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NEW LAW BOOKS. The H1ghway Law of The State of New The American State Reports. Vol. 84. Con York. Containing all laws relating to high taining cases of general value and authority, ways, as amended to the close of the legisla decided in courts of last resort of the several tive session of 1902, with annotations, forms States. Selected, reported and annotated by and cross-references. By H. Noyes Greene. A. C. Freeman. San Francisco : BancroftSecond edition, by L. L. Boyce. Albany, N. Y. : Whitney Company. 1902. (pp. 1035.) Matthew Bender. 1902. Law sheep: $4. (pp. xxviii + 471.) As usual in volumes of this series, the impor tant notes in this current volume cover a wide While of course this, like all law books, is range of subjects. For example, while McGrew primarily for the lawyer, we imagine that the lay v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 132 Cal. 85, man — especially the town and county official — calls forth a note on "Exceptions to Rule that the will make much use of this volume; for there are Domicile of a Husband is the Domicile of his many matters relating to highways which touch Wife," Chapin v. Cooke, 73 Conn. 72, one on the average citizen closely, and which come "Conditions in Restraint of Marriage," Rose v. within the duties of the officials above mentioned. Rose, 104 Ky. 48, one on the "Constitutionality To the New York lawyer it is a matter of decided of Statutes affecting Rights based on pre-exist convenience to have collected, as here, all of the ing Marriage," and Bank v. Smith, 38 Or. 72, one statutes relating to the subject of highways, on " Powers of Attorney by Married Women," especially as the notes trace the history of the — subjects more or less related to each other,— respective sections and-give the judicial decisions yet these notes are followed by others, for exam bearing thereon. ple, which treat at considerable length such di verse subjects as " Failure to comply with the Statute requiring the Stamping of Writings," fol Prorate Reports Annotated : containing re cent cases of general value decided in the lowing Garland v. Gaines, 73 Conn. 662, " Bind courts of the several States on points of Pro ing Effect of Conditions on Unsigned Passenger bate Law, with notes and references. By Tickets," Walker v. Price, 62 Kan. 327, " SelfGeorge A. Clement. Vol. VI. New York : destruction as Defense to Life Insurance," Su Baker, Voorhis and Company. 1902. Law preme Conclave, etc., v. Miles, 92 Md. 613, sheep: $5.50 net. (pp. xlv + 832.) "When and against whom Fixtures may, by The one hundred or so cases reported in this Agreement, retain the character of Personal Property," Fuller-Warren Co. v. Harter, no sixth volume include what may be fairly called Wis. 80, " Have Municipal Corporations any the more important probate cases decided in the greater Right than Individuals to Pollute Wa several States from June, 1900, to July, 1901. ters? " Winchell v. Waukesha, no Wis. 101, and I This and the preceding five volumes- of the "The Right of Policemen to arrest and of Citi- series contain a valuable store of probate law, izens to resist," State v. Evans, 151 Mo. 95. the practical value of which is enhanced by the The original volumes of reports from which cases editorial notes and references. The users of in this volume are taken are — besides the re this volume appreciate the convenience of hav ports cited above — 113 Georgia, 26 Indiana Ap ing printed in each volume the list of Editorial peals, 112 Iowa, 104 Kentucky, 125 Michigan, Notes of each of the preceding volumes, as well as of the current volume. 78 Mississippi, and 22 Rhode Island.