perfect impunity; some men having even three wives, and some women three husbands. The mode of proceeding in Jersey for Bigamy is to make a complaint to the Constable of the parish in which the offender resides, who draws up a report of the facts addressed to the Bailiff and Jurats, and hands the same to the Crown officer, who presents it to the Bench. Upon this the delinquent is seized and presented at the bar to answer the charge. It is treated summarily as a misdemeanor, and the punishment, (if the second marriage took place in the Island,) is by imprisonment or transportation to England. In the case of Le Boutillier, who married Mary Bouger, in Guernsey, his first wife being still living, the Jersey Court held, that as the second marriage took place out of their jurisdiction, they had no cognizance of the matter. In the Crown v. Le Patourel, 1839, the Guernsey Court, considering that both marriages were solemnized in that island, sentenced the delinquent to one month's imprisonment and two years' transportation to England! If our bigamists were to remove to England, they would soon find their situa tion altered. Bigamy by the English law consists in contract. ing a second marriage during the life of a former husband or wife and the statute, 1 James I c. 11, enacts that the person so offending shall suffer death, as in cases of felony. [Sec. Hale's Plees of the Crown, i. 692, fol. ed. 1736.] This statute makes certain exceptions which it is not necessary to refer to, as it has been repealed by 9 Geo. IV. c. 31. s. 22, and operates only with respect to offences committed on or before the 30th June, 1828. The statute last cited enacts "That if any person being married shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife, whether the second marriage shall have taken place in England or elsewherc, such offender and any person aiding him shall be guilty of felony and be punish. ed by transportation for seven years, or by imprisonment (with or without hard labour) for a term not exceeding two years." The statute excepts, first any, second marriage contracted out of England, by any other than a subject of his Majesty; second, any person whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from England during seven years, and shall not have been known by such pereon to have been living within that time; third, a person divorced from the bond of the first marmariage; fourth, one whose former marriage shall have been declared void by the sentence of a Court of competent juris.

diction.

Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.-The following is a translation of the regulations, respecting Bills of Exchange

and Promissory Notes, adopted by the States and confirmed by His Majesty's Council in the year 1831 :-Article 1. All Bills of Exchange duly accepted, and all Promissory Notes payable to order, shall be paid on the day they become due, including the three days grace; and in case of a refusal or of a default in the payment on the part of the debtors, it shall be at the discretion of the parties having right to demand payment of such Bills of Exchange or Promissory Notes payable to order, to seize, by means of an officer of Justice, the person or property of such debtors, notwithstanding they may have landed estates, and to proceed against them summarily as well in vacancy as in term time.-Art. 2. All Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes payable to order, regularly protested for non-acceptance or non-payment, may be enforced against the drawers, endorsers and acceptors, (signataires) according to the form prescribed in the preceding article.-Art. 3. All Notes payable to bearer, shall be payable on presentation, and in case of refusal or default of payment, the holders may proceed against the issuers (signataires) in such manner as is prescribed by Art. 1, of these regulations.-Art. 4. The Acts or Judgments obtained out of term time against a debtor in vir. tue of the preceding articles, shall not take date in case of a decree but from the first day of the Saturday's Court of the ensuing term.-Art. 5. All persons are prohibited from putting into circulation or receiving in payment any Promissory Notes, payable to order, or Notes payable to bearer, for a sum less than one pound sterling, on pain of confiscation of such notes, and of a penalty of double their value. And those who may be the holders of such notes at the time of putting forth this regulation, shall address themselves to the issuers respec tively, to receive the amount without being enabled to negociate them to any other person or to make use of them in any other manner whatsoever.

Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, presentation of.— Sce Notes of hand.

Bills of Exchange not due, arrest to assure payment of.-In Paur v. Martel in 1838, which was an action to show cause why an arrest made on the person of defendant for assurance of payment of a Bill not due, drawn at 3 months date, and accepted by defendant, for £34 5s., should not be confirmed, the Court (Le Quesne and Le Maistre) held that, although the Bill had some time to run, yet, nevertheless defendant being expatriable, he was bound to furnish security for the ful filment of his engagement-Arrest confirmed,

Bottled Spirits.-By C. O., Dec. 6, 1833, bottled spirits are allowed to be exported from Guernsey to England in such of the regular traders, as are of 70 tons burthen and upwards, whether square-rigged or not.

Brandy, Geneva, and other Spirits.-By 4 and 5 Will. 4., c. 89, sec. 22, it shall be lawful to import into the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, or Sark, brandy, geneva, or other spirits, and tobacco, from foreign parts, in packages required by law, in ships of the burthen of seventy tons at least, and to export the like goods from the said islands in ships of the like tonnage.

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British Fisheries.-Craft, food, victuals (except spirits) and materials fit for the British fisheries, may be exported. & 7 W. 4. c. 60, s. 15.

British Possession.-It is declared in the 3 and 4, W. 4, c. 52 [Customs Regulation Act] s. 119, "that British Possession' shall be construed to mean colony, plantation, island, territory, or settlement."

British Possessions, Trade of, how regulated.-It shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any orders in council to be issued from time to time, to make such regulation touching the trade and commerce to and from any British possessions on or near the continent of Europe. or within the Mediterranean Sea, or in Africa, or within the limits of the East India Company's charter (excepting the possessions of the said company), as to His Majesty in council shall appear most expedient and salutary; and if any goods be imported or exported in any manner contrary to such order, the same shall be forfeited, together with the ship importing or exporting the same. 3 and 4 Will. 4., c 59, P 81.

British Possessions in America, Trade to.-Goods the pro duce of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey are not, upon importation from thence into the British possessions in America, exempted from the payment of duties which are chargeable upon the like goods when imported from any foreign country; and goods the produce of the United Kingdom, when Imported from the islands of Jersey or Guernscy, are liable to the foreign duty, it having been enacted by the 27th section of the act 3 and 4 William 4., c. 59, that no goods shall upon importation into any of the British possessions in America be deemed to be the growth, production, or manufacture of the United Kingdom, unless imported from the United Kingdom, or from some British possession in America. By the 3 and 4, W. 4. c. 52, s. 42, Commissioners of the treasury may permit goods the produce of the British possessions or fisheries in

North America, legally imported into Guernsey or Jersey to be imported into the United Kingdom for home use under such regulations as thay shall direct.

British Ship, how navigated and manned.-No ship admitted to be British unless duly registered and navigated by a master who is a British subject, and by a crew, whereof three fourths at least are British seamen, whether in cargo or in ballast, for foreign voyages; but if employed in the coasting trade, or between the United Kingdom and the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Serk or Man, or in fishing on the coasts of the United Kingdom, or of any of the Islands, then the whole of the crew must be British seamen. 3 and 4, W. 4, c. 54, s. 12.

Burglary is punished by transportation to England (!) for a term of years, according to the nature of the case. If a gang of burglarers be convicted at once, the old offenders are sented to different terms of imprisonment previous to their deportation, so that they may be shipped only one or two at a time, lest the landing and letting loose of a great number of convicts among the peaceful inhabitants of the neighbouring ports of England should give rise to any complaint !

Casting Vote.-In assessing the judgment of the Court, when the Bailiff finds the opinions of the magistrates equally divided he gives a casting vote, but in doing so he is bound to conform himself to the opinions of the Jurats, on one side or the other, however contrary it might be to his own opinion, or to the express letter of the law.

Catile. Horses and other beasts who shall die of old age or by accident, or which there shall be a necessity to kill, and causing a great infection, and alluring the dogs, if the owner's neglect to bury them, it is ordered that all persons, when cattle or beasts shall die of old age or by accident, shall be bound to bury them immediately, or at the latest within twelve hours, in order that a person may not be infected, and that the dogs may not come to them, on pain for contravention of ten livres penalty, half to the King and half to the informer persons insolvent shall be punished at the discre. tion of Justice.-Code, 1771.

Cause of Action.-By the Law of Jersey as contained in the Grand Coustumier no man can be deprived of a single shilling of his property without first a formal averment of the Cause of Action, and then strict proof by two witnesses.

Causes, days for hearing of, are appointed by the Bailiff, but generally on consultation with the bench: if he refuses to name a day, the party desirous of bringing on a cause, may

present a remonstrance before the Full Court for that purpose. In Le Breton v. Ennis, 1839, defendant interjected a remoustrance complaining among other matters, that plaintiff having special days granted to him as Attorney-General, for hearing public causes, took advantage of the circumstance to bring on his own private suit on such of those days as when certain Magistrates were to be on the Bench, by which all the questions arising in it were determined by the same Jurats. The Court held the matter was not within their competency as the days were set apart by the Bailiff.

Causes, hearing of.-It is ordered, to avoid all confusion at the Saturday's Court, that persons being plaintiffs or defendants shall instruct their advocates before entering the Court, and before it be sitting; and that there shall be only the officers of the Court, the Gentlemen and members of the States, allowed to enter within the bars, before their causes shall be called by the Judge, upon pain of ten sous penalty. There shall be a table prepared by the Greffier on which shall be inscribed the causes of all persons (except those for the receipt of monies, and those of the Bailiff and his Lieutenant, of the Jurats and officers of the Court, of the Ministers for their benefices, of the Constable for the public affairs, of the Treasury, of Crime, of Adjunction (in which the crown officers are adjoined) which shall be affixed to the door of the Royal Court at nine o'clock in the morning, every day that there shall be a Saturday's Court, according to the order of which, six of the causes inscribed thereon shall be called by the Judge.upon which the persons who shall be interested shall be admitted within the bars and be subject to withdraw after they shall have been heard, under the penalty aforesaid, and those whose causes ought to be inscribed on the said table and who shall have neglected or omitted to place them thereon, shall not be allowed to pass them nor the defendants be obliged to give attendance.-Code, 1771.

Causes, passing of.-Causes at ordinary Courts, shall be passed according to a table which shall be as at extraordinary Courts; and the same fees shall be paid to the Judges as is used in the Court of Guernsey, and not more, that is to say, five sous; and the said table shall be publicly exposed the Saturday immediately preceding the day of Court, in order that persons interested in the said causes may be able to know the time when they shall be called and lose the least time possible; and after it shall have been publicly exposed, persons shall not erase or withdraw any cause, but they shall be called in the order in which they shall be inscribed, unless the parties