Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-25
AWAIIAN JURIsPRUDENCE-
A FOREIGN OPINION.

a FOhElGN OFINION.
Messrs. Ashford and Ashford, Soli-
citors, Of this city, who are originally
from Toronto, Canada, have had appli-
cations from some of the leading law
practitioners, law-publishers and law
libraries in that province for copies of
the Hawaiian Law Reports, Codes,
Statutes, etc. A number of sets of the
Reports and Codes go forward to
Canada by the next mail--so far as they
are at present obtainable and this re-
minds us that those volumes of the sets
(the Penal Code, and Vol. of the
Law Reports) which are now out of
print and out of stock, should be re-
issued by the Government as soon as
practicable. 1t is no small matter that
the reputation OF the Hawaiian Judi
ciary abroad should be such as to call
for the Reports of the Supreme Court
to embellish the best collections of
works of jurisprudence Of a province
such as Ontario, where the Bar are
probably the best trained Of any juris-
diction on the American Continent ;
and where the Bench work is equal to
that of England itself. The Law
Society Of Upper Canada" is corpora
ton having exclusive control of the re.
quisites and qualifications of the Bar
To enter the office of barrister, as a
student-at-law requirs, in the first place,
AN education such as fits the applicant
for University Degree, after which,
FIVE years of service, interspersed with
attendances at " Tenu" at the head
quarters of the courts where all discus
sions are reviewed by all the judges Of
the different courts-something similar
TO Baneo here and yearly intermediate
examinations (pending the trial are for
"call') which require an immense
amount Of reading and familiarity with
law in all its branches. Among other
requisites is compulsory annual sub
scriptlon of every member Of the Bar,
sufficient (beyond all other calls) to
provide the said members with copies
Of all the Canadian Law Reports. On
tario, by the way, is one Of the fzOO
Jurisdictions on the American Cont
nent still retaining the Court Of Chan
cery as a distinct division of its jurispru-
dence-the State of New Jersey being
the other By the :. Ontario Judicature
Act" the Supreme Courts OF that pro-
vince are known as the High Courts Of
Justice as in England-with Queens
Bench" "Common Pleas" Chancery,"
and Appeal" divisions, each having a
seperate bench of justices. There is a
Supreme Court Of the Dominion, to
which appeals from the courts of last
resort of all the provinces may be
brought; or they may, at option, be
brought direct before the Privy Coun-
Gil at London. The Province of the
Dominion-N Newfoundland as we'll
have in vogue the Common law Of Eng
land, modified materially in many points
by statutory interference. Quebec
must be excepted, however. Here the
Roman Civil law as modified by the
French Code, prevails as the treaty
whereby France ceded "New France"
to England, contained clause guaran-
teeing the new subjects "their laws,
their language, and their religion" No
people on earth have ever preserved
these SO tenaciously as the French
Canadians; and it is common remark
of travellers and scholars, French and
foreign, that the Lower Canadians are
"more French than the French them
selves