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WHE taries. We recommend its perusal as one from which much instruction and useful information is to be derived, and one which is sure to leave upon the mind the impression, that, although the English government is not free from abuses, or that all possible good laws are enacted, still that there is a constant tendency in it to correct the one, and improve the other." 1 Leg. Rep. 364. "WESTERN, T. G. Precedents in Conveyancing, adapted to the Present State of the Law, Illustrated with Notes, Practical and Critical. 4 vols. 8vo. London. 1841. " More ordinary, commonplace performances, were never offered to the public ; there does not appear to be a single form which has not ornamented every collection of Conveyancing Precedents successively presented to the Profession." 3 Jurist, 754. WEST INDIES. Substance of three Reports of the Commis- sioners of Inquiry into the Administrations of Civil and Criminal Justice, extracted from the Parliamentary Papers ; with the Gene- ral Conclusions, and the Commissioners' Scheme of Improvement. Svo. London. 1828. WEYLAND, JOHN. An Inquiry into the Police, Humanity, and Past Effects of the Poor Law, in which are included a few Con- siderations on Questions of Political Economy, connected with a Supply of Food in England. Svo. London. 1807. WHARTON, THOMAS I. A Digest of the Reported Cases adjudged in the several Courts held in Pennsylvania; with some MS. Cases to the year 1843. 4lh ed. 2 vols. Svo. Philadel- phia. 1843. . A Digested Index to the Reported Decisions of the several Courts of Law in the Southern and Western States. Svo. Philadelphia. 1824. . Reports of Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in the Eastern District, from Dec, 1835, to March, 1841. 6 vols. Svo. Philadelphia. 1836-41. WHEATON, HENRY. A Digest of the Law of Maritime Cap- lures and Prizes. Svo. New York. 1815. " Wheaton on Captures is a valuable Treatise, a work to which I freely confess my obligations." 1 Duer on Ins. 4S4. 727