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 BUR BURCriELL, J. Arrangement and Digest of the Law in Cases adjiulged in the K. B. and C. P., from 1756 to 1794. 8vo. Lon- don. 1796. • . Joint Stock Registration Act, with Preface and Index ; and an Analysis by C. R. Kennedy. 12mo. London. 1844. BURDEN, W. A brief Treatise of the Privileges of the House of Commons. Svo. London. 1810. BURGE, WILLIAM. Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws generally, and in their conflict with each other and with the Law of England. 4 vols. Svo. London. 1838. This, and Mr. Justice Story's Treatise upon the Conflict of Laws, are two of the most valuable contributions to jurisprudence in modern times. Each displays the comprehensive research, industry and learning of its author, in a field of jurisprudence hitherto imperfectly explored by any English or American writers. The undertaking was vast, the labor dif- ficult, and the performance wonderful. Burge is more discursive and prolix than Story, and evinces a less extensive acquaintance with conti- nental authors who have written upon the subject. The former is mainly occupied in treating of foreign and colonial law as it conflicts with the law of England, the latter with the conflict of domestic as well as for- eign laws. Judge Story thus speaks of this work — " It exhibits great learning and research ; and as its merits are not as yet generally known to the profession on this side of the Atlantic, I have made many references to it, with the view of enabling the profession to obtain many more illus- trations of the doctrines than my own brief text would suggest, and also fully to appreciate his learned labors." Advertisement to 2d ed. Sto. Confl. Laws. . Observations on the Supreme Appellate Jurisdic- tion of Great Britain, as it is now exercised by the Court of the Queen in Council and the House of Lords. Svo. London. 1841. BURGES, CORNELIUS. No Sacrilege nor Sin to Aliene or Purchase the Lands of Bishops, or others whose Offices are abo- lished. Svo. London. 1659. . No Sacrilege nor Sin to Alienate or Purchase Cathedral lands as £uch ; or a Vindication of, not only the late Purchasers but of the ancient Nobility and Gentry, yea of the Crown itself. 4to. London. 1660. 160