two thousand years ago. Except in mathematical science, there is no subject of reasoning in which the real use and strict application of the principles of logick have been so well exemplified, and so much at=tended to, as in the law. The argument of an able lawyer, in point of strict reasoning, is scarce inferiour to the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimedes; and if every cause had a right side, (which I believe is not the case,) and if an able and well employed lawyer always got the right side of every cause that he undertook, (which I presume impossible,) such a lawyer would not only be as strict but as candid, and, in every respect, as good a reasoner as a mathematician, who is always engaged in the discovery of truth, and who knows that he never can establish what is false; or obtain, as an able lawyer may often do, a wrong decision. There is no mystery or witchcraft in Logick. When stripped of the uncouth and barbarous terms in which it has commonly been taught, or rather involved and concealed, it is perfectly intelligible, and satisfactory at once to every man of sense: for nothing is good reasoning or sound logick, because logicians have been pleased to call it so: but logicians have ascertained and established many fundamental principles of strict good reasoning, because, on the most careful examination and repeated trials, they have uniformly been found satisfactory and irresistible by all men of sense." WE cannot better take leave of our student than by addressing him in the quaint, but expressive language of lord Coke. "FAREWELL TO OUR JURISprudent; WE WISH UNTO HIM THE GLADSOME LIGHT OF JURISPRUDENCE, THE LOVELINESS OF TEMPERANCE, THE STABILITY OF FORTITUDE, AND THE SOLIDITY OF JUSTICE." THE END. Select chapters therein on Personal Rights Select chapters therein on Personal Remedies Barton's Treatise of Equity 149 210 149 150 151 206 241 Boileau's Political Economy Beccaria Anglicus Beccaria's Treatise on Crimes and Punishments Note on Belknap's History of Hampshire Note on Bentham's Introduction Bentham's Theory of Punishments and Rewards Note on Bee's Admiralty Reports Bever's Legal Polity of the Roman State Bible Note on Bibliography, Legal Biography, Legal Blackstone's Commentaries Note on Blair's Lectures, Select chapters in Bozman's Sketch of the History of Maryland Bohun's Privileges of London Bollman on the Money Concerns &c. Bollman on Banks 287 Rules to be observed in reading Coke's Reports 105 "Resolved"-meaning of this word in Coke's Reports 144 Mode of referring to Lord Coke's Reports Commissioners of the Great Seal, List of Comyn's Analysis of Real Actions - Considerations on Examination of Witnesses Note on Connecticut, Laws of Consensual Contracts Constituents, their right to instruct their representatives Constitution of the United States 144 320 101 329 335 285 252 275 273 |