. Kenyon, Lord, life of, 252. K. his family, birth, and education, ib. entered of Lincoln's Inn, 253. his laborious application to legal study, ib. fellow student with Dunning and Horne Tooke, 254. called to the bar, 255. his marriage, 257. and increasing business, ib. appointed Attorney-General and Chief Justice of Chester, 259. his conduct in parliament, 260. his resignation and re-appointment, 261. appointed Master of the Rolls, 262. his conduct on the Westminster scrutiny, ib. appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and created Lord Kenyon, 265. and extraordinary phraseology, 289. his severity as a criminal judge, 295. M. Merchant Shipping, law of, continued, 297. on what the contribution of general average is to be assessed, ib. the principle and mode of assessment, ib, 1, the item of value to which, ib. 2, upon which the contribution is to be made, 299. salvage, definition of, 303. the acts which confer a right to it, 305. the statutes relating to it, 308. the rate of remuneration, and tribunals by which it is adjusted and en- forced, 14. (Merchant Shipping, Law of, Salvage.) the apportionment of the shares to the several claimants, 321. Law of collision, 326. Mullins, Edward, his treatise on County Rates, 333. its unfairness and injustice, 335. P. Powers, Sir E. Sugden's work on, reviewed, 129. recent cases on the subject, stated, ib. Prisoners' Counsel Act, working of, 225. memorandum of the Judges as to the practice under it, 470. R. Record Commission, 80. value of public records, ib. various impediments to their use, 81. successive commissions to redress these grievances, ib. their inefficient powers, 83. their expensive and useless publications, 84. operation of the present commission, 87. its constitution, ib. management, 89. and enormous expenditure, 94. actual present condition of the several public records described, 99 et seq. want of arrangement and means of reference, 109. fees of officers, 111. evils of the present system traceable to the imperfect and irresponsible custody of the records, 115. recommendations of the Select Committee, 119. Revising Barristers and New Court of Revision, 122. origin of the supposed necessity for a new tribunal, ib. its disadvantages, 123. S. Sugden, Sir E., his Treatise on Powers reviewed, 129. classification of powers, 131. observations on various points stated in the work, 133 et seq. T. Talfourd, Serjeant, his Bill to amend the Law relating to the Custody of Children of Tender Age, 471. present state of the law on this subject, ib. |