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N CORP° RATED LAW SOCIETY, U.K.—
:1 LECTURES and LAW CLASSES, 1868-69.

LECTURES.
Three Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile
Law, Conveyancing, and the Law of Real Property and
Equity, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society in the
months of April, May, and Juno next.

LAW CLASSES.
In connexion with tho lectures classes will he conducted
under the guidance and superintondance of the lecturers,
and will proceed concurrently with the lectures. The
number of subscribers to each class will be limited, and
the instruction 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:—
a. Simple Contracts.
b. Contracts under Seal.

c. The Contract of Sale.
d. Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Checks;
with the distinction between negotiable instruments and
other simple contracts.
e. Freight and Contracts of Affreightmont, with the pe-
culiarities of Oharter-parties and Bills of Lading.
f. The Loss of a British Vessel and its consequences-
1. To the Owner of the Vessel.
2. To tho 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 FROPERTY, by T. LL. MURRAY BROWNE,
E 9., Barrister-at-Law.
This Course will consist of Nine Lectures:—

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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. Satlements 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—S. Disentailing Deeds, the existing Law of Entail-
4. Practical Suggestions in connexion with the subject of
Battlements.

Lectures V., VI. Usual Frame and Contents
of a Will-2. Principles of Ponstruction of Wills-3.
Practical Hints on Drawing Wills.
Lecture VII. Copyholds.-1. Introductory Remarks,
Fines-2. Surrenders and. Covenants to Surrender-3.
Admissions-4. Tho Enfranchisement of Copholds.
Lectures VIII., IX. Miscellaneous Deeds.-1. Credi
tors' Trust Deeds-2. Separation Deeds-3. Articles of
Partnership, &c.
In these 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.,

Ba.iris-ter-a t-La w.

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 ; lladdan's Administrative
Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery.
Smith's Manual of Equity and White and Tudor's Lead-
ing Cases in Equity will be the books principally referred
to during the course.
The subscription payable for he Lectures—
For all the Foreach
three courses. course.
By clerks of members ...... £2 2 0 £1 1 0
By clerks of gentlemen not
members
By all other persona not being
members • 4 4 0
The subscription payable fot 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 attend 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 thoae
who desire to attend the classes should also attend the
lectures.

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STITITTION.
President—Rev. CANON DALE.

CozrratarrioNsiO; the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may bo sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, 16.0.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, 16.0.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road,

APARTNIENI.'S.—One or Two Floors, with
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MANAGER Mr H. YOUNGHUSBAND, late Treasurer

and Secretary of the Liverpool Exchange.
Subscription, .£3 3s. per onnum, or 10s. monthly, payable

in Advance.

The
.Room is supplied;itiiewspapers, both Loma
and foreign ; Reuter's Telegrams, giving commercial,
political, and general telegraphic information ; Shipping
Lists, Directories, Time Tables, and other Books of Re-
ference.

There is also an excellent Refreshmont-room attached,
as well as a Reading and Writing Room, comfortably fur-
nished.

The attention of country bankers, solicitors, manufac-
turers, and others is invited to this Institution, which will
be found very convenient to gentlemen whose business
engagements oblige them frequently to visit the metro-
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BRITON MEDIC AL AND GENERAL
___ _ LIFE ASSOCIATION. .

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Chief Offices-429, Strand, London.
TRUSTEES.
Lieut.-General Sir J. E. R. Partridge, Esq., F.R.S.
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Dupuis, K.C.B. Francis Weill), Esq.
Sir James Duke, Bart. W. Tyler Smith, M.D.
Sir' W. Ferguson, Bart., I Millis Coventry, E.A.
F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN OF THR BOARD —FR iNGIS WEBB, Esq.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN -W. TYLERISMITH, Esq.
EXTRACTS.h FIFTEENTH ANNUAL RE-
PORT, read at the 1 General Meeting held at -tha.
Society's House on Thursday, 18th March, FRANCIS
WEBB, Esq., in the chair.
The directors have received 3,212 proposals for assur-
ing the sum of £972,866 18s. 9d. 2,472 policies were
issued, assuring £703,451 4s. and producing in annual
premiums the sum of £25,227 Bd.
The following tabulated returns exhibit the new busi-
ness transactions during the three quinquennial periods :

2 z Ti
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0 g
0 "•E' ...
..1 a 0 45 g _ `8,1,,
.. 6'd '' • 0 Amount o• t Amount Annual
4 r.„ ''.2 Proposed. Z :Ea Assured. Premiums.
2 . "N 3
fg)..,
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£ s. d. £ s. d. - £ a: d.
1853 4,802 1,023,140 0 0 3,318 r 54,140 0 0 21.347 16 5
1361 13,244 2,779,666 0 0 9,746 2,037,183 0.0 63,507 19 10
1368 17,4661 1,861,303 5 9 13,699 3,752,967 4 8_ 122,257 17 6
Total.. 35,512 L 8,664,109 5 9 26,763 6,444,490 4-8 207,113 13 9
The net premium income has increased to
the sum of £216,701 1 7
The interest on investments and other items
of receipt yield - 1

Making a total income of £237,980 19 8
The claims were 335, amounting to the sum Of £1.27,886
125.1. d.
The balance of the y ear's income was £68,026 9s. 4d.
The assets of the association at, the close of tho year
amounted to £667,493 Bs. sd.
'the directors draw special attention to the faCt thrt the
next, bonus valuation will take place at the end of the year
1872, and that all polices effected on the profit scales prior
to the 31st December, 1869, will be entitled to participate
in the same.
The directors also draw Olen; ion to the successful esta-
blishment during the past year of the Britannia Fire
the Board,
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Association, nyder the auspices of the Briton. The direc-
tors believe that the establishment of a Fire Company, to
work in active co-operation with the Life, will tend much
to the advantage and profit ofbostoepainnstttletuatnioansd.istlinteits.
scarcely necessary to remark that the capital funds and
constitutionon do n ,
:mco)afur
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Actuary and Secretary.
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CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LTFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
13, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.

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CHAIRMAN.
Right Hon. John Robert Nfowbray, M.P.

DEP UTY-CHA IRMEN.
William Bowman, Esq.,
Sir Charles Locock, Bart, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Extracts from the Report of the Directors. presented at
the Annual General Meeting hold on the 27th November,
1868 :-
1. The sum of £412,345 was proposed for Assurance, of
which-£307,395 was completed at Premiums pro-
ducing £10,067 per Annum.
2. The amount paid under Claims by death was £100,833,
being the smallest since 1860, whilst the expenses of
management and all other outgoings were oven less
than for many years past.
3. On the other hand, the Income was raised to £219,769,
"notwithstanding that its increase was retarded by
abatements of premium which did not take effect in
the previous year, and by the cessation of interest on
- the large sum paid as Bonus in 1867.
4. The Surplus income was very considerable. It
amounted to £93,152, a sum exceeding by more than
£B,OOO any previous Surplus during the forty-four
years of the Society's existence,
5. The Accumulated Fund- was thereby increased to
£1,598,906.

The following aro among the distinctive features of the

Society :
CREDIT SYSTEM.—Ou any Policy for the w' ole of
Life, where the ego does not exceed 60, one-half of the
Annual Premituns during the past five years may remain
OD creel t,.
ENDOWMENT ASSURANCES may be effected,
without Profits, by which the Sum Assured becomes pay-
able on the attainment of a specified age, or at death,
whichever event shall first happen•
INVALID LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned
to the increased risk.
PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid
thirty days after proof of death. -
Tables of Rites and Forms of Proposal can be obtained
of any of the Society's Arent?, or of
GEORGE CUTtILIFFE, Actuary and Secretary.
13, St. James's-square, London, S.W.