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them. Now Lord Denman points out that if his friend had drunk the wine and died, it would have been a clear case of murder, as not one of his own bottles was poisoned and his friend's will was in his favor. Circum stantial evidence may be most misleading." Carriers. See Public Service Corporations. Contempt. "The Summary Process to Punish Contempt." By John Charles Fox. 25 Law Quarterly Review 238 (July). The writer draws these conclusions:— (1) "That in the fourteenth century and onwards—perhaps down to the early part of the eighteenth century—the jurisdiction of the King's justices to punish contempts of a criminal nature summarily was limited to offenses, not heinous, committed in court in their actual view, and to breaches of duty by officers of justice. (2) "That in the eighteenth century the summary jurisdiction was held to extend to all contempts whether committed in or out of court." Corporations (Scotland). "Joint Stock Enterprise in Scotland Before the Companies Acts." By J. Roberton Christie. 21 Juridical Review 128 (July). "The genius of the Scots law of 'Society'— based as it was upon civil law conceptions, and amenable to Continental and especially to French influence—was much more con genial to the development of the idea of a company as an entity independent of its constituent members and trading upon the credit of its own resources than was the common law of England. ... A line of development was entered upon which—had circumstances been more favorable to its continuance than they proved to be—might have led to the growth in Scotland of a full blown system of non-statutory company law, in which a place might have been found for nearly all the latest developments of modern company law." "Is the Creation of a Floating Charge Competent to a Limited Company Registered in Scotland?—II." By A. J. P. Menzies. 21 Juridical Review 159 (July). "Against the competency of a floating charge in the case of a Scotch company there is nothing to be said on the question of policy. It is a form of raising money greatly valued by English companies—'too convenient a form of security to be lightly abolished.' ... It is hardly conceivable that Scotch influence in Parliament could have purposely excluded Scotch companies from the use of this favored commercial expedient of English companies." See Interstate Commerce, Public Service Corporations, Railways. Criminology. "Race Improvement by Con trol of Defectives (Negative Eugenics)." By Alexander Johnson. Annals of the American Academy, v. 34, no. 1, p. 22 (July).

"I think neither restrictive marriage laws, elimination by a painless death, nor whole sale sterilization can be applied, at any rate within the next generation or two, so as to have any serious effect in the reduction of the number of the degenerate classes. But I think a process can be applied, and is now being applied, partially, in many states, with remarkable success, that is entirely within our power to apply thoroughly. I think that the whole class of the feeble-minded and the epileptic, say two-fifths of one per cent of the whole population, may be at once segre gated and taken into permanent, maternal care by the good mother state." "Political Assassination in London." By J. D. Rees. Fortnightly Review, v. 86, p. 272 (Aug.). "We have often heard the expression, 'A man without an enemy.' As a matter of fact, there are few such amongst public men; but it is probable that the late Sir Curzon Wyllie was such a man. For my part, I have no doubt whatever that the assassin, inflamed with anarchical literature and political fanat icism, went out to an assembly of AngloIndians to shoot the most prominent person with whom he came in contact." See Immigration, Insanity. Damages. See Tort. Declaration of London. "The Laws of Naval War^re." By D. Oswald Dykes. 21 Juridical Review 113 (July). "Never before, perhaps, did the British Government throw the weight of its influence so strongly on the side of neutrals. And the relief given to neutrals by the rules which we have considered is in some respects consider able. The keynote of the Instructions to the British Delegates was in the sentence already quoted, that 'what the commerce of the world above all desires is certainty,' and it is mainly in the settlement of open and disputed ques tions that the trade of the world will benefit. "To the jurist, this Declaration has some thing of the interest of a codification of a part of the Law of Nations which before was nebu lous and uncertain." Likewise in an appreciative strain is this able review of the work of the Conference:— "International Prize Law and the Declara tion of London." Edinburgh Review, v. 210, p. 162 (July). "The more nations are united as to the form in which prize law should be applied, the less is the need for the intervention of the international court, whose decisions will not be obtained without untold loss of time; and therefore those who hold that it is desirable that there should be a consensus of inter national opinion in maritime prize law will do well to endeavor to secure from time to time amendments in the Declaration of Lon don, which can only be regarded as the begin ning of an international code."