The Legal Doctrine of Responsibility in Cases of Insanity, Connected with Alleged Criminal Acts

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863. Excerpt: ... X.--STOCK REGISTERS, SHARE REGISTERS, AND LAND REGISTERS.--By J. M. LUDLOW, Esq. Read 18tA April, 1859. The subject of the transfer of land, and of registration as applied to land, is one quite, as our neighbours would say, "a l'ordre du jour" amongst us; and even the turmoil of a general election will hardly bear completely out of sight the two bills introduced this year by the Solicitor-general, to ' simplify the title to landed estates," and to "establish a registry of landed estates." Those measures, however, as substantive attempts at legislation, are already no more; and, under any circumstances, I ta"ke it that it would have been foreign to the purposes of the Society to which I offer these pages, to have discussed them in detail whilst merely inchoate. I cannot help thinking, however, that many who do discuss the subjects of those measures, have not always before their minds the principles involved in the discussion--the conditions of the problem to be solved. It may be neither useless nor uninteresting to try to bring these clearly out, even at the risk of saying much that is absolutely common-place. For common-places are perhaps what in our days we are most apt to forget, what we most need to remember (a). (a) Professing to be common-place, I trust I shnll avoid the charge of plagiarism, so far as I may express the same ideas as other people. I may, however, refer to some papers on the transfer of land, by Mr. E. T. Wakefield, read before the Law Amendment Society (one especially of the 8th March, 1858), as containing a clear indication of the characteristic difference between stock and land; to the evidence before the Registration of Titles Commission of Mr. W. Williams (app. p. 266), and to the communication of Mr J. E. Walters (ibid. p. 392), ...