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ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings Lombard-street, London.
Royal Insurance Buildings North John-street, Liverpool.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £Boo,ooo
Accumulated Funds in hand £1,500,000
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Life and Annuity Funds.....l ....X1,031,329 •
SPECIAL ADVANTAGES—
Exemption of Assured from Liability of Partnership.
BONUSES among the largest ever declared by any Company.
Profits divided every live years.
All new Life Insurances now effected will become entitled
to an Increased Share of the Profits.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Premiums in 1867 £40,533.
REDUCTION OF DUTY.—Since this first took place the increase
of business of the ROYAL has exceeded that of any other Office,
as shown by Government Returns.
Prompt and liberal settlement of Losses.
JOHN H. MCLAREN, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

N CORPO RATED LAW SOCIETY, U.K.—
LECTURES and LAW CLASSES, 1868-69.

LECTURES.
Three Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile
Law, Crnyeyancing, and the Law of Real Property and
Equity, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society in the
mouths of February, March, April, May, and June
next.

LAW CLASSES.
In connexion with the lectures classes will ho conducted
under tho guidance and superintendence of the lecturers,
and will proceed concurrently with the lectures. Tho
number of subscribers to each class will be limited, and
the inst-uction given will be confined to an examination
of the students upon the subject of a preceding lecture, or
on portions of a given book bearing on the same subject.
A sufficient number of classes will follow each lecture, and
be of such duration as shall provide for the efficient instruc-
tion and examination of the students. The teaching of the
lectures will thus be amplified, and impressed on the
memory by the classes ; and the system of constant ex-
amination will test, from time to ime, the progress made
by the students.
LECTURES on COMMON and MERCANTILE LAW,
by CHARLES HENRY ANDERSON, Esq., Barrister-
at-Law.
The Course will consist of Nine Lectures upon the fol-
lowing subjects :-
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c. The Contract of Sale.

d. Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Clinks ;
with the distinction between negotiable instruments and
other simple contracts.
e. Freight and Contracts of Affreightment, with the pe-
culiarities of Charter-parties and Bills of Lading.
f. Tho Loss of a British Vessel and its consequences-
1. To the Owner of the Vessel.
2. To the Owner of the Cargo.
3. To the Underwriter.
g. In connexion with the foregoing will be considered
the Rule of the Road at Sea as contrasted with that on
Shore: also the Law of Negligence and the Liability of a
Master for the acts of his Servant.
In his private classes the reader will use as text-books
—The Law of Contracts (Smith), An Action at Law
(Smith), A Digest of Common Law (Anderson).

LECTURES on CONVEYANCING and the LAW of
REAL PROPERTY, by T. LL. MURRAY BROWNE,
Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
This Course will consist of Nine Lectures:—
Lecture I. Introductory.—Practical Hints on the perusal
and examination of Abstracts.
Lectures 11., M., IV. Settlements.-1. Settlements of
Personal Estate; a. Investment of Trust Funds ; b.
Usual Trustee Clauses, Appointment of New Trustees; c.
Usual Powers and Covenants, &c.: d. Remarks on the
Effect of Recent Statutes-2. Settlements of Real Estate;
a. Estates for Life and in Remainder, Waste ; b. Jointures,
Portions, &c : c. Usual Powers: Remarks on the Leases
and Sales of Settled Estates Act; d. The Succession Duty
Act-3. Disentailing Deeds, the existing Law of Entail--
4. Practical Suggestions in connexion with the subject of
Settlements.
Lectures V., VI. Usual Frame and Contents
of a Will-2. Principles of Construction of Wills-3.
Practical Hints on Drawing Wills.
Lecture VII. Copyholds.-1. Introductory Remarks,
Fines-2. Surrenders and Covenants to Surrender-3.
Admissions-4. The Enfranchisement of Copholds.
' Lectures VIII., IX. Miscellaneous Deeds.-1. Credi
tors' Trust Deeds-2. Separation Deeds— 3. Articles of
Partnership, &c.
In those lectures and classes the Introductions and
Notes to Mr. Davidson's Precedents will be especially
referred to.

As elementary works, Mr. Joshua Williams's Books on
Real and. Personal Property are recommended.
EQUITY LECTURES, by Sir GEORGE YOUNG, Bart.,

Barrister-at-Law.

This course will consist of Nine Lectures :
Lecture 1. Review of Equity, and suggested arrange-
ments for purposes of Study.
Lecture 11. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account;
generally, Apportionment and Contribution.
Lecture 111. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account,
continued : specially, between Principal and Agent.
. Lecture IV. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account,
continued: specially, between Partners.
Lecture V. The Jurisdiction in matters of Administra-
tion: 1. The Administration of Assets.
Lectures VI., VII. The ~;Administrative Jurisdiction,
continued: 2. The Administration of Trusts, as enlarged
by recent statutory enactment
Lectures VIII., IX. Injunctions.
Books recommended : —Story's Equity Jurisprudence,
chapters 8,9, 10, 13, 1.., 23 ; Iladcta.n's Administrative
Jurisdiction of Ole Court of Chancery.

Smith's Manual of Equity and White and Tudor's Lead-
in.. Cases tnßrinity will be the books principally referred
to during the course.
The subscription payable for he Lectures—
For all the Foreaeh
three courses. course.
By clerics of members
By clerks of gentlemen not
members
By all other persons not being
members
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The subscription payable lot the law classes—
For all the
branches of For each
instruction. branch.
By every subscriber £s 5 0 £2 12 6
Members of the Society may attend the lectures without
subscribing.
To prevent interruption at the lectures, subscribers
cannot be admitted to the hall after the lecture has com-
menced.
E. W. Williamson, Secretary.

Law Society's Hall, Oct., 1868.
N.B. Gentlemen may subscribe for and atteni the lec-
tures and classes, either separately or collectively ; but as
the instruction given in the classes will have special re-
ference to preceding lectures, it is recommended that those
who desire to attend the classes should also attend the
lectures.

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CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 aro ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, E.C.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.O.
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