Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law

Death of the

Lord Chief Justice of England.

WITH the deepest regret we learn, as the JOURNAL goes to press, of the death of Lord Russell of Killowen, the Lord Chief Justice of England. To the profession, of which he was the ornament and pride, to the country, which recognised in him a great advocate and judge, and to friends innumerable, his loss is irreparable. He died in the fulness of his powers, just when a new region of civic usefulness was opening before him, and at a time when the confidence reposed in him by other countries, no less than by his own, marked him out as a mediator in the disputes of nations. We little imagined, when, not many days ago, in response to our request, he handed us his portrait for reproduction in the JOURNAL, that he would never see it appear. It was his lot to be the foremost advocate of his generation; but whatever career he had chosensoldier, statesman, ecclesiastic, or lawyer-he was destined to preeminence. As President of the Society of Comparative Legislation, he served it with unstinted zeal (one of the last letters which he dictated from his death-bed related to the Society's affairs), and he had a conception of its functions and its future which few but he could realise. During the last few weeks he was meditating an address, to be delivered by him as President of the Society, on "The British Empire as a Legal Unity." That, alas! is one of the many things lost to the Society by the disappearance of a masterly and generous spirit and a far-seeing and comprehensive intelligence.

OF THE

SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION.

EDITED FOR THE SOCIETY

JOHN MACDONELL, Esq., C.B., LL.D.

AND

EDWARD MANSON, Esq.

• Δεῖ καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἐπισκέψασθαι πολιτείας ... ἵνα τό τ' ὀρθῶς ἔχον ὀφθῃ καὶ τὸ Xphoμov."-ARIST. Pol. II. 1.

NEW SERIES. 1900.

No. 2.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET,