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 HOP HOME, HENRY, (Lord Kames.) Elucidations respecting the Common and Statute Laws of Scotland. 2d ed. 8vo. Edinburgh. 1800. His extreme inaccuracy in what he ventures to state, with respect both to the ancient Common Law and to the modern Eng'lish Law, tends not a little to shake the credit of his representations of all law whatever. 1 Dow. 164; 2 Hagg. Const. Rep. 92. . The Statute Law of Scotland, abridged ; with Historical Notes. 2d ed. 8vo. Edinburgh. 1769. '' Karnes' Abridg-ment of the Statute Law of Enffland is the best work of the kind, because he was far more fit for such a task than any other who ever undertook it; yet it is full of imperfections, which seem neces- sarily incident to all works of the kind." 1 New Edin. Rev. 2-1. . Historical Law Tracts. Svo. Edinburgh. 1761. "The historical Law Tracts of Lord Kames are conducted upon a very judicious system of investigating the natural principles of some of the most important objects of judicial science, and tracing the application of them in the Laws of Rome, of Scotland, and of England ; but a com- parison between the Laws of Scotland and England, conducted, I think, with great fairness, is apparently the leading object of the undertaking." 1 Evans' Poth. Litro. 58. HOOKER, RICHARD. The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, in eight books, and several other Treatises ; to which is prefixed the Life of the Author. 2 vols. Svo. Oxford. 1845. The fol. editions of 1705 and 1723, are very good, and there is an American ed., 8vo., Philad., 1814. The first five books of the Ecclesi- astical Polity, appeared during the author's life time, and the remaining three after his death. " So stately and graceful is the march of his periods, so varit)us the fall of his musical cadences upon the ear, so rich in images, so condensed in sentences, so grave and noble his diction, so little is there of vulgarity in his racy idiom, of pedantry in his learned phrase, that I know not whether any later writer has more admirably displayed the capacities of our language or produced passages more worthy of comparison with the splendid monuments of antiquity." 1 Hall. Const. Hist. 291. HOPE, SIR THOMAS. Minor Practicks ; or, a Treatise of the Scottish Law ; with Notes upon divers parts of the book ; to which is subjoined an Account of all the Religious Houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation. By J. Spotis- wood. Svo. Edinburgh. 1734. 395