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Yale Law Journal (Dec. '92). The Moral Right to Defend the Guilty : Geo. D. Watrous. The London Police Courts : Geo. P. Ingersoll. Needed Reforms in Municipal Charters and Government : Francis W. Treadway. The Criminal Law Magazine (Nov. '92). The Criminal Liability of a Principal for the Acts of an Agent, I.: Ardemus Stewart. Columbia Law Times (Nov. '91). Dictum and Decision: Christopher G. Tiedeman. Central Law Journal (Dec. 2, '93). Public Corporation Bonds : Recitals thereon and their Legal Effect, I. : George A. Sanders. The Counsellor (Nov.). Riparian Rights on the Shore of Navigable Rivers-. James Richards. The Rule in Hadley v. Baxendale : Frank S. Angelí. Michigan Law Journal (Dec.). Protection of Naturalized Citizens : Prof. Henry A. Chaney. Policy of Japan towards Portugal : Gingiro Yoshimura.
In politics he was a strong Jeffersoniau Democrat, and was a dclegate-at-large to the Charleston Con vention of 1860. He was also a delegate to the Peace Convention at Washington in 1861, and was a strong Union man during the Civil War. He came within a few votes of being elected United States Senator in 1863.
JUSTICE JOHN R. SHARPSTEIN, of the California Supreme Court, died December 28. He was born in Ontario County, N. Y., in 1823, and went to Wisconsin in 1847. After practising law for several years in Sheboygan, he removed to Kenosha, then known as Southport. where he was elected District Attorney in 1850, and member of the Wisconsin State Senate in 1851. President Pierce appointed him United States District Attorney in 1853. This necessitated his moving to Milwaukee, where he continued to reside until 1864. He was appointed postmaster of Milwaukee in 1857, and was a dele gate to the National Democratic Convention of 1860, which met in Baltimore. He removed to San Francisco in 1874, and practised law until elected to the California Supreme Court in 1880.
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EX-CHANCELLOR BENJAMIN WILLIAMSON, a dis tinguished New Jersey lawyer, died in Elizabeth, N. J., December 2. He was born in 1808, and came of a famous Jersey family, — his father, Isaac H. Williamson, having been Federalist Governor of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, and also Chan cellor. The ex-Chancellor began his studies at Old Nassau Hall, now Princeton College, and graduated with high honors in 1827. He decided to enter the legal profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1830, and was made a counsellor in 1833. He rapidly rose in his profession, and was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for Essex County, which position he held with marked abil ity for several years. In 1852 he was made State Chancellor, and held this office until 1860, when he resumed the practice of law. He had been chief counsel for the Central Railroad Company since its inception, and was also counsel for the Lehigh Valley Company and the Southern New Jersey Railroad. As a constitutional or corpora tion lawyer he had no superior in New Jersey.
AMERICAN RAILROAD AND CORPORATION REPORTS. Being a collection of the current decisions of the courts of last resort in the United States pertaining to the law of Railroads, Private and Municipal Corporations, including the law of Insurance. Banking, Carriers, Telegraph and Telephone Companies, Building and Loan Asso ciations, etc. Edited and annotated by JOHN LEWIS. Vol. V. E. B. Myers & Co.. Chicago. 1892. Law sheep. $4.50. This series ot " Reports " is of especial interest and value to corporation lawyers, and to them we rec ommend it as containing very full reports of cases supplemented by numerous and exhaustive annota tions by Mr. Lewis. In the present volume one hun dred and fifty cases, covering decisions in almost every State, are reported.
AMERICAN STATUTE LAW. Vol. II. An ana lytical and compound Digest of the Statutes of all the States and Territories relating to Gen
