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ture Acts. Instead of it we find a mere historical bond — 'these rules used to be dealt with by the court of chancery' — and the strength of that bond is being diminished year by year. The day will come when lawyers will cease to inquire whether a given rule be a rule of equity or a rule of common law; suffice it that it is a well-established rule ad ministered by the High Court of Justice." Consequently equity, which in a historical sense was, as Professor Langdell pointed out, a branch of the law of remedies, is actually "a certain portion of our existing substantive law." How this development has come about is indicated in Professor Maitland's para phrase of Maine: our substantive real property law "has been secreted in the interstices of the forms of actions." The character of equitable rights is also lucidly explained : "Equitable rights and interests are rights in personam, but they have a misleading resemblance to rights in rent" (p. 122). . . . Modern developments have not changed the essential nature of the rights of the beneficiary, consequently "as between merely equitable claimants, the court can consider the moral merits of the parties" (p. 134).

REESE'S

MEDICAL DENCE

JURISPRU

Text-Book of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxi cology. By John J. Reese, M.D., late Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology in the University of Pennsylvania; late President of the Medical Jurisprudence Society of Philadelphia. 8th ed., revised by D. J. McCarthy, A.B., M.D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence (Geo. B. Wood Foundation) in the University of Pennsylvania, Neurologist to the Philadelphia General and St. Agnes Hostpitals. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Phila delphia. Pp. viii, 664+6 (index). ($3 net.)

WRITTEN primarily for students of legal medicine, Reese's Medi cal Jurisprudence, which now appears

in a revised eighth edition, is a standard work of high authority well adapted to serve as a book of reference for the legal practitioner and medical expert. The editor, Professor McCarthy, has brought it up to date by the addition of new material on insanity, commit ment of the insane, the toxicology of formaldehyde and chronic bismuth pois oning, and anaphylaxis in toxicology. The revision has been conscientiously and skillfully carried out, and the work in its improved form is in every way superior to many of the existing treatises on medical jurisprudence.

JUDSON'S

INTERSTATE MERCE

COM

The Law of Interstate Commerce and its Federal Regulation. By Frederick N. Judson. of the St. Louis Bar. 2d ed. T. H. Flood & Co., Chicago. Pp. xxiv, 630 + 77 (appendix) + 26 (table of cases) + 71 (index). ($6.50.)

THE rulings of the Commerce Court have affected some of the deci sions of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, but many of these rulings have been reversed by the Supreme Court, and the large body of law derived from the activity of the Commission as a judicial body has not suffered any con siderable modification. Consequently Mr. Judson's work promises to offer an adequate treatment of the subject for some time to come. In its new edition, the first since the Supplement of 1906 to the original treatise, it contains a valuable and interesting summary of the law of interstate commerce. The treatment is comprehensive, embracing the administrative as well as the judicial rulings of the Commission, and the decisions of the Supreme Court in controversies involving interstate com merce and the Sherman anti-trust law as well as the regulation of railway rates.