HAL domestic life; the most eminent man that ever adorned the progress of science ; and, also, one of the best, and most purely religious men that ever lived. That Lord Hale was a great and a good judge, no one will attempt to ^ deny ; and his greatness and goodness appear to advantage amidst the turbulent and disastrous times in which he lived ; but it is equally true that both he and his writings have been the subject of a good deal of inflated eulogy, and that others have surpassed him in legal learning, equalled him in piety, and have been free from the superstitious acts which tarnish his fame. Hoff. Leg. wStu. 151; Warren's Law Stu. 268 ; Gregor's Fortes, Pref. 18; 1 Reeves' Hist. Pref. 6; 1 Bart. Conv. 15; 47 Grit. Rev. 241 ; 2 Eden, 63. HALE, SIR M. A short Treatise touching Sheriffs' Accounts, the Trial of Witches at the Assizes, lOlh March, 1664, and pro- vision for the Poor. 8vo. London. 1716. These three tracts were separately published. See also HaWs Pleas of the Crown. . See Hargraves Law Tracts, Boilers Abridgment, Hale's two arguments in Venlris' Reports, Halifax. ^ HALKERSTON, PETER. A Compendium or General Abridg- ment of the Faculty Collections of Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from February 4lh, 1752, to the Session of 1817, &c. fol. Edinburgh. 1820. . A Translation and Explanation of the Principal Terms and Phrases used in Erskine's Institute of the Law of Scotland ; with a copious Index. 2d ed. 12mo. Edinburgh. 1829. ' . A Collection of Latin Maxims and Rules, in Law and Equity, selected from the most eminent authors, on the Civil, Canon, Feudal, English, and Scotch Law. 8vo. Edinburgh. 1823. " We know that many of the maxims of the Gommon Law arc bor- rowed from the Civil Law, and are still quoted in the language of the Civil Law. Notwithstanding the clamour raised by our ancestors for the restoration of the laws of Edward the Conqueror, I believe that these, and all the Norman customs which followed, would not have been suflicicnt to form a system of law sufficient for the state of society in the time of Hen. III. Both Courts of justice, and law writers, were obliged to adopt such of the rules of the Digest as are not inconsistent with our 360
