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 HEN HENGHAM, RADULPHUS DE. Summac Magna Hengham et Parva vulgo NunciipatcE ; ex veteribus Codicibus, cum CI. Seldeni Notis. 8vo. London. 1775. John Selden prepared the Summae of Hengham for the press, and illustrated the same with English notes. They are ordinarily found appended to his edition of Fortescue. The editor remarks, that " though divers copies of Hengham were examined in preparing this, yet could not a perfect one be extracted from them all. As one helped another, choice was so made that this might be the best, which, yet, is not with- out many faulty passages." The author was Chief Justice in the reign of Edward I., and his work relates principally to proceedings in actions. " Although most of the learning be touching Essoigns, defaults and course of proceedings in such actions which are in seldom use at this day, yet divers things occur, both specially observable in what he hath touching those proceedings, (which a professor of the law cannot but wish to know,) as also he often otherwise gives light to the customs or law of his time, whence, as through an ancestor of the right line, we must deduct that of the present." Bishop Nicolson speaks of an English translation of Hengham, but if there is such a translation it has escaped my research. Nic. Eng. Hist. Lib. 150; Brooke's Bib. Leg. Ang. 72; 2 Reeves' Eng. Law, 281 ; Selden's Pref. to the work. HENRY, J. Report on the Criminal Law at Demerara, and in the ceded Dutch Colonies ; with an Appendix on the Nature of the Office of Fiscal. 8vo. London. 1821. . Points in Manumission, and Cases of Contested Freedom. 8vo. London. 1817. -. Judgment of the Court of Demerara, in the Case of Odvvin V. Forbes, on the Plea of the English Certificate of Bankruptcy in Bar, in a foreign Jurisdiction, to the Suit of a foreign Creditor, as confirmed in Appeal; with the Authorities and Foreign and English Cases; to which is prefixed a Treatise on the Difierence between Personal and Real Statutes, and its Effect on foreign Judgments and Marriages, Contracts and Wills ; with an Appendix on the present Law of France respecting For- eigners. 8vo. London. 1823. The Treatise is cited as an authority by Chancellor Kent, and Judge Story, and has obtained considerable commendation; but in a letter of M. Pardessus, published in the American Jurist, Mr. Henry is accused of appearing in borrowed plumes, unacknowledged. " It contains, from 383