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GENERAL

INDEX

TO VOL.

CXLVIII.

GENERAL SUBJECT INDEX.

Accord and satisfaction, Substituted agreement,
by way of, 267

Adjournment of both Houses of Parliament
simultaneously, 20
Administration bonds, 76
Administrator-heir, 174

Administrators and infant next of kin, 149
Agricultural (Councils, etc.) Bill, 200
Agricultural holdings-notice to quit, 95
Agricultural land sales, 40
Agricultural Land Sales

Notices to Quit) Act 1919, 51

Aliens, Admission of, 251

Aliens' change of name, 251

(Restrictions

Aliens' Restriction (Amended) Bill, 251
Amendment of French press law, 103

Brussels conference, M. Léon Bourgeois on
the, 273

Burke, quoted by Gladstone, 182

Business in the courts, question of additional
judges, 169

Business in the High Court, Dec. 6, 211

Cabinet and House of Commons, 162
Cabinet ministers overseas; legal status, 66
Cabinets, of varying numbers, 163

of Canada, and the ratification of the Peace
Treaty, 31

Appeals to sessions from courts of summary
jurisdiction, 121

Appointments of Sterndale. Duke, Younger,
and Russeli, 111

Anti-dumping Bill, 200

Arrears in the courts, 149

Cecil, Lord Robert, on British temperament, 8
China, Prison reform in, 44

China, Progress in law reforms, 42
Citizen guar ls, 79

Civil judicial statistics 1917, 1

Clemenceau, on England and freedom of the
seas, 102

Clergy and seats in House of Commons, 163
Club committees, Powers of, 172
Coal Emergency Bill 235

Articles of association, Alteration of, for Colbert's tercentenary, 7

benefit of company as a whole, 172
Assignments, Voluntary, 174

Assurance of equity of redemption of copy-
holds, 248

Astor, Viscount, and voting question, 202
Astor. Lady, taking the oath, 219
Australian federal constitution, 274

Colonies, Fosition of in "the new Empire," 66
Company, see Alteration of articles of associa-
tion, 172

Company's memorandum of association state-

ments in, 102
Compensation to

injured

seaman

during

liability to maintain him, 173
Contingent reminders, The later history of the
rule of destructibility of, 33, 45
Contract, see Ignorance of impossibility as
affecting consideration, 46
Conveyances, Unnecessary clauses in, 77
Conveyancing landmarks; a retrospect, 62
CONVEYANCING PRECEDENTS:

Commercial agreement as to the sale of a
patented article, 40, 54
Conveyance by a tenant for life (with the con-
currence of mortgages of the life estate
of a freehold farm, 18, 29
Conveyance of freehold and copyhold heredit-
aments by a tenant for life as to part, and
owner in fee simple as to the rest, free
from a portion charge paramount to the
settlement and from mortgages on the
fee, 6
Conveyance of freeholds by a tenant for life
deriving title under three separate settle-
ments, 95
Conveyance of freeholds by a tenant for life
with the consent of a mortgagee of the fee.
and the consent by separate instrument of
mortgagees of the life estate, 113

Form of schedules of property to a resettle-
ment of a large unincumbered estate,
principally in a town, 136
Special condition of sale as to
easements, 196

cross-

Constituencies, relation to their members, 182
Contract to be "void" in a certain event, 248
Conveyance-what estate passes by, 268
Copyholds, Assurance of equity of redemption
cf, 248

Copyholds-timber-vendor and purchaser, 231
Costs, A purchaser's, 135

Costs of a joint defence, 153

Costs under new County Courts Bill, 180
Counsel and personal opinion, see Defence of
Quien in Paris, 20

Counsel, duties of, Sir Fitzjames Stephen on
the, 43

Counsel on taking silk attaching himself to
particular court, 101
County Court changes, 75
County Court distribution, 170
County Court Judges Bill, 200
County Court judges title, 252
County Court judges-pensions, 133
County Courts, new Bill, 180

County Courts, Report of Lord Chancellor's
committee, 203
Courts-martial, field; Revision of sentence in
France, 7

Courts-martial, Lawyers and reports of com-
mittee of inquiry, 193
Criminal trials long after events, 65
"Curtilage"? What is, 213

Dail Eireann, 42

Damages, Duty to mitigate, 113

Dangerous machinery incapable of being
fenced, 54

Death of workman through. infection by germs,

28

Decisions, Noteworthy, of the judicial year, 2
Declaratory judgment, Advantages of, 121
DEFENCE OF THE REALM ACT:

Amendments to regulations, 9th Oct., 81
Amendments to regulations, 29th Oct., 145
Amendments to regulations, 25th Nov., 221
Amendments to regulations, 9th Dec., 239
Departmental control, see Parliament and
government, 93
Destructibility of contingent remainders, 33, 45
Devolution and Mr. Walter Long, 163
Devon, Dr., on causation of crime, 181
Discretion of the court in war-time evictions, 17
Dispositions of realty by soldiers' wills, 265
Divorce and poor persons, Statistics 1917, 2
Divorce, Poor persons rules and, 246
Dominions and bigamy, The, 60
Dominions, the. New status of, see Parliament
and the Dominions, 44
Double portions-grandchildren, 248
Douglas-Pennant report, 229
Dowries as charitable gifts, 153
Duke of Lancaster, The King as, 21
Duty to mitigate damages, 113

Eady, Sir C. S. retirement, 111
Edinburgh's provost, 162

Effect of administration actions on trustees'
powers, 231

Effect of title of act on subsequent provisions
thereof, 152

Ejectment and emergency powers, 113
Estates in France of foreigners deceased and
the law of 1819, 103

Estoppel in workmen's compensation cases, 172
Evictions, war-time, Discretions of the court in,
17

Excess profits duty and private companies, 39
"Excess profits duty and stockbrokers, 152
Executor, Voting rights of, 5

Judges, Life tenure of, as a "fundamental"
law, 170

Judges, Question of additional, see Business in
the courts, 169

Judicial (civil) statistics 1917, 1

Judicial year, Noteworthy decisions of the, 2,
15, 27, 37

Jurisprudence, English obligations to Ecclesias
tical polity,

Jury pros and cons, 273

Kaiser as suitor, 236

Kennaway, Sir John, Notice of, 30
Knox, K.C., Mr. Adrian, 120

Exemption of a ferry from liability to income Labour disputes, Dealing with, 79
tax, 95

False return to a writ of mandamus, Proceed-
ings on a, 153

Ferry, exemption from income tax, 95
Finance and the Mental Deficiency Act, 218
Fire in the Temple, 19

Fire, Liability for, 151.

"First English law book," Sale of, 143

Fisher, Lord, Method of addressing Sovereign,

192

Forcible entry, Fossession under, 230

Fortune-telling and vagrancy, 75

France and general elections, 56
France, to check profiteering in, 144
French Bill re artists' rights, 101

French chamber, Inadequate accommodation,

182

French chamber, Method of election to, 201
French chamber, Opening of, 252
French decision re legitimation of natural
child, 272

French elections procedure, 181

French emergency law and leases, 272
French law re estates of foreigners deceased,

103

French patents, Prolongation of duration, 181
French penal code applied to Alsace-Lorraine,

236

Labour, see Industrial courts, 134
Labour volunteers, 66

Land improvement charges, 196
Law clerks and increase of salary, 30
Law Clerks' Union, 237

Lawrence, Rev. T. J., Notice of, 9
League of Nations and secret diplomacy, 43
League of Nations, International conference on
the, 238

League of Nations, Lord R. Cecil on, 144
League of Nations, Mr. Lloyd George on
physical sanction, 43

League of Nations, Rumania and Serbia and,

32

Legal aid for the poor, 202
Legal education in India, 238
Legal Musical Society re-opening, 181
Letellier, M. Georges, Death of, 19
Liability for costs of a joint defence, 153
Liability for fire, 151

License, Renewal of, for sale of intoxicating
liquor, 39
Life tenure of judges as a "fundamental
law, 170

Liquidators' remuneration, 112

Local situation of securities, 53

Lord President of the Council, Office of, 122
Lotteries and Westminster Bridge, 43
L'Union Juridique Internationale opening
session, 162

French press censorship withdrawn, 101
French press law, Amendment of, 103
French tribute to legal members of Army, 143 Machinery, Dangerous, 54
Furniture, Specific bequests of, 154

Magna Charta and the War Emergency Laws
Continuance Bill, 144

Master of the Rolls, Holders of office during
last 100 years, 181

Memoranda and the statute of frauds, 13
Mental Deficiency Act and finance, 218

Presse de Paris, La, 181
Prison reform in China, 44

Private companies, Excess profits duty and, 39
Proceedings on a false return to a writ of
mandamus, 153

Profiteering in France, To check, 144
Froperty abroad, Wills of, 135

Property in seamen's rations on board ship, 61
Property invested in England? What is, 213
Prorogation of Parliament, 253

Prorogation or adjournment of Parliament, 237
Protection of indorsees of notes or bills, 152
Public libraries, new measure, 218

Fublic trustee, Majority report on, 263

Public trustee, The final report of majority
committee, 194

Purchaser's costs, A, 135

Ratification of peace treaty by King, 80
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Bill, 161
Real Property Limitation Act, see Mortgages
over personalty, &c., 94

county courts, 203

on

Requisition of uncultivated land, new Bill, 271
Revocation of a will by cancellation, 195
Revocation of a will by marriage, 135
Rogers, Mr. B. B., and the classics, 65

Sabbath-breaking in America, 236
Sales of land--vendor in a dual capacity, 77
Seaman, injured, Compensation to, 173
Seamen's rations on board ship, Property in,
61

Secretaries of State, 254

Securities, Local situation of, 53
Selden Society appeal for funds, 79
Service of English summons on party in Scot-
land, 53

Sex Disqualification Removal Bill, Procedure
between two Houses of Parliament, 183
Shareholders' letters of renunciation, 268
" of a, 4
Ship on voyage, Re-delivery

Merchant ships in war-time, Navigation of, 17 Ship, Sums ordered to be paid by distress on a,
Merger of life estates, 155
Michaelmas cause lists, 59

Mitchell, K.C., Sir E., on Australian federal
Money paid under mistake of law, 5
constitution, 274
Monier, M. F., Death of. 252
Moon, Influence on sanity, 101
Mortgages over personalty and limitation acts,

94

19

Ship, total loss, during currency of policy, 53
Sinn Fein parliament suppressed, 42
Sittings, end of Michaelmas, State of business,
263

Smuts, General, and change of administration,
31

Soldiers' nuncupative wills, 62
Soldiers' wills, Dispositions of realty by, 265
Solicitors' Managing Clerks' Association cor-
cert, 102

Solicitors qualification for judicial offices, 143
Solicitors War Memorial Fund, 127, 206, 239
Specific bequests of furniture, 154
Speech by Richard Martin, Copy of, 1603, 218
Statute of frauds and description of property
sold, 13

Noteworthy decisions of the judicial year, 2, Substituted agreement by way of accord and

Taxation and finance, Lord Buckmaster on, 122
"Ten Minutes Bill," The, 102
Tenants in common, 196

Thames Folice-court prosecution, 42
Timber-see Vendor and Purchaser, 231
Feace treaty, How the, will come into force in Title-vendor--evidence of title, 154
France, 123

LAW LIBRARY.

History of Roman Private Law. Professor Private Companies, by H. Jordan, 98
Clark, 140

Income Tax Record Sheet, 159
Indermaur's Manual of Practice. 10th edition,
179

Income Tax Laws, by Dowell. 8th edition, 159
Journal of Comparative Legislation, 98
Kelke's Real Property Law. 5th edition, 117
Law of Checkweighing, by J. H. Cockburn,
179

Law of Stamp Duties. E. N. Alpe, 15th
edition, 55

Law relating to Housing and Town Planning.
W. A. Willis, 179

Lloyd's List of Law Reports, 250

Local Development Law, by H. C. Dowdall, 250
Mews' Digest, 159

Ministry of Transport Act 1919, by W.
Robertson, 250

A.

Plain Guide to Investmenf and Finance, by
T. E. Young, 179

Follock, Sir Ernest-Vocation in Law, 159

Profiteering Act, The. Costello and O'Sulli-
van, 98

Provisional Draft of a Licensing Bill, 98
Relation of Custom to Law, The. G. T.
Sadler, 117

Scrutton on Charter Parties. 9th edition, 159
Secretary and His Directors, by H. W. Jordan
and S. Borrie, 179

Seventeenth Century Life in a Country Parish.
E. Trotter, 140

Taswell-Langmead's English Constitutional
History, 140

Topham's Company Law, 98

Treaty of Peace with Germany. C. M.
Picciotto and A. W. E. Wort, 179

Trial by Combat of Henry de Essex and
Robert de Montfort, 98

Trust Accounts. Chandler, 3rd edition, 117
Workmen's Compensation
and Insurance
Reports 1919, 55

Yearly Practice of the Supreme Court 1920, 117