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210 must have been neither an abandonment by the true owner, nor an accidental loss, conditions ordinarily expressed by the statement that the treasure must have been "hidden." ...

From the present-day point of view, and dealing with the matter from the aspect of the Crown, we may say that if the discovered treasure has not been hidden—whatever that may mean—it is not specifically treasure trove.

tend an appointment before a judge in cham bers, he receives perhaps after waiting some time, a fee of 6s. 8d. If he instructs counsel to attend and is represented by a junior clerk, his fee is the same, and he receives several further fees for copies of documents and at tendances on counsel. The usual items in a bill are 35. oil., 6s. 8d., 135. 4d., i guinea. The price to be paid for services is fixed by law, every action subject to judicial ap praisal, and the solicitor must deliver to client an itemized statement of what he has done and wait a month before he can compel payment. Notwithstanding all of these restrictions and red tape, solicitors and their clerks are adepts in the art of running up bills. They charge for each telephone message, for every letter written and at the completion of any work will manage to turn out an aggregate i-hargc that would do credit or discredit to a New York lawyer, according to the cli ent's point of view.

IN The Lau1 Sttidfiits' Helper for February Lindsey Russell, writing of "Solicitors or the Lower Branch of the Legal Profession in Great Britain," says: in London in the profession next to the words "fee" we hear the word "brief" more frequently than any other. The solicitor briefs the barrister with the amount of the retainer and refresher marked on the back. Before determining the amount he is willing to allow he sometimes consults with the op IN concluding an article, in The Law Maga posing solicitors. The barrister's clerk, who does the "huggling" accepts or regrets, it sine and Review for February, entitled "Ro being infra dig. for the barrister to even dis man Law in English Decisions," which is "a short historical account of the citation of cuss fees, and for his services in this respect and in looking up law, the clerk receives Roman law texts in arguments and decis 12 per cent, or thereabouts of the fee. The ions on points of English law." James Wil barrister does not know the client and looks liams says: In the United States, perhaps the most to the solicitor for payment of his fee though he is without remedy for its enforcement. ¡ notable case was the great Rhode Island Sometimes he consults with his client as to constitutional decision, Trevett v. Weeden the junior and leader to employ, but usually (1786), the earliest in which a State law was held unconstitutional. There the Roman a firm has one or two junior counsels to principles of iiiaiidatitin were applied to the whom its business regularly goes and be tween whom there is an understanding, a powers of a State Legislature. In general, species of contract not recognized legally or except perhaps in the Louisiana Courts be fore the recent constitutional amendments in professionall}-, but when the question arises of employing leading counsel, and one is that State, the American judges seem less obtained in every case, the peculiar fitness inclined than their English colleagues to cite of the barrister to that particular case is care Roman law authorities, though both Story l and Kent, to mention no other names, were fully considered. . . . learned in the Roman svstem. It a solicitor himself takes trouble to at