Notes on Recent Cases
Tort—False imprisonment—Arrest without warrant of an ‘offender’ on charge of harbouring uncustomed goods with intent to defraud—Statutory authority under Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, held to include a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence
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Tort—False imprisonment—Arrest without a warrant, but on reasonable suspicion, of a person wrongly believed to be an offender under the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881—Held, to be false imprisonment
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Tort—Negligence—Independent contractor—Inspection and approval of work by employees held to negative liability of contractor
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Tort—Nuisance—Highway—Lighting restrictions—No duty to light obstacles erected legally under statutory powers
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Book Reviews
Criminal Law and its Administration: Cases, Statutes, and Commentaries. By Jerome Michael, Professor of Law, Columbia University, and Herbert Wechsler, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia University. Chicago: The Foundation Press, Inc.1940. xi and 1410 pp. ($6.50.)
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Law without Force: The Function of Politics in International Law. By Gerhart Niemeyer. Humphrey Milford, Princeton University Press, Princeton. 1941. xiv and 408 pp. (22s. 6d.)
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Impossibility of Performance: A Treatise on the Law of Supervening Impossibility of Performance of Contract, Failure of Consideration, and Frustration. By R. G. McElroy. Edited by Glanville Williams. Cambridge: The University Press. 1941. xl and 255 pp. (15s. net.)
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The British Constitution. By W. Ivor Jennings, M.A., LL.D.; Principal of Ceylon University College. Cambridge University Press. 1941. xv and 232 pp. (8s. 6d.)
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The Theory of Legal Science. By Huntington Cairns. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press; London: Humphrey Milford. 1941. 155 pp. (12s. net.)
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Workmen's Compensation. By SirArnold Wilson, M.P., and ProfessorHermann Levy. Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford. Vol. I: xxi and 328 pp. 1939. (10s.); Vol. II: xi and 383 pp. 1941. (18s.)
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Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages. By Fritz Kern. Translated and with an Introduction by S. B. Chrimes. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1939. xxxi and 214 pp. (12s. 6d.)
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Cases on the Law of Tort. Second edition. By P. H. Winfield, F.B.A.; LL.D. (Cantab.); Hon. LL.D. (Harvard); Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, Cambridge; Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; of the Inner Temple, Honorary Bencher and Barrister-at-Law. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd.1941. xii and 323 pp. (17s. 6d. net.)
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The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries. By Daniel J. Boorstin. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press. 1941. xviii and 257 pp. ($3.00; 16s. 6d. net.)
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The Conveyancers' Year Book, 1941. By SirLancelot H. Elphinstone, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Vol. 2. London: The Solicitors' Law Stationery Society, Ltd.1941. xxxvi and 260 pp. (15s. net.)
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What's Wrong with International Law? By DrW. Friedmann, LL.M. (Lond.). Watts & Co.1941. 48 pp. (6d. net.)
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Studies in Legal Terminology. By Erwin Hexner, J.D., D. Pol. Sci., Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolona. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press; London: Humphrey Milford. 1941. (9s. 6d.)
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Edward Jenks. By R. W. Lee. Offprint from Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXVI. London: Humphrey Milford. 27 pp., with portrait. (2s. 6d.)
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The International Labour Code, 1939. A systematic arrangement of the Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the International Labour Conference, 1919–1939. Montreal. 1941. lvi and 920 pp.
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The International Conferences of American States: First Supplement, 1933–1940. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Washington D.C.1940. Columbia University Press, xxix and 558pp. ($3.50.)
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The United States and the League, the Labour Organisation and the World Court during1940. By Arthur Sweetser. Geneva Research Studies, Vol. XI, No. 8, 1940. Geneva Research Centre, Geneva. 1940. ($0.40, or 1.75 Swiss francs.)
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