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appears in the October Law Quarterly Review (V. xxi, p. 380). HISTORY (Jurisprudence). " The Sources of Ancient Siamese Law " are proved by analo gies from the Hindu law by Tokichi Masao in the November Yale Law Journal (V. xv, p. 28). INSURANCE. " Recent Insurance Decis ions Which Add Uncertainty to Future Litiga tion Involving the Construction of Policy Pro visions," by Robert J. Brennen, Central Law Journal (V. Ixi, p. 304). INSURANCE. " Shall We Have State or Federal Supervision," by Samuel Bosworth Smith, Chicago Legal News (V. xxxviii, p. 102). INSURANCE. ' ' Stipulations in Fire Insurance Contracts Affecting the Insured's Right of Recovery," by R. E. Ressler, Central Law Journal (V. Ixi, p. 323). INSURANCE (see Constitutional Law). INTERNATIONAL LAW. " International Court of Arbitration," by O. D. Jones, Central Law Journal (V. Ixi, p. 346). INTERNATIONAL LAW. " Exemption of Private Property at Sea from Capture," by Samuel B. Crandall in the November Colum bia Law Review (V. v, p. 487) is a history of the diplomacy leading up to such exemption. INTERNATIONAL LAW (Confiscation of Shares). In the October Law Quarterly Re view (v. xxi, p. 335), J. Westlake replies to Sir Thomas Barclay's article reviewed in our October number on " The South African Rail way Case and International Law." He agrees that shares not owned by private persons at the outbreak of the war, but later acquired, should not be deprived of compensation, but contends that if they were transferred as se curity for loans made to the government dur ing the war they ought to be confiscated. In conclusion he says: " Those who med dle with the finance of a state at war must bear in mind that common-sense prevents

international law from giving to that state the right to bolster up its finance by pledging the security of its enemy in addition to its own, in case of its being conquered and annexed." INTERNATIONAL LAW (Contraband). Douglas Owen discusses " Neutral Trade in Contraband of Law," in the November Law Magazine and Review (V. xxxi. p. 51) with especial reference to the damage to honest neutral traders by the seizure and delay of neutral mail and passenger steamers suspected of carrying contraband. The present situa tion is a survival of rules applicable to ancient methods of trade. He would avoid the neces sity for conferring this right of search by a series of enactments by neutral powers pun ishing their citizens shipping contraband, indemnifying honest suspects, and enabling belligerents to collect claims for violation of these rules. Vessel owners should be pro tected by government certificate; what is contraband should be more definitely defined. INTERNATIONAL LAW (Jurisdiction). Under the title of " Turkish Capitulations and the Status of British and Other Foreign Sub jects Residing in Turkey," Edwin Pears in the October Law Quarterly Review (V. xxi, p. 408), explains a curious doctrine of jurisdiction re sulting from Turkish treaties embodying medi eval conceptions. "In the Ottoman Empire the foreign colo nies are so many imperia in imperio. Taken together with their common Capitulations and their common usages they constitute one great colony whose relations with the territo rial ruler are limited by the same Capitulations as those which give them collectively and sep arately an independent character. Each of them is regarded in legal fiction as part of the territory to which its members are subject. Their members could not, if they had wished, have become subjects of the Turk. Like all early peoples the Turks were unwilling to grant their precious rights of citizenship to outsiders. Christian foreigners on their part had no such desire. Both sides, therefore, agreed that these separate imperia should con tinue, that their sovereign should do with their subjects what they wished, even having