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Cowper was probably not aware that an ingenious author has actually versified the substance of Sir Edward Coke's Reports. The point of each case, (with the name,) is comprised in a couplet, as in the following instances :

ARCHER. If he for life enfeoff in fee

It bars remainders in contingency.

SNAGG. If a person says, "he kill'd my wife,"
No action lies if she be yet alive,

FOSTER. Justice of Peace may warrant send

To bring before him such as do offend.

The only other instance which at present occurs to us of a poetical Report, is a poor-law case in Burns' Justice, which runs as follows:

A woman having a settlement

Married a man with none;

The question was, he being dead,
If that she had was gone.

Quoth Sir John Pratt, "The settlement

Suspended doth remain,

Living the husband, but him dead,

It doth revive again."

Chorus of the Puisne Judges.

"Living the husband, but him dead,
It doth revive again!"

AN AGREEABLE SURPRISE.

Lutwyche in speaking of the inconvenience of suffering small debts to be recovered in the superior Courts at Westminster, thus quaintly expresses himself in the law-language of his day :

"Mes en ceux matters nous doiomus aver greinder regard al benefit del publick que al enlargement de nostre jurisdictions, car si cest action giseroit, la serroit nul remedy en effects pur petits debts en les superior Courts, le attorney pur le plt sovent foits recover le debt et receive l'argent, mes quand le Plt. expect d'aver l'argent del attorney, en lieu de ceo il receive un Bill de son attorney per que ouster le debt receive il est debtor a son attorney; issint que il avoit estre mieux pur luy d'avoir perde son debt, pluis toft que a prendre ceo remedy. (2 Lutw. 1570.)

MR. BUTLER'S ADVICE ON THE STUDY OF REAL

PROPERTY LAW.

"The student should begin by reading Littleton's Tenures, with extreme attention, meditating on every word, and framing every section into a diagram, abstaining altogether from the Commentary, but perusing Gilbert's Tenures. After this, he should peruse Sir Martin Wright's Tenures, and Mr. Watkins's Treatise on Descents, and then give Littleton's Tenures a second perusal.

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After this second perusal of the text, he should peruse it a third time, with the Commentary of Lord Coke; and afterwards peruse Sheppard's Touchstone in Mr. Preston's invaluable edition of that work. The Reminiscent presumes to suggest, that the student may then usefully peruse the Notes on Feuds, on Uses, and on Trusts, in the last edition of Coke upon Littleton, and then read Littleton and Coke, and the Notes of the last Editors.

"The Reminiscent may appear to recommend too much attention to Littleton and Coke; but he never has yet met with a person thoroughly conversant in the law of real property, who did not think with him, that he is the best lawyer, and will succeed best in his profession, who best understands Coke upon Littleton. Against one error he begs leave particularly to caution the student; not to suspect for a moment, that because he himself does not see the utility of what he reads in this work, or the application of the parts of it which he is reading to any practical purpose, it is therefore useless. There is not, in the whole of the golden book, a single line which the student will not, in his professional career, find on more than one occasion, eminently useful.

Being thus saturated with the venerable black-letter, he should peruse with the most profound attention, Mr. Saunders's Treatise on Uses

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