John Dunning
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publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797 Excerpt: ...draftsman. Theincreasu'gvoluminousness of the law, hasinduced many to addict their studies more peculiarly to some particular branch of practice. The great nicety required in alienating or encumbering estates, and in securing them according to limitations to be governed by future contingences, either by demise or otherwise; and the exactness also necessary in certain instruments respecting personal property, and in articles of copartnerships, and the like; form the laborious occupation of conveyancers, who rarely engage in any other line of the profession. COURSE COURSE Of LAW READING. READ, Hume's history of England, particularly observing the rise, progress, and declension, of the feudal system. Minutely attend to the saxon government that preceded it, and dwell on the reigns of Edward I.--Henry VI.--Henry VII.--Henry VIII.--James I.--Charles I.--Charles II. and James II. Blackstone f. On the second reading, turn to the references. Mr. There is scarcely any thing of greater importance to a fludent, than a proper choice of books: not that his collection should consist of such only; it being necessary, before his entrance upon this study, that lie be furnished with the whole course of the law, to which he may occasionally refer. This idea is enforced in a very sensible work, entitled, the barrister, in 2 vols. umo. and published in 1790 or 1791. The author is mr. Const, a very rising character at the bar. f The following critique has been made upon these commentaries.--"The Mr. justice Wright's learned treatise oa tenures. Coke p "The commentaries of Blackstone have met with success, but have not deserved it. At a tint when taste and literature are very much advanced in Great Britain, it was necessary it's inhabitants should be presented with a re...
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