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174 that such a privilege is quite likely to be granted before very long.

Suitable works of reference on this chapter are scarce. "The Yankees of the East" (Curtis), chap, viii., and "The Real Japan" (Norman), chaps. iii. and xi., furnish some material. Dr. Masujima's papers in the Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan on "The Japanese Legal Seal" (vol. xvii.) and "Modern Japanese Legal Institutions" (vol. xviii.) are quite instructive; and so is Longford's "Summary of the Japanese Penal Codes" in vol. v. Some specific references have already been made in footnotes.

"Every Day Japan" (Lloyd) contains interesting material on these topics. Hozumi's "Lectures on the New Japanese Civil Code" and "Ancestor Worship and Japanese Law" are very valuable.