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Book Reviews, Henry L. Mcclintock (Reviewer), John W. Green (Reviewer), Leon D. Hubert, Jr. (Reviewer), Wallace Mendelson (Reviewer)

Vanderbilt Law Review

Some Problems of Equity

By Zechariah Chafee, Jr.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1950. Pp. xv, 441. $4.50

reviewer: Henry L. McClintock

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Four Score Forgotten Men

By Tom W. Campbell

Little Rock: Pioneer Publishing Company, 1950. Pp. 424

reviewer: John W. Green

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Uniform Code of Military Justice, Explanation, Comparative Text and Commentary

By Frederick Bernays Wiener

Washington, D. C.: Combat Forces Press, 1950. Pp. 275. $3.50.

reviewer: Leon D. Hubert, Jr.

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Dred Scott's Case

By Vincent C. Hopkins

New York: Fordham University Press, 1951, Pp. 213. $4.00.

reviewer: Wallace Mendelson

Reformation Of Voluntary Conveyances, Henry D. Bell

Vanderbilt Law Review

It has frequently been stated that equity will not reform a conveyance which is merely voluntary and based on no consideration.' As thus broadly stated the rule is manifestly inaccurate, for it is universally recognized that a grantor is entitled to have a voluntary conveyance reformed. Moreover,the rule is unhelpful and even misleading, for it does not define the term "voluntary" and it ignores a line of authority which allows reformation of concededly voluntary conveyances in favor of parties other than the grantor.

The continued recital of this rule is probably due to a spontaneous reaction of abhorrence on the …