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Reviews of Books law, and then presents the development
jurisdiction is much more extensive in
of these common law doctrines and the
relation to the state law than in our own country, the “Compendium" pre
adaptation of them to American condi tions. To this extent this book has a scope and usefulness beyond the limits of Georgia, and will prove an instruc tive guide in any state where the common law still prevails in land actions. To the student of law the book will also prove useful in giving a general view of
this intricate subject. The propositions are stated simply and intelligently in the main text and exemplified and
sents a completer exposition of the law of
Mexico
than
could
any
similar
treatise upon American laws. The book begins with the federal constitution, upon which is based the whole structure not only of the Republic,
but of its constituent states and terri tories, and the distribution of govern
and reconciled so as to present the local development of the law not only chron ologically, but logically. The book as a whole is a good example of the best kind
mental functions between state and nation. After the public or institutional law the personal law, so much more impor tant under the Civil system than under the common law, is then taken up, dealing as it does, in great detail, with questions of domicil, status, marriage,
of local text-book.
divorce, legitimacy, and so forth.
elaborated in the footnotes. The cases cited are collected with care, analyzed
The
law of property, personal and real, is
WHELESS’S LAWS OF MEXICO Compendium of the Laws of Mexico; of'ficially authorized by the Mexican government. containing the federal Constitution, with all amendments. and a thorough abridgment of all the codes and special laws of importance to foreigners concerned with business in the republic; all accurately translated into English. By Joseph Wheless of the St. Louis bar. F. H. Thomas Law Book Co.. St. Louis. 2 v. V. 1, pp. lxxxv, 521; v. 2, pp. 462+ 64 (in dex). (810.)
R.
JOSEPH
WHELESS of St.
Louis in his “Compendium of the Laws of Mexico" has for the first time made Mexican jurisprudence readily
accessible to the American student and the American lawyer called upon to advise or act in Mexican matters. The
need for just such a work has been steadily growing, and the many who have awaited its coming, as well as the
next treated. Under this head comes the very full and interesting considera tion of servitudes, a branch of law much
more developed and refined than our law of easements. After the subject of descents and successions, various dis tinct branches of law, some of them governed by separate codes, are then
dealt with in order, such as mercantile law, corporation law, negotiable instru ments, carriers and bankruptcy; and practice and evidence are gone into at some length. The internal laws, public and private,
being thus set is devoted to and to topics foreigners in
forth, the second volume the rights of foreigners of particular interest to Mexico, such as public
lands, waters and water rights,
the
author himself, are to be congratulated upon having the long-felt need so thoroughly and successfully satisfied. Owing to the derivation of Mexican
especially important new mining law and the ever-necessary notarial law. This volume also includes trade-marks and copyrights, criminal law and re
law from Roman and Civil sources with their minute codifications, and for the further reason that in Mexico the federal
governing the issue of bonds by corpora
sponsibility in tort, insurance, the law tions, and various matters of such dis
