A MANUAL OF ROMAN PRIVATE LAW. By W. W. Buck-
' land. (Cambridge University Press. les. net.) SnycE. Professor Buckland published his masterly Teit Book of Roman Laze, we have always hoped that he would produce a manual for students commencing the subject. Now that he bag done so, we need only commend the book as by far the best of its kind. It is well arranged, it is lucid, it embodies much resent research and pertinent historical references, and it is uncommonly well written, with a special view to the English lawyer's needs. We may perhaps call attention to the sections on " Mandate," now that that Roman legal doctrine has become of international importanCe under' the Coienant of the League of Nations. The treatment of obligations is specially clear and sound ; no part of Roman law is more difficult than this, partly because, as the author says, the Roman jurists were by no means strictly logical in their analysis of rights and liabilities.
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