LAW REVIEW

VOLUME XXXVIII

1924-1925

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW ASSOCIATION

1925

Copyright, 1924, 1925

BY THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW ASSOCIATION

Printed in U.S.A.

THE PLIMPTON PRESS

NORWOOD MASSU.S.A

TABLE OF LEADING ARTICLES

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ACTIONS AT LAW IN THE FEDERAL COURTS. Austin W. Scott
ADMINISTRATIVE FINALITY. Samuel C. Wiel.
AMENDMENT OF THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Manley O.
Hudson.

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447

903

BUSINESS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE
IN THE FEDERAL JUDICIAL SYSTEM. Felix Frankfurter and
Landis

A STUDY
James M.

I. THE PERIOD PRIOR TO THE CIVIL WAR.
CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS ON COMPULSORY INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.
Sidney Post Simpson

1005

753

CUSTOM AND THE COMMON LAW IN KENT. N. Neilson

482

ELEMENT OF INTENT IN SURRENDER BY OPERATION OF LAW, THE. Clarence
Milton Updegraff . .

64

EXCEPTION AND RESERVATION OF EASEMENTS. Harry A. Bigelow and J. W.
Madden

FEDERAL CRIMINAL LAWS AND THE STATE COURTS. Charles Warren
FEDERAL TAXES AND PREFERRED SHIP MORTGAGES. H. Maurice Fridlund
FUNCTIONS OF COURTS AND COMMISSIONS IN PUBLIC UTILITY RATE REGUDA-
TION, THE.
Ray A. Brown .

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HILLMON CASE, THE-THIRTY-THREE YEARS AFTER. John MacArthur
Maguire

HUSBAND'S RIGHT TO WIFE'S SERVICES. Joseph Warren

180

545

1060

141

709

421, 622

IS THE CRIME OF PIRACY OBSOLETE? Edwin D. Dickinson
JUDICIAL DETERMINATION OF QUESTIONS OF FACT AFFECTING THE CON-
STITUTIONAL VALIDITY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTION. Henry Wolf Biklé . .
JURISDICTIONAL AMOUNT IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Armistead
M. Dobie

334

733

296

POLITICAL QUESTIONS. Melville Fuller Weston

POWER OF A PUBLIC UTILITY TO FIX ITS RATES AND CHARGES IN THE Absence
OF REGULATORY LEGISLATION, THE. William E. McCurdy
PRIVATE CLAIMS AGAINST FOREIGN SOVEREIGNS.
PROGRESS OF THE LAW, 1923-1924: TAXATION.
PROMOTER, THE: A LEGISLATIVE PROBLEM. Nathan Isaacs

RELATION OF COMMON CARRIER OF GOODS AND SHIPPER, AND ITS INCIDENTS
OF LIABILITY, THE. George Jarvis Thompson

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RIGHTS OF HOLDER OF BILL OF EXCHANGE AGAINST THE DRAWEE. Ralph W.
Aigler ..

857

STATUS IN COMMON LAW. Richard F. Cleveland

1074

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ABBOTT: Immigration.

BOOK REVIEWS

(Ernst Freund.)

ALVAREZ: The Monroe Doctrine: Its Importance in the International Life
of the States of the New World. (C. G. Fenwick.) .
ANSON: The Law and Custom of the Constitution. (Eugene Wambaugh.)
BECK: The Constitution of the United States, Yesterday, Today - and
Tomorrow? (Eugene Wambaugh.) . .

BLACK: Handbook of the Law and Practice in Bankruptcy.
Williston.) . .

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274

853

271

1126

(Samuel

276

BLAKE: The Architect's Law Manual. (William Stanley Parker.)
BLAKEMORE: National Prohibition. (Essex S. Abbott.)
BOGERT. Uniform Laws Annotated:

416

1129

Commentaries on Conditional Sales.

(Samuel Williston.) . .

1134

BOLLAND: Chief Justice Sir William Bereford. (Theodore F. T. Plucknett.)
BORCHARD: Government Liability in Tort. (J. M. M.)

138

995

BOWER: A Code of the Law of Actionable Defamation.

(Herbert F.

Goodrich.) . . .

137

CHAFEE: Cases on Equitable Relief Against Torts. (H. D. Hazeltine.)
Cook: The Principles of Corporation Law.

COOKE: Public Utility Regulation. (Gerard C. Henderson.)

537

COOLEY: The Law of Taxation. (J. H. Beale.)

417

DOWNEY: Workmen's Compensation. (Reginald Heber Smith.)
FENWICK: International Law. (Edwin D. Dickinson.) . . .

FRANKFURTER: Supplement to Cases under the Interstate Commerce Act.

851

1001

(Kenneth F. Burgess.)

856

HENDERSON: The Federal Trade Commission. (George Rublee.)
HOAG AND WILLIAMS: Crime, Abnormal Minds, and the Law.
M. Marston.)

HOLDSWORTH: A History of English Law. (Theodore F. T. Plucknett.)
HOLMES: Federal Income Tax. (Hugh Satterlee.)

698

855

JAMES: Richard Olney and His Public Service. (Eugene Wambaugh.)
JENKS AND SMITH: We and Our Government.

Legislative Series. (International Labour Office.) (John B. Andrews.)
LEWIS: Law of Leases. (Joseph Warren.)

701

419

LORENZEN: Cases on the Conflict of Laws, Selected from Decisions of Eng

lish and American Courts. (Nathan Isaacs.)

125

MCILWAIN: The American Revolution. (C. H. A. Armstrong.)
MOOKERJEE: The Law of Benami. (Austin W. Scott.)

130

279

MOORE: International Law and Some Current Illusions, and Other Essays.

POST: The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen Twenty. (Charles P.
Howland.).

135

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POUND: Law and Morals. (Morris R. Cohen.)

1123

RANKIN: The Dominion of Sea and Air. (Edward A. Harriman.).
RYAN: Usury and Usury Laws. (Nathan Isaacs.)

997

993

Selected Essays on the Law of Torts. (Walter Wheeler Cook.)
SLESSER AND HENDERSON: Industrial Law. (F. B. S.)

273

707

and Chattels Real. (Z. C., Jr.)

SUTHERLAND: Criminology. (Sam B. Warner.)

THOMPSON: Federal Centralization. (Eugene Wambaugh.)
THORNELEY: The History of a Transition.

WEHDE AND BEFFEL: Finger-Prints can be Forged. (Albert S. Osborn.)
WILLIAMS: A Treatise on the Law of Vendor and Purchaser of Real Estate

WILLISTON: Sales of Goods. (George G. Bogert.)

541

1126

(E. R. James.)

131

409

133

534

WILLOUGHBY: The Fundamental Concepts of Public Law. (Charles F.

Amidon.)

847

WOODRUFF: A Selection of Cases on the Law of Insurance.

WOODWARD: Cases on the Law of Sales of Goods. (William E. McCurdy.) 1131