say that the wives of these personages would never bring such a case before a court of justice, and no other person who did not, as Broyles did, see money in it." A verdict for $2500 was set aside as excessive. Mr. Freeman very properly complains of the burden to himself and the profession of his being obliged by law to report all cases, though they involve only oft decided law, or else no law at all, and asks the intervention of the legislature. The Evils of the Unlimited Liability for Accidents of Masters and Railway Companies, especially since Lord Campbell's Act (a paper read before the Social Science Association). By JOSEPH BROWN, Esq., Q. C. London: Butterworths, 1870. IN Lord Campbell's Act, by which a civil action was first given to recover damages for the death of a human being, there is no limitation to the amount that may be recovered from the defendant. In America, such a limitation is generally introduced into the statutes of the different States which have given this remedy, and Mr. Brown, in his present essay, argues strongly for a like limitation in the English statute; indeed, he goes farther, and advocates the imposition of a similar limitation on the amount that can be recovered against a master in any case for the fault of his servant, or even for the establishment of the same rule in civil proceedings as prevails in criminal matters, by which a master is held responsible only when he has ordered or authorized the act complained of. No one can fail to be impressed by the strength of much of Mr. Brown's arguments in favor of these changes; but, with the alarmingly rapid increase of the power of corporations in this country, the community will be slow to acquiesce in any weakening of the hold which tends to protect life, and which is maintained over them by the heavy verdicts to which they are liable, unreasonable and indefensible as these verdicts sometimes are. Local Law in Connecticut, historically considered. By WILLIAM CHAUNCEY FOWLER, LL.D. Boston: 1870. THIS tract is interesting, as showing the strong States-rights, and, indeed, secession feeling which has existed in New England at different periods of its history. Law of Homicide, as defined in the Code of Georgia; and as applied by the Supreme Court. Prepared for the Younger Members of the Bar, and for Students at Law. Compiled by W. M. REESE. Macon: 1870. THIS pamphlet contains a statement of the principal points in the law of homicide, illustrated mainly by cases from the Georgia Reports. Reminiscences of an old Georgia Lawyer. By GARNETT Andrews, Judge of the Superior Courts of Georgia. Atlanta: 1870. THIS is a curious picture of the rude back country life and the horse fun that passed there for wit in the earlier years of the century. Practice, Pleading, and Forms in Actions both Legal and Equitable. Forms in Actions, in Special Proceedings, in Provisional Remedies, and of Affidavits, Notices, &c. Especially adapted to the Practice in the States of California, Oregon, Nevada, and the Territories. And applicable also to the Practice in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and other States which have adopted a Code. By MORRIS M. ESTEE, Counsellor-at-Law. In three volumes. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft & Company, 1870. It would have amazed an early admirer of codes, who thought their introduction was to work a legal millennium, and that law process was henceforth to be as simple as a sum in short division, to behold these three goodly volumes, which contain in a very condensed form the numberless points of pleading and practice to which codes have given birth. One may doubt whether we have gained so much after all; certainly, in simplicity and ease of comprehension, the system has fallen far short of what was expected from it. However, it is not for the lovers of the old practice to throw stones, their feeling has been too often the offspring of prejudice, and not of rational affection. At any rate, codes, more or less modelled on that of New York, have, as matter of fact, been adopted in many, perhaps in most, of the States, and it is high time that the numerous and conflicting decisions under them should be collected and commented on. This task Mr. Estee has undertaken in the large and elaborate treatise now before us. It has arrived at so late a day before going to press that we have been able to give it only a superficial examination. We have, however, been much impressed by the vast amount of labor required for the preparation of these pages, nearly three thousand in number. The author's style, too, is so terse and compact, that the book, in spite of its size, contains little superfluous matter; and we are inclined to think that Mr. Estee deserves to be called, and it is high praise, the Chitty of the Code. Uebersicht der gesammten Staats und Rechts wissenschaftlichen Literatur der Jahres 1869, zusammengestellt von OTTO MUHLBRECHT. II. Jahrgang. Berlin: 1870. THIS is published bi-monthly, and contains the names of all the law books published in every quarter of the habitable globe. The Law Magazine and Law Review; or Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence; for May, 1870. THIS number begins with an excellent article on the Civil Code of New York, a work which has met with very undeserved and very ignorant praise in England. This article will show, to any one who cares to know, that the Civil Code is nothing but a text-book, and a poor one at that. The next article is on “The Law Military as distinct from Martial Law," which is as good as any thing else that has been written on the subject, not, to be sure, very high praise; then follows a rather amusing selection of extracts from Henry Crabbe Robinson's Diary; other articles are on Friendly Societies; on Marriage Law; on Mr. Justice Hayes; on a MS. of Vacarius; on Church Patronage; and on the abolition of Compulsory Pilotage; and there are the usual notices of New Books. The Western Jurist. For January and February, 1870. THIS number commences the fourth volume, and contains an announcement that it is hereafter to be published monthly; we are glad to hear it. There is no law periodical in the country more intelligent and self-respecting than the Western Jurist, or one more free from padding and flummery. The American Law Register. For March, April, and May, 1870. Bench and Bar, for April, 1870, contains an interesting piece of what may now almost be called legal antiquity in the shape of Chancellor Kent's introductory lecture at Columbia College. The American Law Times. For March, April, and May. The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal. New York. The Bankrupt Register. New York. The Legal Intelligencer. Philadelphia. The Legal Gazette. Philadelphia. The Pittsburgh Legal Journal. The Chicago Legal News. The Daily Law Transcript, Baltimore, seems to have given up the ghost in its struggle to become an authorized medium of legal advertisements, at least we have received no copy of it for some months. The Albany Law Journal. The New York Daily Transcript. The Canada Law Journal. Toronto. The Lower Canada Jurist. The Law Times. London. The Solicitors' Journal and Reporter. London. A LIST OF LAW BOOKS PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA SINCE APRIL 1870. Abbott's New York Practice Reports. New Series. Vol. 7. 8vo, $5.00. Diossy & Co., New York. Alabama Reports. Vol. 42. 8vo, sheep, $7.50. Joel White, Montgomery. Ayckbourn's Practice of the High Court of Chancery. Ninth edition. 8vo, 21s. Wildy & Sons, London. Bernard's Historical Account of the Neutrality of Great Britain during the American Bush's Reports. Vol. 5. 8vo, sheep, $6.00. J. P. Morton & Co., Louisville. Common Bench Reports, New Series, Vol. 16. 8vo, sheep, $4.00. T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., Philadelphia. Davis's Law of Building and Freehold Land Societies in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 12mo, 18s. Sweet, London. Gaius, Commentaries of. Translated by J. T. Abdy and B. Walker. Crown 8vo, 12s. 6d. Rivington, London. Georgia Reports. Vol. 37. (Hammond.) 8vo, sheep, $7.00. Savannah, J. M. Cooper & Co. Haywood's Reports. (Vols. 3, 4, 5, in 1.) Edited by M. M. Bigelow. 8vo, sheep, $8.00. Hurd & Houghton, New York. House of Lords Cases. Vols. 1-4. (Clark and Finnelly.) 8vo, sheep, $6.00. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston. Howard's New York Practice Reports. Vol. 38. 8vo, sheep, $4.50. W. Gould & Son, Albany. Hunt's Law relating to Boundaries and Fences, and to the Rights of Property on the Sea Shore and the Beds of Public Rivers. Second edition. Crown 8vo, 12s. Butterworths, London. Lester's Land Laws. Vol. 2. Land Laws, Regulations, and Decisions of Acts of Congress passed from December, 1859, to January, 1870. By W. W. Lester. 8vo, $5.00. Kay & Brother, Philadelphia. Lewis's Indian Penal Code. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. W. H. Allen, London. Maine's Ancient Law. Fourth edition. 8vo, 12s. John Murray, London. Maine's Ancient Law. From the Second London edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, $2.50 Charles Scribner & Co., New York. Maine Reports. Vol. 56. (Virgin.) 8vo, $5.00. Masters, Smith, & Co., Hallowell. Minnesota Reports. Vol. 14. (Spencer.) 8vo, $5.00. Coombs & Whitney, St. Paul. Missouri Reports. Vol. 44. (Post.) 8vo, sheep. $5.00. St. Louis. Nevada Reports. Vol. 5. (Helm.) 8vo, sheep, $7.50. San Francisco. (Vroom.) 8vo, sheep, $5.00. W. T. Nicholson, New York Supreme Court Reports. (Lansing.) Vol. 1. 8vo, sheep, $4.00. Banks & Bros. New York. Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States. Edited by J. H. Ashton. Vol. 12. 8vo, sheep, $2.50. W. H. & O. H. Morrison, Washington. Ohio State Reports. Vol. 18. (Critchfield.) 8vo, sheep, $5.00. R. Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. Parsons's Treatise on the Law of Partnership. Second edition. 8vo, sheep, $7.50. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston. Petersdorff's Abridgment of the Law. 7 vols. Royal 8vo, £8 8s. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London. Petersdorff's Supplement to Concise Practical Abridgment of the Common and Statute Law. Royal 8vo, 25s. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London. Pennsylvania State Reports. Vol. 60. (Smith, Vol. 10.) 8vo, sheep, $4.50, Kay & Brother, Philadelphia. 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