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Volume 7 - Issue 3 - November 1941

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Inducement to break a contract—Dispute between owner and tenants—Persuasion by defendants (tenants) of other tenants not to pay their rents to owner—Held, this was not a ‘common interest’ which justified defendants

Tort—Inducement to break a contract—Honest, but stupid and mistaken belief of defendant that his inducement was lawful held to be a defence

Tort—master and servant—negligence of master owing to breach of statutory duty in not adequately fencing dangerous machinery—servant's contributory negligence held dominant cause of accident

Tort—Negligence—Damages—Personal injuries—Loss of expectation of life—Mode of assessment

Tort—Nuisance created by trespasser on owner's land—Knowledge of nuisance imputed to owner through servant—Owner held liable for continuing nuisance

Tort—Waiver of tort—Alternative remedies in contract and tort—Action on contract or quasi—contract against one defendant discontinued—Subsequent action in tort against another defendant held maintainable

Book Reviews

Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws. By A. H. Robertson, B.C.L., S.J.D., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Harvard University Press. 1940. xxix and 301 pp. (20s.)

Case and Materials in the Law Merchant. By Philip Warren Thayer, Research Associate in Comparative Law, Harvard University, with an introduction by Lord Wright. Harvard University Press. 1939. xxvi and 1296 pp. (42s.)

Antiquities of Bail. By Elsa De Haas. New York: Columbia University Press. London: Oxford University Press1940. viii and 174 pp. (15s. 6d. net.)

Law as Fact. By Karl Olivecrona, Professor of Law in the University of Lund. Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard; London: Humphrey Milford. 1939. 222 pp. (7s. 6d. net.)

A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law. By John Henry Wigmore, Professor of the Law of Evidence in the Law School of Northwestern University. 3. 10 vols. 1940. Boston: Little, Brown ' Co. ($100.)

Control of Aliens in the British Commonwealth of Nations. By C. F. Fraser. London: The Hograrth Press. 1940. 304 pp. (12s. 6d.)

A Collection of Neutrality Laws, Regulations and Treaties of Various Countries. Edited by Francis DeÁkand Philip C. Jessup. 2 vols. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 1939. 1161 pp. ($10.)

Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States. Inter-American Affairs, 1831—1860. Selected and arranged by William R. Manning. Vol. XII. Texas and Venezuela. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 1939. 858 pp. ($5.)

The English Navigation Laws. A Seventeenth-Century Experiment in Social Engineering. By Lawrence A. Harper. New York: Columbia University Press. 1939. 503 pp. (25s.)

Le règlement conventionnel des conséquences de remuniements territoriaux. Considérations suggérées par l'expérience de Haute-Silésie. Par G. Kaeckenbeeck. Zurich: Editions Polygraphiques. 1940. 67 pp. (3 Swiss francs.)

The Dilemma of Penal Reform. By Hermann Mannheim Dr., Lecturer in Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. With a preface by Professor A. M. Carr-Saunders. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 238 pp. (7s. 6d.)

Parole With Honor. By Wilbur La Roe, Jr. Foreword by Sanford Bates. 1939. Princeton University Press. x and 295 pp. (18s. 6d.)

The Law of Maritime Liens. By Griffith Price. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd. 1940. xxiii and 264 pp. (25s.)

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