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BUR tise upon English Ecclesiastical Law. The author not only gives his authorities for his positions, but frequently the authority of the aulhori- lies. 3 Bing. 259 ; (8) 546. BURN, RICH. Historical Dissertations on the Law and Practice of Great Britain, and particularly of Scotland, with regard to the Poor. 8vo. London. 1819. BURN, J. S. Registrum Ecdesise Parochialis; the History of Parish Registers in England ; also of the Registers of Scotland, Ireland, the East and West Indies, &c. 8vo. London. 1829. . Marriage and Registration Acts, 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 83,86; with Illustrations, Forms, and Practical Directions. Also, a Supplement, containing the Acts 7 Will. IV. c. 1, and I. Vict. c. 22, with Notes and Observations. 12rao. London. 1837. BURNET, GILBERT. Rights of Princes to dispose of Bene- fices. The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale. 8vo, London. BURNETT, JOHN. A Treatise on the various branches of the Criminal Law of Scotland. 4(o. Edinburgh. 1811. " Burnett's Criminal Law is admitted to be, in many points of view, imperfect and unsatisfactory ; but it is remarkable as having been one of the earliest serious attempts to form a collection of decisions. Though he is looked at by the bench with some distrust, yet his excellences are manifold and are more seldom quoted than his errors, because the former have now become part of our consuetudinary practice." 1 Ed. L. J. 484. BURR, AARON. Trial of. See Carpenter and Robertson. BURRILL, ALEXANDER M. A Treatise on the Practice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York ; with an Appendix of Practical Forms. 2 vols. 8vo. New York. 1846. BURROUGHS, E. H. and H. B. GRESSON. The Irish Equity Pleader ; a Collection of Forms of Pleadings in Equity Suits in Ireland, with preliminary Dissertations and Practical Notes. 8vo. Dublin. 1842. " Of the many works which have, within the last three years, issued from the Irish press, there is not one so useful, not one so much wanted by the Irish Equity bar, as the work before us. It is comprehensive in its plan, and minute in its details. It commences with the formal part 164