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 A Review of the Corpus juris Project undertake and prosecute to reasonable success the enormous task of embracing in one work of exact and simple language the whole body of the law applicable to American life. Hon. Olaudius B. Grant, Chief justice of Michigan:— Your "Memorandum in re Corpus juris" was received. I am thoroughly in accord with its contents. My experience as a lawyer and upon the bench convinces me that such a work would be of incalculable beneﬁt to the entire people of the country. Such a work to be of the beneﬁt desired must be performed in the manner suggested by a corps of our ablest lawyers and jurists. It can only be accomplished, in my judgment, in the may set forth in the Memorandum. It will be a work of years of hard study, and must be kept entirely free from any taint of com mercialism. I trust some method can be devised by which a work so important to the jurisprudence of the country can be accom plished. Hon. D. W. 81mm, President of the Indiana State Bar Association:——

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The clear, simple and scientiﬁc arrangement of the body of our laws reduced to their lowest terms is the most urgent need of the nation. Its accomplishment would not only mark an epoch in the world's legal history but it would measure the longest stride yet taken by the race in the march of progress and civilization. . . . I am thoroughly convinced that if it can be ﬁnanced, your plan can be worked out so as to bring this great enterprise to a successful issue. It goes without saying that the work had better be left undone than to be poorly executed. To commit the work to the hands of those contemplated in your plan is to insure its being done as nearly perfect and correct as possible. For opinions of —— General Thomas H. Hubbard, see p. 67. Born. l'rancis Lynda Stetson, see p. 67, 68, 80, 81, 84. Hon. William H. Stake, see p. 73, 79, 82,

83. Chief Justice McOlain, see p. 63, 69, 77, 81.

Review of the Corpus juris Project and Argument upon the Necessity for a Foundation‘ By CHARLES A. BOSTON, Eso., or rm: NEW YORK BAR, A MEMBER or THE FIRM or HORNBLOWER, MILLER AND POTTER

N Detroit I listened with much interest to your statement of the project to formu late a work to embody the American Corpus juris, with the aid of philosophic writers and thinkers on the law, and without the

impediment of the commercial spirit. My interest was increased when I read the Memorandum on the subject prepared by you and the commendatory letters from justly distinguished men, which you sent me. It is diiﬁcult to say anything in support of the project which has not already been 1"This review is in the form of a communication to the author of the Memorandum m re Corpus juris, pp. 55-89 supra.

said as forcefully as possible in the letters which I have read. But it may not be amiss to say a few words in hearty approval of the design in all of its aspects. It seems to me that there is a necessity for such work from the minds of such workers and under the conditions that you propose, as calcu lated to make the work what it is designed to be, philosophic, comprehensive, logical, and having by common consent the force of law

through its own unquestioned merit, without the sanction of legislative enactment. Such a work, if possible, would be truly monumental. But it would be the best of monuments, a public benefaction. I would