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Volume 8 - November 1944

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Negligence—Children in shop injured by upsetting of tea-urn carried through with leave of manageress—Owners of shop not liable

Will—Commorientes—Will of Husband in favour of wife—Death of husband and wife in air raid—Evidence given by witnesses who saw the bodies after death that deaths were simultaneous held insufficient to rebut the presumption under Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 184

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

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

Book Reviews

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Negligence—Sale of bow and arrow to boy—Injury to schoolfellow in playground—Held: supervision adequate though not continuous; bow and arrow not chattel inherently dangerous

Tort—Nuisance—Defendants held liable for accident caused by leaving unlighted motor vehicle left on road in darkness

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Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Negligence—Independent contractor—Inspection and approval of work by employees held to negative liability of contractor

Tort—Seduction—Proof of rape held no bar to action for loss of service, but action failed because evidence of girl uncorroborated

Tort—Nuisance—Highway—Lighting restrictions—No duty to light obstacles erected legally under statutory powers

Book Reviews

The Principles of Contract. By SirFrederick Pollock. Eleventh Edition by P. H. Winfield, F.B.A., LL.D., Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge and Honorary Bencher, and Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner Temple. London: Stevens & Sons, Ltd.1942. xxxii and 603 pp. (32s. 6d.)

The International Law of the Sea. By A. Pearce Higgins and C. John Colombos. Longmans. 1943. 647 pp. (42s.)

Annual Digest and Reports of Public International Law Cases: Years 1938–1940. Edited by H. Lauterpacht, M.A., LL.D., Whewell Professor of International Law, Cambridge; of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. London: Butterworth & Co. (Publishers), Ltd. 1942. xxxiv and 607 pp. (55s.)

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.)

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.)

Concerning English Administrative Law. By SirCecil Thomas Carr. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. 1941. ix and 189 pp. (10s. 6d. net.)

The Judicial Function in Federal Administrative Agencies. By Joseph P. Chamberlain, Noel T. Bowling and Paul R. Hays. New York: Commonwealth Fund; Oxford University Press (Sir Humphrey Milford). 1942. xii and 234 and (index) 24 pp. ($3; 16s. 6d. net.)

Social Control Through Law. By Roscoe Pound, Former Dean of the Harvard Law School. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. 1942. 138 pp. (12s. net.)

A Discourse upon the Exposicion and Understandinge of Statutes. Edited from Manuscripts in the Huntington Library by Samuel E. Thorne, North-Western University School of Law, San Marino, California. Huntington Library. 1942. vii and 194 pp. ($5.) (English price, 33s. 6d. net.)

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Notes on Recent Cases

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