Book Review: Constitutional Law
| Published date | 01 June 1965 |
| Author | R. Else-Mitchell |
| Date | 01 June 1965 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0067205X6500100217 |
| Subject Matter | Book Reviews |
JUNE
1965] Book Reviews 365
considered in Ex-Rajah
of
Coorg (Veer Rajundur Wadeer)
v.
The East
India
Company10
which
is
also reported
in
the section on
'Protected
States '. The remainder
of
the cases reported concerning the East
India Company's depradations in Asia are
not
strictly cases
on
protectorates.
Part
B,
perhaps with this sort
of
difficulty in mind, in asecond section
deals with
'Protectorates'.
This division between
'Protected
States'
and
'Protectorates'
is
not
at
all clear. The terms
'protecting'
and
,
protected'
States are adopted by Lauterpacht to distinguish the two
parts
of
the relationship and
not
as separate notions. But even in the
second
section-'
Protectorates
'-Mighell
v.
Sultan
of
Johore
11
and
Duff
Development
Co.
v.
Kelantan,12
which
at
least purport to deal with
Protectorates, are ignored.
The other division in this second part
of
Volume 1comprises two
cases on mandates.
It
is
not clear whether this concludes the cases on
,Composite and Dependent States '.
If
it
does, British cases on vassal
states, for example, Stathan
v.
Stathan and the Gaekwar
of
Baroda,13
may find aplace elsewhere-although this would be the obvious place.
Generally then, while issue might be joined on the selection
of
cases
and their catagorising, the cumulative index as the series progresses
may make it not too difficult to find cases even
if
it may
not
help supply
all the British cases on any given topic. The index in this first volume
does little more than list the cases under general topics and
is
far from
comprehensive.
The practical advantages
of
this series should not be underestimated.
The type
is
much more readable than that in most
of
the report
it
extracts;
the book
is
well bound and each volume,
if
the first is typical, has been
kept to areasonably manageable size.
D.
O'CONNOR*
Constitutional Law, by J. D.
B.
MITCHELL,
LL.B.,
PH.D.
(London), Profes-
sor
of
Constitutional Law in the University
of
Edinburgh, (W. Green
&Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1964), pp. i-xxxv,
1-293.
Australian Price
£4
lIs.
6d.
This book
is
written primarily as an exposition
of
constitutional law
from the viewpoint
of
the Scots lawyer and as one
of
aseries
of
treatises
restating the main branches
of
the law
of
Scotland for the practitioner
and the advanced scholar.
It
must be said
at
once that this work does
these things very well and with acommendable comprehensiveness
of
reference and documentation, but to the student
or
lawyer who has been
10
(1860)
29
Beav. 300,
54
E.R.
642.
11 [1894] 1Q.B.
149.
12
[1924] A.C. 797.
13
[19121
P. 92.
*B.A., LL.B. (Syd.), LL.M. (Lond.), Barrister-at-Law (N.S.W.); Senior Lecturer
in Law, School
of
General Studies, Australian National University.
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