PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, BY BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, AND BELL & BRADFUTE. 1857. THE Law Magazine and Law Review: OR, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE. No. V. ART. I. THE JURIDICAL SOCIETY. Papers read before the Juridical Society. VOL. I. Parts 1, 2, and 3, 1855 and 1856. STEVENS & NORTON, SOCIETY under the above title, established by members of the Bar, and which in February last completed the second year of its existence, requires something more than a mere passing notice from a journal which has always identified itself with projects having for their aim and object the improve ment of the status of the profession. The objects and general plan of the Juridical Society will, perhaps, be best unfolded to our readers by transcribing the three first of its rules. "1. The objects of the society are to advance the study, and develop the science, of jurisprudence; to promote the investigation of subjects having a relation to law, socially, morally, or politically; and especially to encourage and assist inquiry concerning the sources, forms, and results of the laws of the United Kingdom. 2. The society proposes to effect these objects chiefly by bringing together its members in periodical meetings, at which papers will be read by members, voluntarily, on subjects of their own choosing, within the description above given; and by printing, circulating among its members, and publishing, a selection of those papers. 3. It is not an object of the society to afford opportunity for the read |