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REGISTRATION OF PARTNERSHIPS.

Among the other measures of legal reform introduced into Parliament, is one by Lord Gooderich for the "Registration of Partnerships," which we should think would be hardly palatable to many persons in business, though the profession need not object to it. The introducer of the measure informed the House that the subject was one which had engaged the attention of mercantile men for some years, and a lage number of chambers of commerce had petitioned in favour of legislation such as that now proposed. The object of the bill was, that all who traded under any name other than their own should be required to inform the public who they were. All persons engaged in business knew how difficult it was to ascertain exactly who were the members of the firm with whom they were dealing. Many old firms had perpetuated their names when not a single person of the original firm remained; and it often happened that one person was a member of several firms. Uncertainty of this kind as to the partners opened the door to fraud, and the want of exact information as to who were the real members of the firm was a source of great difficulty and expense in conducting legal proceedings. Recent events in the commercial world had turned the attention of the public to the evils which existed in our system. The present bill required the registration of all firms not coming under the Joint Stock Act, or being banking firms. The machinery was simple and ready made to their hands. It was proposed that the superintendent registrars should be charged with the duty of registration, and a copy of the register should be sent to the general registrar's office in London. With respect to the enforcement of obedience to this statute it was proposed in the first place that no unregistered partnership should be capable of suing, while in the case of those who resolutely refused to be registered they should be subjected to a moderate penalty. In order to provide for the expenses, it was proposed that a small fee should be paid by the firm on registration. Such a measure as the present was one which would tend in a great degree to improve our commercial system, and prevent frauds, by throwing the light of publicity upon trade establishments. The bill did not touch on the question of the liability of partners, nor make the mere registration a proof of the liability of those whose names were registered. It appeared that the measure was suggested by the Commercial Association of Manchester, in conjunction with the Law Association of that town. The bill had since been discussed by the Law Reform Association in London, and its principle had been approved of by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. It was simply in

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T. T.-You will be entitled to be examined in Michaelmas Term. We should say that you have not read sufficient to pass, but so much depends on your capacity and business habits that we cannot give a positive opinion against your success. Try three or four sets of questions, and if you find you can answer the majority of them correctly, you may go in with some confidence.

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ERRATUM IN LIBRARY.-At p. 80, Princ. Com. Law, 1. 10 from bottoni, for "lunar" insert "calendar ;" it will then read, "the statute is a calendar month" (see Ryalls v. Reg. 11 Q. B. 781; 13 Jur. 259).

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We understand that an Elementary Treatise on Architecture, from the pen of the celebrated Commentator on law, Judge Blackstone. and which is alluded to in his life as remaining in M.S., is now proposed to be printed by subscription, with a dedication to the Lord Chancellor, by his grandson, Mr. Blackstone, late M. P. for Wallingford. The work above alluded to, and which is enriched with numerous illustrative drawings by Blackstone himself, was written before he was twenty years of age. It is in its nature a skilful compilation and adaptation from several authors on architecture; and it has been thought, by those who have seen the M.S., and are capable of judging of its merits, to justify in every way the assertion of the learned commentator's biographer, who says, "it is esteemed by those who have perused it as in no respect unworthy of his matured judgment and more practised pen.” As the noble lord who now fills the highest office of the law has consented to head the list of subscribers, we have little doubt his example will be followed by other influential members of the legal profession. The work we have stated will be published by subscription-the impression will be limited to 500 copies, and it is intended that one guinea shall be the amount of subscription for a single copy. It will be issued by Messrs. Butterworth, of Fleet

V. C. Stuart has delivered his judgment in the case of Brook v. Brook (ante, pp. 244, 245), which was argued before him, with the assistance of Sir Cresswell Cresswell, then one of the judges of the Common Pleas, in the month of November last; and on the 4th of December the learned judge, being appointed Judge of the Court of Probate, delivered his opinion as to the validity of a marriage with a deceased wife's sister in a foreign contry, the parties being British subjects, although by the law of such country the marriage was legal; and in that opinion the learned judge declared that by law the marriage was illegal and void, and that the children of the second marriage were illegitimate (ante, pp. 244, 245). The Vice-Chancellor went through the whole facts of the case, and said he entirely concurred in the opinion and judgment of Sir Cresswell Cresswell. The facts of the case were, that in 1847 Charlotte, the first wife of the late

Wm. Leigh Brook, of Meltham Hall, near Huddersfield, died. By her he had one son and one daughter. In 1851, Wm. Leigh Brook intermarried at Altona, in the kingdom of Denmark, with Emily Armitage, the sister of his deceased wife. In 1855, the second wife, Emily died of cholera, at Frankfort; and two days after Mr. Brook died of the same disease, at Cologne. By the second marriage there were born one son and two daughters. By his will Mr. Brook gave his real and personal property among his children of the two marriages in certain proportions. Charles Armitage Brook, the son by the second marriage, had died since the death of Mr. Brook, and the real question was, whether his share of Mr. Brook's real and personal estate went, as the realty, to Mr. Brook's son by the first marriage, and, as to the personalty, among all Mr. Brook's children equally; or, whether Charles Armitage Brook's share of such real and personal estate went to the Crown by reason of the invalidity of the second marriage. During the argument, it was coutended that the marriage, being valid according to the laws of Schlewig-Holstein, was good in this country, and that the daughters were entitled to the share of Charles Armitage Brook to the property, and that it did not revert to the Crown, as the estate of an illegitimate. The learned Vice-Chancellor concluded by saying he had given the case his most careful consideration, and came to the conclusion that the second marriage was illegal and void, and that there must be judgment for the Crown (6 Week. Rep. 451).

The late Sir John Dodson.-The death of the Right Hon. Sir. John Dodson took place on the 27th of April. Sir John was the eldest son of the late Dr. John Dodson, of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, and was born in 1780. He married in 1822, Miss Pearson, eldest daughter of George Pearson, M.D. The deceased' was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1801, M.A. in 1804, and D.C.L. in 1808. He was a member of the Middle Temple, of which he ultimately became a bencher. He was appointed Advocate of the Admiralty in 1829, and Advocate-General in 1834, on which occasion he was knighted. On her Majesty's accession to the throne, his patent of appointment was renewed. In November, 1841, he was appointed Master of the Faculties, and in 1852 Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Deam of the Arches, when he was sworn-in as a member of her Majesty's Privy Council. The learned gentleman was formerly M.P. for Rye, from July, 1819, to March, 1823.