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London, England, 1857-04-09 00:00:00

LECTURES AT THE INNS OF COURT.

The following is a prospectus of the lectures to
be delivered during the ensuing Educational Tenn
by the several Readers appointed by the Inns of
Court.—

CONSTITUTIONAL 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 of Anne and the Character of the Govern-
ment of George I. and George 11. ; the Progress of our
Jurisprudence ; the State Trials ; and the Proceedings
of Parliament during that period.
In his private classes the Reader will proceed from the
Reign of William 111. down to the year 1782.
Books.—Mullar's View of the English Constitution ;
the State Trials of the period ; Statute Book ; Rapin's
History ; Hallam's Constitutional History.
EQUITY.

The Reader on Equity Proposes to deliver during the
ensuing Educational Term 12 lectures ou the following
subjects :-
1. Oa the Doctrine of Performance and Satisfaction.

2. Oa the Implied Substitution of One Gift for
Another.
3. On Election.

4. On the Jurisdiction exercised by Courts of Equity
concurrently with Courts of Law, and on the Amalga-
mation of Common Law with Equity.
5. On the Jurisdiction of Equity in Matters of Ac-
count.

6. On Frauds remediable in Courts of Equity.
"The Reader will continue with his senior and Junior
classed the general course of Equity already clminenccd.
He will also continue in the senior class, and commence
in the junior, to explain the leading rules of reading in
Equity from the works of Lord Redesdale.
LAW OF REAL PROPERTY, &C.

The Reader on the Law of Real Property, &c., pro.
poses to deliver in the ensuing Educational Term a
course of 12 public lectures on the following subjects
1. The Devolution and Transmission of Powers and
Trusts for Sale.
2. The Law of Mortmain.
3. Attendant Terms, the Satisfied Terms Act, Bth
and 9th Viet., c. 112.
4. The Statute Bth and tth Vict. c. 106.
5. The Law of Dower.
6. The Apportionment of Rent and Annuities. •
In his private classes the Reader on Real Property
Law will refer more particularly to the leading cases
sited in the public lectures. He will also discuss the
forms of requisitions to be made on the investigation Or
titles shown upon abstracts delivered by vendors to pur-
chasers, and the nature of the evidence required by con-
veyancers in proof of such titles.
JURISPRUDENCE AND THE CIVIL Law.
The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law pro-
poses during the ensuing Educational Term to deliver
12 public lectures on. the following subjects :
The Sources of Personal Law, t!se Early History of the
Law of Property, the Early History of the Law of Con-
tract, and the Mature Jurisprudence of Rome on the
subject of Contract, the Law of Testaments, its Ancient
and Modern, History, the Roman Law of Civil Process.
The Reader will, with his private close, consider tbo
subject of Roman law in its bearing on modern jurispru-
dence, using as his textbook the " Systems. Juris Romani
Ilodie Usittti of Mackeldey " (Leipaig, 1847).
COMMON LAW.

The Reader on Common Law proposes to deliver
during the ensuing Educational Term, 12 public lectures,
of which three (prior to the reces3) will be in continuation
of the subject treated of in the preceding course, and the
nine remaining lectures will be devoted to Criminal Law
and matters therewith connected. The programme of
the lectures will be as under :
" Lectures 1-3 will treat of Mercantile Law generally,
Mercantile Persons and Instruments.

"Lecture 4 will be introductory to the subject of Cri.
minal Law.

" Lectures 5-7 will treat of Proceedings at the Po-
lice Court, or before the Committing Magistrate ; Sir
John Jervis's Acta ; Superior Courts of Criminal June-
diction ; The Indictment, its Office and Nature.
" Lecture B.—The leading provisions of Lord Ca mp-
bell's Acts will herein be considered and explained.
" Lectures 9-12 will be occupied in analyain4 and
defining offences of ordinary occurrence triable at Quarter
Sessions and the Assizes, and in directing attention to
the rut-s of evidence appropriate to their investigation.
" With his class the Reader on Common Laws
examine minutely the subjects above specified, illustrat-
ing them by reference to the most important recent
cases and to the following works :—Smith's Mercantile
Law and Loading Cases, Archbold's Criminal Pleading
(by Welsby), Greave's Edition of Lord Campbell's Acts,
and Taylor on Evidence (second edition).
'! By order of the Council.
" FRANCIS WHITILLESH, Chairman (pro, tem).
" Council-chamber, Lincoln's-inn, March 27."

The following are the days arid hours for the delivery
of the public lectures by the Readers appointed by the
Inns of Court and for the attendance of the private
classes :
" The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal His-
tory will deliver his public lectures at Lincoln's•inn-hall
on Wednesdays, at 2 p.m. First lecture on the 15th of
April. The private classes meet in the Benchers'
Reading-room, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays,
from half-past nine to half-past eleven. First class
meets on the 16th of April.

"The Reader on Equity will deliver his public
lectures at Lincoln't—inn-hall on Thursdays, at 2 p.m.
First lecture on the 16th of April. The private classes
meet in the Benchers' Reading-room on Mondays, Wed-
nesdays, and Fridays, at a quarter past 3 and a quarter
past 4. First class meats on the 17th of April.
" The Reader on the Law of Real Property; &c., will
deliver his pnblio lectures at Gray's-inn-hall on Fridays,
at 2 p.m. First lecture on the 17th of April. The
Private Classes meet in the North Library on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays from a quarter to 12 a.m. to
a quarter to 2 p.m. First class meets on the 20th of
April.

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Tuesdays, at 2 p.m. First lecture on the 21st of April.
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The Private Classes meet at No. 4, Garden-court,
Temple, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at a
quarter to 4 p.m. First class meets on the 23d of April.
"The Reader on Common Law will deliver his public
lectures at the Inner Temple-ball on Mondays, at 2 p.m.
First lecture on the 20th of April. The Private Classes
meet at the Inner Temple-hall, on Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays, from a quarter to 12 a.m. to a quarter
to 2 p.m. First class meets on the 21st of April.
"Note.—The Educational Term commences on the
15th of April, and ends on the 31st of July, subject to a
deduction of the days intervening between the end of
Easter and the beginning of Trinity Law Terms.
" The Public Lectures and Private Classes will be sus-
pended after Friday the Bth day of May next, and will
be resumed at the appointed days and hours on and after
Thursday the 28th of May."

The statistics given have been obtained from the re.
port of the American Secretary of tLe Navy, and from
officers serviog on board the Merrimac.