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Volume 8 - Issue 1 - March 1942

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—False imprisonment—Arrest without warrant of an ‘offender’ on charge of harbouring uncustomed goods with intent to defraud—Statutory authority under Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, held to include a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence

Tort—False imprisonment—Arrest without a warrant, but on reasonable suspicion, of a person wrongly believed to be an offender under the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881—Held, to be false imprisonment

Tort—Negligence—Independent contractor—Inspection and approval of work by employees held to negative liability of contractor

Tort—Nuisance—Highway—Lighting restrictions—No duty to light obstacles erected legally under statutory powers

Book Reviews

Criminal Law and its Administration: Cases, Statutes, and Commentaries. By Jerome Michael, Professor of Law, Columbia University, and Herbert Wechsler, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia University. Chicago: The Foundation Press, Inc.1940. xi and 1410 pp. ($6.50.)

Law without Force: The Function of Politics in International Law. By Gerhart Niemeyer. Humphrey Milford, Princeton University Press, Princeton. 1941. xiv and 408 pp. (22s. 6d.)

Impossibility of Performance: A Treatise on the Law of Supervening Impossibility of Performance of Contract, Failure of Consideration, and Frustration. By R. G. McElroy. Edited by Glanville Williams. Cambridge: The University Press. 1941. xl and 255 pp. (15s. net.)

The British Constitution. By W. Ivor Jennings, M.A., LL.D.; Principal of Ceylon University College. Cambridge University Press. 1941. xv and 232 pp. (8s. 6d.)

The Theory of Legal Science. By Huntington Cairns. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press; London: Humphrey Milford. 1941. 155 pp. (12s. net.)

Workmen's Compensation. By SirArnold Wilson, M.P., and ProfessorHermann Levy. Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford. Vol. I: xxi and 328 pp. 1939. (10s.); Vol. II: xi and 383 pp. 1941. (18s.)

Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages. By Fritz Kern. Translated and with an Introduction by S. B. Chrimes. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1939. xxxi and 214 pp. (12s. 6d.)

The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries. By Daniel J. Boorstin. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. 1941. xviii and 257 pp. ($3.00; 16s. 6d. net.)

The Conveyancers' Year Book, 1941. By SirLancelot H. Elphinstone, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Vol. 2. London: The Solicitors' Law Stationery Society, Ltd.1941. xxxvi and 260 pp. (15s. net.)

What's Wrong with International Law? By DrW. Friedmann, LL.M. (Lond.). Watts & Co.1941. 48 pp. (6d. net.)

Studies in Legal Terminology. By Erwin Hexner, J.D., D. Pol. Sci., Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolona. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press; London: Humphrey Milford. 1941. (9s. 6d.)

Edward Jenks. By R. W. Lee. Offprint from Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXVI. London: Humphrey Milford. 27 pp., with portrait. (2s. 6d.)

The International Labour Code, 1939. A systematic arrangement of the Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the International Labour Conference, 1919–1939. Montreal. 1941. lvi and 920 pp.

The International Conferences of American States: First Supplement, 1933–1940. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Washington D.C.1940. Columbia University Press, xxix and 558pp. ($3.50.)

The United States and the League, the Labour Organisation and the World Court during1940. By Arthur Sweetser. Geneva Research Studies, Vol. XI, No. 8, 1940. Geneva Research Centre, Geneva. 1940. ($0.40, or 1.75 Swiss francs.)

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