, if I were to go over the
remaining parts of the prescribed plan, with the same particularity as I
have this first and most important branch. It will be sufficient to
indicate merely the books, and the order in which they may be most
profitably read, under each division.

II. PRACTICE, PLEADING, AND EVIDENCE.

The Introduction to Crompton's Practice gives a full account of the
jurisdiction of the courts, and the steps by which it was arrived at.
This book is sometimes called Sellon's Practice, having been arranged by
Mr. Sellon. The fourth part of The Institutes of Lord Coke. Tidd's
Practice. Stephen on Pleading. Saunders' Reports, with Notes by
Williams. Broom's Parties to Actions. Greenleaf on Evidence. Selwyn's
Nisi Prius. Leigh's Nisi Prius. Mitford's Pleading in Equity. Story's
Equity Pleading. Barton's Historical Treatise of a Suit in Equity.
Newland's Chancery Practice. Gresley on Evidence in Equity.

III. CRIMES AND FORFEITURES.

Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown. Foster's Crown Law. Yorke's
Considerations on the Law of Forfeiture for High Treason. The third
part of The Institutes of Lord Coke. Russell on Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Chitty on Criminal Law.

IV. NATURAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Burlamaqui's Natural and Political Law. Grotius de Jure Belli et Pacis.
Rutherford's Institutes. Vattel's Law of Nations. Bynkershoek Questiones
Publici Juris. Wicquefort's Ambassador. Bynkershoek de Foro Legatorum.
McIntosh's Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations.
Wheaton's History of International Law. Wheaton's International Law.
Robinson's Admiralty Reports. Cases in the Supreme Court of the United
States.

V. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

The second part of Lord Coke's Institutes. Hallam's Constitutional
History of England. Wynne's Eunomus. De Lolme on the English
Constitution, with Stephens' Introduction and Notes. The Federalist.
Rawle on the Constitution. Story on the Constitution. All the cases
decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, on constitutional
questions, to be read methodically, as far as possible.

VI. CIVIL LAW.

I consider some study of this head as a necessary introduction to a
thorough course on the subjects of Persons and Personal Property, and
the topic, which is so important in the United States, of the Conflict
of Laws.

Butler's Horae Juridicae. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall, chap.
44. Justinian's Institutes. Savigny's Traite de Droit Ro