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 Rh 343 outside its professed jurisdiction. The plan ers for joint management of their holdings; includes a treatise, an abstract of New York third, the holding corporation—a central cor cases, and forms. The topics covered are poration to own the shares of the constituent companies; and, fourth, the single corpora the general principles of liability and specific injuries to the person. Injuries to property tion which buys the plants of the old owners are not covered, and it is to be hoped that outright. When this book was written the fate of the first and second had been decided; and they are reserved for a future volume. The author has done his work so well that the author set forth the whole law which led' to their dissolution. But the disposition there is doubtless some excellent reason for giving such scanty notice to Wright v. Vilof the third and fourth was then unknown, cox, 19 Wend. 118 (1838), cited at p. 91 on a and, indeed, is not yet settled, but the author treats the matter in the best way possible. point for which it is not very important; but lawyers outside New York would welcome a | The secret of the continuing value of the rather elaborate discussion of the present work under review is that it is based upon value of that celebrated case, in its home permanent principles, not upon transitoryjurisdiction, as to the point on which it is rules. For from beginning to end the theory greatly used—the master's responsibility for of the treatise is that the validity of a com a servant's wilful acts. This is, however, a bination depends upon considerations of very slight omission, and the only serious public policy. shortcoming discovered is the lack of a table of cases. By way of set-off, it may fairly be LITERARY NOTES. pointed out that in one respect at least the The account of the organism and function author has unnecessarily, but very properly, of the Virginia County Court given in the carried his labors beyond the field usually oc Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney,1 cupied by writers on torts, in that among in is of special interest to lawyers and jurists. juries to the person he has included breach The old county court of Virginia which of promise to marry. wielded unrivalled power in the early life of that State was notably the great upholder of A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF INTERCORPORATE justice, but it was also the training school RELATIONS. By Wal'er Chadwick Noyes, of Virginia's noted orators. There lawyers Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Con of State reputation did not hesitate to put necticut. Boston: Little, Brown, and Com forth strenuous efforts even in cases of small pany. 1^02. (pp. xlxii, 703 ) importance, and it was in this old court, with The industrial reorganization now going his father sitting among the magistrates, that on may well be set down as marking the Patrick Henry leaped into fame by his great most important epoch in the economic his speech. "These county courts were a sort tory of the United States. From the point of resurrection and metamorphosis of simi of view of the lawyer, this has involved at lar courts which had obtained anciently in every stage the complex problems connected England, and some of which had continued with the consolidation of corporations. So to exercise their powers down to the time much new knowledge and such need for fu of Henry VII. They were established in ture guidance has properly resulted in a the Virginia colony in 1623 and were first special book dealing with the law of inter called monthly courts, but in 1642 the name corporate relations. In respect to the great was changed to county courts and by that er problem of restraint of trade, there are name they are familiarly and almost exclu four forms of intercorporate arrangement sively known. They exercised judicial, leg which have been employed: First, the pool— 1 THE LIFE AND LETTERS «F ROPERT LEWIS DAB a direct agreement between the corporations NEY. By Thomas Gary Johnson. Richmond. Virginia : for their joint operation; second, the trust— The Presbyterian Committee of Publication. 1903. an indiiect arrangement between sharehold (xvi+sSs pp.)