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Book Reviews, Hugh L. Sowards (Reviewer), Stanley D. Rose (Reviewer), William D. Warren (Reviewer)

Vanderbilt Law Review

Securities Legislation

By Louis Loss

Boston: Little, Brown & Com-pany, 1951. Pp. xxvii, 1283. $17.50

reviewer: Hugh L. Sowards

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Private Property, the History of an Idea

By Richard Schlatter

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1951. Pp. 284. $2.50

reviewer: Stanley D. Rose

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Oil and Gas Law: Collection of articles

TEXAS LAW REVIEW

Austin: Texas Law Review, Inc., 1951. Pp. xix, 1736. $15.00

reviewer: William D. Warren

Formal Requirements For Creation Of The Oil And Gas Lessee's Interest, William D. Warren

Vanderbilt Law Review

The practice of the courts of employing almost as many varying and contradictory descriptions of the nature of the lessee's interest under the usual oil and gas lease as there are petroleum producing states has a historical origin which is clearly traceable. In the latter half of the nineteenth century as each of the known oil bearing states was slowly explored and developed for petroleum, it fell the lot of their courts to solve the complicated legal problems arising in this new and unique industry. Equipped with but little accurate scientific knowledge about the physical behavior of oil and gas, …