OR

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

OF

JURISPRUDENCE

AND

LEGISLATION.

Qui juris nodos, et legum ænigmata solvat.—Juv.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR BALDWIN AND CRADOCK.

CONTENTS.

ART. I.-ON THE EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE

Page

1

ART. II.-HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ENGLISH LAW.. 29

No. I.-The Judges.

ART. III.-CHANGES IN FRENCH LAW...

Some Account of the Changes which have taken place in

France, in the Electoral Laws, the Municipal Institutions,

the Organization of the National Guard, and, generally, in

the Legislative, Administrative, and Judicial Branches of

the Government, since the Revolution of July, 1830.

ART. IV. HISTORY OF LAW REFORM

37

55

ART. V. THE BARRISTER, No. 2..

94

ART. VI.-MEMOIR OF ALBERICUS GENTILIS..

100

The Province of Jurisprudence Defined. By John Austin, Esq.,

Barrister at Law.

ART. VIII.-WAKEFIELD ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.... 123

Facts relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis.

By Edward Gibbon Wakefield.. Second Edition, with an

Appendix, concerning Murder for the Sale of the Dead

Body. 8vo. London, 1832.

ART. IX.-PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, &c.

Summary Statements of the Number of Criminal Offenders

committed to the several Gaols in England and Wales,

during the Years 1823-1829 inclusive, &c. &c.

130