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vii the Clarendon Press for acting upon the maxim ‘Business as usual’, and persevering with the publication of this work notwithstanding the outbreak of the European War.

With regard to the proposed abolition of the Roman-Dutch Common Law in British Guiana, my latest information is that a Committee has been appointed by the Governor to advise as to the necessary legislation.

My recent removal to Montreal, where I have not access to South African Law Reports and other necessary books of reference, has hampered me a little in seeing the work through the press. I trust, however, that any errors which may arise from this cause will be neither numerous nor important.

My friends Dr. W. R. Bisschop, Barrister-at-Law of Lincoln's Inn and the Middle Temple, and Mr. J. C. V. Behan, Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple and Fellow of University College, Oxford, have given me kind assistance in correcting the proofs.

I am permitted to dedicate my book to the honoured name of Mr. Justice Kotzé.

R. W. LEE.

June 18, 1915.