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From the LAW TIMES.

"This work is one which has naturally carried with it more weight than any other text-book, having been written by two registrars of the Court of Bankruptcy. In practice it has been found to realise the anticipations formed concerning it, in proof of which we have now in our hands a second edition. Perhaps the most valuable feature of the work is the fulness of the practical details which enable a tyro to transact his business with tolerable security. The first half of the work comprises the Bankruptcy Act and the Debtors Act, which have been carefully and ably noted with all the decisions; and the latter half is devoted mainly to practice and procedure. The Bills of Sale Act and one or two other enactments are incorporated which are frequently consulted by the bankruptcy practitioner. A very elaborate index ends the volume."

From the LAW JOURNAL.

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"The first two hundred pages of the work contain the Bankruptcy Act of 1869, printed in large type; and, where it is necessary, the learned authors have inserted after each section, in smaller type, very copious notes of the law, and all the cases referring to each particular subject. For instance, after section 15, which defines the property of a bankrupt divisible among his creditors, we find more than eight pages of notes and cases showing the present state of the law with reference to order and disposition, bills of sale, &c. Again, after section which confers upon the Court of Bankruptcy full power to deal with and decide (without the intervention of the Courts of Common Law and Chancery) any question which may arise in the course of a bankruptcy, all the cases on the subject are very fully referred to, and the different opinions of the late Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices in relation to the extension or curtailment of this novel jurisdiction are set out with a precision and minuteness which render any reference to the reports themselves almost unnecessary. In the addenda of cases the recent case of Ex parte Gordon, in re Dixon, is mentioned, which decides that when proceedings are instituted in Bankruptcy, and at the same time there is a pending Chancery suit, and the parties to the Bankruptcy and Chancery proceedings are substantially the same, and their rights and liabilities can be equally well ascertained under the bankruptcy as in the Chancery suit, the Court of Bankruptcy has jurisdiction under section 72 to stay proceedings in the Chancery suit so far as may be necessary. The work before us also contains the Debtors Act of 1869, the Bankruptcy Repeal Act of 1869, the Absconding Debtors Act, 1869, with several other Acts and all the General Rules in Bankruptcy, printed and annotated in the same manner as the principal Act. There is also a very full collection of forms and bills of costs; but the portion of the work which is decidedly the most novel, and we imagine will prove extremely useful, is that comprised in pages 355-474, which contain an exposition by the authors on the practice on procedure to adjudication, liquidation, and composition with creditors, and on procedure under a debtors' summons. It is not often that a practising lawyer is able to turn to a book on Practice written by the judges of the parti

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cular Court to which it relates, and, as it were, stamped with the seal of authority. In conclusion, we have only to say that Messrs. Roche and Hazlitt have appended to their work a very full and copious index, and that we can cordially and conscientiously recommend it to the notice of the legal profession."

From the SOLICITORS' JOURNAL. "The first edition of this work, issued shortly after the passing of the Acts of 1869, to meet a pressing demand, consisted of little more than a reprint of the Acts, Rules, and Forms, with a few notes and an index. In the present edition, however, the book has been expanded into a treatise on the law and practice in bankruptcy and now constitutes a bulky volume of 840 pages. The plan of the authors is to print the sections of the Acts in the order in which they stand in the Statute-book, appending to them notes more or less lengthy. These are followed by chapters on the practice on procedure to adjudication, procedure to liquidation, procedure to composition with creditors, procedure under debtors' summons, costs, and at the close of the work the General Rules, Orders, and Forms are given in full. The design of the authors is stated in the preface to have been more especially to render the volume of practical utility to the profession,' by which we understand them to mean that the practitioner should, with the least possible trouble, be able to lay his hand upon the law relating to the particular point as to which he desires information. For this purpose there is doubtless something to be said in favour of the retention of the arrangement of sections adopted in the Bankruptcy Act, 1869-singular and illogical as that arrangement is. Experience has made it tolerably familiar; the practitioner knows his way in the Act, and on many points can recall the number of the section relating to the point under discussion. In the book before us, such a reader is enabled by means of large consecutive ngures at the head of each margin to reach the section and cases he requires without the trouble of referring to the index. In the hurry of daily practice this will probably be found no small advantage. In the subsequent chapters on adjudication, liquidation, composition, and debtors' summons, the arrangement adopted is the convenient one for practical purposes of tracing each consecutive step of the procedure, and welding together the provisions of the Acts, Rules, and Forms, with the substance of the cases. This appears to us to be successfully accomplished, and the book, as a whole, constitutes a useful digest of the statutory and case law. As regards the former, the work appears to contain every provision relating to or connected with the subject, including even the orders made in December, 1869, transferring business then pending. The cases are taken from a wide range of reports and include a considerable number cited from MSS. notes. Lord Westbury's characteristic remarks in Michael Brown's case (17 S. J. 310) as to the effect in certain cases of section 23 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, find a place in the volume. The index is unusually full, combining both an analysis and index; and, lastly, the type and paper are all that can be desired.'

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