Search
Now showing items 11-14 of 14
On the present state of the law and practice in Ireland with respect to wills and the administration of assets
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)
I beg leave to submit to you the following report
upon the question proposed to me for investigation; namely, 'The
Present State of the Law and Practice in Ireland with respect to
Wills, with a view to have all wills ...
On the agricultural statistics of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1854)
Here is a vast mass of information, and it is surely worth while to
endeavour to elicit the truths contained in it; and while this
remains to be done, none of us need complain of a deficiency of
materials for valuable ...
On the policy of direct or indirect taxation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1849)
A direct tax can be made to possess all these requisites; it can be made equal, by imposing it on every person
according to his means; it can be rendered certain, and can be
levied at suitable and convenient times; and ...
On the practicability of codifying English law, with a specimen code of the law of evidence
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1872)
There is a very natural desire on the part of the public to have our laws simplified and condensed. It is a legal maxim that everyone is supposed to know the law, and every person is visited with the consequences of his ...