THE

LAW MAGAZINE:

OR

QUARTERLY REVIEW

OF

Jurisprudence.

FEBRUARY-MAY, 1853.

VOL. XVIII. NEW SERIES;

VOL. XLIX. OF THE OLD SERIES.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, BY

BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET,
Law Booksellers and Publishers in ordinary to Her Majesty.
EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, AND BELL & BRADFUTE.
DUBLIN: HODGES & SMITH.

1853.

CONTENTS.

ART. I.-ON FINANCE

II.—ON MARINE INSURANCES..

Page 1

45

III.-LORD ST. LEONARDS: HIS PROFESSIONAL

AND PARLIAMENTARY CAREER.......................

IV.-LAW REFORM AND ITS PROSPECTS.........

V.COMMISSIONS, COMMISSIONERS, AND THE

BAR

VI. ON THE PECULIARITIES OF MARITIME

LIENS

VII.-REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CRIMI-

59

87

117

143

NAL AND DESTITUTE JUVENILES......... 161

VIII.-THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS AND THEIR

JURISDICTION OVER PROBATE OF WILLS 179

Laveroni v. Drury, 22 Law J. (Exch.) 2; Barnes v.

Marshall, 21 Law J. (Q. B.) 388

CRIMINAL LAW.

197

Reg. v. Hannah Moore, 21 Law J. M. C. 199..........................

199

EQUITY.

Lumley v. Wagner, 1 D. G. McN. & G.604; Blenkinsopp

v. Blenkinsopp, 1 D. G. McN. & Gor. 495

SHORT NOTES OF NEW BOOKS:

..... 202

Reports of the Decisions of Committees of the

House of Commons during the Fifteenth Parlia-

ment of the United Kingdom, 213; The New

Practice of the Court of Chancery, with an Intro-

duction, Notes, Acts, and all the New General

Orders, and a copious Index, 213; Epitome of

the New Chancery Practice, combining the Acts

15 & 16 Vict. cc. 80, 86, 87; with an Appendix

containing the Acts and Orders, 213; The Com-

mon Law Procedure Act, 213; The new System of

Common Law Procedure according to the Common

Law Procedure Act, 1852, 214; The New Chancery

Acts 15 & 16 Vict. cc. 80, 86, 87, and the new

General Orders, 214; The Theory of the Common

Law, 214; Reasons for Legalizing Marriage with

a Deceased Wife's Sister, 214; Morse's Patent-

Full Exposure of Dr. Charles Jackson's Preten-

sions to the Invention of the American Electro-

Magnetic Telegraph, 216; Report and Suggestions

addressed to the Mercantile Community of the

United Kingdom by the London Committee of

Merchants, 1852, 216.

Heslop v. Baker, 6 Exch. 820; 20 Law J. Exch. 350... 327

Belshaw v. Bush, 22 Law J. (N. S.) C. P. 24

345

EQUITY.

Myers v. Perigall, 17 Jur. 145

358

Young v. Lord Waterpark, 10 Jur. 1; Cox v. Dolman,

Sharman v. Sanders, 22 Law J. C. P. 86; Riley v.

Warden, 2 Exch. 59..............

372