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696 lish common law.
There are, however, many
arguments against the use of national law as a general rule, which Sir Francis Piggott in his zeal for his thesis does not notice. It cannot be denied that the English law as to marriage and divorce and succession to property is not in as well settled a state as lawyers might reasonably desire and expect. But it would be more correct to say that its present state is due to a confusion, from time to time, of the law which governs acts and
the law which governs status, rather than to the application of the doctrine of domicil instead of the doctrine of nationality. With this, however, Sir Francis would not agree.
He says: "Of the pitiable plight into which the international law of marriage and divorce has got itself Ogden v. Ogden stands as a witness and a warning. In the important and less sentimental question of international succession there are three cases, re Trufort, re Martin and re Johnston, which are ex amples of the tangle into which the doctrine of dornicil has succeeded in raveling not very complicated facts. It is a wonder that foreigners should ever enter the wide open door we boast of, with these cases to warn them of the uncertainty which will harass their wives and children should they die leaving property in England." The author's style is somewhat involved and discursive, which to some extent inter feres with a satisfactory analysis and arrange ment of the material. The book contains a discussion of all the leading English cases dealing with questions of status and with judgments in rem, in the field of private international law. There are, however, only nine American decisions cited, four French and one Hongkong, so that except to English lawyers the book would not be of any con siderable use in practice.
It is, however,
can law schools and is known to lawyers as a valuable work of reference. In this new work he finds freer scope for his unusual powers than in the former, where he was
dealing with general principles, and his clearness and vigor of thought show them selves in the most admirable light. Mr. Tiffany modestly offers in his preface something like an apology for expressing his own opinions when they happen to difier from those adopted by courts of high standing. Readers, however, will be grateful to him for expressing his own sensible views, and for the
clarifying effect of intelligent observations that help to make complicated matters more easily understood. The treatise is one of marked erudition,
citations from the Year Books rubbing elbows with those of current authorities, and the subject being treated in its historiml de velopment from its earliest beginnings to its latest phases. Mr. Tiffany needs to ofier no excuse for failing to note the provisions of all the latest statutory enactments. The lawyer will use this work to ascertain the law as expounded by American courts, and can readily examine the latest statutes of his own state for himself. The work is masterly in arrangement, accurate in details, and admirable in style, and reveals so high an order of juristic ability as to be distinctly a credit to American scholarship. Evidently no pains have been spared to make it supreme in its field, which it is likely to remain for a long period.
HALL'S INTERNATIONAL LAW A Treatise on International Law. By William Edward Hall, M.A. 6th edition, edited by . B. Atlay, M;A., of Lincoln's Inn, Banister-at- w. Oxford University Press, New York, Toronto. and London; Stevens & Sons, Ltd., London.
Pp. xxi)v, 743+ table of cases and index 25.
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suggestive and is well worth study and con sideration by those interested in conflict of laws. TIFFANY'S LANDLORD AND TENANT The Law of Landlord and Tenant. By Herbert Thorndike Tiflnny, author of the Law of Real Property, Lecturer on Real Property in the Uni versity of Maryland. Keefe-Davidson Co., St. Paul. 2 v. Pp. xxiv, xxiii+ 2136+ 145 (table of cases)+6l (index). (813 delivered.)
HE author of this exhaustive and in valuable treatise needs no introduction to readers of this magazine. His treatise on real property has been in active use in Ameri
THERE is not much left to say in praise of Mr. Hall's Treatise on International Law, which has now reached its sixth edition. It is generally recognized as being the leading English treatise on international law. The present editor, whose own contributions to legal literature are well and favorably known, had charge of seeing the fourth edition of this work through the press after the death of Mr. Hall, and edited the fifth edition as
well as this one. The arrangement of the work has not been changed, and the editor confined himself strictly to bringing the treatise up to date.
