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

" EQUITY.

" The Reader on Equity proposes to deliver during the
ensuing Educational Term 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.
"5. 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.
"The 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.
"LAW OF REAL PROPERTY, &c.
" The Reader on the Law of Real Preperty, &c., pro-
poses to deliver, in the ensuing Educational Term, a
course of nine public lectures on the following subjects :
" 1. On the Doctriue 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
lectures. He will also explain the 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 Cot:es—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-
ples of the Roman Praetorian Jurisprudence, and their in-
fluence on modern law and modern thought; Classifications
in Law—their use and abuse; the Sources of the Roman
Law of Persons.
" With his private classes the Reader proposes to pro-
ceed regularly through the principal departments of Roman
Law, beginning with the Law of Contract. The Com-
ments—
ry of Gains' will be the text-book of the lectures
and will be read together with the 1 Institutes of lleirnes'
tinian.' On particular days certain selected portions- —8"
Digest' will be taken. of the
"COMMON LAW.

" The Reader on Common Law proposes to deliver during
the Educational Term, commencing the .11th of January.
1857, a course of nine public lectures on Contracts
under
Seal, Contracts between Landlord and Tenant, and Simple
Contracts, wherein he will endeavour to elucidate 1"
Rules of Law governing such contracts, and direct atten-
tion,,__
to the statutes regulating them. The plan which r"
Reader purposes to adopt will be as under Law :
" Lecture 1 will be Introductory to the Study of the
of Contracts.
"Lectures 2 and 3.—The various species of Contracts
i ha-
under Seal will in these lectures be ex mined, dineetd their cucible from
racteristics considered, and the principles d other im-
' Collins v. Blantern' (1 Smith L. a, 154), tin
portant cases stated and explained. the Contracts and
"Lectures 4 and 5 will be devoted
+ between which and
Agreements of Landlord and Tenant,
ordinary contracts the specific diffelenctures of the course
bees will be noted.
"Lectures 6 to 9.—The last four
espec..ng
r ti simple con-
will be occupied with an
inquiritilo or otherwise. The ,
tracts, written and oral, ("'•
treatment of this subject
will, be resumed in 1
the succeeding term.
"With his private class
of Contracts in its various
the Reader on Common Law
proposes to discuss tho
, bLeapwlan above indicated. He will
pbrriannecihpeasliyacrcoeferrdiwn. t; tfollowing it out to the books here
hi
ld's Touchstone,' by Preston; `Smith's
Specified :-
4th e 1 ion ;
4 Sheppard
d't. ) ' roodfall's Treatise on.
Leading Cases' ( &
~ . 0.4.4 on Bills of F4OllOBO ;
Landlord and Tenant; ' a