tises, must be familiar to the lawyer; and it is to be hoped, that the inconveniencies attending the casual and desultory mode of gaining this knowledge adopted by some, together with the injury which must result to the client from this neglect of unlearning, (if the word be allowed,) the general law, or being duly informed of its modifications, will satisfy the student of the necessity of allotting to this title a distinct and methodical attention.

4. In most of the states, not only the common, but the statute law of England, is in part obligatory. It therefore becomes important to ascertain, to what extent the statutes of England are in force in a particular state. In the states of New-York, Virginia, and Maryland, this investigation has been made under the sanction of legislative authority. In the year 1808, the legislature of Pennsylvania appointed the judges of the supreme court of that commonwealth, to ascertain the English statutes which are in force in that state, and also those which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute law of said commonwealth. The report of the judges to the legislature is to be found in the 3d vol. of Binney's Reports p. 595, and in 2d Hall's Law Journal p. 51. Mr. Binney, in his note on this report, remarks, “This important document is here inserted at the request of the judges of the supreme court. many respects it deserves to be placed by the side of judicial decisions, being the result of very great research and deliberation by the judges, and of their united opinion. It may not perhaps be considered as authoritative as judicial precedent; but it approaches so nearly to it, that a safer guide in practice, or a more respectable, not to say decisive authority in argument,

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cannot be wanted by the profession." A similar task was imposed by the legislature of Maryland on the present chancellor, William Kilty esq. The work, as we learn, is executed with great ability. It has not yet been given to the world.

It is, we presume, unnecessary to designate the most recent or best editions of the statute law of the different states. The student, when necessary, will readily ascertain this fact. In several of the states the laws have been, by legislative order, revised, arranged, and annotated on. The Laws of Pennsylvania, by Smith, published in 1810, is a work of singular excellence. The "Revised Code" of New-York, by Vanness and Woodward in 1814, and the "Revised Code" of Virginia, are well arranged. The laws of Connecticut were published in 1808, by Threadwell, Perkins, and Day, by legislative direction.

PARTICULAR SYLLABUS.

TITLE XIII.

"The salutary influence of Political Economy is not confined to government; it is still more sensibly felt in legislation. Its principles, tenets, and theory, are closely allied and identified with the principles, tenets, and theory of Legislation." "How greatly do they err, who suppose political economy a stranger to politicks, legislation, and government, and judge it possible to have good laws with a bad system of political economy, or a good system of political economy together with bad laws.....GANILH.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

1. Priestley's Lectures on History and General Policy. (Note 1.)

2. Boileau's Introduction to the study of Political Economy.

3. Joyce's Analysis or Abridgment of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. (Note 2.) 4. Lord Lauderdale's Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Publick Wealth.

E. 5. Sir James Steuart's Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy. (Note 3.)

6. Ganilh's Inquiry into the various systems of Political Economy. (Note 4.)

7. Arthur Young's Political Arithmetick. E. 8. Malthus on the Principles of Population. E. 9. Reply to Malthus.

10. Thornton's Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain.

11. Pitkin's Statistical View. (Note 5.)

MISCELLANEOUS.

1. Hamilton's Report on a National Bank. 3 Hamilton's Works, p. 59.

2. Hamilton on the Constitutionality of a National Bank. Ibid. 111.

3. Bollman's Paragraphs on Banks. Phila. 1810. (Note 6.)

4. Carey's Letters to Dr. Adam Seybert on Banks, published 1810, and Essays on Banking, published in 1816.

5. Hamilton's Report on Publick Credit. 3 Ham. Works, p. 1.

6. Hamilton's Report on the subject of Manufactures. Ibid. 157.

7. Hamilton's Report on the establishment of a Mint. Ibid. 275.

8. Bollman's Plan of an Improved System of the money concerns of the Union. Phila.

9. Johnson's Inquiry into the nature and value of Capital, and into the operation of Government Loans, Banking Institu tions, and Private Credit. New-York, 1813. (Note 7.)

NOTES ON THE THIRTEENTH TITLE,

(Note 1.) PRIESTLEY'S LECTURES &c. It will be perceived, from the subjects and books recommended in this Course, (with the exception of the first title in the division "Auxiliary Subjects,") that but little notice has been taken of history, and many branches of general science. This arises from the particular nature and object of the present work, which is to unfold the purest sources of legal knowledge, and of such other subjects as are immediately connected with it, A History is certainly of the first importance to the lawyer; but as every well informed man will allot a suitable portion of his time to that subject, and as it often constitutes a branch of academical or collegiate education, or is presumed to have been studied by young men before their engagement in professional studies, we have deemed it more consistent to omit a general course of historical reading. This, at first view, may appear to be a defect in a Course professing to be minute and entire on the subject of legal education. But where, it may be inquired, is the line of distinction? A lawyer is to be man of general science: he is to know something of almost every topick, and much of the subject of jurisprudence and its auxiliary branches. As history is a topick which sheds light on science gene: