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Reviews of Books law, and then presents the development

jurisdiction is much more extensive in

of these common law doctrines and the

relation to the state law than in our own country, the “Compendium" pre

adaptation of them to American condi tions. To this extent this book has a scope and usefulness beyond the limits of Georgia, and will prove an instruc tive guide in any state where the common law still prevails in land actions. To the student of law the book will also prove useful in giving a general view of

this intricate subject. The propositions are stated simply and intelligently in the main text and exempliﬁed and

sents a completer exposition of the law of

Mexico

than

could

any

similar

treatise upon American laws. The book begins with the federal constitution, upon which is based the whole structure not only of the Republic,

but of its constituent states and terri tories, and the distribution of govern

and reconciled so as to present the local development of the law not only chron ologically, but logically. The book as a whole is a good example of the best kind

mental functions between state and nation. After the public or institutional law the personal law, so much more impor tant under the Civil system than under the common law, is then taken up, dealing as it does, in great detail, with questions of domicil, status, marriage,

of local text-book.

divorce, legitimacy, and so forth.

elaborated in the footnotes. The cases cited are collected with care, analyzed

The

law of property, personal and real, is

WHELESS’S LAWS OF MEXICO Compendium of the Laws of Mexico; of'ﬁcially authorized by the Mexican government. containing the federal Constitution, with all amendments. and a thorough abridgment of all the codes and special laws of importance to foreigners concerned with business in the republic; all accurately translated into English. By Joseph Wheless of the St. Louis bar. F. H. Thomas Law Book Co.. St. Louis. 2 v. V. 1, pp. lxxxv, 521; v. 2, pp. 462+ 64 (in dex). (810.)

R.

JOSEPH

WHELESS of St.

Louis in his “Compendium of the Laws of Mexico" has for the ﬁrst time made Mexican jurisprudence readily

accessible to the American student and the American lawyer called upon to advise or act in Mexican matters. The

need for just such a work has been steadily growing, and the many who have awaited its coming, as well as the

next treated. Under this head comes the very full and interesting considera tion of servitudes, a branch of law much

more developed and reﬁned than our law of easements. After the subject of descents and successions, various dis tinct branches of law, some of them governed by separate codes, are then

dealt with in order, such as mercantile law, corporation law, negotiable instru ments, carriers and bankruptcy; and practice and evidence are gone into at some length. The internal laws, public and private,

being thus set is devoted to and to topics foreigners in

forth, the second volume the rights of foreigners of particular interest to Mexico, such as public

lands, waters and water rights,

the

author himself, are to be congratulated upon having the long-felt need so thoroughly and successfully satisﬁed. Owing to the derivation of Mexican

especially important new mining law and the ever-necessary notarial law. This volume also includes trade-marks and copyrights, criminal law and re

law from Roman and Civil sources with their minute codiﬁcations, and for the further reason that in Mexico the federal

governing the issue of bonds by corpora

sponsibility in tort, insurance, the law tions, and various matters of such dis