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INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY, U. K.
LECTURES, 1801-65.
TITREE COURSES of LECTURES will be delivered in
the Hall of the Society on MONDAY and FRIDAY EVEN-
INGS in the months of November, December. January, Feb-
ruary, and March next, at Eight o'clock precisely.
CONVEYANCING. LECTURES,
By JOSEPH NAPIER HIGGINS, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
I. Introduction-Touching upon some of the most im;:or-
tant modern alterations in the Law of Real Property.
IL-111.-Leases -
1. Subjects of Demise.
2. Lessors and Lessees-their Rights and Liabilities.
8. Leases under Powers.
4. The Instrument of Demise-usual Covenants and Con-
di* ns, &c.
5. Assignment of Leaseholds.
IV,-V. Mortgages -
1. Nature of Estate of Mortgag, r and Mortgagee.
• 2. Usual Forms of Legal Mortgage, of Real Es:ate,
3. Equitable Mortgages by Deposit.
4. Mortgages of Personal Estate, including Choses in
Action.
6. Mortgages under Powers, including Mortgages by
Devisees in Trust and Executors (see 22 aLd 21 V'
c. 35, §§ 14 18).
VI. The Mortmain Act (9 Geo. 2, c. 30), and in particular of
the Mode sometimes adopted for avoiding its Provisions by
means of Secret Trusts. Reference will be made to the case
of "Sweeting v. Sweeting." (33 L. J. Ch. 211).
VII. The various kinds of Statutory Conveyances -the
Requisites and the Construction of Deeds generally.
VIII.-X. Marriage Settlements-
1. Ordinary Settlement of Personalty.
2. Ordinary Settlement of Realty.
3. Settlements by Infants and other Persona of Restricted
Capacity (18 and 19 Vic., c.
4. Wife's Equi y to a Settlement.
5. The Doctrine of Separate Use.
6. Portions-and the Doctrines of Ademption and Satis-
faction.
XI. Companies' and Partnership Deeds.
:NEI. Creditors' Trust Deeds-Composi ion and Inspector-
ship Deeds. (Bankruptcy Act, 1861, § 192).
EQUITY LECTUREI,
Ey MONTAGUE HUGHES, COOKSON, ESQ., Barrister-at-Law.
This Course will consist of 12 Lectures on the Statutory
Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, to be delivered as
nearly as possible in the following order :-
1. The Nature, Extent, and Limits of the Statutory
Jurisdiction.
2. The Trustee Relief and Trustee Further Relief Acts
(10 and 11 Vic., 3. 95, and 12 and 13 Vic., c, 74).
3-4. The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1815 (8 and 9
Vic., c. 18).
5. The Leases and Sales of Settle) Estates Act, and
Amendment and Further Amendment Acts (19 and
20 Vic., c. 120, 21, and 22 Vie., c. 77, and 27 and 28
Vic., c 45).
6. The Trustee Act. 1850, and Trastee Extension Act,
1852 (13 and 14 Vie. c. CO, and 15 and 16 Vic, c. 65).
7. Sir George Turner's Act, and The Real Properly
Amendment and Further Amendment Acts (13 and
14 Vic., e. 35, 22 and 23 Vic., c. 35, § 30, and 23 and 24
Vic., c. 38 § 91.
8-9. The Infant's Custody and Infant's Settlem?nt Acts
(2 and 3 Vic. c. 51, and 18 and 19 Vic., c. 43).
10. The Chancery Amendment Act, 1858, and The Chancery
Regulation Act, 1802 (21 and 22 Vi., c. 2?, and 45 and
26 Vic , c. 42).
11-12. The Companies Act, 1852 (25 and 26 Vic., c. 89).
N.8.-In addition to the Cases which willbe cited from the
Reports, the General Orders and Regulat ons of the Court
will be referred to and commented on in connection with the
the several Acts of Parliament.
COMMON LAW AND MERCANTILE LAW LECTURES,
By HUGH SHIELD, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
1.-111. The Laws adrnnistered in the Common Law
Courts with respe t to Associations formed for purposes of
gain-Mercantile Partnerships -Joint Stock Companies -
Corporations.
The Leading. Distinctions tetween these three Forms of
Association-Sketch of the History of Legislation as to
Joint Stock Companies.
Mercantile Partnerships -
What Agreements C n ditute Actual Partnerships.
Partnerships as rei anis third Persons. •
The Liabi ities of Partnerships for the Acts of a Partner.
A cti..)ns by and against Partnerships.
The Rel,tions of Partners inter se.-Deeds of Arrange-
ment under the Bankruptcy Laws.
IV.-VL Joint Stock Companies-
The Companies Act, 1862.
The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1815.
The Liability of Promoters and Directors et Companies
for Misrepresent,tions in Prospectuse and Reports.
Railway Shares and Debentures-Actions for Calls -
Lloyd's Bonds.
Contracts with Corporations.
N.B.- In this branch the Lecturer will not attempt to ex-
hibit a complete view of Company Law, the object being
rather to illustrate the general principle of the Common Law
by recrenee to Companies.
VII. The Assessment of Compensation for Lands taken or
injuriously affected under the Lands Clauses Act, 1815.
VIII. The Law of carriers, with sp, cial reference to hall-
way Companies as ('art iers.
IX. The maxim, Respondeat Superior. illustrated by re-
ference to actions against Railway Companies for negligence
of their servants.
X. -XII. The last three Lectures will be devoted to the
Common Law Procedure Acts and Pleading Rules, and the
general course of Practice in Actions atFo Law.
r all the For each
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E W. WILLIAMSON, Secretary.
Law Society's Hall, October, 18Z.1.