Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation : April, 1909.
(John Murray. Os. not.)—Thore are many valuable and interesting papers in this number, the latest publication of a Society which sets before itself a most desirable object. Tho ideal of a world governed by one system of law is too remote to come within the region of the practical. But it is something to see what analogies and oppositions the various systems include. Nor is there any Power to whom such a study is more important than to us, so varied are the forms of jurisprudence which we have taken over. At home we find anothor form when we cross the Border ; -how many forms we find when we cross the seas it would be difficult to say. One of the latest additions, wo may remark, is the Roma!}- Dutch Law in South Africa. Professor Loo, who holds the Chair in University College, London, contributes his introductory lecture as one of the articles in this number. Dr. Pierce Holmes writes on " The Papacy and International Law," and Lord Justice Kennedy on "Some Points in the Law of Blockade." In the notes we see a suggestion that we might adopt the plan suggested in recent German financo, that the State should receive tlio property of intestates when the next-of-kin was beyond a oortain degree of relationship. This would not bring in much to the Exchequer, but it would enable the Crown to do substantial justice in some painful cases. An intestate sometimes leaves some obvious duty undone, while his property goes to persons who have no real interest in it. The Crown might remedy this.
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