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forms of public enterprises and emphasis is laid
on the public corporation proper.
It need hardly be said, that, from the stand
point of comparative law, this is an essential book
for practitioners who wish to compare the various
types of public corporations in different countries.
c.o.D.
E. F. George and A. George,
The Sale of Flats.
Third edition; pp. 344 (London, Sweet & Max
well, 1970; £3-10-0).
It is only within the last year that the practices
of sale of flats has commenced in Dublin ana
practitioners who find themselves involved in thi*
new procedure will be pleased to learn that a new
edition of the standard work on the subject has
just been published. The third edition naturally
deals with the problems which have become ap
parent in this area of conveyancing since the
second edition and the very valuable precedents
which occupy over 130 pages of the book have
been brought up to date in an endeavour to coun
ter the difficulties which have arisen in practice.
Recent legislation which has impinged on this
area of practice in England include the Leasehold
Enfranchisement Act and the authors are fortu
nate to be able to state that a lessee has no power
to enlarge his interest into a fee simple. It is not
at all so clear that a lessee of a flat in Ireland
would not have trie right to enlarge his interest
into a fee simple though the complications which
this would cause could be enormous. Apart from
this it would be a death blow to the academic
theory of the fee simple extending as far as the sky
if one can have horizontally stratified floating fee
simples.
There is no doubt but that this work will prove
Xo be essential to any practitioner working in this
field.
J.F.B.
H. Treitel,
The Law of Contract. Third edition;
8vo; pp. liii + 884 (London, Stevens, 1970; paper
back; £2-10-0).
Dr. Treitel, All Souls Reader in English Law in
Oxford, had already established himself as an
authority in the Law of Contract, ever since the
publication of the first edition in 1962. The fact
that this learned work has been so thoroughly
revised as to merit three editions in eight years
speaks for itself. Although it appears that seventy
pages of the former text have been cut, there
are still 170 more pages in this edition, in which a
wealth of erudition and industry have been dis
played, and an exceptionally difficult
task of
revision has been magnificently achieved. This
great work, which gives a clear description of
recent case law, has been my favourite work on the
law of contracts ever since 1962. Very highly
recommended.
G.G.D.
George Stephen Wilkinson,
Road Traffic Offences.
Sixth edition; 8vo; pp. lxxviii + 655; Supplement
to the sixth edition by P. I. Hainan; 8vo; PP. 59
(London, Oyez Publications, 1970; £6-10-0).
Mr. Wilkinson's work on
Road Traffic Offence:
has become an established masterpiece on this
complicated subject. The amount of work put in
to the different editions can be gauged by the fact
that the second edition (1956) contained only 256
pages, the fourth edition (1963) 428 pages, and
che present edition (1970) 655 pages. The number
of pages in the index has increased from 21
in
1956 to 28 in 1970. The learned author died in
October 1969 and the publishers wisely decided to
leave the work as he had left it. Mr. Hainan'?
supplement brings the work up to 1 May 1970.
The section dealing with "Driving under
the
Influence of Drink" has been extended from 21
pages in the fourth edition to no less than 60 pages
in this edition; as usual, apart from the customary
English decisions, all relevant Irish and Common
wealth decisions
to 1965 have been carefully
noted. The chapter on "Penalties, Endorsement
and Disqualification" has been extended from 28
pages in the fourth edition to 60 pages in the
current edition. This will show the care with which
the learned author undertook to bring his work
up to date. It is unfortunate that the more recent
English legislation has tended to stress the differ
ences between it and Irish law. Nevertheless the
practitioner who has to defend the drunken, dan
gerous or careless driver will find this work invalu
able, particularly when the Irish Road Traffic Act,
1968, is in full force.
Rowland G. Witchell,
Practice and Procedure.
Third edition; pp. xv + 374 (London, Oyez Publi
cations, 1970; £2-10-0).
This volume is intended primarily for students
af
the Institute of Legal Executives in England.
Most of its contents, in relation to contentious
matters, have little relevance in Ireland because
of different rules of procedure in our Criminal
uid Civil Courts. Irish practitioners and studeru.
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