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 Reviews of Books his efforts to a careful selection of cita tions from any state which has decisions fairly in point rather than in an attempt

to compete with digests or encyclo psedias in exhaustive catalogues of in numerable cases too often bearing but remotely on the text. The editor is to be commended in keeping this a real law book rather than an undigested col

lection of citations. It is to be regretted that some subjects, which have been added to the present volume, have not been more adequately treated. The subject of “rea

sonable cause to believe" on the part of a creditor in dealing with the subject of preferences under our Bankruptcy Law has been as important as any under

that statute and there are many con ﬂicting decisions, yet Mr. Knowlton has

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HOPKINS’ JUDICIAL CODE The Judicial Code; being the Judiciary Act of the Congress of the United States, approved March 3, 1911. With an introduction and annotations by James Love Hopkins of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. author of Hopkins on Un fair Trade and Hopkins on Trademarks. Callaghan & Co., Chicago. Pp. 236+ 18 (table of cases and index). ($2.50 net.)

HIS year law

Congress codiﬁed the

establishing‘ the

Federal

Courts and deﬁned their respective juris dictions. This Act, officially designated “The Judicial Code," in the words of the present annotator, is “certainly the most compact code of m'si {wins and

appellate jurisdiction and procedure in all history, considering the wide range of its subject-matter and the great

number of courts affected by it." Some of the changes, such as the abolition of Circuit Courts, the increase of minimum

devoted less than a page to its discus

ﬁnancial interest involved in the juris

sion and has completely ignored the

diction of federal courts, are of consider

amendments to the Act passed in 1910 that have introduced important changes

able importance. Other provisions are merely re-enactments of prior statutes.

here. Again, the subject of Sales in Bulk might 'well have been more ex

Where changes are made, it is often essential that the practitioner should

haustively treated. The conflicting deci

have them called to his attention and have ready at hand these former statutes. Where decisions have interpreted these former statutes, which are now simply

sions on the constitutionality of such

statutes is but attempt made tinction which some of these

scantily to show may be cases.

noticed, and no the line of dis drawn between These statutes

differ quite materially from each other in form and substance but that is hardly remarked nor is any attempt made to

explain or correlate the various deci sions of the different jurisdictions that while in apparent conﬂict can be ex

plained by reference to the differences in the statutes themselves. If sufficient space cannot be devoted to such matters in the present volume, it would have

been better to omit them altogether

re-enacted, it is not always easy to put your hands on the authorities. This little book has gathered together in a

convenient form the sections of the "Judicial

Code,"

references

to

the

statutes superseded and the decisions of the federal courts so far as they shed light on the present code and the changes it embodies. The material is handled so compactly and intelligently that the reader loses no time in getting what he wants. Perplexing subjects such as the

rather than produce a result that makes the weakness of the book all the more conspicuously contrast to so much that

removal of causes to the federal courts from the state court, while not exhaus tively treated, are given sufﬁcient atten tion so that the main principles are

is most excellent.

clearly presented so as to enable the