"Now for the Laws of England (if I shall speak my opinion of them without "partiality either to my profession or country), for the matter and nature of "them, I hold them wise, just and moderate laws: they give to God, they give to "Casar, they give to the subject what appertaineth. It is true they are as mixt "as our language, compounded of British, Saxon, Danish, Norman customs. "And surely as our language is thereby so much the richer, so our laws are like"wise by that mixture the more complete."-LORD BACON. LONDON: 7, FLEET STREET, E. C. Law Works published by Messrs. Butterworth. COOTE'S & TRISTRAM'S PROBATE PRACTICE.-5th Edit. THE PRACTICE of the COURT of PROBATE in Common Form Business. By HENRY CHARLES COOTE, F.S.A., Proctor in Doctors' Commons, &c., &c. Also a Treatise on the Practice of the Court in Contentious Business, by THOMAS H. TRISTRAM, D.C L., Advocate in Doctors' Commons, and of the Inner Temple. Fifth Edition, with great Additions, and including all the Statutes, Rules, Orders, &c., to the present time; together with a Collection of Original Forms and Bills of Costs. 8vo. 24s. cloth. "A fifth edition in so short a time is a success that few law books can boast, and it is well deserved. Mr. Coote as a proctor possesses that intimate acquaintance with the minutiae of practice which experience only can supply, and Dr. Tristram's education as an advocate enables him to treat of the jurisdiction of the Probate Court, the law which it administers, and the principles established for the administration of that law, with a mastery of his subject that has made this production of the united labours of two such competent men the accepted text book of the Probate Court. Having noticed its successive editions as they appeared, it remains only to say that it brings down the statutes and cases to the present time."-Law Times on the 5th Edition. "The profession will be glad to wel. come the publication of this most valuable work. When the monopoly which the proctors and advocates enjoyed in Doctors Commons was abolished, and the practice in probates and letters of administration was thrown open to the general profession, the uninitiated derived greater benefit and instruction from this book than from any other which was published for their guidance. It has become an acknowledged necessity in the library of every practitioner. Since the publication of the last edition new rules have been promulgated for the Court of Probate, other regulations have been made by acts of parliament and an order in council, and the practice of the Court has in some respects been altered and settled. These changes have been attended to. A more useful book than this we do not know, and we need not say more than that in this edition the authors have done all in their power to increase its utility and secure its completeness."-Law Magazine and Review. "We must not omit to praise the complete character of the Appendix, which, occupying more than half the whole work, presents us with the statutes, the orders in council, rules and fees, tables of costs and forms, and leaves nothing to be desired by the proctor or solicitor either in the routine of common form or in the stages of suits."-Law Journal on the 5th Edition. HUNT ON BOUNDARIES AND FENCES. THE LAW RELATING TO BOUNDARIES AND FENCES. By ARTHUR JOSEPH HUNT, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister at Law. Post 8vo. 9s. cloth. ་་ Among other matters discussed are the rights of property on the sea shore; navigable and private rivers; the duties of mine owners with regard to boundaries; the rights and liabilities of landlords and tenants as to fences, hedges and ditches, and the liability to make and repair the same; the duty to fence land adjoining roads; the law re lating to trees and hedges on the bound. aries of property, &c. The second chapter of Mr. Hunt's work, which relates to fences generally, is especially worthy of perusal, as cases are repeatedly arising between adjoining proprietors. Too much praise cannot be given to the modesty of an author, who, following the example of early text writers, con |