PAGE LAW, POLITICS AND THE LAW, TRUSTS AND THE .. LEGISLATIVE CONTROL OF THE SALE OF POTENT DRUGS LORD CHANCELLOR HARDWICKE MACNAGHTEN, IN MEMORIAM: The Right Hon. Lord MARRIAGES IN Germany, Betrothals and..... PANAMA CANAL, THE INTERNATIONAL STATUS of ... PARENTS, THE RIGHTS-AND WRONGS-OF, UNDER Ackerley, In re, Chapman v. Andrew ... : : : ... Attorney-General v. Birmingham, Thame and Rea Dis 149 293 385 68 422 478 Badger, In re ... ... ... 232 476 ... ... ... 227 Bank of Scotland v. Liquidator of Hitchinson Main & Biggs-Atkinson and Ryan's Contract, In re Birkbeck Permanent Benefit Building Society, In re ... Blow, In re, St. Bartholomew's Hospital v. Cambden Boyle v. Olsen Burns v. Summerlee ... ... ... ... ... ... Bristol Corporation v. Aird & Co. ... ... ... ... ... ... 103 483 ... 370 100 107 481 234 PAGE RECENT CASES (continued) Cantiere Meccanico Brindisino v. Janson Charlton & Bagshaw v. Thos. Law & Co. ... 225 226 233 ... 106 366 235 Clydesdale Bank Ltd. v. Schroeder & Co.... Cooper, In re, Cooper v. Cooper ... ... Corporation of Edinburgh v. British Linen Bank ... ... 104 Craig Line Steamship Co. v. North British Storage Co.... 486 Don Brothers, Buist & Co. v. Anderson & Others Euman v. Dalziel & Co. ... ... Fairclough v. Swan Brewery Co. Ltd. Fane, In re, Fane v. Fane ... General Motor Cab Co. Ltd., In re ... Gibb v. Edinburgh and District Tramways Co. Grierson v. National Provincial Bank of England Griffith v. Richard Clay & Sons Ltd. Ingram & Royle Ltd. v. Services Maritime du Trefort ... ... ... Lendrum v. The Ayr Steam Shipping Co.... Lloyd v. Grace Smith & Co. London County Council v. Jones ... ... ... 368 PAGE RECENT CASES (continued)— McTeetridge v. Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd. Meyer v. Rio Grande Rubber Estates Ltd. ... Muller, In re, ex parte Furniture and Fine Arts Depository 105 106 ... Reversion Fund & Insurance Co. v. Maison Cosway Ltd. 484 358 Rex v. Davies 362 483 360 Robertson v. Hawkins ... Ramsay, In re, ex parte Deacon Taff Vale Railway Co. v. Jenkins ... Thompson v. Dibdin Tucker v. Oldbury U. D. C. ... Tunnicliffe & Hampson v. West Leigh Colliery Co. Vacher v. London Society of Compositors Whiting, In re, Ormond v. de Launay ... REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF PRISONS RIGHTS AND WRONGS-OF CHILDREN, UNDER THE CHIL DREN ACT 51 173 332 THE LAW MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. No. CCCLXVI.-NOVEMBER, 1912. I I. THE INTERNATIONAL STATUS OF THE PANAMA CANAL. T is always difficult in the conflict of national interests to secure a calm scrutiny of any international convention. It is still further difficult when within each of the signatory States, conflicting constructions may commend themselves to rival commercial interests. The difficulty is still further accentuated when, within either of the signatory States an electoral controversy is pending, in the determination of which a potent factor may conceivably be the attitude towards the convention of one or more of the persons, or of one or more of the parties, involved in the political strife. The bases for the construction of the international conventions which control the commercial neutralisation of the Panama Canal are-on all these grounds-at this juncture singularly the province of the international lawyer. At the outset of the inquiry, it is expedient to eliminate those elements which tend to obscure the consideration of main points. And in the first place, those responsible for the recent decision of the Legislature of the United States must be assumed to have acted with honest regard to international obligations, as they presumed them to exist, equally with an appreciation of the national interests which they sought to serve. On the other hand, it must be assumed that the criticism which has been directed to that decision |