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ENGLISH REPORTS REPRINT. — House of Lords (1694 to 1866), n vols. — Privy Council (1809 to 1872), 9 vols. — Chancery (1557 to 1866), 27 vols. — Rolls Court (1829 to 1866), 8 vols. — Vice-Chancellors (1815 to 1865), 16 vols. — King's Bench (1378 to 1700), thus far issued, 17 vols. The whole set will make about 160 volumes. ENGLISH LAW REPORTS (1865 to 1907), 300 vols.
— Digest (1865 to 1905), 4 vols. MEWS' DIGEST OF ENGLISH LAW, 16 vols. to 1898. — Supplement (1898 to 1907), 2 vols. WOOD AND RITCHIE'S Digest of Overruled Cases, to 1907. 3 vols. TALBOT AND FORT'S Index of Cases Judi cially Noticed (1865 to 1907), i vol. This magnificent collection consisting of 414 volumes we will be glad to price upon applica tion.
LIBERIAN LAW REPORTS, Vol. 1. We are now putting through the press, and will very shortly have ready the first volume of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Liberia. These reports cover a period from 1861 to 1907. They were prepared for the press by Mr. Justice Dossen, under authority of the Legislature of Liberia. The Legislature of Liberia early enacted that "such parts of the common law set forth in Blackstone's Commentaries as may be applicable to the situation of the people, except as changed by the
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laws now in force, and such as may be hereafter enacted, shall be the civil code of laws of the Republic." In 1860, this was amended to read that Blackstone's Commentaries as revised and modified by Chitty or Wendell, and the works referred to as the sources of the municipal or common law in the first volume of Kent's Commentaries should be the civil and criminal code of laws. It must be remembered that Liberia is a negro republic and that its bench and bar had access to but few books. In this volume there are but five citations to outside reports, and none to the deci sions of its own Supreme Court piior to 1875. There are numerous citations to Bouvier's Law Dictionary. In fact, the court seems to rely on that to solve the questions presented to it. This volume of reports possesses value and inter est as illustrating the spread of the common law into the Dark Continent. The court shows consid erable ingenuity in applying the doctrines of the old writers to the peculiar conditions existing in Africa. As only a very small edition will be printed, it would be well to place orders with us without delay. The price of Liberian Law Reports, Vol. i, is §15.00.
FRENCH CIVIL CODE IN ENGLISH. We have just received The French Civil Code, as amended up to 1906, translated into English, with notes explanatory and historical, and comparative references to English law, by Hon. E. Blackwood Wright. (Cloth, 1908, #6.50.) To quote from the preface : — "This work is an attempt to make the Code Napole"on comprehensible to English officials who are not of French origin. It is the result of three years' work while Chief Justice of Seychelles. I hope it may assist my fellow countrymen in avoiding some of the pitfalls that an Englishman might fall into, owing to the nature of the language used in the Code, which is at times technical and at others popular. "This translation is, I believe, the first made by a person more familiar with English than French law, if I may judge from the internal evidence contained in previous translations. It is the only translation which gives the Code as amended up to date, and containing notes from the works of the leading French commentators, and which are explanatory of French legal terms. Occasionally I have been tempted to make comparisons between English and French law."
