1860. 3. Powers. Josiah W. Smith on Real and Personal Property, part 2, tit. 9, c. 3, and part 3, tit. 12, c. 3, S. 7, pp. 316-332, 685-693, 2nd ed. 4. Hayes on the Common Law, Uses and Trusts. 5. The Law of Copyholds-The Incidents of the Copyhold Tenure-The Rights of Lords and Tenants of Manors. Shelford's Law of Copyholds, cc. 2, 4. Candidates for honours will be examined in all the foregoing books and subjects; candidates for a certificate in those under heads 1, 2, and 3. The READER on Jurisprudence and the CIVIL LAW proposes to examine candidates for honours in the following books: 1. The Institutes of Justinian, books 1, 3, and 4, with the Notes in Sandars's edition, or the Explanations in Cumin's Manual of Roman Law. 2. The book on Jus Hæreditarium in Mackeldey's Systema Juris Romani Hodie Usitati, (p. 580), so far as it relates to Testaments and Testamentary Succession. 3. The last two titles of the Digest, "De Significatione Verborum" and "De Regulis Juris." 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Richmond, Norton, Derbyshire, corn factor, March 31 at 10, Sheffield, last exJohn Hignell, Kirby-le-Soken, Essex, grocer, March 30 at 1, London, aud. ac.- -George Gynne, Wardour-street, Soho, Middlesex, cabinet maker, April 5 at 1, London, aud. ae.; April 12 at 11, div.-Nathaniel Morrish, Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, farmer, April 2 at half-past 11, London, aud. ac.Christopher Storry, Aldershot, Hampshire, and Farnham, Surrey, fishmonger, April 7 at 12, London, aud. ac.-Chas. Willmer, Liverpool, newspaper proprietor, April 2 at 11, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Jas. L. Cross, Liverpool, insurance broker, April 2 at 11, Liverpool, aud. ac.-Frederick Saldorf, Plymouth, Devonshire, corn factor, April 2 at half-past 12, Plymouth, aud. ac.-Job M. Smith, Lincoln, draper, April 25 at 12, Kingston-upon-Hull, aud. ac. and div.- Beaumont Marshall, High Holborn, Middlesex, tallow melter, April 19 [For continuation of Gazette, see p. 115, col. 2.] the creditors will have a greater control over the proceedings, in which they have the greatest interest, the official assignee acting simply for their aid and protection; private arrangements are facilitated; the classi being remitted to the regular criminal tribunals; while imprisonment for mere debt is practically abolished. THE bill introduced into Parliament by the Attor-fication of certificates is put an end to, criminal acts ney-General is a great advance in legislation upon the cognate subjects of bankruptcy and insolvency. Reflecting the energy and courage of its framer, it grapples boldly with the difficulties which have been found by Our present code of bankruptcy and insolvency was described by the Attorney-General as the very worst in any country in Europe, as frustrating its main objects, and consuming in expenses one-third of the property administered under its provisions. This description tells but badly for legislation, which has so often revised and reconsidered the subject, the last consolidation bill dating no further back than 1849; and yet Sir Richard Bethell tells us, “In principle, nothing ought to be more simple than a law of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is nothing in the world more than taking the whole of the debtor's property by one universal execution, or by one universal surrender, for the benefit of his creditors; and all that would of ascertaining the extent of the rights of those who are be required would be a tribunal simply for the purpose interested in the distribution, and some simple machi experience to press most heavily upon commercial interests; it removes anomalies, which did not exist merely in theory, but were the means of working injustice and oppression; it simplifies procedure, and tends to produce a more efficient system as between debtor and creditor, at far less cost and vexation and delay than have hitherto been incurred. The leading characteristics of this important measure are the breaking down of the distinction between traders and non-traders, when once levelled by insolvency; the abolition of the five London commissioners in their official character, and the vesting of their judicial functions in one judge, to be assisted, in cases where the assets do not exceed 3007, by the Insolvent Court in Portugal-street*. Henceforth, as it is proposed, ministerial acts are to be performed by the registrars; the country commissioners are tonery for realising the property, and dividing it among be gradually absorbed in the county court judges; the messengers are to be discontinued; acts of bankruptcy are reduced in number, and are greatly simplified; the parties entitled. In theory, then, one would imaestablish an institution, that should devote itself to the gine that it was most easy to construct a tribunal, and task of realising the property of the insolvent, and, with the advantage of an established body, that this would be done at a very small and reasonable cost." He, however, informs the House that "such is the |