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Volume 9 - November 1947

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Animals—Horse straying to highway—No duty on owner to maintain fence

Tort—Defamation—Slander actionable per se—Imputation affecting professional ability

Tort—Nuisance—Held: obstruction of the highway by an unlighted vehicle is not ipso facto a nuisance

Tort—Negligence—Res ipsa loquitur

Tort—False imprisonment—Arrest without warrant for misdemeanour—Failure to satisfy conditions of local act authorising arrest without warrant on charge of unlawful possession—Held: subsequent charge of larceny was not available as a justification

Tort—Crown proceedings—Nominal defendant—Court has no jurisdiction to hear action

Notes on Cases

Tort—Master and servant—Crane with driver let by port authority to stevedores—Accident caused by negligent driving of driver—Liability of general employer

Notes on Recent Cases

Will—Testator's name on back of paper and on containing envelope

Tort—Master and servant—Common employment—Limits of employer's liability to provide a safe system of work

Tort—Master and servant—Hiring of vehicle and driver—Negligence of driver causing injury to third person—Liability of regular employer or of hirer

Tort—Neguligence—Submarine sunk at trials with loss of life—Torpedo tube test-cock blocked with paint—Claim for damagrs—Res ipsa loquitur rbbutted—Carelessness re test-cock but no ‘duty.’

Book Reviews

Mental Abnormality and Crime. English Studies in Criminal Science, vol. II. Edited by L. Radzinowicz, M.A., LL.D., and J. W. C. Turner, M.C., M.A., LL.B. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.London. 1944. xxiv and 316 pp. (18s.)

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Negligence—Emergency legislation—Air-raid shelter erected on highway by local authority under statutory powers—Shelter unlighted—Collision of motorist with shelter—Duty of local authority

Tort—Trespass to land—Oral tenancy agreement—Clandestine entry into possession by tenant—Forcible Eviction by owner—Tenant's right to sue for damages—Law of Property Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, C. 20), S. 40.

Book Reviews

Legal Effects of War. By SirArnold Duncan McNair, C.B.E., LL.D., F.B.A. Second Edition.Cambridge: At the University Press. 1944. xx and 416 pp. (25s. net.)

Liberties and Communities in Medieval England: Collected Studies in Local Administration and Topography. By Helen M. Cam, Litt.D. Cambridge University Press. 1944. xiv and 267 pp. (15s.)

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Negligence—Licensee on vehicle—Concealed danger—Duty of lorry driver to warn licensee—Liability of highway authority

Will—Place of testator's signature—Testator's intention—Wills Act, 1837, s. 9—Wills Act Amendment Act, 1852, s. 1.

Book Reviews

Learning the Law. By Glanville L. Williams, M.A., LL.B., Ph.D. London: Stevens & Sons, Ltd.1945. vii and 156 pp. (7s. 6d.)

Comparative Law. An Introduction to the Comparative Method of Legal Study and Research. By H. C. Gutteridge, K.C., LL.D. (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Vol. I.) London: Cambridge University Press. 1946. xvi and 208 pp. (12s. 6d.)

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