Books and Publications Received
| Date | 01 September 1957 |
| Published date | 01 September 1957 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1957.tb02717.x |
SEPT.
1967
REVIEWS
547
Introduction to Roman-Dutch Law
might it not be preferable to expand the
introductions of both these textbooks
so
as to incorporate the additional matter
to be found in the
Conspectus?
In his
Elements
of
Roman Law
this would
only amount to the addition of some dozen
or
so
pages taken chiefly from
Part
I1
of the
Conspectus;
in the
Introduction to Roman-Dutch Law
space
might be found to embody
in toto
the history of Roman law contained in
Part
I.
This suggestion, if adopted, would make students
of
Roman-Dutch law
more conscious of its ancient roots, while students of Roman law would be
encouraged to look forward beyond Justinian to the modern civil law.
The author’s
Elements
of
Roman Law
is now
a
well-established favourite
with both students and teachers. If
a
knowledge of Latin is no longer
required in many Faculties of Law, then this textbook does
at
least have the
merit of forcing the attention of the student to Justinian’s
ipsissima verba
in
translation.
As
might be expected, the new edition makes little change in the
content of the third edition. The change is rather one of presentation.
Passages which the author considers of less importance are printed in a more
densely set type. On perusal of the book very little of the text will be found
to have suffered this
capitis deminutio.
Yet in a book which is already
stripped of trimmings this encouragement to the student to skip is surely to
be deprecated
:
he will hardly be encouraged to read between the lines when
he sees the intervals between them diminished to vanishing point. Subject to
this criticism and to the suggestion made above for embodying matter from the
Conspectus,
the new edition is to be welcomed on several counts: it is well
produced and reasonably priced; the type-face is smaller and more attractive
than in the third edition and the general lay-out much improved; finally, it is
heartening to see
a
book on Roman law reach
a
fourth edition.
L.
NEVILLE
BROWN.
Books
and Publications Received
GRUNDSATZE
DES
ENGLISCHEN
ZIVILRECJSTS.
By
DR. RAINER
JAECKLE.
[Verlag Franz Muller-Rodenberger. Frankfurt a. M.
1957.
39
pp.]
THE
CONTINUING
CHALLENGE
OF
THE
HUNGARIAN
SITUATION
TO
THE
RULE
OF
LAW. Supplement to the Report of the International
Commission of Jurists published in April, 1957. [47 Buitenhof,
The Hague, Netherlands. June,
1957.
33
pp.]
CIVIL
LIBERTIES DOCKET. Vol.
11,
Nos.
3
and
4.
[National
Lawyers Guild,
40
Exchange Place, New York
5,
N.Y. 1957.1
COMPILATION
OF
THE
LEGAL
PROVISIONS,
REGULATIONS,
CIRCULARS
AND
FORMS
RELATING
TO
DOUBLE TAXATION RELIEF
IN
THE
UNITED KINGDOM
OF
GREAT BRITAIN
AND
NORTHERN
IRELAND.
Edited and introduced with Illustrations by
F.
E. KOCH and
RICHARD Moss. [Amsterdam
:
Publications of the Interna-
tional Bureau of Fiscal Documentation,
No.
10,
Herengracht
196.
February, 1957.
164
pp. 17s.l
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
OF
PLANNING,
COMPULSORY
PURCHASE
AND
COM-
PENSATION.
Vol.
I,
Revisions
28
and
29;
Vol.
11,
Revisions
27
and
28.
WHERE
TO
LOOK
FOR
YOUR LAW. Twelfth Edition. [London:
Sweet
&
Maxwell, Ltd. 1957.
190
pp. Ordinary Copy
7s.
6d.,
Interleaved Copy 15s. net.]
[London: Sweet
&
Maxwell, Ltd.]
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