I.  Europa.  628  35.  Großbritannien  und  Irland.

Common  Serjeant  (£  3000)
Assistant  Judge  (£  1500).
(II.  City  of  London  Court.)
2  Judges  (£  2500  and  £  2000).
(0)  County  Courts!.
Presided  over  by:
55  County  Court  Judges  (each  Lstr.  1500).

(f)  Metropolitan  County  Courts.
Presided  over  by:
10  Judges  (each  £  1500).
(g)  Police  Courts,  City  of  London.
2  Courts.
(I.)  Mansion  House  Justice  Room.  Magistrate:  The  Lord  Mayor,  or  one  of  the  Aldermen.
(II.)  Guildhall.  Magistrate:  An  Alderınan  (in  rotation).

(h)  Metropolitan  Police  Courts.
13  Courts,  26  Magistrates  (each  £  1500).

Scotland®,

The  Court  of  Scotland  are  known  as  the  Court  of  Sessions®.  This  is  divided  into  (I)  Inner
House,  First  Division;  and  (II.)  Second  Division;  and  (I11I.)  Outer  House.

In  (I.)  there  are  4  Judges  with  salaries  from  £  3600  to  £  5000.

In  (II.)  ther  are  4  Judges  with  salaries  from  £  3600  to  £  4800.

In  (III.)  there  are  5  Judges  with  each  £  3600.

Further  a  High  Court  of  Justiciary*  with  the  Lord  President  of  the  Court  of  Session,  and
the  Lord  Justice  Clerk  of  the  2nd  Division  as  judges.

Ireland.

(a)  Supreme  Court  of  Judicature.
(Court  of  appeal.)
The  Judges  of  which  are:
The  Lord  Chancellor  (£  8000)
The  Lord  Chief  Justice  (£  5000)

ı  These  are  minor  courts  dealing  with  offences  against  criminal  law.  Judges  from  these
courts  have  circuits;  they  now  decide  also  in  minor  civil  cases,  and  their  powers  are  being  developed
  more  and  more.

3  By  $  18  of  the  Act  of  Union  with  Scotland  Scotland  has  to  a  certain  extent  retained  her
own  laws  which  were  secured  to  her  by  $  18  of  the  Act  of  Union  (1707)  the  purport  of  which  is:
“The  laws  relating  to  trade,  customs,  and  the  excise,  shall  be  the  same  in  Scotland  as  in  England.
But  all  the  other  laws  of  Scotland  shall  remain  in  force:  though  alterable  by  the  Parliament  of
Great  Britain.  Yet  with  this  caution:  the  laws  relating  to  public  policy  are  alterable  at  the  discretion
  of  the  Parliament;  laws  relating  to  private  right  are  not  altored  but  for  the  evident  utility
of  the  people  of  Scotland“.  Blacks  tone,  vol.  I,  p.  9.

3  This  court  corresponds  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Judicature  in  England.

*  This  is  the  Supreme  Criminal  Court.

Literature:  Stephen’'s  Commentarie;  Anson’s  Law  and  Custom  of  the  Constitution;
  The  Laws  of  England  by  the  Earl  of  Halsbury;  Snagge’s  Evolution  of  the
County  Court  (1904);  Cherry’s  Outline  of  Criminal  Law  (1892);  Neale’s  English  Law
by  English  Judges  (1905);  Ashburner’s  The  Principles  of  Equity  (1902);  ‚Josiah  Smith’'s
Manual  of  Equity  Jurisprudence  (14th  ed.  1889);  Denison  and  Scott’s  House  of  Lords
Practice  (1879);  Brett’s  Commentaries  on  the  Present  Laws  of  England  (1891);  Joshua
Scholefield’s  Encycelopaedia  of  Local  Government  Law  vol.  II;  Rydeand  Thomas’
Local  Government  Act  (1888);  Haycraft’s  Powers  of  Police  in  England;  Annual  Practice;
Holland,  The  Elements  of  Jurisprudence  (10th  ed.  1906);  Burn’s  Justice  of  the  Peace;
Hale’s  History  of  the  Common  Law;  Blackstone’s  Commentaries;  Whitaker’s  Alınanack;
Digest  of  Law  Cases  of  the  Year;  The  Law  List  (annual);  County  Court  Practice  (annual).