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 Review of Periodicals "Much ma come of the National Confer ence endorse by the National Administration for the promotion of uniformity in the laws of the different states. A tacit or unoﬂicial codiﬁcation will also be very much facilitated under the plan pro sed by eminent 'urists,— Dean Kirchwey o the Columbia niversity Law School and others,—for the preparation of a complete, 10 ‘cal co-ordinate statement of the American orpus juns." Oompuretive Jurisprudence. “Some Lead ing Principles of Chinese Law." By Gustavus Ohlinger. 8 Michigan Law Review 199 (]an.). "Chinese law is pre-eminently criminal. . . . The ethical basis of the law is manifested in that intent and design are punished. The code provides that ‘any person convicted of a design to kill his or her father or mother, ndfather or grandmother, whether on the giher's or mother's side,. . . shall, whether a blow is or is not struck, suffer decapitation.’"

Constitutional Law. See under special topics. For Federal Corporation Tax Act and for Proposed Income Tax Amendment, see Taxation. For Proposed Federal Incor poration Law, see Interstate Commerce.

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these topics see also Government. Contract. "Orders of Arrest in Actions Based on Contract." Editorial. 19 Bench and Bar 96 (Dec.). "It may come as a surprise to some legal practitioners to know that in New York State there are actions founded on breach of con tract other than a contract to marry, and not involving fraud either in the making of the contract or in the disposition of property to defraud creditors, in which, nevertheless, an order of arrest may be issued and the defend ant taken into custody and held in bail pendente lite. A recent case in which this was done is General Explosive Company v. Hough (63 Misc. 377)." Corporations. "The Evolution of the ‘Private Company.‘ " By- Edward Manson. 26 Law Quarterly Review 11 (Jan) See also Capital and Income, Interstate Commerce, Monopolies, Speculation. For Federal Corporation Tax Act, see Taxation. Courts.

"The Last Year With the United

States Supreme Court." By Alex P. Hum phrey. 44 American Law Review 37 (Jan. _Feb.). "Turning now to the o inions, we ﬁnd that in one hundred cases t e judgment of the lower court was affirmed and in forty-two cases was reversed. In opinions per curiam we ﬁnd ten cases affirmed and two cases re versed. Where opinions are delivered we ﬁnd writ of error or appeal dismissed in thirty cases, and we ﬁnd er curiam dismissal for want of jurisdiction in twenty-ﬁve cases. It seems to me that this shows well for the courts

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of first instance-one hundred and ten al‘ﬁrm— ances to forty-four reversals." "Equity of the Statute."

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Powers.

Freud. "Dr. Cook's Status Under the Criminal Law." Editorial. 19 Bench and Bar 94 (Dec.). “As Cook is now supposed to be in hiding in a foreign country, it remains to be seen whether he will be indicted, extradited and tried. We wonder whether the wily gentle man has already sought an asylum not sub jzct to an extradition treaty with his native nd." Government.

Under this headin, it is the

custom of the Green Bag to consi er im r tant contributions to the study of that ivi sion of constitutional law which deals with the extent and distribution of the powers of government. At the present time the dis tribution of these powers is a sub'ect of acute controversy both in the United tates and in England. In our own country, the relative wer of the nation and of t e states calls orth more discussion than any other topic of constitutional law, in connection with the questions involved in the federal corporation tax act and proposed income tax amend ment (see Taxation, infra) and in the proposed federal inco ration law (see Interstate Com

merce, infra. In England, the debate with reference to the relative powers of the two Houses of Parliament shows no sign of dying out.

For American readers a thoughtful con tribution to the general topic is that of the following writer, who considers that the leading measures supported by the national administration contemplate an unwarranted extension of federal power and threaten the security of constitutional guaranties:— "Sociology for the Constitution, the Wreck

of Regulation." By Frank Hendrick. Edi torial Review, v. 2, p. 45 (Jan.). The first fundamental change pro sed in the Constitution, says this author, is t e adop

tion of an amendment to provide election of United States Senators by popular vote. Such an action would jeopardize the unamendable provision securing equal suffrage for each state in the Senate. “The second pro sal is that the Constitu tion of the United tates be so amended as to permit Congress to pass an act imposing a tax on incomes without the necessity of pro vidin for apportionment of the amount to be raise, according to the census, among the several states. . . . If a tax on incomes, so called, is nothing if not a direct tax, then the exemption of a tax on incomes, so-called, from the requirement of apportionment,is an exemp tion 0 nothing if not of a direct tax, and if of one direct tax, by whatever name called, then, on principle and in practice, of any direct tax, and. . . all limitations upon the levying of direct taxes upon property within