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ISSN: 0008-1973

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Volume 7 - March 1939

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Inducement to break a contract—Dispute between owner and tenants—Persuasion by defendants (tenants) of other tenants not to pay their rents to owner—Held, this was not a ‘common interest’ which justified defendants

Criminal Law—Demanding Money with Menaces with Intent to Steal the Same—“Steal”—Claim of Right made in Good Faith—Claim Unfounded in Law — Conviction Quashed — Larceny Act, 1916, ss. 1 (1), 30

Tort—Nuisance—Highway—Railway Company's Liability to Repair Bridge Over Highway—Non-feasance—Cyclist Injured by Fall in Rut—Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893

Tort—Waiver of Tort—Alternative Remedies in Contract and Tort — Action on Contract Against One Defendant Discontinued — Possibility of Fresh Action in Tort Against Another Defendant

Criminal Law—Evidence—False Pretences—System—Money Obtained on Earlier Occasion by Different Pretence—Evidence or Earlier Transaction Held Inadmissible

Tort—Inducement to break a contract—Honest, but stupid and mistaken belief of defendant that his inducement was lawful held to be a defence

Mortgage—Principal to be Repaid by Instalments Over Period of Forty Years and Redemption Permissible Only at End of that Period—Held, Neither a Clog on the Equity nor an Infringement of the Rule Against Perpetuities

Book Reviews

Legal Essays and Addresses. By the Right Hon. Lord Wright of Durley. 1939. Cambridge University Press. xxxv and 442 pp. (15s. net.)

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—master and servant—negligence of master owing to breach of statutory duty in not adequately fencing dangerous machinery—servant's contributory negligence held dominant cause of accident

Tort—Negligence—Damages—Personal injuries—Loss of expectation of life—Mode of assessment

Personal Property—Bees are Animals Ferae Naturae Until Hived—Owner has no Right to Enter Another's Land in Pursuit of them Although they Remain his Property while in his Sight and Pursued by him

Book Reviews

Parliament. By W. Ivor Jennings, M.A., LLD., Reader in English Law in the University of London; of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-law. Cambridge: The University Press. 1939. xiii and 584 pp. (25s. net.)

Notes on Recent Cases

Real Property—Restrictive Covenant—Expressed to Benefit Unsold Part or Parts of Estate—Beneficial to Small Portion Only—Enforceability

Tort—Nuisance created by trespasser on owner's land—Knowledge of nuisance imputed to owner through servant—Owner held liable for continuing nuisance

Book Reviews

The Law of Trusts. By Austin Wakeman Scott, Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University, and Reporter on Trusts for the American Law Institute. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1939. Four Volumes: xlv and 2981 pp. ($35.)

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Waiver of tort—Alternative remedies in contract and tort—Action on contract or quasi—contract against one defendant discontinued—Subsequent action in tort against another defendant held maintainable

Tort—Contributory Negligence—Collision Between Two Ships Each Guilty of Negligence—Negligence Held to be Simultaneous—Hence Doctrine of Last Clear Chance did not Apply—Damages Apportioned to Both

Book Reviews

Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws. By A. H. Robertson, B.C.L., S.J.D., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Harvard University Press. 1940. xxix and 301 pp. (20s.)

Notes on Recent Cases

Tort—Landlord's Liability to Tenant for Tree Projecting from Landlord's Property

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Volume 7 - March 1939

Notes on Recent Cases

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