SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., LL.D., CORPUS PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. LIBRARY NEW YORK LAW INSTITU 3 DOW-1 MERIVALE-1 MADDOCK (to p. 208)-2 (from p. 231) & 3 (to p. 328) MAULE & SELWYN-3 TAUNTON (from p. 301) -1 MARSHALL-1 PRICE (to p. 216)-4 CAMPBELL (to p. - LONDON: SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE. BOSTON : LITTLE, BROWN & CO. 1894. In this volume we have from Merivale's reports Bootle v. Blundell (p. 93), a leading case on administration, and the cases grouped under Devaynes v. Noble (p. 151), which are no less classical in their special department. Allen v. Anthony (p. 113), warns purchasers that our whole system of tenure and title is founded on possession, and a purchaser omits at his peril to satisfy himself that possession and title wholly agree. In the King's Bench Foster v. Stewart (p. 459) illustrates the doctrine of "waiver of tort," a subtilty of the law nowadays mostly dormant; but an unwary practitioner may any day find to his cost that it is not quite dead. Chamberlain v. Williamson (p. 295), establishes the peculiar and quasi-tortious character of the action for breach of promise of marriage. At p. 415 we read how "De Berenger and seven others" were indicted for a conspiracy to raise the price |