Jan. 1908.] The Code of Civil Procedure, being Act XIV of 1882, incorporating In the issue of this REVIEW for January, 1901, we welcomed the publication of the first edition of this work as being the first attempt to explain At the same time we the Code and to contrast conflicting decisions. pointed out the existence of omissions and defects which, in our opinion, materially diminished the value of the book. With the comparatively unimportant exception that the dates of the decisions are not given, all the defects then pointed out have been removed, and Mr. Mulla has published a work which is calculated to be of considerable help both to practitioners and to students. It is undoubtedly superior to any other existing edition of the Code. The utility of the book has been considerably increased by the inclusion of copies of the charters of the several High Courts, and of the decisions thereunder, by information as to the jurisdiction of the Civil Courts, and in many other respects. All recent decisions are cited, and the work is not encumbered by obsolete authorities. The amendment of the Civil Procedure Code has for a long time been in contemplation by the Government of India, and there is now apparently a prospect of the early passing of an enactment differing completely in its form from Act XIV of 1882. In publishing a new edition of the existing Code, Mr. Mulla displays an unbounded confidence in the capacity of the Government of India for procrastination. We have also received: Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England. Second Edition. Vol. VII. Ice to Landlord and Tenant. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. Edinburgh: Wm. Green & Sons. 1907. La. 8vo. viii and 765 pp. (and earlier volumes received in the course of 1907). (218. per vol.)—The editors of this work are doing their best to maintain the high standard attained in the first edition, and will no doubt be stimulated to continued effort in the future by the rivalry of Lord Halsbury's undertaking, noticed among our reviews of books above. In this last volume Sir T. Barclay's article on International Law has been revised and enlarged by Mr. G. H. B. Kenrick it is inevitable bad luck that the results of the Hague Conference of 1907 could not The late Mr. Pitt-Lewis's article on the Inns of be definitely stated. Court has been posted up in modern details, but a proper list of historical authorities should have been added, or, still better, the whole of the historical part should have been rewritten by a competent scholar. The Company Precedents for use in relation to companies subject to the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1907. Part III, Debentures and Debenture Stock. Tenth Edition. By SIR FRANCIS BEAUFORT PALMER. London: Stevens (258.)-The tenth & Sons, Lim. 1907. La. 8vo. lxviii and 882 pp. edition of a standard work calls for little more than an intimation of its This edition has been carefully brought up to date. appearance. Preface states that Due regard has been paid to intervening decisions and to the important provisions of the Companies Act, 1907, which in many respects has materially improved the law. The Author hopes that the fact that he was a member of the Board of Trade committee on whose report the Bill for the Act of 1907 was framed, has not disqualified him from interpreting its provisions.' On the contrary, we think the Act could have no better commentator than Sir F. B. Palmer. Institutes of the Laws of Ceylon. No. 1, The Law of Persons and Things. By K. BALASINGHAM. Jaffna, Ceylon: S. Ragunath & Co. [1906.] 8vo. 189 pp. + preface, index, and appendix separately paged.— This instalment of a more extensive work, sent to us more than a year after publication, gives the doctrine of the Dutch civilians in a concise digest form. The author (judging by the list of books in the appendix) is unacquainted with recent English or other European work on classical Roman law. We do not say that this is necessarily material. Huur Van Huizen en Landen Volgens het Hedendaagsch RomeinschHollandsch Recht (the contract of locatio conductio, so far as relates to houses and land, in modern Roman-Dutch law a thesis presented for the degree of Doctor in R. D. Law at Leyden). By H. D. J. BODENSTEIN (of Potchefstroom, Transvaal). Leyden. 1907. 8vo. xvi and 183 pp. The thesis is followed, as usual in Continental universities, by a number of propositions which the candidate offers to maintain. The last of them is that a final Court of Appeal for the whole of South Africa is highly desirable. Sweet and Maxwell's Diary for Lawyers for 1908. Edited by FRANCIS A. STRINGER and J. JOHNSTON. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. Manchester Meredith, Ray & Littler. 8vo. 484 pp. + Diary. (38. 6d. net.) -The mass of legal information contained in this Diary appears to have been brought quite up to date. An Epitome of the Law affecting Marine Insurance. By LAURENCE DUCKWORTH. Second Edition. London: Effingham Wilson. 1907. 8vo. xi and 186 pp. (38. 6d. net.)—This edition, like its forerunner, is a fearless attempt to embody in a few pages that which others have scarcely succeeded in compressing into large volumes. But the task is wellnigh impossible; and Mr. Duckworth need not feel abashed or discouraged if men of law and commerce alike, continue to rely on the larger works for the solution of their daily difficulties. There are two appendices setting out (1) the common form of marine insurance policy, and (2) the Marine Insurance Act, 1906, which are not without utility. The Yorkshire Registries Acts, 1884 and 1885, together with Forms and Rules thereunder, and practical notes as to the registration of documents. By CHARLES JOSEPH HAWORTH. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1907. 8vo. 116 and viii pp.-The scope of this little volume is indicated accurately by the title, and, as a mere compilation, it will supply the Yorkshire conveyancing practitioner with a much-needed new edition of the Acts and Rules, &c. But the book cannot be taken seriously as a legal textbook. The author cites cases decided under other registration systems in Ireland, South Africa, and Australia, without having taken the trouble to acquaint himself with the rules of law relating to those systems. There are altogether too many mistakes, both of commission and omission, to allow of the statements in the notes being relied on without careful verification. The Life in the Law of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) as related by him to the Writer. London: Wyman & Sons, Lim. 1907. 8vo. 64 pp. (6d. net.)-This little book is digested from notes of a series of interviews with the late Lord Brampton, who, having seen the notes, forbade publication in his lifetime, but appears to have given some kind of general licence to publish them after his death. Though many of the anecdotes are familiar, the future continuators of Foss's 'Judges of England' and the Dictionary of National Biography will have to take account of it. One golden rule for cross-examining counsel may be gathered from Lord Brampton's dicta: Never splash about.' The Law and Custom of the Constitution. By SIR WILLIAM R. ANSON, Bart. Vol. II: The Crown. Part 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1907. La. 8vo. Xxxii and 283 pp.-The Warden of All Souls says in the preface to this edition: 'I have added considerably to the chapter on the Councils of the Crown, and have, I hope, been able to throw some fresh light on the beginnings of Cabinet Government at the close of the seventeenth and commencement of the eighteenth centuries.' The publication of Queen Victoria's Letters has given occasion for some fresh paragraphs now added to the Introduction. Archiv für Rechts- und Wirtschaftsphilosophie, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Gesetzgebungsfragen. Herausgegeben von Dr. Iur. JOSEF KOHLER und Dr. Iur. FRITZ BEROLZHEIMER. Berlin u. Leipzig.—The first number of this new review of legal and economical science appeared in October. To most English lawyers a good deal of the contents would seem to belong to theoretical politics rather than to jurisprudence. Prof. Kohler leads off with a vigorous and characteristic introduction. Die Bücher Moses und Josua: eine Einführung für Laien. Von ADALBERT MERX. ('Religionsgeschichtliche Volksbücher '). Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr. 1907. 8vo. 160 pp. (M. 1.)—This claims notice as a law-book, for the learned author has summarized the provisions of the Mosaic books, according to their earlier and also their later 'Deuteronomic' recension, in the arrangement familiar to students of modern Continental jurisprudence, or as near thereto as may be. He is strongly of opinion, against some recent commentators, that the internal evidence of a systematic scheme of legislation is conclusive. He also thinks that many of the ceremonial ordinances are in affirmance of very ancient Semitic tribal customs. He does not find any considerable foreign elements imported from Hammurabi's laws or otherwise. The style is lucid and as little technical as the subject-matter admits. Tebbs' A. B. C. County Court Practice. By HERBERT L. TEBBS. London: Butterworth & Co. 1907. 8vo. xiv and 558 pp. (10s. 6d. net.)—This is a condensed County Court Practice in a handy form, the matter being arranged conveniently in alphabetical order. The full text of the County Court Acts and Rules and a Digest of the practice under the Workmen's Compensation Act are given. A Digest of Cases, overruled, approved, or otherwise dealt with in the English and other Courts, with a selection of extracts from judgments referring to such cases. Founded on Dale and Lehmann's Digest of Cases Overruled. By WILLIAM ANDREW GEORGE WOODS and JOHN RITCHIE. Three Vols. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim., and Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. La. 8vo. ccxxxii pp. and 5,592 columns. (£5 58.)—Review will follow. The Annual County Courts Practice, 1908. Edited by His Honour WILLIAM CECIL SMYLY, K.C., and WILLIAM JAMES BROOKS. Two Vols. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim., and Stevens & Sons, Lim. 8vo. 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Prepared and compiled by B. E. J. C. BELMONTE. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1907. La. 8vo. xiii and 419 pp. An Epitome of Real Property Law for the use of Students. By W. H. HASTINGS Kelke. Fourth Edition. By the Author and ADAM PARTINGTON. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Lim. 1907. 8vo. x and 233 pp. (68.) An Index to the Official Reports of Income Tax Cases. Compiled by E. A. HARRISON. London: Butterworth & Co. 1907. 8vo. xix and 275 PP. Points of Church Law. By CLEMENT Y. STurge. London: Macmillan & Co., Lim. 1907. 8vo. xiii and 156 pp. (38. 6d. net.) (Yorke Prize Essay, 1905.) xix and 180 pp. (58. net.) Le Droit Pénal Romain. Par THÉODORE MOMMSEN. Tr. de l'allemand par J. Duquesne. Tome Troisième. Paris: A. Fontemoing. 1907. La. Die Weltanschauung der Jurisprudenz. Von ALFRED BOZI. Hannover: Helwingsche Verlagsbuchhandlung. La. 8vo. 227 pp. (5 m.) The Law of Torts. By SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK. Eighth Edition. London: Stevens & Sons, Lim. 1908. 8vo. xl and 695 pp. (258.) 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A Catalogue of Modern Law Works, together with a complete Chronological List of all the English, Irish, and Scotch Reports, an Alphabetical Table of Abbreviations used in reference to Law Reports and Text Books, a Legal Remembrance Table, and a Regal and Successional Table from 1760, and an Index of Subjects. Demy 8vo. (128 pp.), limp binding, post free. (1908.) 6d. Acts of Parliament.-Public and Local Acts from an early date may be had of the Publishers of this Catalogue, who have also on sale the largest collection of Private Acts, relating to Estates, Enclosures, Railways, Roads, &c., &c. A. B. C. (The) GUIDE TO THE PRACTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, 1908.-Sixth Edition. By FRANCIS A. STRINGER, Esq., of the Central Office of the Supreme Court. Roy. 12mo. Net, 58. Tells the Legal Practitioner clearly and in few words how, when and where he may take such step in procedure as he may decide to take, and defines the mode, time and place with precision. 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