AMERICAN LAW WORKS.—continued. WHARTON'S CRIMINAL LAW. Seventh and Revised Edition. Three vols., royal 8vo. 1874. Vol. I. PRINCIPLES, PLEADING, and EVIDENCE. Vol. II. CRIMES. Vol. III. PRACTICE. Price £5, cloth. By A TREATISE ON THE CRIMINAL LAW OF THE UNITED STATES. FRANCIS WHARTON, LL.D., Author of "Conflict of Laws," "Precedents of Indictments and Pleas," "Medical Jurisprudence," "Law of Homicides," &c. The third volume of this edition is substantially new, and comprehends an independent treatise on Criminal Practice. The chapters on Crimes, which in prior editions were spread over the second and third volumes, are now consolidated in the second. The whole work has been thoroughly revised and re-written, and upwards of six hundred pages of additional matter incorporated in the text. To enable this extension to be more readily mastered, the topics have been re-arranged, devoting the first volume to Principles, Pleading, and Evidence; the second to Crimes; and the third to Practice. Recent investigations having shown that the chief maxims and definitions of the English Criminal Law have been largely derived from the Roman and Canon Law, has led to the introduction in this edition of a new feature-the references to the early jurists laying down and illustrating these maxims and definitions, as well as to such points in the dissertations of the more modern jurists as may be consulted with advantage. In making frequent references to these authorities there has been no relaxation of the vigilant scrutiny and careful analysis due to the adjudications of the Anglo-American Courts. So far from this being the case, there is not a citation in the former texts which has not for this edition been verified, and, as far as known, there is not a single intermediate reported English or American criminal decision that has not been scrutinized and introduced. Nor is this all. The student will see by comparison that the text has been so subdivided that each point is now presented in its own separate analytical place. That the labour thus applied is made only the more fruitful by the introduction of cognate foreign jurisprudences, will be conceded by all who will examine the sections devoted to Presumptions, to Casual Connection, to Estoppel by Consent, to Omissions, to Conflict of Jurisdictions, to Conspiracy, and to Attempts. The treatise now covers the whole field of Criminal Jurisprudence, and is commended with confidence to those engaged in the application of our criminal law, whether as practitioners or judges. Third Edition, 1873, two volumes in three, price 57. 15s. 6d., law calf, The first volume containing a Treatise on Mental Unsoundness, embracing a general view of Psychological Law, by FRANCIS WHARTON, LL.D. The second in two parts, embracing the topics of Foetus and New Born Child, and Difference of Sex, by SAMUEL ASHHURST, M.D., of Philadelphia; Poisons, by ROBERT AMORY, M.D., of Brookline, Mass.; Wounds and Signs of Death, by WHARTON SINKLER, M.D., of Philadelphia; Psychological and Legal Notes, by FRANCIS WHARTON, LL.D. "So far as we can judge, the work constitutes a most complete and valuable encyclopædia of medical jurisprudence."-Solicitors' Journal. In royal 8vo., 1872, price 36s., cloth, CONFLICT OF LAWS; OR, PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW. Including a Comparative View of Anglo-American, Roman, German, and WHITING (W.). WAR POWERS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. With an Appendix of Cases. 8vo. 1871. 21s. cloth. WOTHERSPOON'S MANUAL OF THE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE IN THE SEVERAL COURTS HAVING CIVIL JURISDICTION IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 12mo. 1870. 12s. 6d. Any Foreign Works not in stock can be supplied (if in print) in a few weeks from date of order. THE LAW OF CORPORATIONS. Just Published, in 8vo., price 215., cloth, A TREATISE ON THE DOCTRINE OF ULTRA VIRES: BEING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PRINCIPLES WHICH LIMIT OF CORPORATIONS, AND MORE ESPECIALLY OF JOINT STOCK COMPANIES. BY SEWARD BRICE, M.A., LL.D., LONDON, "The book is a useful compilation. The third chapter deals with business which a trading corporation may transact, and, although, as we have said, our author goes backwards from ultra vires to intra vires instead of tracing upwards the powers of corporations, he is clear in his treatment of the cases, and his chapter on 'dealing in shares' is very well written. And, again, the first chapter of Part III., on the user of special powers and privileges' is decidedly good, and must prove extremely useful."-Law Times. "Mr. Brice, as might have been anticipated, has found the doctrine of ultra vires a very slender thread on which to hang his book; and he has wisely abandoned it in the arrangement of his chapters, which follow one another on the basis of the law of corporations, special prominence being given to the effect of the doctrine of ultra vires on those legal entities. When the reader has once got over the prejudice produced by Mr. Brice's strange enmity with his subject, he will find him a guide of very great value. Much information on a difficult and unattractive subject has been collected and arranged in a manner which will be of great assistance to the seeker after the law on a point involving the powers of a company."-Law Journal. "This important work is dedicated to Sir George Jessel, the Master of the Rolls, by permission, and constitutes a treatise on the principles which limit the capacities, powers, and liabilities of corporations, and more especially of joint-stock companies. The doctrine of ultra vires is a branch of jointstock law which is altogether of modern origin. There can be no doubt, with the growing importance of joint-stock law, this book must widely recommend itself from its careful and exhaustive treatment of the subject with which it deals.”The Bullionist. "The work is divided into four parts, with various chapters, covering everything in relation to corporations from their creation to their dissolution. The tables of cases and of the statutes adduced occupy twenty-five pages, in alphabetical order, and the index takes over forty more. It is an exceedingly valuable work at this time when the rights and powers ef corporations are matters of so much interest in the United States, as well as in Great Britain, and its manifold cases furnish as interesting reading to the business man generally as to the lawyer or justice. Ultra Vires,-literally in law, beyond strength,-the practice of corporations going beyond their powers, their legal rights and limitations, their contracts and their agreements, their credit and their capital, is a subject which almost every man in the community has a direct or indirect interest in and is affected by."-Boston (U.S.) Journal of Commerce. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. |