within his reach, but you must specify nothing as absolutely necessary but what bears immediately upon his profession." 9. LAW. 66 Melancholy and untrue is the picture which they draw of the legal study who represent its prominent features to be those of subtlety and impudence, and of labour dry and barren; rather would I compare it to a mountain, steep and toilsome on its first approaches, but easy and delightful in its superior ascent, and whose top is crowned with a rich and lasting verdure."-RAITHBY, Study and Practice of the Law. CIVIL LAW. Earlier Authors.-Pomponius (Enchiridion), Tribonian (Institutes, Pandects, &c.), Hottoman; Vinius on the Institutes; Voet.on the Pandects; Persius on the Code; Leibnitz, Godefroy, Cujacius. Later Authors.-Heineccius, Pothier, Barbeyrac, Eichhorn, Hugo, Savigny, Feurbach, Mittelmayer, Thibaut, Mühlenbruch; Goëschen's Institutes of Gaius; Mackelday's Institutes; Livingston's Introduction to the Code of Louisiana; Schweppe's History of Roman Law. COMMON LAW. Earlier Authors.-Glanville, Bracton, Fortescue (all on the laws of England); Littleton on Tenures; Lord Bacon, Coke, Shepherd's Touchstone (by Doddridge). Later Authors.-Hale, Gilbert, Wood, Hawkins, Bacon, Blackstone, Sanders, Cruise, Sugden, Comyn, Viner, &c., &c., &c. ELEMENTARY COURSE. Preliminary.-1. Writers on the Study of Law, viz.: Blackstone on the Study of the Law; Hoffman's Course; Warren's Law Studies; Wynne's Eunomus. 2. Historical Writers.-Hume generally; Kent's 1st volume, from x.-xvth. Lectures, for a history and sketch of the Constitution of the United States; Appendix II. to Hume's History for a sketch of the Feudal System; the introductory chapter to 4th volume of Blackstone's Commentaries on do., and Hallam's Middle Ages (chapter xi., parts i. and ii.). For the Constitutional History of England, read last chapter in Blackstone, Gilbert Stuart's Discourse on the Laws and Government of England, prefixed to Sullivan's Lectures, Hallam's Middle Ages (chapter viii., parts i., ii., îii.), and Hallam's Constitutional History; also Reeve's History of English Law. I add three different courses of law-reading, which seem to be founded on different principles, and each of which is the result of much experience in the profession. The first was published anonymously several years since in New-York, and is understood to have proceeded from the hands of John Anthon, Esq.; the second is compiled from the "Law Studies" of Mr. Warren; for the third I am indebted to the eminent Royall professor of law in Harvard University (Hon. S. Greenleaf). 1. Vattel's Law of Nations, with Grotius. Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, to which ought now to be added Kent's Commentaries on American Law. Woodeson's Lectures on the Laws of England. Wood's Institutes, with Hale's History of the Common Law. Reperusal of Blackstone, with Christian's Notes. Reeve's History of the English Law, in connexion with a reperusal of Hume. Coke upon Lyttleton. Reperusal of Blackstone, with Tucker's Notes on American Law. Cruise's Digest of the Law of Real Property. Reperusal of Coke upon Lyttleton, with special attention to Hargrave and Butler's Notes. Shepherd's Touchstone on Common Assurances. Espinasse's Digest of the Law of Nisi Prius. Chitty, Baily, and Kyd, on Bills of Exchange. Marshall and Park on Insurance. Brown's Treatise on the Civil Law. Appendix to Sellon's Practice. Gilbert's Common Pleas Practice. The 3d volume of Blackstone. Sellon's Practice, Tidd's do., with Anthon's Appendix. Archbold on Practice has appeared since.) Chitty on Pleading. Hale's and Hawkins's Crown Law. Peake's Compendium of the Law of Evidence. M'Nally's Rules of Evidence. (The works of Phillips, Greenleaf, and Starkie have since superseded the above.) Reading of Reports. Note.-It should be remembered that the above course was drawn up previous to 1810, since which time many valuable works have been published, and the Law itself has undergone some material changes. Mr. Anthon's course seems to be founded upon the idea of making the student acquainted first with the general principles of Law, and leading him afterward to the knowledge of practice. The next course (Warren's) requires the student to cultivate practical and theoretical knowledge together, beginning, however, with the former. Mr. W. holds that a knowledge of the machinery of the Law is indispensable, in order to a proper understanding of its principles and terms. 2. 1. Elementary Treatise on Pleading (Stephens), with Saunders on Pleading and Practice. 2. Elementary Treatise on Practice (Tidd and Archbold), with reference to the 1st part of Stephens. 3. Chitty's Pleading. 4. After, or at the same time with the above, 2d volume of Blackstone on Real and Personal Property. 5. Selwyn's Nisi Prius. 6. Pothier on Contracts; Chitty do. 7. Phillips or Starkie on Evidence, (the first dwells more on Practice, the second on Principles). Reference must be made during this time to Chitty on Contracts, Selwyn's Nisi Prius, &c., &c. 8. Blackstone's 2d volume, with Watkins on Conveyancing, and Burton's Law of Real Property, and reference to Coke upon Lyttleton. 9. Cruise's Digest, Woodfall on Landlord and Tenant, Adams on Ejectment. 10. Smith's Compendium of Mercantile Law, with reference to Chitty on Bills of Exchange, and Comyn on Contracts. (Savigny's History of Roman Law in the Middle Ages may be added.) 11. Williams on Executors, Shepherd's Touchstone. Note.-The following American works will claim the attention of students in this country, viz., Story on the Constitution of the United States; also on Bailments, on Agency, on the Conflict of Laws, &c., &c.; Greenleaf on Evidence; the copious and valuable notes of Cowen and Hill appended to Phillips on Evidence; Curtis on Conveyances; Phillips on Insurance; Rand's edition of Long on Personal Property (Sales); Barbour on Criminal Law, &c. The proper titles in Bacon's | Reeve's Domestic Relations. Abridgment. Bingham on Infancy. Story on Partnership. Story on Agency. Angell and Ames on Corpo- Bingham on Coverture. Collinson on Idiots and Lu- Shelford on Lunatics, &c., &c. TITLE TO THINGS PERSONAL, BY 1. Occupancy. 2 Blackstone's Com., ch. xxvi. 2 Kent's Comm., lect. xxxvi. 2. Succession. 2 Blackstone's Com., eh, xxix. | 3. Marriage. 2 Blackstone's Com., ch. xxix. 2 Kent's Comm., lect. xxviii. 4. Judgment. 2 Blackstone's Com., ch. xxix. 2 Kent's Comm., lect. xxxvii. Chitty on Contracts. 5. Contract. Comyn on Contracts, 2d edition. Chitty on Bills. Shepherd's Touchstone, title "Obligations." 6. Testament and Administration. Williams on Executors. | Toller on Executors. |