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 SURGE'S COLONIAL LAW COMMENTARIES ON COLONIAL AND FOREIGN LAWS GENERALLY AND IN THEIR CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER

New and Enlarged Edition.

5 vols.

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Its It is described by Prof, von Bar, the eminent authority International on Private International Law, as " a most comprehensive Reputation. WOrk, consisting of the different systems of law that are recognized throughout the British Empire, which is remarkable for the astounding knowledge of the most various systems of law and legislation displayed by the author, for the wealth of legal cases and decisions that are cited and criticised with acuteness and great independence, and for many excellent discussions of different questions." It is the only legal work which attempts to deal comparatively with the main divisions of the Law of Persons and Property in the British Dominions and foreign countries. A Me Vol "^e ^rs* vo'ume 's an expansion of the introduction to the former edition. It shows the principal systems of law under lying the jurisprudence of the world. It gives a summary of the political history, law in force, and judicial organization of each of the British Dominions, outside of the United Kingdom, as well as the British Courts exercising ex-territorial jurisdiction. The law of British India and the Roman-Dutch Law is dealt with more fully than in any work heretofore published. Besides the new volume, new chapters have been added 'on Adoption, the Alimentary Obligation, and the Parental Power. The systems of Land Registration in Australia and England are described by experts, and every subject has been treated with relation to comparative legislation and private international law. Arrangement The main work is divided into four books, treating respectand Contents, ively of the Law of Persons, the Law of Things, Contracts and Succession. __. The general editors are A. Wood Renton and G. G. Phillimore. They are being assisted by eminent lawyers, who have special knowledge of the systems of jurisprudence of which they write.

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