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 THE GREEN BAG their controversy that each state must give full credit to the sentence pronounced. The author approves of the decision of the majority as the beginning of the end of a scandalous condition of divorce law and procedure and thinks that in view of the opposi tion of their colleagues the majority performed a grand work. EGYPTIAN LAW. "The Egyptian Ca pitulations and Their Reform," II, in .the October Juridical Review (V. xviii, p. 235), concludes a discussion of the legal position of foreigners in Egypt and needed changes in the agreements relating thereto. EQUITY JURISDICTION. A " Manual on the Principles of Equity," by John Indermaur. Sixth edition by Charles Thwaites, Furnival Press, London, 1906. Although this book re lates chiefly to English practice it comprises a summary of equity jurisdiction which, within its limited scope, may be of value to students in this country. Our practitioners, however, probably prefer a text book citing decisions in the United States. EQUITY JURISDICTION. " Latent Equi ties," by George A. Lee, Albany Law Journal (V. lxviii, p. 290). FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES. " Improb able Stories of Acquisition or Hoarding of Money," Law Notes (V. x, p. 167). HISTORY. " Colonial Courts of Somerset County," by Vice-Chancellor Bergen of New Jersey, December New Jersey Law Journal (V. xxix, p. 358). HISTORY (Judge and Jury). In the No vember Law Magazine and Review (V. xxxii, p. 72) G. Glover Alexander concludes his his torical article, " The Province of the Judge and of the Jury." INFANCY. " The Statutory Prohibition of the Sale of Infants' Real Estate Contrary to the Provisions of Instruments giving them Title," by Samuel Huntington, Albany Law Journal (V. lxviii, p. 305). INSURANCE. "Liability of Insurance Company when the Assured Makes True Statements and the Insurance Physician or Examining Physician Inserts False Reports,"

by Charles Mendelhall, Central Law Journal (V. lxiii, p. 450). INTERNATIONAL LAW. The October Juridical Review (V. xviii, p. 273) has a learned article on " British Nationality and Naturalization," by G. Addison Smith, who analyzes the common and statute law in regard to British citizenship. INTERNATIONAL LAW (The Berlin Con ference). Under the title " The Interna tional Law Association at Berlin," T. Baty gives an interesting summary of the doings of the recent conference in that city in the No vember Law Magazine and Review (V. xxxii, p. 87). . INTERNATIONAL LAW (Private Property at Sea). At the Berlin Conference, in October, of the International Law Association, Mr. Justice W. R. Kennedy of the English Bench read an interesting paper on " The Exemp tion of Private Property at Sea from Capture in Time of War," which is printed in the No vember Law Magazine and Review (V. xxxii, p. 28). The paper is not a controversial one, but sets forth clearly and impartially what the author thinks the most important points to be considered before the change can be accepted, with a brief statement of the history of the question and the principles which he thinks must govern its solution. The paper closes with a few suggestions in regard to future attempts to reach some agreement on the matter. "The first of these is that with the consid eration by the nations of this question of the immunity of enemy's property at sea from capture in war, should be linked the consider ation of the subject of contraband of war. It has been truly said that, as long as it re mains in its present chaotic condition, we must have constant bickering between bellig erents and neutrals, and that if a great mari time war broke out powerful commercial states might find themselves drawn into hos tilities almost against their will. The danger ous, and, to neutrals, very troublesome un certainty that exists at present in regard to the treatment of articles which are ancipitis (or, promiscui) usus, ought to be remedied. It can be satisfactorily remedied only by an in