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 Index to Periodicals afterwards revised by the court, filed as the written opinion of the court. "Eighth: Opinions should be very short. "Ninth: The distinction between felonies and misdemeanors should be abolished. "Tenth: Section 279 of Chapter 38 defining infamous crimes should be repealed. "Eleventh: The line between petit and grand larcency should be raised from fifteen dollars to one hundred dollars." See Criminal Law. Criminal Statistics. "The Unit in Criminal Statistics." By Louis N. Robinson. 3 Journal of Crinimal Law and Criminology 245 (July). "The three units are: (1) the affair or case, (2) the infraction of the law, (3) the delinquent. These units yield somewhat similar results and the casual observer ofttimes sees no difference among them. . . . Perhaps the best scheme is the one that Italy is now following out, which is to use all three pf the units. Certainly the information which they individually yield is not the same and there is no question but that we need it all." Criminology. "A Contribution to the Catamnestic Study of the Juvenile Offender." By Bernard Glueck, M.D. 3 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 220 (July). "It is my opinion that these (pyschopathic) individuals forming as they do a distinct species of humanity, shall be segregated into colonies especially designed for them, where under proper medical supervision they should be made to earn their existence by means of some useful occupation. It is very obvious that an indeter minate sentence is the only rational way of approach to this problem and this should be supplemented by the vesting of the parole power in the hands of a board composed not exclu sively of members of the legal profession, but largely of physicians and particularly those trained in psychopathology." See Criminal Law, Criminal Statistics. Dred Scott Case. "The Dred Scott Case in the Light of Later Events." By Morris M. Cohn. 46 AmericanLaw Review 548 (July-Aug.). "The decision in the Dred Scott case was sound in principle. When the tumult of anger a_nd outrage engendered by the slavery question had passed away, and judges were confronted with the principles announced by that decision, they did not disregard it. The tribute which Mr. Justice Brown (in the Slaughter House cases) paid to the ruling, that as to property jrights the decision was impregnable, shows that there was lasting quality in that decision, which, when occasion should compel, would come out." Equity. See Legal History, Trusts. Federal and State Powers. See Dred Scott case. General Jurisprudence. See Legal Encyclo pedia, Trusts.

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Government. "Constitutional Morality. By William D. Guthrie. North American Review, v. 196, p. 154 (Aug.). A paper read before the Pennsylvania Bar Association at its annual meeting last June. "The truth is that our constitutions, national and state, do not stand in the way of any fair and just exercise of what is called the police power; that they do not prevent reasonable regulations tending to protect the health of the community; and that they certainly do not prevent the enactment of proper and reasonable factory. Acts or proper and reasonable work men's compensation Acts. The trouble mostly is that the statutes which the courts .are com pelled to set aside are crudely and hastily drawn and are inherently unreasonable, unfair, and unjust." "The Judicial Method of Making and Un making Laws." By W. A. Coutts. 75 Central Law Journal 54 (July 19). "To attack an act of Congress or of a state legislature as void, should always be regarded as a serious undertaking, but when the act represents the matured and deliberate expres sion of popular opinion, to attack it is very much like attacking the principle of popular government itself'" "Legislative Sovereignty." By James Scott. 24 Juridical Review 31 (June). "The inter-relation of the component parts of the Parliament of the Realm is undergoing change to a certain extent, but at the most it is merely a slight shifting of the centre of gravity. The stability of the ultimate sovereignty is not shaken, but its will may, as a result of the con stitutional change, be more accurately or promptly reflected." Immigration. See Criminal Law. International Arbitration. "The Hague Court — Its Functions and History." By Jack son H. Ralston. 46 American Law Review 517 (July-Aug.). "Review, for a moment, the principles in volved in the causes decided by the Hague Court. Questions of boundary have been settled, as in the Grisbadarna case. Interpreta tions of treaties have been given affecting national rights and national susceptibilities, as in the Venezuelan Preferential, the Japanese House Tax, the Muscat and the North Atlantic Fisheries cases. National insults have been resolved into their true unimportance, as in the Casablanca case. The effect of arbitral awards has been discussed and the limitations of powers of arbi trators considered, as in the Pious Fund case and the Orinoco case. Rules of action and con trol over industries have been furnished or pro vided for, as in the North Atlantic Fisheries case Extent of national rights over subjects found within foreign jurisdictions was given considera tion in the Savarkar case, and in a way in the Casablanca case. When England and Russi