PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS, BY BUTTER WORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, AND BELL & BRADFUTE. DUBLIN: HODGES & SMITH, 1859. 40782 Banking, The Principles and Law of, 83. Bar Examination Questions (Trinity Term, 1859), 402. Books, Short Notes of New, 242. Common Law- Scott v. Dixon, 230. Jackson v. Forster, 427. London and North Western Railway Company v. Glyn, 428. Lofft v. Dennis, 430. Locke King's, Mr., Intestacy Bill, 53. Middle Temple Library, The, 67. Murray, Lord, 182. Poisons, 145. Privileges of Parliament, 1. Probate Court, Costs in the, 31. Railways, The Law of, 284. Registry of Titles, 187. Rent, The Politico-Economical View of, by the late Richard Jones, 356. Reviews :- Gilbart's Logic of Banking, 83. Taylor on Poisons, 145. Redfield on Railways, 284. Selwyn's Nisi Prius, 344. Jones's Literary Remains, 356. Leapingwell's Manual of Roman Civil Law, 373. Shakespeare in the Queen's Bench, 41, Statute Law Commission, The Failure and Fate of the, 122. THE Law Magazine and Law Review: OR, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE. No. XIII. ART. I.-A Practical Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings, and Usages of Parliament. By THOMAS ERSKINE MAY, Esq. Fourth Edition. London: Butterworths, 1859. THE High Court of Parliament hath its own peculiar law— the lex et consuetudo parliamenti-as we are told by one of the highest authorities on English jurisprudence. The lex et consuetudo is part of the unwritten law of the land, to "be collected out of the Rolls of Parliament and other records, and by precedents and continued experience." Now, a maxim of common law is proved by shewing "that it hath always been the custom to observe it," and the decisions of courts of justice are "the evidence of what is common law." Hence the constant declaration, by the High Court of Parliament, of a privilege belonging thereto, is evidence of its existence. Notwithstanding that such constitutional doctrines as the above occur in the early reading of the student of Blackstone, and are indeed very elementary in their nature; nevertheless, questions as to the privileges of Parliament have been the cause of much difficulty and dispute, nay, of no little danger, and they may yet, peradventure, be productive of VOL. VII. NO. XIII. B |