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Wake, L’sq. Barrister. 
THE very great facility which the late 
Mr. Powell possessed in composing trea- 
tises upon legal subjects kept his pen 
ever engaged, and hardly any lawyer 
has contributed so much to the shelves 
of his profession. Amongst other valu- 
able books, that of Swinburne had, it 
seems, for some years been chosen by 
him for illustrative notes; but dying be- 
fore they were ready for the press, the 
proprietors of the present publication 
purchased them of his widow, and they 
now make their appearance from the re- 
vision and arrangement of Mr. Wake. 
The text is very judiciously printed, 
Agr. II. A Practical Treatise on Copyhold Tenure. By Ricwarp Bakwarp Fismer. 
Second Edition. é 
8vo. pp. 423. 
IT is nearly ten years since the first 
edition of this treatise was given to the 
public; and having been sometime out 
of print, the author, in bringing forward 
Art. IIT. An Aliidgment of Cases argued and determined in the Courts of Law, during 
the Reign of his present Majesty 5 with Tables of the Names of Cases and principal Ma‘ters. 
By Tuomas WattTer WitiraMs, Esq. Vol. V. 8v0. pp. 1000. 
THE third volume of the work com- 
pletes the abridgment of all the public 
acts of parliament, from the thirty-first 
year of the reign of his present Majesty 
Art, IV. 
Inn, Conveyancer. 8vo. pp. 117. 
THIS is along and laborious argu- 
ment in support of the opinion of Mr. 
Justice Manwood, on a point of dry and 
remote law, in opposition to the reason- 
ing against it of Mr. Justice Blackstone, 
and others who have coincided with him, 
LAW. 
Arr. I. A Treatise of Testaments and last Wills, ty Henry Swinburne, 9th Edition, with 
Annotations of the lute J. J. Powell, Esq. Barrister. Prepared for the Press by Jamys 
8vo. 3 vols. pp. 1236. 
notes are explanatory of: doubtful pas- 
Observations on the Rules of Descent, and on the Point of Law, whether the 
Brother of a Purchaser's paternal Grandmother shall be preferred in the Descent to the 
Brother of the paternal Great Grandmother of a Purchaser. By W. UW. Rowe, of Gray's 
in the old language of the edition of 
1640, and not according to the sixth edi- 
tion, in which the style had been at- 
tempted to be modernized ; and the two 
indexes are incorporated into one. The 
sages, and collegt subsequent decisions 
and authorities, where the positions of 
the author have undergone discussion 
or received alteration. They are very 
numerous and elaborate, and with the 
addition of the late statutes certainly, in 
a great degree, increase the value of this 
sterling work. : 
this new edition, has corrected and con- 
siderably enlarged it. Its value is too 
well known, and too generally acknow- 
ledged, to need comment. 
to the forty-second. The public is al. 
ready acquainted with its object and 
style of execution from the two former 
volumes. 
but particularly in answer to a pamphlet 
published upon the subject by Mr. Wat- 
kins, four years ago, entitled “An En- 
quiry into the Question.” It is written 
with learning and ingenuity. 
Art. V. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, collected 
by John Dickens, Esq. the late Senior Register of that Court, and revised by Joun 
Wyatt, Esq. Barrister at Law. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 875. , 
THIS is a posthumous work of the 
late venerable ‘Mr. Dickens, who, for a 
very long period of time, had a seat in 
the Court of Chancery. He -had, it 
seems, collected the whole of these cases, 
extending through almost the whole of 
the last century, in his own hand-writing, 
and left them, though without arrange- 
ment, obviously intended for publication. 
In this state Mr. Wyatt, who had before 
presented his profession with another ex- 
cellent book, finding them to contain “a 
valuable selection, remarkable for a cor- 
rect narrative of facts, a concise yet clear 
statement of the question, and a conspi- 
cuous report of the judgments,” revised 
and prepared them tor press. As far as 
we have been able to examine them, we 
have seen every reason to coincide in this 
character with the editor, to whose judg. 
ment much may be confided,—An excele 
lent index is added, ; 
