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PRESTON'S SHEPPARD'S TOUCHSTONE.

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91H TOUCHSTONE OF COMMON ASSUR-
ANCES,I or a plain and familiar Treatise, opening the
learning of the Common Assurances or Conveyances of the King-
dom.

By WILLIAM SHEPPARD, Esq.
The Seventh Edition, including all the Notes, and Additional
References in the former Editions, and in the improved MS. Copy
of Edward Hilliard, Esq.
Also an Enlargement of the Text, &c. by the Addition of
various Criticisms, Distinctions, &c. &c., and a copious Index.
By RICHARD PRESTON, Esq., of the Inner Temple.
Gentlemen are requested to complete their Sets, to prevent the
disadvantage of their remaining imperfect.
London : Printed for J. and W. T. Clarke, Law Booksellers,
Portugal-street, Lincoln's.inn.

EXCHEQUER EPITOME.
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HE PRACTICE in the OFFICE of PLEAS of
T the COURT of EXCHEQUER EPITOMISED, with
Precedents of Forms and Hills of Costs.

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BANKRUPT LAW. •
The Second Edition, much improved and enlarged, including the
new Act, in two vole. B,n. price 11. 18e. in boards,
THE PRESENT PRACTICE of the BANKRUPT
LAW, both in England and Ireland.

troth in England an....
Dy EDWARD CHRISTIAN, Esq.
Barrister, a Commissioner of Bankrupts.
In this publication every Statute and General Order of the Chan-
cellor is considered chronologically, and an abridgement or each
material decision is subjoined to the section or order upon which it
immediately depends.
By the same Author, in Bvo. price 10s. 6d. boards,
PRACTICAL. INSTRUCTIONS for SUING OUT and
PROSECUTING a COMMISSION of BANKRUPT, with
the best Modern Precedents now in use. Second Edition.

Printed for J. and W. T. Clarke, Law Booksellers, Portugal.
street, Lincoln's Inn.

BARTON'S E .EftIENTSpy CONVEYANCING.

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ELEMENTS of CONVEYANCING, in THEORY
and PRACTICE, with Cursory Remarks upon the Study
of that Science, and Observations and Directions relative to the
Practice or Conveyancing. The Second Edition, revised, with
rein Additions and Improvements.
By CHARLES BARTON, Esq.

Barrister-rt-Law.

This Work treats of Land, itivoWso ns, Tithes, Commons,
Ways, Offices, Dignities, Franchises, Rents, Annuities, Fee
Simple, Fee Tail, Estates for Life, Issue Extinct, Courtesy,
Dower, Jointure, Estate for Years, at Will, by Sufferance, An-
cient
Demesne, Oavelkind, Borough-English, Condition, Mort-
gages, Joint Tenantcy and in Common, Copircenary, Remainder
'end Reversion, Uses, Trusts, Agreements for Contracts, of s Re-
lease,
Confirmation, Surrender, Assignment, Defeasance, Bargain
and Sale, Lease and Release, Fine and Recovery, Devise and
Descents.
" Alt. Barton's Elements will be found a useful part of the
Law Library of a Conveyancer."—See Preston's Abstracts, vol. I,
p. 314.
Printed for J. and W. T. Clarke, Lair Booksellers, Portugal-
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This day is published, in met Syn. 7a. 6d. boards,
QCENES AND THOUGHTS.
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Thoughts are sensible and correct. The Authot, throughout. dis-
plays a most amiable feeling, andis an eloquent advocate in the
cause of morality. The articles are on well-selected subjects, and
are altogether of a domestic nature."—Literary Chronicle.
Also. ALICE ALLAN; The COUNTRY TOWN; and
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Just published, in IBmn., price 3s. 6d. bound, a New Edition of
TRENCH PHRASEOLOGY ; pointing out the Dif-
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merely of the familiar, but also of the more technical Phrases of the
two Languages I the whole founded upon undeniable authorities.
This volume will be found useful, both as a Book of Education,
and also to enable persons who have some knowledge of French, to
express themselves with propriety on moat subjects.
By C. C. HAM ILTON.
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.ITERAL TRANSLATION OF HOMER'S ILIAD
AND ODYSSEY.

Thisdsy is published, In 2 role. Bvo. pries IL M. boards, a New
Edition of
THE ILIAD of HOMER. translated into ENGLISH
PROSE as literally as the different Idioms of the Greek and
English Languages will allow ; with Explanatory Note..
Ey a GRADUATE of the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD.
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111/1 AMESES; an Egyptian Talc ; with Historical Notes
of the Egyptian
of the Pharaohs.
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The Tale of Rameses has been made the vehicle of conveying to
the public an illustration of Egyptian Antiquities, and a noted
epoch in its history. The Author's attention has for a long-series
of years been occupied in collecting and arranging the notes god
data upon which the incidents are founded.
. . . .

" Ratnesta belongs to the class of historical Novels, and is one
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Just published. in Bro. price 14s. boards,
`EGRET MEMOIRS of the COURT of LOUIS XIV.
1..7 and of the REGENCY, extracted from the German Corres-
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" In every respect, this is one of the most original and amusing
morsels of history and biography which has lately come under our
no:ice."—Monthly Magazine.
Also, lately published.
MEMOIRS of PHILIP DE COIIIINES ; containing the
History of Louis XI. and Charles VIII. of France, la. ecc. &c. :
including also, the " Scandalous Chronicle." Printed uniform
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This day is published, the Second Mum, poet Bvo. price 81.
boards,
THE LUCUBRATIONS of HUMPHREY RAVE-
MN, Esq. late Major in the • * • Regiment of Infantry.
•• The Author's remarks exhibit the frankness, acuteness, ease,
and good feeling, which, we are proud to think, and pleased to say,
so often belong to the character of the experience British officer ;
while they are so well conveyed, and, in fact, with such particular
correctness, that not only few military men have the opportunity
of forming and maturing so good a style, but many of the prac-
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Review.

See Quarterly Review, No. 61, p. 180.
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