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CURRENT LEGAL ARTICLES This department represents a selection of the most important leading articles in all the English and American legal periodicals of the preceding month. The space devoted to a summary does not always represent the relative importance of the article, for essays of the most permanent value are usually so condensed in style that further abbre viation is impracticablt.

ACCIDENT (See Definition). BIOGRAPHY (Alexander Asher Dean). Anonymous, Scottish Law Review (V. xxi, p. 255)CARRIERS. "When Negligence of Carrier Will Render Him Liable for Loss of Goods Caused by Act of God," by John T. Marshall, Central Law Journal (V. Ixi, p. 85). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "The Juvenile Court in Utah as a Branch of Equity — Con stitutionality," Anonymous, Central Law Jour nal (V. Ixi, p. 101). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "The Law of the Constitution in Relation to the Election of President," by T. Hampton Dougherty, Al bany Law Journal (V. Ixvii, p. 195). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. " Legislative and Judicial Encroachments on Constitutional Provisions," by Robert M. Rowland, Central Law Journal (V. Ixi, p. 181). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Regulation of Rates). "Regulation of railway 'rates by Congress is impracticable," asserts Blackburn Esterline in the July American Law Review (V. xxxix, p. 517). He admits that Congress, under its power to regulate commerce may establish a schedule of rates subject to certain limitations. This is a legislative function, the reasonableness of which is subject to review by the judicial department. His principal reason for his thesis seems to be the length of time that elapsed between the argument and the decision of certain cases in the past involving rates on a comparatively small frac tion of our railroad mileage. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "Regulation of Corporations," by Hon. Thomas Hagsett,

Hon. C. T. Lewis, and Hon. Howard C. Hoilister, Ohio Law Bulletin (V. 1, p. 296). CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. "The Regulation and Taxation of Corporations," by Hubert B. Fuller, Ohio Law Bulletin (V. iv, p. 277). CORPORATIONS (Federal Jurisdiction).

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address by Judge Jacob Trieber before the Arkansas Bar Association on "The Jurisdic tion of Federal Courts in Actions in Which Corporations are Parties," is published in the July American Law Review (V. xxxix, p. 565). The author analyzes the decisions and sum marizes the law upon this subject. He par ticularly emphasizes the difficulties arising out of the modern problem arising from incorpo ration in more than one state. "A foreign railroad corporation which by the laws of a state may become a domestic corporation of the latter state upon complying with certain statutory requirements, is still for jurisdictional purposes of the federal courts a foreign corporation, authorized to maintain suits against citizens of that state or remove them from a state court, but for the purpose of enjoying all the rights, privileges, and im munities of domestic corporations, including the exercise of the right of eminent domain, it is a domestic corporation, and that in the face of a constitutional provision of a state that the legislature may authorize foreign corpora tions to do business in the state but shall not grant them the power to condemn or appro priate private property." He suggests the' advisability of legislation to remove these anomalies. CORPORATIONS. "Alabama's New Cor poration Law," by Armstead Brown, American Lawyer (V. xiii, p. 327). CORPORATIONS (See International and Con stitutional Law).