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a stranger, unconnected with the service of process, being punished by attachment. "Whether the Court of Chancery exercised the jurisdiction to punish libels by summary process before the time of Lord Talbot (17337) is open to doubt. If that court did possess such a power it devolved upon each branch of the High Court of Justice when the Judica ture Acts came into operation, and thereby became exercisable by the King's Bench Division; but the object of this paper has been to show that such a jurisdiction cannot be founded upon the case of Rex v. Almon. The judgment in that case seems to have been based rather upon what the court considered the practice ought logically to be than upon what it actually was; the principle upon which it is based could not be supported on the ground of immemorial usage — but only by reestab lishing the jurisdiction of the Star Chamber to try without a jury, which the common law judges had not claimed to exercise until eighty years after the court had ceased to exist." CONTRABAND OF WAR. " History of Contraband of War," by H. J. Randall, Law Quarterly Review (V. xxiv, p. 316). Begin ning a study of the development of the doctrine and of certain allied doctrines from the War of the Austrian Succession to the Declaration of Paris. To be continued. CONTRACTS. " The Pass-book and For gery," by W. F. Chipman, Canadian Law Times and Review (V. xxviii, p. 527). CONVEYANCING (England). "Amendment of the Land Transfer Acts," by James Edward Hogg, Law Quarterly Review (V. xxiv, p. 290). Proposing a. scheme of title registration in England. COURTS (Federal). " How to Bring the Federal Courts Closer to the Common People," by James M. Gray, American Law Review (V. xlii, p. 500). CRIMINAL LAW (Prevention). " The Pre vention of Crime," by Marcus Dods. The Juridical Review (V. xx, p. 160). Discussing the subject with relation to a bill introduced in Parliament by Mr. Gladstone. CRIMINAL LAW (Procedure). " The Crim inal Law," by Charles H. Grosvenor, Ohio Law Bulletin (V. liii, p. 276). An address at the annual meeting of the State Bar Asso

ciation of Ohio, July 9, 1908. Dealing espe cially with the administration of criminal law in Ohio, and laying particular emphasis on the necessity of the Supreme Court's giving the reasons for its decisions, that the prisoner may know the ground for his conviction and the bar and the people may know the law. DIPLOMACY. " Relations between Can ada, Great Britain and the United States," by Hon. Mr. Justice Longley. Canadian Law Times and Review (V. xxviii, p. 545). DIVORCE (United States). " A Review of the Great Case of Haddock v. Haddock," by Marion Griffin, Central Laiv Journal (V. Ixvii, p. 66). EASEMENTS. " The Easements Act with special reference to alterations of the law made thereby," by R. B. Mitchell, Madras Law Journal (V. xviii, p. 165). EASEMENTS (see Real Property). ELECTION LAWS (England). " Errors of the Election Acts," by J. M. Lees, The Juridical Rei'icu' (V. xx, p. 121). EQUITY. " Loss of the Fiduciary Princi ple," by Thomas Nelson Page, American Lawyer (V. xvi, p. 202). EVIDENCE (Privileged Communications). "' Confidentiality ' in the Law of Evidence." by D. Oswald Dykes, The Juridical Review (V. xx, p. 140). Brief discussion of the rule in several countries. FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES. A treatiss on the Law of Fraudulent Conveyances and Creditor's Remedies at Law and in Equity, including a consideration of the pro visions of the bankruptcy law applicable to fraudulent transfers and the remedies therefor and the procedure of trustees in bankruptcy, in actions either in the state or Federal courts for the recovery of property fraudulently transferred by the bankrupt, by De Witt C. Moore (2 vols. price 812.00). Matthew Bender & Co., Albany, N.Y., 1908. This is a painstaking work collecting all the cases and in most instances stating the propositions they decide clearly and accu rately and without giving the impression of hopeless contradiction which is received from most encyclopedic text books. The subject of fraudulent conveyances, as the author well says, is one of the few topics in the law