RECENT LAW BOOKS.
English and Roman-Dutch Law : a Statement of their Differences. By G. T. Morice. (Butterworth and Co. 27s. 6d.)—We welcome a new edition of Mr. Morice's very useful compendium of the main differences between the English and the Roman- Dutch systems of law. Since the latter system prevails in several important Colonies, such a work will be of value not only to the lawyer practising beforo the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, but to the ordinary citizen who may have business relations overseas. The author, as an English barrister and an ex-Judge of the High Court of the late South African Republic, is admirably fitted for the task he has undertaken, and his exposition is always clear and well arranged. In this new edition all Latin maxims have been translated, and other changes have been effected in the direction of making it a manual for practical use.—In the same connec- tion we would note The Civil Practice of the Magistrates' Courts in the Transvaal, by H. 0. Buckle (African Book Company, Grahamstown, 21s.),—a kind of minor " White-book" for the new Colony. The Courts were only constituted under the Proclamation of 1902, and in consequence the practice is still fairly simple, but the present work will be a useful guide to the Transvaal Bar. —The subject of the treatise on The Law of Heavy and Light Mechanical Traction on Highways in the United Kingdom, by C. A. Montague Barlow and W. Joynson Hicks (I, Pitman and Sons, 8s. 6d. net), is also a recent one, dating only from the Locomotives Act of 1861. All the statutes are printed and fully annotated; all the decided cases on the law of extraordinary traffic are summarised ; while a long appendix contains the. Local Government Board Orders. So far as we have examined it, the work seams to be admirably done, and its subject is one of such vast practical importance as to make an authorita- tive handbook highly desirable.
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