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JAR JAMES, EDWIN. The Act for the Amendment of the Law of Bankruptcy, 5 & 6 Vict. ; with Notes and Forms adapted to the new Practice. 12mo. liOndon. 1842. JARDINE, DAVID. A Reading on the Use of Torture, in the Criminal Law of England, previously to the Commonwealth. 8vo. London. 1837. . A General Index to the Collection of State Trials, compiled by T. B. and T. J. Howell. 8vo. London. 1828. - — . Criminal Trials. 2 vols. 12mo. London. 1832-35. These volumes form a part of the series of the Library of Entertaining Knowledge. JARMAN, THO. A Treatise on Wills ; with a copious Disserta- tion on the Construction of Devises. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1841-44. 1st American ed., with Notes and References to Ame- rican Law. By J. C. Perkins. 2 vols. 8vo. Boston. 1845. This is, by far, the most voluminous and complete Treatise on the subject of Wills extant. The author was favourably known as an accu- rate writer, before the appearance of the present work, which quite exhausts the learning of the English Decisions respecting Wills, and places him among the most laborious and pains taking legal writers of the present day. " Where others can find nothing but disorder, he discovers some deep laid principle, by the aid of which he will set the Cases smooth, down to the present time." In an undertaking of such magnitude, most writers would not escape falling into some few errors, and Mr. Jarman, with all his care and sagacity, is not an ex- ception. The editor has furnished notes of American Cases, with his accustomed diligence and ability. It is to be hoped that the time is not far distant, when native authors, of sufficient learning, may be induced to write Treatises upon the leading branches of the Common Law, as Americanized, and find, if not already sufficient, materials in our own Reports for the purpose, without relying upon English authors to do the thinking and writing for us, in three-fourths of all the law books in use. All English law books contain somewhat that, practically, is wholly useless to the American lawyer, yet Ibey are re-printed annually by scores, and the American Cases upon the subjects of their contents, however excellent, only appear in a subordinate capacity, in the form of Notes or Appendices. It would seem, that we ought, by this time, to have, in a measure. Outgrown so great a dependence upon foreign aid, though upon the ground of relationship, and be willing to rely more upon the resources of our own jurisprudence. 6 Jurist, 485; (5) GC9; 8L. R. 428; 31 L. M. 347. 420