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 THE GREEN BAG CRIMINAL LAW (See Procedure). DAMAGES. " Mental Anguish as an Ele ment of Damage," by George Lawyer, Central Law Journal (V. ixi, p. 147). DEFINITION (Accident). The cases denn ing the meaning of "accident" in relation to the verdicts of inquest juries, accident in surance policies, and friendly society rules, and workmen's compensation acts, are col lected in an article entitled, "Definitions of Accident, Accidental, Accidentally," by Stan ley B. Atkinson, in the August Law Alagazine and Review (V. xxx, p. 439). DIPLOMACY (Monroe Doctrine). In the July American Law Review (V. xxxix, p. 495) Alfred Spring publishes an interesting dis cussion of the history and extent of our for eign policy known as the Munroe Doctrine. EDUCATION. The results of President Ed mund J. James's "Inquiry into the Present Condition of Legal Education," which has already been much commented on in the press, are summarized in the July American Law Review (V. xxxix, p. 581). FEDERAL JURISDICTION. "The Common Law in Federal Jurisprudence," by Thomas Dent, Central Law Journal (V. Ixi, p. 123). FEDERAL JURISDICTION tions). •

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HISTORY (Biblical Reference). The Law Magazine and Review for August (V. xxv, p. 387) publishes an interesting collection of biblical references and quotations bearing upon legal subjects by James Williams, under the title of "The Bible in Law." HISTORY. "The Bootn Case. A Chapter from the Judicial History of Wisconsin," by Hon. John B. Winslow, American Law yer (V. xiii, p. 275). HISTORY (English Manorial System). " Vinogradoff on the Manor" is the title of a review of Professor Vinogradoff's recent work en titled "The Growth of the Manor," by W. Paley Baildon in the July f.aw Quarterly

Review (V. xxi, p. 294). He says that although its author modestly calls it "a summing up" this description though correct is incomplete, for it is "much more than a mere colorless summary of the work of other writers, and the submission of a choice of views to the reader; it is more in the nature of a review of many expert opinions by an expert him self; it is the summing up and judgment of the chancery side rather than the placing of facts before a jury such as obtains at com mon law. The book is eminently one for senior students, who have made a careful study of the voluminous literature on the subject, who have some knowledge of the intricacies of domesday, and who are ac quainted with court rolls, extents, and plea rolls; these will read it with pleasure and advantage, but these only." The author then gives a summary of the work including some criticisms and finally expresses regret that the work has not cov ered the history of a later period than domesday. HISTORY (Magna Carta). To the July Low Quarterly Review (V. xxi, p. 250) Professor P. Vinogradoff contributes a review of Mr. McKechnie's Commentary on the Great Char ter of King John, a review of which by Mr. Neilson in the July Juridical Review was summarized in our September number. He gives a series of criticisms of details in the several chapters of the book, concluding with a brief estimate of the importance of Magna Carta, which he says depends upon "whether it should be considered as a grant, or a treaty, or a statute, or a code." He regrets a want of definiteness in this respect in the instrument itself but feels that "as the contents of the charter include, by the side of restrictions on royal power, provisions for the general welfare of the country, and parallel conces sions on the part of the barons in regard to their tenants, it seems appropriate to con sider Magna Carta as a stabilimentum, a leg islative enactment formulated in concert by king, church, and barons, as participants in sovereign power. The historical importance of this mode of legislation was considerable it brought the notion of a compact between king and subjects into public law, and thus