Right Honourable Earl of halsbury: The Laws of England, Being a Complete Statement of the Whole Law of England; Dooling: Equitable Remedies of Creditors in Michigan; Train: True Stories of Crime from the District Attorney\u27s Office

Brewster, James H.

Rood, John R.

English

University of Michigan School of Law

Michigan Law Review Volume 6 Issue 8 1908 Recent Legal Literature James H. Brewster University of Michigan Law School John R. Rood University of Michigan Law School James H. Brewster University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr  Part of the Legal Writing and Research Commons Recommended Citation James H. Brewster, John R. Rood & James H. Brewster, Recent Legal Literature, 6 MICH. L. REV. 722 (1908). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol6/iss8/4  This Regular Feature is brought to you for free and open access by the Michigan Law Review at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact mlaw.repository@umich.edu. RECENT LEGAL LITERATURE THE LAws oF ENGLAND, BEING A CoMPLETE STATEMENT oF THE vVHoLE LAw OF ENGLAND. By the Right Honourable the Earl of Halsbury, and other lawyers. London: Butterworth & Co. Agents for the United States: Cromarty Law Book Co., Philadelphia. Lawyers' Co-oper­ative Publishing Company, Rochester, N. Y. Vol. I, "Action"­"Bankers and Banking." pp. ccxviii, 647 and Index. Lord Halsbury in his introduction, expresses the hope that when finished, this work "will furnish a complete statement of the Laws of England." He also affirms that it is "not a mere encyclopedia, it is not a mere collection of cases, but a number of treatises composed by learned lawyers." As the publishers announce that the work will be completed in about twenty volumes, it would seem that it must be somewhat encyclopedic in character and we cannot see that this will be an objectionable quality. Certainly absolutely complete "treatises" on all titles in English law can hardly be expected to be compressed into twenty volumes. If, however, the work in the volumes which are to follow this is as well done as that in this volume, the result will be a most useful lawyers' library. The writers who contribute to this volume are generally men who have become recognized as authol'ities on special subjects. The title "Agen\:y" is treated by Judge Evans, who some years since wrote an excellent book on the same subject; "Bankers and Banking'' is handled admirably by Sir John Paget, who is understood to be one of the most able counsel on the matters he treats of under this title. Such examination of the other titles as we have been able to give satisfies , us that the authors have ably and conscientiously done their best to make the publishers' statement-"In completeness and accuracy it is intended that this work shall exceed anything before attempted"-perfectly true. The articles are up to date, clearly written, without useless repetitions, but ' with ample cross-references to other titles ; and with very complete references to decisions and statutes. Many aids to ready reference are to be found in the volume-as a complete table of cases, referring to each report of the case; table of statutes; table of contents to each title; ample index, etc., etc. Nearly two thousand advance subscribers have already interested them­selves in this important undertaking, and it certainly promises well. J. H.B. EQUITABLE REMEDIES OF CREDITORS IN MICHIGAN. By John C. Dooling, Detroit: Drake Law Book Co., 1908, pp. xi, 347. A prefatory note by the publisher informs us that the author died after having finished the manuscript of this text and before it was in type; so that the editing, revising, prefacing, indexing, proof-reading, and the like had to be done by others. We are also informed by the same note that the RECENT LEGAL LITERATURE author conceived the idea of writing the book about eight years ago, while engaged in. prosecuting a series of important cases arising out of the same transaction and involving this subject matter. It will be observed that .the scope of the work is very narrow, both as to subject-matter and ter>ritory; but it seems to have been very carefully written, and could not fail to be Qf great assistance to any one prosecuting creditors' bills in the Michigani courts. '!'he cita.tions seem to be quite com­plete, aS> the number of ca-ses cited exceeds eleven: hundred, though quite a number of decisions by Federal courts and courts of other states on general questions are cited. On a testing of the citations here and there through the book for error in: reference or pertinence to the matter under discus­sion, no errors were found. As the writer was addressing only the lawyers of Michigan, he assumed that all his readers would have access to the official reports, and, therefore made no reference to the reporters or the Detroit Legal News. Reference is occasionally made to Am. St. Rep. and L. R. A., probably because of the notes> to be found there. The list of topics treated follows: Creditors' Bills, Bills in Aid of Execution, Bills by Personal Representatives of Deceased Persons for Benefit of Creditors, Bills by Creditors of Corporations, Equity Jurisdiction in Michigaill under National Bankruptcy Law. These topics occupy the first 104 pages. The rest of the text, 186 P.ages, is devoted to questions of pleading and practice: Parties to Bills (in general) and then separate chapters as to the essentials of several bills above named; Demurrers, Pleas, Answers, Answers in Nature of Cross­Bills, Decrees, Provisional Remedies by Injunction and Receivership. J. R.R. Tntm STORIES OF CRIME from the District Attorney's Office. By Arthur Train. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1!)o8, pp. 4o6. One Browne, a lawyer and a clever criminal, alleged that his conviction for forgery was due to the misguided enthusiasm of the prosecutor, the author of this volume, whom he characterized as a "novelist" and dreamer. The thirteen stories contained 1n this book are not, however, dream tales, though they ar; as interesting as any novels. They demonstrate clearly that fact may be stranger than fiction. "fhe stories are exceedingly well told and give the facts of several well known cases in such a way that it is not easy to lay the book aside when one has taken it up. '!'he criminal careers of several lawyers-Patrick, Hummel, Browne-are admirably depicted, without, apparently, any departures from the truth, and yet in a style that places the stories far above the average tale of crime. The volume affords excellent vacation reading. J. H. B. 

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