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BAR BARCLAY, H. The Law of the Road ; a Digest of the General Turnpike Act, for Scotland, and of the general statutes relative to Hio"hways, not Turnpike ; with Digest of decided cases in Scot- land and England, on questions of Roads and Turnpike law; and an appendix, containing the forms of prosecutions for tolls and penalties. 8vo. Glasgow. 183G. This Treatise contains the statutes and abstracts of the decisions of the Courts in Scotland and England, relative to highways. " We can safely recommend this volume as displaying a combination of much accuracy and research, with a thorough knowledge of the subject." 3 Edinb. Law Journal, 523. . . A Treatise on the Law and Practice in applications against Debtors, as in meditatione fugse. 12mo. Edinburgh. 1832. " This small but unpretending work will be found of great utility. It contains all that is materially important on the subject, and there is no class of persons, whether magistrates, agents, or creditors, by whom it may not be consulted with profit and advantage." A favourable review of the work will be found in 2 Edinb. Law Journal, 2G6. BARING, ALEX. An inquiry into the causes and consequences of the orders in Council. 8vo. London. 1808. Fmnphlet. BARLOW, THEOD. The Justice of Peace ; a treatise contain- ing the power and duty of that magistrate ; compiled from the statutes at large, reports, and other books of authority in the law, with precedents, &c. folio. London. 1745. BARNHAM, J. C. A series of questions on the most important points connected with a legal education, designed for the nse of students preparing for examination, previously to their admission in the Courts of law and Equity. 4th ed. By E. Ings. 12mo. London. 1840. BARNARDISTON, THOMAS. Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery, 13 and 14 Geo. II. from April 25, 1740, to May 9, 1741. folio. London. 1742. There has been a considerable diversity of opinion respecting the merits of these Reports. Lord Mansfield was at the bar when they were taken and knew the reporter very well, of whom and whose reports he always spoke disparagingly, and even forbid counsel to cite them in the argu- ment of cases before him. 3Tr. Freston, in an aro-ument before the Lord Chancellor, remarked — "We come now, my lord, to the important case 93