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Book Reviews, Evans Holbrook, Henry M. Bates
Book Reviews, Evans Holbrook, Henry M. Bates
Michigan Law Review
A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.
Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates
Book Reviews, Henry M. Bates
Michigan Law Review
A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.
Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake
Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake
Michigan Law Review
These two volumes, published simultaneously in the fall of 1912, are the first fruits of the labor of the committee which 'has been working since 19o9 to make available to American lawyers the 'works of the best legal historians of Continental Europe. The Series is to contain' a volume on the "History of Germanic Private Law," one on "Italian Law," one on "French Public Law," one on each of the subjects,-"Continental -Criminal Procedure," "Continental Criminal Law," "Continental Civil Procedure," and "Continental- Commercial Law," with a concluding volume on the "Evolution of Law in, Europe," and an extra volume (to be …
Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, Ralph W. Aigler
Book Reviews, Edwin C. Goddard, Ralph W. Aigler
Michigan Law Review
This work, which is practically an annotated and well arranged selection of extracts from leading cases and from the rules laid down and followed by various railroad commissions and public service companies, puts in extremely convenient form a great deal of very valuable material. There has been such a diversity in the rules laid down by the courts as to the methods of valuation and the elements that should enter into a determination of the value of a public service plant, that it requires a large amount of investigation to bring together and analyze the various important cases. One can …
Book Reviews
Michigan Law Review
Students and teachers of law, as well as historically-minded practitioners -though the number of the latter is, alas, all too few-have long felt the need of a brief but adequate and authoritative account of the origin and growth of English legal institutions. Previous treatises, based on modern investigations, notably those of Pollock and Maitland and Holdsworth, are not only too exhaustive, but do not completely cover the ground. Convinced, like many others of the present day, "that a rich field of educational effort awaited development," Mr. Jenks, already well-known for his contributions to various aspects of the subject, has at …
Book Reviews, John R. Rood
Book Reviews, John R. Rood
Michigan Law Review
The appearance of these two works in the Classics of International Law, the publication of which has been ,undertaken by the Carnegie Institution of Washington under the general editorship of Dr. James Brown 'Scott, is an event of great importance in the history of the literature of International Law. Several years ago Dr. Scott called the attention of the authorities of the Carnegie Institution to the need of reprints .of the texts of the great classics of International Law, each to be accompanied by a readable English translation. The Carnegie Institution undertook the work as outlined by Dr. Scott, and …
Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake, Edgar N. Durfee, William T. Hoffman
Book Reviews, Joseph H. Drake, Edgar N. Durfee, William T. Hoffman
Michigan Law Review
The legal profession is to be congratulated that men of the great erudition of Dean Wigmore and the editors associated with him are devoting themselves so unselfishly to the heavy labor of presenting in fitting English form the masterpieces of continental legal literature. Though much may be said about the insufficiency of translations as a basis of scholarly work in -any subject, the fact remains that the great bulk of the legal profession, even those of a scholarly habit of mind, have not the linguistic ability necessary to use the original sources of knowledge. On the other hand the need …
Book Reviews, Evans Holbrook, John B. Waite, Ralph W. Aigler
Book Reviews, Evans Holbrook, John B. Waite, Ralph W. Aigler
Michigan Law Review
Cases on Persons and Domestic Relations, Selected from Decisions of English and American Courts. By Albert M. Kales. American Casebook Series. James Brown Scott, General Editor. St. Paul, West Publishing Co., 1911, pp. xxix, 654.