The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-31 00:00:00

" CONSTITITTIONAL LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY.

"The public lectures to be delivered by the Reader on
Constitutional Law and Legal History will comprise the
following subjects :

"The Reign and Policy of William III.; the Reign of
Queen Anne, and the character of the Government of
George I. and George LI. ; the Progress of our Jurispru-
dence, as exemplified by the Statute Book; the State
Trials, and the Proceedings of Parliament during that
period.

"In his private classes the Reader will proceed from
1611 to the year 1782.
" Books Millar's View of the English Constitution ; '
State Trials of the Period ; Statute Book; Rapin's
History ;' Hallam's Constitutional History ; 'Burnet's
History of his own Time;' May's' History ; ' White-
lock's ' Diary ;" Clarendon,' Ist vol. ; Macaulay's His-
tory,' 4th vol.

" EQUITY.

" The Reader on Equity ptoposes to deliver during the
ensuing Educational Tenn nine lectures on the following
subjects :

"1. On the General Principles adopted by Courts of
Equity.
"2. On the Creation of Trusts by express declaration.
" 3. On Implied and Resulting Trusts.
"4. On Voluntary Settlements and Conveyances..
"h.• On the Rights and Liabilities of Married Women
recognised by Courts of Equity alone.
"6. On Presumptive Performance and Satisfaction ;
and on the Doctrine of Election.
" Thq Reader will continue with his senior and junior
classes the general course of Equity already commenced,
using, as before, Smith's Manual of Equity Jurispru-
dence' as a text book. He will also, in the senior class,
explain the leading rules of pleading in Equity, from the
work of Lord Redesdale.

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"LAW OP REAL PROPERTY, &C.
" 1. On the Doctrine of Notice.
"2. On a Testamentary Charge of Debts, and the power
to sell Real Estate under that charge.
"In his private classes the Reader on Real Property Law
will discuss more fully the leading cases cited in the public
subjects&T ce.r'in7l;
lectures. He will also explain th common forms of con-
veyances and mortgages, and give suggestions as to their
outline and language.
" JURISPRUDENCE AND THE CIVIL LAW.
"The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law pro-
poses, in the course of the ensuing Educational Term, to
deliver a course of nine public lectures on the following
subjects :
" The Early History of some of the Fundamental Con-
ceptions of Law ; the Ancient Codes—European and Asiatic
—their history, character, and influence; the Mechanism
of the Roman Legal System, and the points in which it
differed from the mechanism of English law; the
, Princi-
pies
of the Roman Praetorian Jurisprudence, and their in-
finance on modern law and modern thought ;Classifications
in Law—their use and abuse; the Sources of the Roman
La
rfPersons.
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will be the text-book of the lectures," With his private classes the Reader proposes to
pro-
ceed regularly through the principal departments
n
-f Roman
Law, beginning with the Law of Contract. The . Qom_
menw of
of Gainta
and will be read together with the ' Institute
tiniau.' On particular days certain selected portions8 of
Jug.'
Digest' will be taken, of the

- , "COMMON LAW.
" The Reader on Common Law proposes to deliver during
the Educational Term, commencing the ilth of January.
1857, a course of nine public lectures on Contracts under
Seal, Contracts between Landlord and Tenant, and Sitt9l°
Contracts, wherein he will endeavour to, elucidate the
Rules of Law governing such contracts, and direct atten-
tion to the statutes regulating them. The plan which the
Reader purposes to adopt will be as
under v— . r, w
" Lecture 1 will be Introductory to the Study of the —a of Contracts.
" Lectures 2 and 3.-The various species of Contracts
under cha-
under Seal will in these lectures be examined'their from
racteristics considered, and the principles
deducible ther Collins v. Bllnterni (1 Smith L. C,, 151), im-
portantaa-
cases stated and explained. '
Contracts and
"Lectures 4 and 5 will be devoted to the which and
Agreements of Landlord and Tenant,will be noted.
ordinary contracts the specific differences of the course
" Lectures 6to 9.—The last
four lectures
acting
between
simple con-
will be Occupied with an iagnirYaresp •otherwise. The
t__e or
tracts, written and 'oral, inorcan
treatment of this subject wiii--'
if necessary, be resumed in 1
the succeeding term.
Reader on
the
" With his private class Common Law
of Contracts in its various
proposes to discuss the
branches, accordiug to
the plan
it out to the books here
Lndll above indicated. He 'will
Prificipally refer while L'
rd's Touchstone;fi by Preston ; !Smith's specified :—'
ShePPa* edition) ; 4-
'N. oodfah's Treatise on.
Leading Cases' (4th
Landlord cud Tenant,' ' Bytes on Bills of Exchange ;