A Manual of the Law of Maritime Warfare, Embodying the Decisions of Lord Stowell and Other English Judges, and of the American Courts, and the Opinions of the Most Eminent Jurists (Classic Reprint)

Fifth Edition, in 8vo,, price 8s, 6d. board, xxi.sx.inrs NSW STAMP ACTS, AND COMPLETE TABLES OF DUTIES. The New Stamp A cts (of 1850 and 1853), with the Succession Duty A ct, Notes and Explanatory Observations, and Tables of all the Stamp Duties payable after the 10th October, 1853, including the new Law Fund, and Judgments Registry Duties in I reland, together with a Digest of all th recent Casts. By Hugh Ti Ltley, Assistant Solicitor of Inland Revenue. Fifth Edition. This work forma a Snpplement to the Second Edition, of the Treatise on the Stamp Laws, by the same A uthor. Just published, the Fourth Edition, in royal 8vo,, price 16s. cloth, STARK.IE-S LAW OF EVIDENCE-NEW EDITION .A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence. By Thomas StarJ;ie, Esq. Fourth Edition, with very considerable Alterations and Additions ;I ncorporating the Statutes and Reported Cases to the time of Publication. By G. M. Dowdeswell, and J. G. Malcolm, Esqs., Barristers-at-L avv. Fortunately for the Profession, the new edition has been intrusted to gentlemen, of whom one is well known, not only as a ripe and accomplished lawyer, (doctrina malidus,) but as a judicious editor, knowing how to withhold as well as how to apply his hand. A mid the present plague of reports, mere industry is not sufficient to qualify even a second-rate editor. It is evident that the editors have not been blinded by their respect for the author, but have altered, corrected, and amended, wherever they have seen occasion. Such a course could not be pursued safely upon a small stock of learning or of judgment; and in our opinion, it has been pursued, not only with safety, but with manifest advantage to the book; so that the fourth edition of Starkie is to the existing law, what the first edition was to the law in 1824. We wish we had some means of identifying Mr. Malcolm sportions of the work. As it is, being
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