Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-07
The Ner connecttcnf Cixil oalcer.

The New Connecticut Civil Officer.
 We are pleased to transfer to our columns an article from the Hartford Gourant in ref erence to the new work by Vim. K. Town send, D. 0. L., of this city. The work meets with reception from the bar and the press of the State which does honor to the author and cannot but be gratifying to him and his large circle of friends. The Courant says of 'sThe New Connecticut Civil Oficer:''
 The New Connecticut CivII Officer. welcome addition to the library of every who has anything to do with sCounecticut practice as seiscsman consfahie tax gatherer taIpayer trustee executor. The publishers seem to have taken ad- Practice 1os to present % aa5stantiaTy new work. containing all the new laws in reference to the old thereto brought down to date. y#N
 The book with index covers SIS pages. most of which are new and the old matter has been carefully
 In 1.-The New Procedure" the author shows the in this State The discuss % ion of the two systems n soe twenty pages Points ont the adyantagss ef the fhed use under one practice art. =z.
 The ''Act and Rules with Nctes'presents novel engagement of the sections of the act with synopsis the rules defining modify fyng such section there under and collection of the appropriate cases decd
 These two subjects taken together must be indis- Pensable to every prseticns lawyer The brevity of undoubtedly them to be continually referred to here points of Connecticut practice rather than in the larger text books in the Practice Book
 Justices have up to this time had no Code Forms, either of pleading or Judgments Now Part H. is adapted to the new pleading that here may be found complaints in place Of the old declarations judgn ents, with and without jury. Here notice valuable new pages on testimony and evidence and new forms on offer of Judgment which to admit, exc stand how the justices have been able to get with out the book, and commend it to their careful at fhd 1NrNt fho Nharlta m Fees and Costs shows not only the statutory fees al lowed to justices and officers but also the amounts
 seIsctmen will here find what the new pauper law is. and how it is to be enforced.
 ce together with the duties of executors and trus. tees briefly but clearly stated in Part " of the should be drawn and the procedure before judges of probate. Mr.- H. G. Newton, the author of this guide in matters of this character The practical forms new, short. full and sufficient.
 New Connecticut civil oficer. The % new plan ', by which the most important subjects of Connecticut practice are embraced in the work is an admirable one The preparation of each part is careful thor ough and complete
 We hardly conceive of any class of citizens who will not need just such book of reference in some of it's departments.
 street 1t Is substantially bound in full calf and printed in clear type on pure white paper They are supplying the trade
 Mr. w. K. Townsend graduated at Yale with honors in the class of '71 and at Yale Law school in "A, where he took the two highest prizes, (the Jewell and Civil Law prizes), and received in 1880 the degree of Doctor of Civil Law" He is an ex-Coun- cilman and at present an Alderman of this city. He is grand nephew of Prof. Isaac H. Townsend, first professor of law in the Yale Law school, (and otherwise eminent in the law and as 8 scholar and citizenl before it's union with the college. The same gentle man was the donor of the gift from which the famous six Townsend prizes'' arise, ex- citing such emulation among Yale academies. The author of the New Connecticut Civil Off, cer is also son of Hon. James M. Tounsend, the donor of the gift from which the coveted Townsend prize' in the Yale Law school arises. In his contribution of valuable work to the bar and law libraries of the State, the author of the New Civil Officer has won many golden opinions from some of the leading and most brilliant Connecticut lawyers. He is now absent on a pleasure trip to the Bahamas after two years of unre- mitting labor upon this work and in the pros ecution of his law practice.