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 Reviews of Boofe STREET'S CIVIL LIABILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURIES

by the court. When stated it tends also to establish a norm to be applied to a large number of similar states of The Law of Civil Liability for Personal Injuries fact, constitutes a nucleus around which by Negligence in Texas. By Robert G. Street, Dis trict Judge. Galveston, Texas. T. H. Flood & Com a systematic and symmetrical body of pany, Chicago. ((6. net.) rules may be later developed and HERE is a valuable book on an arranged. This is constructive work of a high interesting subject. Comprehen sive in its scope and well planned in order of merit. It goes beyond the execution, the Texas lawyer will find ambitions of the text-writer tabulating it eminently suited to his needs, enab the things which a hurried and over ling him by fullness of citation and burdened court has let fall. It enters lucidity of diction to follow any desired the field of the jurist. Certainly in line of inquiry presented in the most the American law of to-day there is practical branch of the lawyer's daily urgent need for such efforts at scientific work. As was to have been desired coordination and growth. Induction and to a certain extent anticipated, has wrought gloriously the development especial attention has been paid to of law. Undeniably, the "case system" recent statutes and to the case law whether in professional education or as attaching to the negligent infliction of a means of legal evolution has perpetual personal injuries by steam railroads and merits. Yet the enormous bulk of street railways. The rights of passen reported cases, the multiplying and gers and of the public generally as equalization of jurisdictions, the insuffi related to these powerful and perilous cient leisure afforded court or counsel conveniences of modern life are care for the time-consuming process of digest fully covered. Taken all in all, the ing the mental pabulum essential for the inductive system, is placing a pres book seems certain to win its place. A unique feature of Judge Street's sure upon the latter which it is stand work is rich in suggestion. The schol ing badly. The strain is one which arly turn of the author's mind reveals seems likely to intensify, rather than itself in a characteristically broad state relax. In seeking relief, some substantial ment of principle as preliminary to discussing individual cases. Occasion modification is essential. Apparently ally these fundamentals seem too general it lies in turning toward the deductive in their nature to be specifically useful method of judicial administration. In either to the lawyer or the jurist, the sound reasoning, induction and deduc student or the practitioner. More often, tion are seen to alternate for the best however, the principle stated not only results. May it not be that the time is illustrates but is, to a certain extent, approaching, if not already here, when formative as well. In other words, it a more fitting importance may be given is not only fairly to be distilled, induc the process of deduction? A principle tively reasoned, from the cases decided or rule broad enough to guide, not so