LAND TENURE IN RUSSIA, INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNAL ... ... ... ... 268 43 LAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL SPORTS: AND THE LEGALITY OF A MOB-LAW, THE KING'S PEACE versus... NOTES ON RECENT CASES PRISONS, REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF RAILWAY RATES, THE INCREASE OF RECENT CASES :- .. 103, 216, 338, 472 Atkinson & Horsell's Contract, In re Attorney-General for Canada v. Standard Trust Company 479 107 ... ... ... Boyle v. Ferguson Ltd. ... Burghes v. Attorney-General 343 348 116 Central London Railway v. City of London Land Tax Ellerman Lines Ltd. v. John Brown & Co. and the Clyde 115 Hall v. Hayman Hall v. Whiteman Harris v. Earl of Chesterfield Herbert's Trustees v. Inland Revenue Hodgson's Settled Estate, In re, Allamont v. Forsyth Lloyd's Bank, In re, & Lillington's Contract 476 217 482 481 341 231 486 ... ... II 2 ... 343 481 ... London and North Western Railway v. Howley Park Coal London, Gloucester & North Hants Dairy Co. v. Morley Manchester (Dowager Duchess), In re, Duncannon 221 105 ... 106 114 ... 228 Royal Warrant Holders' Association v. Edward Deane & Ryland's Glass Co. v. Phanix Co. ... Scottish North American Trust v. Farmer Searle, In re, Brooke v. Searle Spring v. Fernandez Stevens v. Insoles Ltd. ... ... University College, Cork v. Commissioner of Valuation Victor Mills Ltd. v. Shackleton 345 342 343 221 Virginia Carolina Chemical Co. v. Norfolk & North : : : PAGE RECENT CASES, NOTES ON REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF PRISONS ... 118, 233, 353, 488 STATISTICS, ENGLAND AND WALES, CIVIL JUDICIAL, 1910 ... 70 I 137 ... 137 431 308 31 137 406 UNLAWFUL AND LAWFUL SPORTS, AND THE LEGALITY OF A SPARRING MATCH... WARRANTS, General ..... THE LAW MAGAZINE AND Review. No. CCCLXII.-NOVEMBER, I9II. I. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE. A few years ago an eminent English writer championed Α the cause of one who had been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to a term of penal servitude for a crime he had not committed, and who had thereby suffered perhaps the greatest wrong it is possible for a human being to suffer. I allude, of course, to Mr. George R. Sims, whose powerful advocacy of the cause of Mr. Adolf Beck not only resulted in the establishment of his innocence, but also contributed not a little to the establishment of the Court of Criminal Appeal.1 Mr. Sims' action in this respect finds a parallel only in that of M. Zola in respect of the unfortunate Major Dreyfus in France a little earlier.2 Both Mr. Beck and Major Dreyfus were the victims of vicious systems and misguided official and professional prejudices, to use no harsher terms. Both were fortunate in attracting the attention and engaging the sympathies of two eminent literary men, who were neither lawyers nor soldiers and who, therefore, were able to view the matters in question from the impartial standpoint of outsiders. They became convinced of the innocence of their respective protégés, and accordingly they brought to bear 1 See The Martyrdom of Adolph Beck. 1904. 2 See The Tragedy of Dreyfus, by the late G. W. Stevens, 1899. |