Arrangement Act 1914, annotated together with the relevant Rules and Orders, and Board of Trade Orders and Circulars. Upon comparison with the former edition, it will be seen that the general scheme of the book has been left unaltered. A valuable feature is the addition of tables of comparison with the repealed Acts to the Bankruptcy Act and the Deeds of Arrangement Act respectively. It would, we think, have been more convenient to have printed these references to the repealed sections in the margin of the corresponding sections in the text. The decisions of the Courts are cited down to January, 1915, inclusive. It is satisfactory to find that it has not been necessary to increase the bulk of the book.

Twelfth Edition. Company Law and Practice. By HERBERT W. JORDAN. London: Jordan & Sons. 1915.

The main object of this book is to set out concisely under various heads in alphabetical order the requirements of the Companies Acts 1908 and 1913 together with the provisions of the Stamp Act 1891 and of such other Statutes as are relevant to the subject. The text has been carefully revised and brought up to date. Appendix A consists of a series of very useful hints for secretaries and Appendix B contains the Act of 1908. The new Treasury restrictions on issues of capital are printed in Appendix C. The Author is dissatisfied with the decision of the Court of Appeal in Continental Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., v. Daimler & Co., Ltd., in which it was held that an action for the recovery of a debt is maintainable by an English company of which the directors and shareholders are alien enemies. This decision is considered by some of our leading jurists to be bad law. The Author calls for the interference of Parliament.

Seventeenth Edition. Snell's Principles of Equity. By H. BEVINGTON and A. CLIFFORD FOUNTAINE. London Stevens & Haynes. 1915.

The last edition of this familiar text-book, published in 1912, was edited by the late Mr. Archibald Brown, who had been responsible for the previous twelve editions. The present Editors are both solicitors who have been engaged for many years in the instruction of law students. In the preparation of the present edition the Editors have departed as little as possible from the general arrangement and language of the work, although, in a large

measure, they have recast the text. A short chapter on the effect of the Judicature Acts is the only notable addition. The chapters on Interpleader and Auxiliary Jurisdiction have been omitted. The introductory chapter on the nature, origin and history of equity, is certainly a great improvement, but it might easily have been made much greater. It is still much too sketchy and it is not quite up to date. The Editors appear to be unaware of the equitable jurisdiction exercised by the Common-law Courts of the 13th century. In the Eyre of Kent, and in Select Bills in Eyre, Mr. Bolland has shown that such jurisdiction was in existence at least as early as 14 Edw. I. The Editors therefore are in error when they assert that such relief as injunctions to restrain could not be obtained from a Commonlaw Court before the reign of Edward III. For instance, Isabel Loche, 20 Edw. I, asks for an injunction to restrain her son from preventing the payment of her rents to her and from forcibly entering her house. For practitioners such legal history may be negligible, but the student is entitled to a correct statement, if legal history, however brief, is to be given at all.

The Annual Digest of English Case Law, 1914. By JOHN MEWS. London: Sweet & Maxwell. 1915.-This constitutes the fourth annual supplement to the Digest of English Case Law, so indispensable to the practitioner. The present volume contains, as usual, all the reported decisions of the superior Courts, with a selection from the Scottish and Irish Courts. Once more a list is added of all cases in any way affected by the decisions of the year 1914. list is also issued separately for convenience in noting up.

This

Butterworths Yearly Digest, 1914. Edited by H. CLOVER. London: Butterworth & Co. 1915. This constitutes the first annual supplement to Butterworths' Sixteen Years' Digest 1898-1913. It contains the decisions reported during the year 1914, and includes notes of all cases reported in the Law Reports for January, 1915. In addition, a full selection of Irish and Scottish cases have been included, together with list of cases affirmed, reversed or considered, and of Statutes referred to in cases contained in The Digest. head-notes of English, Irish, and Scottish cases are here reprinted in the text by the permission of the several Councils of Law Reporting; of the Editors of the Irish Law Times and the Scottish Law Reporter; and of the Publishers of the Law Journal Reports.

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Fifty-second Edition. Every Man's Own Lawyer. By a Barrister. London: Crosby, Lockwood & Son.

1915. The present edition of this book has been thoroughly brought up to date, and contains the war emergency legislation. To produce a complete and reliable epitome of the laws of England in 800 pages is, without question, a notable performance, and if the book is used with caution, it should prove invaluable in the ordinary affairs of life. It will not dispense with the services of a solicitor where such are required, but it will help laymen to understand those elementary rights and duties which every citizen ought to know: This is distinctly a useful and practical compendium of the law from which a layman can ascertain his legal position in situations which might otherwise be inexplicable. ·

Books received, reviews of which have been held over owing to want of space :-Bullen and Leake's Precedents; Bythewood and Jarman's Precedents; Hanson's Death Duties; Harris' Illustrations in Advocacy; Trehern's British and Colonial Prize Cases, Part 1; Ringwood's Bankruptcy; Copinger's Copyright; Settle and Baber's Law of Public Entertainments; Preparation of Bills of Costs under the Workmen's Compensation Act 1906; Englebach's More Anecdotes of Bench and Bar; Alexander's Administration of Criminal Justice; Huberich and Speyer's German Legislation for the Occupied Territories of Belgium; Pollock's Partnership; Hewitt's Taxes on Land Values; Stringer's High Court Emergency Practice; Roxburgh's Prisoners of War Information Bureau in London; Trotter's Law of Contract during War, Supplement; Beale, Bartolus on the Conflict of Laws; Encyclopædia of the Laws of England, Supplement; Phillipson's International Law and the Great War; Buchanan's Forensic Medicine and Toxicology; Smith's Leading Cases; Borchard's Diplomatic Protection of Citizens Abroad; Rustomji's Law of Limitation; Hibbert's Law of Procedure.

Other Publications received:-Mowat, Oxford Pamphlets XVIII, Select Treaties and Documents; Diplomatic Documents relating to the European War; Emergency Legislation, Supplement No. 3; Baty's Prize Law and Continuous Voyage; Ramanathan's Administration of Criminal Justice in Ancient India; Emergency Legislation-Financial; Reports of the American Bar Association, Vol. 39.

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