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Brief Life by Cecil WhiteleyReview by: T. E. L.The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1943), p. 232Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Editorial Committee of the Cambridge LawJournalStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4503448 .

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judges and legal practitioners in the seignorial and ecclesiastical courts, as comparad with the high standards maintained in tho royal courts. The pO8itiOIl Oi judges, lawyers and officials} the law and procedurc of the fifteenth and sixteenth century are discussed in the light of the contemporary theatre. The reviewer i8 Izot qualified to pass judgnlent on the literary asl)ects of this study, but he has obtained much interesting and useful inforulatioll on the stalie of thc law in Franco between 1450 and 1560, even if he cannot always agree with the autbor7s interpretatiol} of the legal questions raised in the plAy8. As the Frsnch logal sysim of thc iXenth century was still closely related to its counterpart on the other side of tho channels common lawyere and civilians alike will derive much pleasure frolll the study of this well written book. One would like to see more works of thLs kind.

K. L.

Brief liffe. By CECIL XVHITELEY, K.C., D.L., The Common Serjeant. London: Macmillan & Co., ljtd. 1942. xiiiand218 pp. (lOs. 6d. net.)

This is a collection of r&ndom reIllilliecenecs of one who practised at the Crimina Bar for thirty yeare, and administerod the criminal law as Recorder, Chairlnall of Quarter Se8Sions and as a Judge at the O}d Bailey. 'lthe chapters are a mised beg, licensing justices, sensational cases, storics in court, clubs, advocacy, capital punishment, etc.nlivened with personal anecdotes. In Tril by Jury he considers whether juries could not IIOW be dispensed with exeept in trea60n and murder, gnd illustrates classes of eases wherc they do not ' a true verdiet give aecording to the evidenee.' In Chapter XIV he favours the stipendiary ovor thc lay magistraX gnd eoncludes that elerks of the justiees should bo whole time appoint- mentss while the ehairman of the bench should be well qualified. The ehapters on Probationfi Borstal, Corporal Punishment and Sentenee are valuable to every magistrate. At p. 195 he sets out the prosrisioas for a short statuto s making it impossible to commit bigamy.8

The book is full of interest for laymzn and lawyer, and has colxstructive suggestions for improving the adlllinistration of crimmal law.

T. E. L.

The Conveyancers Year Book, 1942. BY SIR LANCELOT lI. 13LPHINSrONE, of Limcoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Vol. III. London: The Solicitors' Law Statiollery Society, Ltd. 1942. xxviii and 312 pp. (25s. net.)

This iB a digest of the cases, statutes, orders and regulations for the year 1941. Under some seventy main headmgs they are conveniently arranged in alphabetical order from Agents to Wi11B. References are giver} for noting up in the appropriato pages of the standard text-books and books of precedents. There are also references to articles and notes m ths Law Quarterly Review, Solicitoref Journul, Ratinf and I7zeome Tax, lgw Society's (7azeUe, Law Revuion Conzmittee Report and the Cambridye Law Journal. The summaries of cases and statutes, and thc notes and comments thereon, are extremely well done-some of the long statutes gre brilliant models of colnpression and clarity. We note an unfortunato 81ip at p. 169 in stating the effect of Portman v. Roakilt & Soaw [19413 1 All 1g. R. 226. There is a comprehensive cumulative iIldex to the three volumes. For keeping up to date in the wide fielde of Conveyancing there i8 no better lsook.

T. :13. iL.

judges and legal practitioners in the seignorial and ecclesiastical courts, as comparad with the high standards maintained in tho royal courts. The pO8itiOIl Oi judges, lawyers and officials} the law and procedurc of the fifteenth and sixteenth century are discussed in the light of the contemporary theatre. The reviewer i8 Izot qualified to pass judgnlent on the literary asl)ects of this study, but he has obtained much interesting and useful inforulatioll on the stalie of thc law in Franco between 1450 and 1560, even if he cannot always agree with the autbor7s interpretatiol} of the legal questions raised in the plAy8. As the Frsnch logal sysim of thc iXenth century was still closely related to its counterpart on the other side of tho channels common lawyere and civilians alike will derive much pleasure frolll the study of this well written book. One would like to see more works of thLs kind.

K. L.

Brief liffe. By CECIL XVHITELEY, K.C., D.L., The Common Serjeant. London: Macmillan & Co., ljtd. 1942. xiiiand218 pp. (lOs. 6d. net.)

This is a collection of r&ndom reIllilliecenecs of one who practised at the Crimina Bar for thirty yeare, and administerod the criminal law as Recorder, Chairlnall of Quarter Se8Sions and as a Judge at the O}d Bailey. 'lthe chapters are a mised beg, licensing justices, sensational cases, storics in court, clubs, advocacy, capital punishment, etc.nlivened with personal anecdotes. In Tril by Jury he considers whether juries could not IIOW be dispensed with exeept in trea60n and murder, gnd illustrates classes of eases wherc they do not ' a true verdiet give aecording to the evidenee.' In Chapter XIV he favours the stipendiary ovor thc lay magistraX gnd eoncludes that elerks of the justiees should bo whole time appoint- mentss while the ehairman of the bench should be well qualified. The ehapters on Probationfi Borstal, Corporal Punishment and Sentenee are valuable to every magistrate. At p. 195 he sets out the prosrisioas for a short statuto s making it impossible to commit bigamy.8

The book is full of interest for laymzn and lawyer, and has colxstructive suggestions for improving the adlllinistration of crimmal law.

T. E. L.

The Conveyancers Year Book, 1942. BY SIR LANCELOT lI. 13LPHINSrONE, of Limcoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Vol. III. London: The Solicitors' Law Statiollery Society, Ltd. 1942. xxviii and 312 pp. (25s. net.)

This iB a digest of the cases, statutes, orders and regulations for the year 1941. Under some seventy main headmgs they are conveniently arranged in alphabetical order from Agents to Wi11B. References are giver} for noting up in the appropriato pages of the standard text-books and books of precedents. There are also references to articles and notes m ths Law Quarterly Review, Solicitoref Journul, Ratinf and I7zeome Tax, lgw Society's (7azeUe, Law Revuion Conzmittee Report and the Cambridye Law Journal. The summaries of cases and statutes, and thc notes and comments thereon, are extremely well done-some of the long statutes gre brilliant models of colnpression and clarity. We note an unfortunato 81ip at p. 169 in stating the effect of Portman v. Roakilt & Soaw [19413 1 All 1g. R. 226. There is a comprehensive cumulative iIldex to the three volumes. For keeping up to date in the wide fielde of Conveyancing there i8 no better lsook.

T. :13. iL.

judges and legal practitioners in the seignorial and ecclesiastical courts, as comparad with the high standards maintained in tho royal courts. The pO8itiOIl Oi judges, lawyers and officials} the law and procedurc of the fifteenth and sixteenth century are discussed in the light of the contemporary theatre. The reviewer i8 Izot qualified to pass judgnlent on the literary asl)ects of this study, but he has obtained much interesting and useful inforulatioll on the stalie of thc law in Franco between 1450 and 1560, even if he cannot always agree with the autbor7s interpretatiol} of the legal questions raised in the plAy8. As the Frsnch logal sysim of thc iXenth century was still closely related to its counterpart on the other side of tho channels common lawyere and civilians alike will derive much pleasure frolll the study of this well written book. One would like to see more works of thLs kind.

K. L.

Brief liffe. By CECIL XVHITELEY, K.C., D.L., The Common Serjeant. London: Macmillan & Co., ljtd. 1942. xiiiand218 pp. (lOs. 6d. net.)

This is a collection of r&ndom reIllilliecenecs of one who practised at the Crimina Bar for thirty yeare, and administerod the criminal law as Recorder, Chairlnall of Quarter Se8Sions and as a Judge at the O}d Bailey. 'lthe chapters are a mised beg, licensing justices, sensational cases, storics in court, clubs, advocacy, capital punishment, etc.nlivened with personal anecdotes. In Tril by Jury he considers whether juries could not IIOW be dispensed with exeept in trea60n and murder, gnd illustrates classes of eases wherc they do not ' a true verdiet give aecording to the evidenee.' In Chapter XIV he favours the stipendiary ovor thc lay magistraX gnd eoncludes that elerks of the justiees should bo whole time appoint- mentss while the ehairman of the bench should be well qualified. The ehapters on Probationfi Borstal, Corporal Punishment and Sentenee are valuable to every magistrate. At p. 195 he sets out the prosrisioas for a short statuto s making it impossible to commit bigamy.8

The book is full of interest for laymzn and lawyer, and has colxstructive suggestions for improving the adlllinistration of crimmal law.

T. E. L.

The Conveyancers Year Book, 1942. BY SIR LANCELOT lI. 13LPHINSrONE, of Limcoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Vol. III. London: The Solicitors' Law Statiollery Society, Ltd. 1942. xxviii and 312 pp. (25s. net.)

This iB a digest of the cases, statutes, orders and regulations for the year 1941. Under some seventy main headmgs they are conveniently arranged in alphabetical order from Agents to Wi11B. References are giver} for noting up in the appropriato pages of the standard text-books and books of precedents. There are also references to articles and notes m ths Law Quarterly Review, Solicitoref Journul, Ratinf and I7zeome Tax, lgw Society's (7azeUe, Law Revuion Conzmittee Report and the Cambridye Law Journal. The summaries of cases and statutes, and thc notes and comments thereon, are extremely well done-some of the long statutes gre brilliant models of colnpression and clarity. We note an unfortunato 81ip at p. 169 in stating the effect of Portman v. Roakilt & Soaw [19413 1 All 1g. R. 226. There is a comprehensive cumulative iIldex to the three volumes. For keeping up to date in the wide fielde of Conveyancing there i8 no better lsook.

T. :13. iL.

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