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You had better wait a little for some good works on Bankruptcy and Criminal Law, as at present there are no works which can be fully relied on. DELAY IN NO. 14.--We have thought it best to delay this number a little rather than appear earlier with errors in the Examination Answers, such as some others make, who treat a bond as a negotiable instrument-consider with Mr. B. Martin, at Nisi Prius, that lodger's goods are not liable to be distrained if the tenant's suffice -and altogether ignore the recent Criminal Consolidation Acts, answering the questions as the law ought to be rather than as it is. It will be seen that we have given eight pages additional, so as to get all the answers in this number. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS. As our readers are aware (see 1 Exam. Chron. pp. 10, 96, 98, 172, 177, 191), under sec. 8 of the 23 & 24 Vic. c. 127, the Judges are empowered to require an examination in general knowledge, either before articles or before admission, except in certain cases. It will be remembered that, by an order of the 26th July, 1861 (1 Exam. Chron. 172, 177), the Judges directed this examination as to clerks articled after the first day of Hilary Term, 1862, not being barristers, or not having taken a degree or undergone a University Examination, to take place prior to the examination of the articles, and it is therefore properly termed the Preliminary Examination. The Judges have issued an order of the 28th of November, 1861, appointing Examiners, and appointing and directing the places and mode of conducting the examinations. The Examiners have also intimated the subjects and books on which the examination will be based.. MOOT POINTS. No. 3.-Reconveyance of mortgaged estates.-A. B., a gentleman of considerable property, died in December, 1859. By his will he bequeathed all his real estate and his personal property to his executors, upon trust to sell and dispose of all such parts thereof as should not consist of money. Power was vested in the executors to give valid receipts to the purchasers of all his property, whether sold by public auction or private contract. The testator, however, by his will, did not make any devise of the mortgaged estates which belonged to him at the time of his death; no mention at all was made of these estates in his will. The executors, according to the trust reposed in them, gave notice to all the mortgagors to pay off the money owing on the security of their mortgages; after one reconveyance had been executed, the property was afterwards conveyed to C. D. Is there not a defect in C. D.'s title? Could the executors give a valid receipt for the money paid to them by the mortgagor on the execution of the reconveyance, when no power was vested in them by A. B.'s will to do so? The property, according to the strict rule of descent, would go to the heir-at-law of A. B., until the mortgagors paid off their money, and then, consequently, the heir-at-law giving a receipt for the money, he alone would become entitled to it. Has the heir-at-law this power, and would the money really belong to him? Ought not the heir-at-law to join in the reconveyances in future, or is it essential at all that he should do so? it would at least give a better title to future purchasers if the heir-at-law joined in the reconveyances. Am I correct in my suppositions, or not? I cannot find anything on the subject in any of my law-books. I shall be glad of the opinion of your subscribers on this subject.JOEL EMANUEL, Southampton. No. 4.-Landlord and tenant-Machinery.-A lessce puts up machinery in a mill without the consent of the lessor, either in writing or otherwise. When the term has expired, will he be at liberty to remove it, or will it belong to the lessor?-G. N. M. HARDING (Messrs. Pooles', solicitors, Bridgewater, Somerset). 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