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 LUT LUTWYCHE, A. J. P. An Inquiry info the Principles of Plead- ing ihe General Issue, since the Promulgation of the New Rules ; with a List of Statutes which allow the Special Matter to be given in Evidence under the General Issue ; and an Appendix, containing the New Pleading Rules of Hilary Term, 4 Will. IV., and of Trinity Term, 1 Vict. ; to which is now added a Supple- ment, containing the Reported Cases on the Effect of the General Issue to Trinity Term, 1842, inclusive. 12mo. London. 1842. " After a careful perusal of the whole book, we are enabled to speak of it as one of high merit, and distinguished by a carefulness and compre- hension rarely met with. This w-ork is one that every lawyer should read ; and it should be made a text book not merely in the chambers of pleadQrs, but at the Law Institutions." 2 M. L. M. 582 ; 16 L. O. 279 ; 2 Jurist, 701. . Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas, on Appeal from the Decisions of the Revising Barristers. Parti. London, 1844. LUTWYCHE, SIR EDWARD. Un livre des Entries ; contenant auxi un Report des Resolutions del Court, sur diverse Exceptions prises as Pleadings, et sur auleurs matters en Ley ; surdant, (pur la plupart,) en le Court de Common Bank, enter le 34 an del Roy Charles IL, etle 2 An del Raigne de sa present Majesty, laRoigne Anne. 2 tom. fol. London. 1704. . Reports and Entries; made very useful for Stu- dents and Praclicers of the Common Law. Translated by W. Nelson, fol. London. 1718. The translator says : " Care has been taken in this translation to examine every citation with the book from which it is cited, to correct it when false, to illustrate it when doubtful, and methodize the whole in an intelligible, easy order. If now and then there is a new argument formed, from an imperfect one in the original, the reader, I hope, will take it as an endeavour to serve him, and no reflection on the Serjeant." Nelson's Lutwyche fell under the especial displeasure of Mr. Viner, who calls it " a book which deserved public censure, at least, as being a reproach and dishonour to the Profession, and rather adapted to Billino-s- gate than Westminster Hall. What notion will any foreigner entertain of our law, to see a volume thereof stuffed with such ungentleman-like language, and to meet such ridiculous and scoundrel Titles as Law Quib- bles, &c. ; to see skeleton Treatises on some particular head very imper- fectly done, with the help of a number of idle Precedents, swelled up 31 481