sentence of the court will contain the decision of any point, or even a dictum, or a quære. The conclusions of the judge are, often, so connected with the reasonings which lead to them, and the observations which accompany them, that no extract can be made from the opinion, as a note of the case, which will not contain matter unsuitable for the purpose. In such cases the reporter should search out the principles established or discussed, as well as he can, by a careful examination of the facts and the opinion.

QUARTERLY LIST OF LAW PUBLICATIONS.

AMERICAN.

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. By Octavius Pickering. Volume V. Nos. 1 & 2. Royal 8vo. Boston. Hilliard, Gray, & Co.

A Treatise on the Pleadings and Practice in Real Actions. By Charles Jackson. 1 vol. Royal 8vo. Boston. Wells &

Lilly.

A Practical Treatise upon the Authority and Duty of Justices of the Peace in Criminal Prosecutions. To which are now added Precedents of Declarations and Pleadings in Civil Actions. By Daniel Davis, Solicitor-General of Massachusetts. Second Edition. 8vo. Boston. Hilliard, Gray, & Co.

This work is well adapted for the purpose for which it is intended, that of a manual for practising magistrates. It is, therefore, obvious that its utility is not limited to professional readers, because a very large portion of the practising justices of the peace, at least in the New England states, have not been educated to the legal profession. It is to this class of readers that it will be found especially serviceable, as they are neither disposed, nor probably would most of them feel competent, to search out and arrange for themselves a system of practice, in doing which they would be obliged to encounter the voluminous and complicated English publications on the subject, appalling even to the professional student. The plan of this work is the natural, and perhaps the only proper one for treatises of the kind; it begins at the commencement of the prosecution, and follows it through its several stages to its conclusion. To the criminal department is added a short collection of the most common and useful forms of pleading in civil cases, of usual occurrence before justices, with occasional brief remarks, tending to simplify and explain the course of practice. The work is more particularly calculated for the New England states, but will be found useful in many of the other states, which have forms of justice proceedings not entirely dissimilar. We notice some typographical errors, which we regret to meet with in a work of legal practice and forms; but the general character of the mechanical execution is that of accuracy.

Dissertations on the Questions which arise from the Contrariety of the Laws of different States and Nations. By Samuel Livermore, Counsellor at Law. No. I. Containing two Dissertations. 8vo. New Orleans. B. Levy.

Forms of Practice, or American Precedents, in Actions Personal and Real. Interspersed with Annotations. By Benjamin L. Oliver, Jr. Royal 8vo. Boston. Hilliard, Gray, & Co.

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, January Term, 1828. By Richard Peters, Jr. 8vo. Philadelphia. P. H. Nicklin.

Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia. By Peyton Randolph. Vol. V.

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By Dudley Atkins Tyng, Esq. Vol. IX. Third Edition. With Notes and References to American and English Cases: By Benjamin Rand, Counsellor at Law. Boston. Hilliard, Gray, & Co.

This new edition of the ninth volume of the Massachusetts Reports, is, we understand, to be followed by other volumes, under the care of the same editor. From the well-known industry and learning of Mr. Rand, we are confident that he will add much to the value of the work. Republications of this kind must always be received with pleasure by the profession, as they are a great assistance to the labors of the lawyer, by pointing out to him the places in which the learning and decisions on particular subjects are to be found.

We have looked over Mr. Rand's volume very hastily. He appears to have collected a large number of authorities, adding notes of greater or less extent and importance to a majority of the cases, and in many of them controverting the decisions or dicta of the court, which he does with great freedom and acuteness. If it had been consistent with the editor's plan, and the limits of the work, we should have been glad to have had a more full and thorough investigation of the decisions which he thinks questionable, instead of a few brief remarks, and a reference to a host of authorities. His comments on expressions used by the court, in some instances, may perhaps be thought to verge upon the hypercritical.

We notice, with pleasure, that to the unsatisfactory marginal notes, Of the rights of parties to a mortgage,' and 'Of stoppage in transitu,' Mr. Rand has added abstracts of the points decided in the cases.

As the greatest accuracy in printing law books is very important, we regret to observe that the typographical errors in this volume are very numerous. Commentaries on American Law. By James Kent. Vol. III. New York. O. Halsted.

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine. By Simon Greenleaf, Counsellor at Law. Vol. IV. Portland. James Adams, Jr.

A Statement, shewing some of the Evils and Absurdities of the English Common Law, as adopted in several of the United States. By a Lover of Improvement. New York.

Laws of the United States and other Documents relating to Public Lands. Washington. Gales & Seaton.

Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. By Thomas Sergeant and William Rawle, Jr. Vol. XV. Philadelphia. McCarty & Davis.

The American Chancery Digest; being a Digested Index of all the reported Decisions in Equity, in the United States Courts, and in the Courts of the several States. By John D. Campbell and Stephen Cambreleng, of the New York Bar. New York. Gould & Banks.

Review of the Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. upon the State of the Law. By David Paul Brown. Philadelphia. J. Dobson, No. 108 Chestnut Street.

AMERICAN EDITIONS OF FOREIGN WORKS.

The Practice of the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas in Personal Actions. By William Tidd, Esq. With Notes, and some recent English and American Cases: By F. J. Troubat. 2 vols. 8vo. Philadelphia. Towar & Hogan.

A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil and Criminal Proceedings. By Thomas Starkie, Esq. With References to American Decisions : By Theron Metcalf. Second American Edition. Additional Notes. By Edward D. Ingraham. 3 vols. Boston. Wells & Lilly.

A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages. By J. J. Powell, Esq. Reprinted from the sixth English edition; much enlarged and improved; with copious Notes, by Thomas Coventry, Esq. With Notes and References to American Cases, by Benjamin Rand, Esq. 3 vols. Boston. Wells & Lilly.

A Supplement to Vesey Junior's Reports of Cases in Chancery; containing Notes occasionally illustrated by Cases decided by Lords Hardwicke, King, &c. from the MSS. of Mr. Forrester. By John Erskyn Hovenden, Esq. 2 vols. Philadelphia. P. H. Nicklin.

The Forms of Indictment, with the Evidence necessary to support them, including the Statutes, which make many valuable regulations relative to Criminal Proceedings. Containing also a Table, showing those Statutes which have been repealed. By John Frederic Archbold, Esq. New York. Treadway & Bogert.

A Treatise of the Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of Husband and Wife, at Law and in Equity. By James Clancey, Esq. New York. Treadway & Bogert.

An Analytical Digest of the Reported Cases in the Courts of Equity, and the High Court of Parliament, from the earliest authentic period to the present time; to which are added, the Decisions of the Courts of Equity and Parliament in Ireland, with a Repertorium of the Cases, doubly arranged. By Richard Whalley Bridgman, Esq. First American, from the third and last London edition: By R. O. Bridgman, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. 3 vols. 8vo. New York. O. Halsted. 1828.

A Treatise on Pleading, with a Collection of Practical Precedents, and Notes thereon, in 3 vols. By Joseph Chitty, Esq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law. Fifth American, from the fourth London edition. Corrected and enlarged; with Notes and Additions By John A. Dunlap, Esq., and additional Notes, and References to later Decisions, by E. D. Ingraham, Esq. Philadelphia. Carey, Lee, & Cary.

A Treatise of the Law relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen:

in four Parts; 1. Of the owners of Merchant Ships; 2. Of the Persons employed in the Navigation thereof; 3. Of the Carriage of Goods therein; 4. Of the Wages of Merchant Seamen. By Charles Abbott, now Lord Tenterden, Chief Justice of England. Fourth American from the fifth London edition. Edited, with permission of the Author, by John Henry Abbott, of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. With Annotations containing the principal American Authorities: By Joseph Story, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. And an Appendix containing the American Acts respecting the Registry and Navigation of Ships, Salvage, the Regulation of Seamen, &c. &c. Boston. Hilliard, Gray, & Co.

WORKS IN THE PRESS.

HILLIARD, GRAY, & CO. BOSTON,-HAVE IN PRESS,

Hobart's Reports, with Notes, References, and Annotations. By Judge Williams.

Vol. X. of Tyng's Massachusetts Reports. With Notes and References to American and English Cases. By Benjamin Rand, Counsellor at Law.

No. III. of Vol. V. Pickering's Reports. This will complete the volume.

Vol. IV. Mason's Circuit Court Reports.

Angell on the Statutes of Limitations.

TREADWAY & BOGERT, NEW YORK,-HAVE IN PRESS, A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, and at Nisi Prius, from the Restoration in 1660 to Michaelmas Term, 4 George IV. By Charles Petersdorf, Esq.