14 STEVENS & HAYNES, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. In one volume, royal 8vo, price 30s., cloth, CASES AND OPINIONS ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, AND VARIOUS POINTS OF ENGLISH JURISPRUDENCE. Collected and Digested from Official Documents and other Sources; with Notes. By WILLIAM FORSYTH, M.A., M.P., Q.C., Standing Counsel to the Secretary of State in Council of India, Author of "Hortensius," " History of Trial by Jury," "Life of Cicero," etc., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. From the CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. "We cannot but regard with interest a book which, within moderate compass, presents us with the opinions or responsa of such lawyers and statesmen as Somers, Holt, Hardwicke, Mansfield, and, to come down to our own day, Lyndhurst, Abinger, Denman, Cranworth, Campbell, St. Leonards, Westbury, Chelmsford Cockburn, Cairns, and the present Lord Chancellor Hatherley. At the end of each chapter of the 'Cases and opinions' Mr. Forsyth has added notes of his own, containing a most excellent summary of all the law bearing on that branch of his subject to which the 'Opinions' refer." From the LAW MAGAZINE and LAW "Mr. Forsyth has largely and beneficially added to our legal stores. His work may be regarded as in some sense a continuation of 'Chalmers's Opinions of Eminent Lawyers.' . . . The constitutional | relations between England and her colonies are becoming every day of more importance. The work of Mr. Forsyth will do more to make these relations perfectly clear than any which has yet appeared. Henceforth it will be the standard work of reference in a variety of questions which are constantly presenting themselves for solution both here and in our colonies." From the LAW TIMES. "This one volume of 560 pages or thereabouts is a perfect storehouse of law not readily to be found elsewhere, and the more useful because it is not abstract law, but the application of principles to particular cases. Mr. Forsyth's plan is that of classification. He collects in separate chapters a variety of opinions bearing upon separate branches of the law ... This is a book to be read, and therefore we recommend it, not to all lawyers only, but to every law student. The editor's own notes are not the least valuable portion of the volume.' In one thick volume, Svo, price 325., cloth, THE LAW OF RAILWAY COMPANIES. Comprising the Companies Clauses, the Lands Clauses, the Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts, the Railway Companies Act, 1867, and the Regulation of Railways Act, 1868; with Notes of Cases on all the Sections, brought down to the end of the year 1868; together with an Appendix giving all the other material Acts relating to Railways, and the Standing Orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons; and a copious Index. By HENRY GODEFROI, of Lincoln's Inn, and JOHN SHORTT, of the Middle Temple, Barristers-at-Law. "The title of this book is the best possible explanation of its contents. Here we have all the statutes affecting Railway Companies, with the standing orders of Parliament, in a volume exquisitely printed, and of most convenient size and form... We believe that we have said enough to show that this book will prove to be of preeminent value to practitioners, both before Parliamentary committees and in the Courts of Law and Equity."-Law Journal. In Svo, price 2s. 6d., MORIARTY ON PERSONATION AND DISPUTED IDENTITY AND THEIR TESTS. In a handy volume, crown 8vo, 1870, price 10s. 6d., cloth, THE LAW OF SALVAGE, As administered in the High Court of Admiralty and the County Courts; with the Principal Authorities, English and American, brought down to the present time; and an Appendix, containing Statutes, Forms, Table of Fees, etc. By EDWYN JONES, of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. "This book will be of infinite service to lawyers practising in the maritime law courts and to those engaged in shipping. In short, Mr. Jones's book is a complete guide, and is full of information upon all phases of the subject, tersely and clearly written."--Liverpool Journal of Commerce. In 8vo, 1867, price 1s., sewed, LLOYD'S BONDS: THEIR NATURE AND USES. By HENRY JEFFERD TARRANT, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. STEVENS & HAYNES, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. 15 THE PRINCIPLES OF BANKRUPTCY WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE GENERAL RULES OF 1870, 1871, 1873, 1878, & 1883, SCALE OF BY RICHARD RINGWOOD, B.A., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ., BAKRISTER-AT-LAW; LATE SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, "This edition is a considerable improvement on the first, and although chiefly written for the use of Students, the work will be found useful to the practitioner."-Law Times. "The author of this convenient handbook sees the point upon which we insist elsewhere in regard to the chief aim of any system of Bankruptcy Law which should deserve the title of National. There can be no question that a sound measure of Reform is greatly needed, and would be welcomed by all parties in the United Kingdom. Pending this amendment it is necessary to know the Law as it is, and those who have to deal with the subject in any of its practical legal aspects will do well to consult Mr. Ringwood's unpretending but useful volume."-Law Magazine. "The above work is written by a distinguished scholar of Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Ringwood has chosen a most difficult and unattractive subject, but he has shown sound judgment and skill in the manner in which he has executed his task. His book does not profess to be an exhaustive treatise on bankruptcy law, yet in a neat and compact volume we have a vast amount of well-digested matter. The reader is not distracted and puzzled by having a long list of cases flung at him at the end of each page, as the general effect of the law is stated in a few well-selected sentences, and a reference given to the leading decisions only on the subject. An excellent index, and a table of cases, where references to four sets of contemporary reports may be seen at a glance, show the industry and care with which the work has been done."-Daily Paper. Fourth Edition, in royal 12mo, price 16s., cloth, A CONCISE TREATISE UPON THE LAW OF BANKRUPTCY. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING The Bankruptcy Act, 1883; General Rules and Forms; Scale of Costs; Board of Trade Orders; the Debtors Acts; and Bills of Sale Acts, 1878 and 1882. BY EDWARD T. BALDWIN, M.A., OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. "This is an excellent book It is an eminently practical treatise, and at once concise and exact We have no doubt that Mr. Baldwin's book will be found, alike as a guide and as a work of reference, most useful to both branches of the profession."-Law Magazine. "This edition is a praiseworthy effort to reduce the Law of Bankruptcy within moderate limits. It refers to all the important cases on the Act of 1869, and concludes with an excellent Index."-Law Times. "This treatise is certainly the most readable book on the subject, and so carefully is the text annotated, that it is perfectly reliable."-Law Journal. THE LAW OF CORPORATIONS. In one volume of One Thousand Pages, royal 8vo, price 425., A TREATISE ON THE DOCTRINE OF ULTRA BEING cloth, VIRES: An Investigation of the Principles which Limit the Capacities, Powers, and Liabilities of JOINT CORPORATIONS, AND MORE ESPECIALLY OF STOCK COMPANIES. SECOND EDITION. BY SEWARD BRICE, M.A., LL.D. LONDON, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. REVIEWS. Despite its unpromising and cabalistic title, and the technical nature of its subject, it has so recom mended itself to the profession that a second edition is called for within three years from the first publication; and to this call Mr. Brice has responded with the present volume, the development of which in excess of its predecessor is remarkable even in the annals of law books. Sixteen hundred new cases have been introduced, and, instead of five hundred pages octavo, the treatise occupies a thousand very much larger pages. This increase in bulk is partly due to the incorporation with the English law on the subject of the more important American and Colonial doctrines and decisions—a course which we think Mr. Brice In the present speculative wise in adopting, since the judgments of American tribunals are constantly becoming more frequently quoted and more respectfully considered in our own courts, particularly on those novel and abstruse points Some of law for which it is difficult to find direct authority in English reports. times, anything relating to Joint-Stock Companies is of public importance, and the points on which the constitution and operation of these bodies are affected by the doctrine of Ultra Vires are just those which are most material to the interests of the shareholders and of the community at large. of the much disputed questions in regard to corporations, on which legal opinion is still divided, are par Thus with reference to the authority claimed by the Courts to restrain corporaticularly well treated. tions or individuals from applying to Parliament for fresh powers in breach of their express agreements or in derogation of private rights, Mr. Brice most elaborately and ably reviews the conflicting decisions on this apparent interference with the rights of the subject, which threatened at one time to bring the Legislature and the Courts into a collision similar to that which followed on the well-known case of Another very difficult point on which Mr. Brice's book affords full and valuable Ashby v. White..... information is as to the liability of Companies on contracts entered into before their formation by the The chapter on the liabilities of corporations promoters, and subsequently ratified or adopted by the Company, and as to the claims of promoters themselves for services rendered to the inchoate Company. ex delicto for fraud and other torts committed by their agents within the region of their authority seems to us remarkably well done, reviewing as it does all the latest and somewhat contradictory decisions on the On the whole, we consider Mr. Brice's exhaustive work a valuable addition to the literature of point. the profession."-SATURDAY Review. book on the Law of Corporations. He has gone far towards effecting a Digest of that Law in its relation to the Doctrine of Ultra Vires, and the second edition of his most careful and comprehensive work may be commended with equal confidence to the English, the American, and the Colonial Practitioner, as well as to the scientific Jurist.”— Law Magazine and Review. "It is the Law of Corporations that Mr. Brice treats of (and treats of more fully, and at the same time more scientifically, than any work with which we are acquainted), not the law of principal and agent and Mr. Brice does not do his book justice by giving it so vague a title. -Law Journal. "The doctrine which forms the subject of Mr. Seward Brice's elaborate and exhaustive work is a remarkable instance of rapid growth in modern Jurisprudence. His book, indeed, now almost constitutes a Digest of the Law of Great Britain and her Colonies and of the United States on the Law of Corporations-a subject vast enough at home, Mr. but even more so beyond the Atlantic, where Corporations are so numerous and powerful. Seward Brice relates that he has embodied a reference in the present edition to about 1600 new We should think cases, and expresses the hope that he has at least "the chief cases.' referred to there can be few, even of the Foreign Judgments and Dicta, which have not found their way into his pages. The question what is and what is not Ultra Vires is one of very great importance in commercial countries like Great Britain and the United States. Mr. Seward Brice has done a great service to the cause of Comparative Jurisprudence by his new recension of what was from the first a unique text"On this doctrine, first introduced in the Common Law Courts in East Anglian Railway Co. v. Eastern Counties Railway Co., BRICE ON ULTRA VIRES may be read with advantage."-Judgment of LORD JUSTICE BRAMWELL, in the Case of Evershed v. L. & N. W'. Ry. Co. (L. R., 3 Q. B. Div. 141.) A guide of very great value. Much information on a difficult and unattractive subject has been collected and arranged in a manner which will be of great assistance to the seeker after the law on a point involving the powers of a company."-Law Journal. (Review of First Edition.) STEVENS & HAYNES, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. Now Ready, Fourth Edition, in royal 8vo, price 32s. cloth, 17 BUCKLEY ON THE COMPANIES ACTS. FOURTH EDITION BY THE AUTHOR. THE LAW AND PRACTICE UNDER THE COMPANIES ACTS, 1862 TO 1880, THE JOINT STOCK COMPANIES ARRANGEMENT ACT, 1870, AND THE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANIES ACTS, 1870 TO 1872. A Treatise on the Law of Joint Stock Companies. Containing the Statutes, with the Rules, Orders, and Forms, regulating Proceedings in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. By H. BURTON BUCKLEY, M.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, late Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. "We have no doubt that the present edition of this useful and thorough work will meet with as much acceptance as its predecessors have."--Scottish Journal of Jurisprudence. "The mere arrangement of the leading cases under the successive sections of the Acts, and the short explanation of their effect, are of great use in saving much valuable time, which would be otherwise spent in searching the different digests; but the careful manner in which Mr. Buckley has annotated the Acts, and placed the cases referred to under distinct headings, renders his work particularly useful to all who are required to advise in the complications in which the shareholders and creditors of companies frequently find themselves involved. The Index, always an important part of a law book, is full and well arranged." Scottish Journal of Jurisprudence. In two volumes, royal 8vo, 70s. cloth, THE LAW RELATING ΤΟ SHIPMASTERS AND SEAMEN. THEIR APPOINTMENT, DUTIES, POWERS, RIGHTS, LIABILITIES, AND REMEDIES. BY JOSEPH KAY, Esq., M.A., Q.C., OF TRIN. COLL. CAMBRIDGE, AND OF THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT; S LICITOR-GENERAL OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF DURHAM; ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF AND AUTHOR OF "THE SOCIAL CONDITION AND EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE From the LIVERPOOL JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. "The law relating to Shipmasters and Seamen' -such is the title of a voluminous and important work which has just been issued by Messrs. Stevens and Haynes, the eminent law publishers, of London. The author is Mr. Joseph Kay, Q.C., and while treating generally of the law relating to shipmasters and seamen, he refers more particularly to their appointment, duties, rights, liabilities, and remedies. It consists of two large volumes, the text occupying nearly twelve hundred pages, and the value of the work being enhanced by copious appendices and From the LAW JOURNAL. "The author tells us that for ten years he has been engaged upon it. Two large volumes containing 1181 pages of text, 81 pages of appendices, 98 pages of index, and upwards of 1800 cited cases, attest the magnitude of the work designed and accomplished by Mr. Kay, "Mr. Kay says that he has 'endeavoured to compile a guide and reference book for masters, ship agents, and consuls.' He has been so modest as not to add lawyers to the list of his pupils; but his work will, we think, be welcomed by lawyers whe have to do with shipping transactions, almost as cordially as it undoubtedly will be by those who occupy their business in the great waters." D 18 STEVENS & HAYNES, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. Now ready, in 8vo, price 155., cloth, THE LAW AND PRACTICE RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF DECEASED PERSONS BY THE CHANCERY DIVISION OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE; WITH AN ADDENDA giving the alterations effected by the NEW RULES of 1883, AND AN APPENDIX OF ORDERS AND FORMS, ANNOTATED BY REFERENCES TO THE TEXT. BY W. GREGORY WALKER and EDGAR J. ELGOOD, OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTERS-AT-LAW. All those having the conduct of administration actions will find this work of great assistance; it covers the whole ground of the law and practice from the institution of proceedings to the final wind up."-Law Times. "In this volume the most important branch of the administrative business of the Chancery Division is treated with conciseness and care. Judging from the admirable clearness of expression which characterises the entire work, and the labour which has evidently been bestowed on every detail, we do not think that a literary executorship could have devolved upon a more able and conscientious repreUseful chapters are introduced sentative in their appropriate places, dealing with the 'Parties to administration actions,' 'The proofs of of cases, with references in separate columns to all "This is a book which will supply a want which has long been felt. . . . As a practical manual for the counsel in practice, it will be found extremely useful. It is full, fairly concise, clear, and exact. The index is good."-Law Journal. In Svo, price Is., THE "SIX CLERKS IN CHANCERY;" Their SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE, and the "HOUSES" they lived in. A Reminiscence. By THOMAS W. BRAITHWAITE, of the Record and Writ Clerks' Office. "The removal of the Record and Writ Office to the new building has suggested the publication of an interesting and opportune little piece of legal history."-Solicitors' Journal. 2 vols. 4to, 1876-77. 57. 5s. calf, THE PRACTICAL STATUTES OF NEW ZEALAND. WITH NOTES AND INDEX. EDITED BY G. B. BARTON, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. In royal 8vo, price 30s., half calf, THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA. THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1867; ITS INTERPRETATION, GATHERED FROM THE DECISIONS OF COURTS, THE DICTA OF JUDGES, AND THE OPINIONS OF STATESMEN AND OTHERS; To which is added the Quebec Resolutions of 1864, and the Constitution of the United States. BY JOSEPH DOUTRE, Q.C., of the Canadian Bar. |