LORD BROUGHAM'S 69105 LAW REFORMS: COMPRISING THE ACTS AND BILLS INTRODUCED OR CARRIED BY HIM THROUGH WITH AN ANALYTICAL REVIEW OF THEM. BY SIR JOHN E. EARDLEY-WILMOT, BART. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMAN AND ROBERTS. TO THE SOCIETY FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW I RESPECTFULLY DEDICATE THIS RECORD OF THE LABOURS OF THEIR PRESIDENT IN THE SACRED CAUSE OF HUMANITY, JUSTICE, AND FREEDOM, WHEREUNTO THE LAWS THEMSELVES BEAR FAITHFUL AND LIVING TESTIMONY. ADVERTISEMENT. AN opinion having been generally expressed that the cause of Law Amendment would be benefited by the publication of the Review of Lord Brougham's Legislative career in a more portable form, the present volume is presented to the public with the omission of the Acts and Bills, but retaining, together with a List of them, the Summaries prefixed to each section of the Law, as they were arranged in the larger work. It is hoped that the publication may be thus rendered more interesting to the general reader. Bath, April, 1860. PREFACE. THE present Volume, bearing witness to the extraordinary services rendered by Lord Brougham to the cause of Law Amendment as well as in other departments of Legislation, cannot but hereafter afford assistance and encouragement to those who, with far less hopes of success, may enter upon the same path. It will be found to contain a list of no less than forty Statutes which he has initiated and carried through Parliament, besides upwards of fifty Bills introduced by him at various periods. Great portions of many of the latter have formed the basis of Legislation, and have been incorporated into other Acts. Others still remain unadopted, to furnish valuable hints and suggestions to present or future Law Reformers, or to demonstrate, by their admission hereafter into the Statute Book, the sound and reasonable views with which they were originally framed. |