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 ALEXANDER, W. Abridgment of the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, from the reign of James I. in 1424, to the union with England, in 1707, including verbatim, all the Acts now in force and use, with notes and references, and an appendix, containing a chronological table of the whole Acts and Statutes, passed by the Scottish Parliament. 8vo. Edinburgh. 1841. ALEXANDER, THOMAS. A summary of the Practice of the Court of Chancery and County Courts or Courts of Equity, in Maryland ; together with an appendix, containing the most usual forms, and the rules of the Court of Appeals, Court of Chancery, and Baltimore County Court, as a Court of Equity. 8vo. Baltimore, Md. 1839. ALEWYN, FRID. De jure rerum naufragarum. 8vo. Amsterdam. 1824.

ALEYN, JOHN. Select Cases in the K. B. in 22d, 23d, and 24th years of Charles I., with the names of the learned Counsel who argued the same. Folio. London. 1681 or 1688. These Reports consist of loose notes of cases taken during the last years of the reign of Charles I. when judicial proceedings were greatly interrupted by the troubles of the times. "During the whole period to which these Reports apply, Roll and Bacon were the only judges of the Court of King's Bench, and in one term the former judge sat alone. Reports of legal decisions, under such circumstances, cannot, of course, be of much authority. The work is a posthumous publication, and the manuscript from which the printed copy was executed is said not to be the original." In 2 Shower, 164, Mr. Justice Dolben took occasion to say, "the publisher had much wronged the author, for that he had the original manuscript, and had compared them, and found it to be mistaken in several cases, even as to the very resolutions of the Court." Of the reporter himself, nothing is known. Lord North, in his license for printing the volume, characterizes Aleyn as a learned and judicious author, but from the fact that his name does not appear in the printed Reports of the time in which he lived, it is thought that he was not a man of much legal eminence. Verb. Aleyn, Biog. Dic. of Soc. W. S. Knowledge. Wallace's Reporters, 38. 2d ed. ALISON, ARCHIBALD. Practice of the Criminal Law of Scotland. 8vo. Edinburgh. 1833. ALISON'S Principles of the Criminal Law of Scotland. 8vo. Edinburgh. 1832. "The distinguished author of the History of Europe," has accom- 56