Iwith the Master of Balliol. The work, though slight, is a type of the best Oxford scholarship, and will probably be very helpful to students of the earlier Roman law, to whom the crabbed Latin, the technical terms, and the numerous lacunæ must present many difficulties.

Second Edition. Real Property. By A. F. TOPHAM, LL.M. London: Butterworth & Co. 1911. This book appears to us to be quite adequate to the modest ambitions entertained by the Author in his Preface. Indeed, we think that others besides students may find it of use. The book is divided into Parts dealing severally with Corporeal Hereditaments, Alienation, and Incorporeal Hereditaments. There is also an Introduction setting out the meaning of terms, while the usual Tables of Statutes and Cases will be found. The work is, so far as we can judge, well and clearly done. A serviceable addition are the Test Questions at the end, which supply the student with an excellent method of testing his grasp of the book. We do not wish to be hypercritical, but the division into chapters and sections strikes us as somewhat vague. Thus Chapter I has but one section. The Table of Contents, we think, is also capable of some improvement.

CONTEMPORARY FOREIGN LITERATURE.

La Recognizance dans le Droit Anglais. By Dr. A. PAULIAN. Paris: 1911. This is an extremely favourable example of those studies in English law which are now becoming frequent among jurists of the Continent. The work would be creditable to any English textwriter of the highest position. It is both historical and practical, and the learned Author wields his authorities with the utmost insight and accuracy. He understands the Statutes and Cases thoroughly. The Statutes begin as far back as the Laws of Edgar regarding the borh. Besides the Table of Cases there are several Appendices dealing with Criminal Statistics.

Le Code Civil Général Autrichien: son Origine et son Developpement à l'Occasion de son Centenaire. By Prof. EMMANUEL TILSCH. Brussels. 1911. A sketch of Codes since the Codex Theresianus

of 1766, containing 7,377 sections, and framed mainly by Azzoni, Professor of praxis bohemica at Prague. The Code of 1811 is much less prolix. It contains only 1,502 sections, and is founded partly on the Usus Modernus, partly on local custom. For it, Zeiller, a native of Graz, was chiefly responsible.

Le Notariat en Egypte. By Dr. VLADIMIRO PAPPAFAVA, with an Introduction by AHMED CHAFIK PASHA. Paris. 1911.-Apparently a complete account of the office of Notary in Egypt. One finds that the Notariat depends entirely upon legislation, and is not a historical growth like that of England.

Il Diritto di togliere del Possessore e il Diritto di far togliere del Proprietario. By Prof. M. RICCA-BARBERIS. Palermo. 1910.-This is a comparative study of the varying rights well known to students of Roman law, which appear in the first title of the second book of the Institutes, regarding the building on another's land. This includes a consideration of removal of fixtures, and the one English authority quoted is Amos and Ferard.

JAMES WILLIAMS.

Books received, reviews of which have been held over owing to want of space-Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. XVI; Mortimer's Law and Practice of the Probate Division; Leake on Contracts; Rastorgoueff, Legal Position of English Companies in Russia; Heywood and Massey's Lunacy Practice; Phipson's Law of Evidence; Mead and Bodkin's The Criminal Law Amendment Act ; Rowsell and Moran's Guide to the Law of Betting.

Other Publications received :—Page and Finlay, The Shops Bill 1911 (Stevens & Sons); Kime's International Law Directory 1911 (Butterworth & Co.); Encyclopædia of the Laws of England-Supplement 1911 (Sweet & Maxwell); Butterworths' Workmen's Compensation Cases - Quarterly advance sheets, Part II; Shearwood's Bar Examination Questions, Vol. I, Part II.

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