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From which it appears that because ' Brown ' and • Smith ' are so unfortunate as to possass the sums mentioned, and despite the fact that no privity existed between ' Brown,' and the defendant, yet judgment should be entered against them, and in favor of the plaintiff. There can be no question that, in all communities, a certain degree of intelligence and standard of legal knowledge should be required from those elected or appointed, and for the time invested with the dignity and authority of a justice of the peace. Charles Freeman Lord. Portland, Or., March 12, 1894.

RECENT DEATHS.

Professor William G. Hammond, Dean of the Saint Louis Law School, died at Saint Louis on April 12. Dr. Hammond was educated at Amherst, practiced law for a time in New York, and then went to Iowa and opened an office at Anamosa. A year after the organization of the Iowa Law School in Des Moines, he was called there as a member of its faculty. In June, 1868, the Board of Regents passed resolutions establishing a Law Department in the University. At a special meeting of the Board in September some changes were made in the organization of the depart ment by incorporating with the Law Depart ment the Iowa Law School, which had for three years been in operation in Des Moines. The Faculty of the Iowa Law School became, by action of the Board, the Faculty of the Law Department of the University, and Wm. G. Ham mond was made the head Chancellor of the Department and University Professor of Law. In 188 1 he became the Dean of the Saint Louis Law School. Dr. Hammond was one of the leaders in legal education in the LTnited States from the time of his taking charge of the Law Department of the State University of Iowa until his death, and his labors in connection with the committee on legal education in the American Bar Association and in the organization of the section on legal education in that association are well known to law educators. His published works include, A Digest of Iowa Reports, issued in 1867; an edition of Saunders' Justinian with an elaborate introduction on the

nature of law in general and of the civil law; an edition of Lieber's Hermeneutics; and his edition of Blackstone of a few years ago con taining elaborate notes principally on the history of the law. His lectures on the history of the Common I-aw, about thirty in number, have been delivered at the Boston Law School, at the Law Department of the State University of Michigan and at the Law Department of the State Univer sity of Iowa. They were planned, and to some extent written, while he was still the Chancellor of the last named school and were given to his students as a part of his course of instruction there. His design was to complete this course of lectures and publish it as a student's " History of the Common Law," and it is believed that they have been so far perfected that they may be published substantially in the form in which he intended them to appear. He was pre eminently the authority in this country on that subject, and his lectures if published would be of the highest and most permanent value. His loss will be sorely felt by all hi| old students, between whom and himself there existed the warmest friendship. It will be felt in the profession who have learned to know him through his writings. It will be felt in the world of letters in that an author and man of eminent scholarship is no more. It will be felt by all who knew him in that so much that was good and true in him goes from us in his death.

FACETIÆ. Scene on a Railroad Car. — Mr. Knowlittle (stranger traveling in New York) : " Why! what do they have that ax, saw and crowbar up there for? I never saw them on trains in the West." Jackson Dean (en route court of appeals). — "Well, when they have a collision, the brakeman has orders to take down the ax and kill the in jured, because in case of death five thousand dollars is the limit of damages." —Judge. The following is a true copy of an indictment found a few years since by the grand jury of Law rence County, Ky. : "Lawrence Criminal Court. Commonwealth of Kentucky against Defend ant. Indictment. The grand jury of Lawrence County in the name and by the authority of the