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EXAMINATION CHRONICLE OFFICE, 10, OFFORD-ROAD, BARNSBURY, N.

(WHERE ALL ORDERS AND COMMUNICATIONS MUST BE SENT.)

Printed by TAYLOR and GREENING, Graystok e-place, Fetter-lane, London.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

J. C. We know no better than the one you mention; Mr. Maugham's book has not the answers. Our "Keys" go back to the beginning, but do not contain repetitions or obsolete questions.

INFANT. It is not necessary to study the subjects you mention, and unless you think you have made sufficient progress in legal matters you had better let the former alone. Messrs. Macmillan are the publishers of Haynes' Outlines. The Queen's printer; the price depends upon the length, but will not be much.

G. M. H.-You will not be required to answer on history, &c. Correct answers to a majority of the questions in the three indispensable branches might get you through, but it is better to answer in the other two branches. You will not be examined in book-keeping. You can be admitted in the term in which you pass. Your friend delayed his admission too long.

A SUBSCRIBER.-You will not have to be examined in "General Knowledge," but only "Intermediate" and "Final."

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A SUBSCRIBER. The preliminary questions are merely formal. See them set out in vol. i., p. 21. It is not necessary to keep repeating them at every term, but we will do so occasionally.

T. J. M.-Although we are not sure you wished it, we have thought it best to insert your communication respecting the insertion of answers to moot points. We shall always be glad to receive moot points for insertion.

EXPERIENCES. Though so many wish to read the "Experiences," we find it difficult to prevail on those who have passed the examinations to furnish us with any information as to their studies, difficulties, &c. We wish some of our readers would try their powers of persuasion on any of their friends, especially after the enlargement. It has been suggested that it would be worth while having the "Experiences" of some who have not yet gone up to the examination, and we shall therefore be willing to insert any communications, though we must confess that the more important communications would be such as should come from those who have gone through the ordeal of the examination.

THAT. We are obliged by your kind offer, but as we have sent circulars to all the articled clerks it does not appear likely that you could induce more to become subscribers. It certainly is, as you say, strange that any clerks should neglect such an opportunity offered at so small an annual payment. We certainly had anticipated that the trifling amount of subscription would have operated as an inducement for almost every articled clerk becoming a subscriber.

DICTIONARY.-It is of no use urging the completion of this work,

We

as more than half of the subscribers to the LAW CHRONICLE turned out to be defaulters, having graciously condescended to patronise that publication so long as they were not compelled to pay. should very much have liked to complete the work, but we really cannot do this at our own expense to satisfy a few who are anxious to have it.

H. S.-We are satisfied by experience that very few would answer the questions. The moot points, some of which are very useful, receive, we understand, very little attention. Articled clerks will not, as a rule, exert themselves, else there is no reason why there should not be a complete system of correspondence between them all, with a separate publication for it.

S. T.-We cannot compel our correspondents to add their names and addresses to the moot points. No doubt it would be better if they would do so. Your suggestion that they should at least, with the initials, give their addresses, so that answers might be sent to them at the post-offices of their respective places of residence, may, perhaps, be acted on by some; and with the view to this we now mention the subject. Thus, a correspondent may give any initials he pleases, with the town where he resides, and then any gentleman can address his communications to him by those initials, adding the words "Post-office." The mooter will either call for letters, or will arrange with the postmaster to have them forwarded to him. We presume that if desired there would be no objection to carry on a correspondence without communicating the real names, but making use of initials merely; but this is a matter entirely for the consideration of intending correspondents.

A. D.-It is impossible to say which is the preferable work on the new Bankruptcy Act at present, but after a short experience we shall probably be able to give a satisfactory opinion. Mr. Lewis's book is only a popular summary. Mr. Doria's work is not yet complete. The volume by Messrs. Hazlitt and Roche is considered a very useful one, as it contains practical notes. The price is 12s. 6d. Mr. Horry's edition of the Act has very few notes; it is preceded by an historical sketch of the laws relative to debtors.

TRINITY TERM EXAMINATION.-Out of 121 candidates, 107 were passed and fourteen rejected.

CORRESPONDENTS ON MOOT POINTS.

The following is the only addition to the names in the preceding lists, viz. :-Mr. E. H. Haswell, West Sunniside, Sunderland.

We are continually receiving answers to be forwarded to the anonymous querists, but are unable to forward them to their destination from want of the addresses.

MOOT POINTS.

No. 20.-Will-Fee simple.-A., at the time of his death, is the owner of a freehold estate called Greenlands, which he leaves by his will as follows:-I leave and bequeath all the property of which I may be possessed at the time of my death to B. No words of perpetuity are used, and the will is dated before the Act 1 Vic. c. 27. Will any of your readers kindly inform me if the words used in the will would vest the fee simple in. B; or, if the fee did not pass, would B. take a life estate ?-T. MILBURN, Workington, Cumberland.

No. 21.-Descent-How to be traced.-Charles Jones being seised in fee simple of certain real estates by his will, dated in the year 1831, devised the same to his illegitimate daughter, Sarah Jones Parkin, and died in 1852. In 1837 the said Sarah Jones Parkin married Stephen Wright, by whom she had one son, and died in 1855. In 1860 the son died while under the age of twenty-one years. The father, Stephen Wright, is still living. To whom do the estates descend? I await the replies of your correspondents.-J. T. SARGENT, 5, Ramsgate, Louth."

No. 22.-Destruction of tree.-A. and B. have two gardens lying side by side, but separated from each other by a party wall. A. fifteen years ago dug a well that was supplied by a spring close to the party wall. B. has an oak tree close to the wall on the other side. By degrees the roots of this tree have spread underneath the wall into A.'s land, and stopped up the spring that supplies A.'s well. The expense of boring a passage through the roots of the tree would have been £5, but A., without B.'s knowledge, dug up the earth and cut away all the roots of the trees that were on his side of the wall, to give a free passage to the water that supplied his (A.'s) well; this caused the tree to die. B. declares the tree was worth £50, and that if he had been requested by A. to bore a new spring, or to clear a passage for the water, he would have done so. Has B. any right of action against A. for the destruction of his tree?-JOEL EMANUEL, Southampton.

No. 23.-Will, construction.-A. B., by his will dated in 1839, after giving an annuity and several legacies, devised as follows:-İ give unto C. D., my son, all that estate called or known by the name of "The Hall Estate," now in my possession, during his natural life, paying the annual annuity that is given out of it. I give unto C. D., my son, all the rest and residue of my goods and chattels, money, and security for money; and it is my will and meaning that if my son C. D. should die leaving no lawful issue, male or female, then the said estate, called "The Hall Estate," shall, after his decease, I give it unto E. F., my grandson, son of S. H., and to his heirs and assigns." What estate does C. D. take in the Hall Estate? -THOMAS J. MASON, Bridge-street, Louth.

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EXAMINATION CHRONICLE OFFICE, 10, OFFORD-ROAD,

BARNSBURY, N.

(WHERE ALL ORDERS AND COMMUNICATIONS MUST BE SENT.)

Printed by TAYLOR and GREENING, Graystoke-place, Fetter-lane, London.

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