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MACOMBER'S FIXED LAW OF PATENTS "The Fixed Law of Patents, as Established by the Supreme Court of the United States and the Nine Circuit Courts of Appeals." By William Macomber. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Pp. cxxxix, 907 + index 17. ($7.50 mrt.)
AN encyclopedic
digest
patents, dealt with
of in
a
the law of systematic,
clear and comprehensive manner, is the more valuable in this case because the law is stated wherever possible by direct quotation of the language of the courts. Mr. Macomber pre pared this work primarily for his own use because he did not consider reports and di gests adequate, and because he preferred the law in its own language to inadequate syl labi and digests. He therefore resorted to the method of quotation. He has confined the treatise strictly to the settled law, and
when the question is not settled he does not discuss it or include any rule stated on the authority purely of a court of original juris diction. This work will therefore have some permanent value, because it does not deal with the sort of law which can be overruled at any time by courts of last resort, and pa tent lawyers will doubtless appreciate the utility of a treatise designed upon this plan. The book, however, is written first of all for the general practitioner, and it treats with fullness such subjects as "Licenses," “Con tracts," and "Employer and Employee." The typographical arrangement is clear and attractive.
FROST ON NEW YORK BUSINESS CORPORATIONS A Treatise on the Business Corporation Law of the State of New York. By Thomas Gold Frost, LL.D., PhD., of the New York City Bar. Matthew Bender & Co., Albany. Pp. xviii, 796 + forms and
precedents 272+index 29.
(86.30 delivered.)
WORK which abounds in useful in formation and which covers the en tire subject in an effective manner is the new work of Thomas Gold Frost on New York Corporations. The volume is in three parts. The first consists of between four and five hundred closely printed pages of text treating of the law of corporations upon a plan devised with reference to the new consolidated laws. Mr. Frost is the author of "Incorporation and Organization of Corporations" and "Guar antee Insurance," and has been an active
practitioner at the New York City bar for many years. Having had much experience
in corporation practice he is well equipped to write a comprehensive and practical as well as authoritative text—book. The second part comprises the rather bulky text of the statutes which go to make up the New York corporation law, and the third part contains a complete set of forms and precedents, which are collected upon an elaborate plan and are most practical. The carefully prepared index adds to the value of an important work.
MORINE'S MINING
LAW OF CANADA
The Mining Law of Canada. By Alfred B. Mo fine. K. C., LL.B., of the Bar of Nova Scotia, New foundland and Ontario. Canada Law Book Co., Toronto; Cromarty Law Book Co., Philadelphia Pp. xxxvii, 349, + statutes 314+ glossary and index 37. ($7.50.)
THE mining law of Canada has been somewhat changed of late years by the adoption of amendment of statutes and by new decisions, and Mr. Morine, in making the first attempt in ten years to set forth the common and statute mining law of Canada, is able to present much new material, as he attempts to bring the law of all the prov inces down to date, and his treatise is marked by voluminous notes and care in collecting new material. The statutes of the Dominion and the provinces relating to mining are set forth in an appendix, and the author in the text digests these statutes. The book is written with the idea of being of some use to the general practitioner. There is an un usually complete index. BRIEF-MAKING AND THE USE OF AUTHORITIES Brief-Making and the Use of Law Books. By William M. Lile, Henry S. Redfield, Eugene Wam baugh, Edson R. Sunderland, Alfred F. Mason and Roger W. Cooley. Edited by Roger W. Cooley. 2d ed. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn. Pp. xii, 302 + appendices (2) 255 and index 14. ($2.50.)
HIS work is designed not merely for law students, as the title might sug gest. Many lawyers are lacking in expe rience in brief-making and in the use of im portant tools of their profession. The aver age law graduate is ignorant of brief-making. A work like this, therefore, will be found to contain some helpful suggestions with regard to “Where to Find the Law," “How to Use Decisions and Statutes," “How to Find the Law," "The Trial Brief," and “The Brief on
