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EDITED BY SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., D.C.L., LL.D.

CONTENTS.
NOTES: Boston University Law School; Limits of lessor's duty under

agreement to repair ; Fair comment and malice; Creditor's right to
winding-up order; Surviving partner's power over assets; Taxation
of income from foreign business; Audit of companies' accounts; Gifts
assumed to be bad for remoteness; Roman-Dutch law; Duty of guilty

client's advocate ; Prof. Fitting's Festgabe; The late F. W. Maitland. LIABILITY FOR ACTS OF PUBLIC SERVANTS. By W. HARRISON

MOORE.
EVIDENCE TO SHOW INTENT. By ERNEST E. WILLIAMS.
THE JAPANESE CODE AND THE FAMILY. By MUNROE SMITH.
THE MORTGAGE CHARGE' OF THE LAND TRANSFER ACTS.

By JAMES EDWARD HOGG.
THE MUSCAT DHOWS. By J. WESTLAKE, K.C.
THE INCIDENCE OF ESTATE DUTY IN REGARD TO PER-

SONALTY. By W. STRACHAN.
CASE OF SIR EDMUND BERRY GODFREY. By ALFRED MARKS. .
DEFENCE OF FAIR COMMENT.' By FRANCIS R. Y. RADCLIFFE, K.C.

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