termed it, they weighed 40 pounds sterling. For prosecution to conviction of any person attempting to pass counterfeit bank notes (which is a capital crime,) the bank pays £30, and, for the prosecution of a person issuing counterfeit coin, £7. Several persons have become the victims of this provision. The police officers very well knew the counterfeiters, and those who made it a trade to induce women and children to change their false notes, and deliver them into hands of the police; but they spared the true authors of the crime, as good customers, and denounced the poor wretches employed by them, who were condemned by the jury upon the slightest suspicion, and executed without mercy. 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Nicklin and T. Johnson, INDEX TO VOL. VII. A Abandonment of ship at sea, the right of owner is not devested by, 32. Amendment to the law of inheritance, proposed in the British Par- America, first introduction of slavery into, 6. American lawyers, remarks upon the influence of our government Admiralty, in a libel in, for the tortious discharge of a seaman in a Alderson, Judge of C. C. Pleas in England, sketch of, 254. B Barnewall and Adolphus' Reports, cases selected from part 3d and Barnewall and Cresswell's Reports, cases selected from 3d part of Baron and Feme, what are the husband's right in choses in action Bosanqnet, Judge of C. C. Pleas in England, sketch of, 254. Bailments, Judge Story's Commentaries on law of, reviewed, 129; Bayley, Baron of the Exchequer in England, sketch of, 255. Bligh's Equity Reports, cases selected from 3d part of the 3d vol. Boroughs, distinction between them and other towns, in relation Brougham Lord Chancellor, his speech at the concluding of the Bolland, Baron of the Exchequer, sketch of, 256. Burning, effects of, on the human body, 460. C Carrington and Payne's Reports, cases selected from 4th part of Chesterfield Lord, his character of Lord Hardwicke, 457. Conspiracy, whether a combination to refuse the payment of taxes Chance on powers, notice of, 247. Chancery, Paige's Reports, digest of 2d vol. of, 344; of recent Civil Law, remarks upon prejudices against it in England, 133 to Common Carriers, law relative to, 193. Consul, certificate of, that a seaman was discharged with his ap- Counsel, arguments of, objections to the present practice relative Countermand; question whether money delivered by a debtor to Construction, rules of, of devises considered, 332. Courts Martial in Maine; abstracts from Smith's reports of de- 247. Crompton and Jervis's reports; cases selected from 1st volume Common Pleas in England; sketches of the characters of the Custom to devise land, how and why limited, 285. Customs, reason on the distinction between boroughs and upland D Damages, rule of, for unjustifiable discharge of a seaman in a for- Mr. Webster's argument Derelict property, definition of, 32; a vessel wrecked and abandon- is derelict, 33. |