shall thereupon proceed in accordance with paragraph 8 of section XV. hereof.

(7) Where the medical referee certifies that the incapacity resulting from the injury is likely to be of a permanent nature, the Sheriff Clerk shall on application furnish the workman

(a) with a copy of the certificate of the medical referee, certified by the Sheriff Clerk to be a true copy; and

(b) with a copy of the award, memorandum, or certificate under which the weekly payment is payable, certified by the Sheriff Clerk to be a true copy; and

(c) with a certificate of identity according to Form VIII. in the Appendix hereto; and

(d) with a notice according to Form IX. in the Appendix, annexing thereto forms of certificate and declaration according to Forms X. and XI. in the Appendix;

and shall procure from the workman a specimen of his signature, and retain the same for reference.

(8) A workman who desires to have the weekly payments payable to him remitted to him while residing out of the United Kingdom, shall at intervals of three months from the date to which such payments were last made, made, submit himself to examination by a medical practitioner in the place where he is residing, and shall produce to him to him the copy of the certificate of the medical referee and the certificate of identity furnished under the immediately preceding paragraph, and shall obtain from him a certificate in terms of Form X. in the Appendix that the incapacity of the workman resulting from the injury continues; and such certificate shall be verified by declaration by the medical practitioner, in the presence of the workman, before a person having authority to administer an oath.

(9) The workman shall also make a declaration of identity according to Form XI. in the Appendix, before a person having authority to administer an oath, producing to such person the copy and certificate above-mentioned, and the certificate of the medical practitioner by whom he has been examined.

(10) The workman shall forward the certificate and declaration in the two last preceding paragraphs mentioned to the Sheriff Clerk, with a request, according to Form XII. in the Appendix, for the transmission to him of the amount of the weekly payments due to him, specifying the place where and the manner in which the amount is to be remitted, which request shall be signed by the workman in his own handwriting.

(11) On receipt of the certificate, declaration, and request, the Sheriff Clerk shall examine the same, and may, if not satisfied that the same are in order, return the same for correction.

(12) When the Sheriff Clerk is satisfied that the certificate, declaration, and request are in order, he shall send to the employer a notice according to Form XIII. in the Appendix, requesting him to forward the amount due; and the employer shall thereupon forward the amount to the Sheriff Clerk, who shall remit the same, less any fees payable to the Sheriff Clerk and the cost of transmission, to the workman, at the address and in the manner requested by him, such remittance being in all cases at the cost and risk of the workman.

XVII. The following regulations shall apply to cases to be stated by a Sheriff in virtue of the provision contained in paragraph 17 (6) of the Second Schedule appended to the Act:

(a) An application to a Sheriff to state a case on a question
of law determined by him shall be made by minute lodged
in the process within seven days after the Sheriff has issued
his award, and such minute shall set forth the question (or
questions) of law proposed as the subject matter of the case,
and shall be accompanied by a deposit of £1, which shall
be paid to the Sheriff Clerk as his fee for preparing the case.
(b) The Sheriff Clerk shall within seven days from the lodging
of such minute, accompanied as aforesaid, prepare the
case and submit the same in draft to the parties or their
agents.

(c) Should the parties or their agents fail to agree as to the
terms of the case, these shall be settled by the Sheriff,
provided always that, if the Sheriff on a draft case being
submitted to him is of opinion that any question of law
stated in it was not raised by the admissions made or the
facts proved before him, or that the application for a case
is frivolous, he may refuse to state or sign the case, but
in that event he shall grant to the applicant a certificate
specifying the cause, and bearing the date, of the refusal.
(d) The case shall be as nearly as possible in terms of Form
II. in the Appendix hereto, and shall bear to be stated by
the Sheriff and shall be signed by him.

(e) The appellant shall, within seven days after the case as
settled has been delivered to him, give written notice of his
intention to proceed with it, and of the Division to which he
proposes to submit it, to the other party or parties inter-
ested, and shall at the same time send to each of such
parties a copy of the case. He shall also within the said
seven days transmit the case by post to, or cause the same
to be lodged with, the principal clerk of the Division men-
tioned in the foresaid notice, together with a certificate
under the hand of himself or his law agent of the notice
having been given to the other parties.

(f) The regulations as to the printing of appeals from the Sheriff Courts contained in the Act of Sederunt of 10th March, 1870, "anent probation and appeals from inferior courts," shall apply to cases stated under the Act, provided always that it shall not be necessary to print any document, except the case, without a special order from the Court, and provided also that either party may move for an order on the Sheriff Clerk to transmit the process.

(g) The Court shall have power when determining a case to make such order arising out of the answer (or answers) given by them to the question (or questions) put as they shall think necessary, and also to make such order as to the costs of the case as to them may seem right. They may also, before giving their determination, send back the case to the Sheriff for amendment.

(h) When a Sheriff has refused to state and sign a case, the applicant for the case may within seven days from the date

of such refusal apply by a written note to one of the Divisions of the Court of Session for an order upon the other party or parties to show cause why a case should not be stated. Such note, which may be in terms of Form III. of the Appendix hereto, shall be accompanied by the abovementioned certificate of refusal, and shall state shortly the nature of the cause, the facts, and the question or questions of law which the applicant desires to raise, and any Judge of the Division, or in vacation the Lord Ordinary officiating on the Bills, may, after intimation to the other party or parties, dispose of it summarily, and his judgment upon it, as well as upon the question of costs, shall be final. If an order is pronounced requiring the Sheriff to state and sign a case, the case shall be stated as hereinbefore provided, and these regulations shall apply to the subsequent procedure.

XVIII. This Act of Sederunt shall come into operation on 1st July, 1907, but except so far as it relates to references to medical referees and proceedings consequential thereon, shall not apply in any case where the accident happened before the commencement of the Act.

And the Lords appoint this Act to be inserted in the Books of Sederunt, and to be printed and published in common form. J. H. A. MACDONALD, I.P.D. An appendix contains a number of forms to be used in proceedings under the Act.

Literature.

THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF AN ARBITRATOR IN THE CONDUCT OF
A REFERENCE. By Arthur Reginald Rudall, of the Middle
Temple, Barrister-at-law. London: Effingham Wilson.

(4s. net.)

Mr. Effingham Wilson has long been known as a publisher who specialises in works of a practical character, dealing with commerce and with various branches of law in their relations to commerce. The present work is one of that class. It is written for the benefit of the man of skill into whose hands a question relating to his own department of knowledge is put for determination, and so clear and so practical is the work that it is hardly likely that even the person called upon for the first time to act as an arbitrator, if he allows himself to be guided by it, will make any serious mistake in the conduct of an ordinary reference; furthermore, the work is so compact that its perusal will not make any serious inroads into the time even of a busy man. The get-up of the book is admirable, the type being large and the arrangement of the matter generally being conducive to speedy assimilation of the contents. It is provided with a good table of contents and an index, which will make subsequent consultations of the manual easy. Only one caution to Scottish readers is necessary: while the

book as a whole may be safely followed by a Scotch arbiter, he will have to use it with discrimination, and with such a book as Mr. Wood's beside him to warn him when the law of Scotland differs from that laid down in Mr. Rudall's manual.

THE REVISED TABLE A, being the Regulations of Companies Limited by Shares as sanctioned by the Board of Trade in 1906, with Notes and Comments by Paul F. Simonson, M.A.(Oxon.), author of "A Treatise on the Law Relating to Debentures and Debenture Stock," The Law Relating to the Reconstruction and Amalgamation of Joint Stock Companies," and "The Companies Act, 1900." London: Effingham Wilson; Sweet & Maxwell, Limited. 1907.

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As given in its preface, the object of this book is to state briefly the law which bears on the various clauses of the Revised Table A, and to refer the reader to the authorities laying down such law. There was room for such a work, and, after a careful perusal of the 94 pages of its text, we are satisfied that its object has been successfully attained. The notes and comments appended to the separate clauses of Table A are not a mere running commentary on the subject-matter of these clauses-valuable as that commentary is-but set forth clearly and concisely the law applicable to the point in question, and cite the leading cases in which it has been decided. When we mention that nearly 200 cases are cited, and numerous relative sections of the various Companies Acts are referred to and commented on, it will be apparent that the author has discharged his task in no perfunctory manner. An elaborate table of contents at the beginning and a carefully prepared and exhaustive index at the end of the book add to the practical value of the work, which cannot fail to be serviceable to all who have occasion to refer to it.

VITAL REGISTRATION. A Manual of the Laws and Practice concerning the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Registration Acts for Scotland, with relative notes on Vaccination and the Census; Forms, &c., and Table of Fees. By G. T. Bissett-Smith, F.S.S., H.M. Registration Examiner. Edinburgh Green & Sons. 1907. (10s. net.) The necessity for a second edition of this work, which was first published in 1902, shows that it has commended itself to the registrars, for whose use it was mainly intended. To the present edition has been added a chapter on Vital Statistics, the text of the Marriage with Foreigners Act, 1906, with some relative notes, for which the author has made good use of the comments already made upon the statute in the legal journals, In an appendix an account is given of the important English case of Ogden, 1907, p. 107, which shows in a striking way the dangers incurred by British subjects who marry foreigners without obtaining a certificate from the competent foreign authority that the requirements of the marriage law to which

the foreigner is subject have been complied with prior to the marriage. It is not, however, always easy to distinguish the author's comments from his quotations from the report. We should have been glad of a fuller discussion of the difficult phrase in the Act, "Persons subject to the marriage law of a foreign State." It is far from clear how a British court is to interpret this phrase, and whether it is to apply nationality, domicile, or simple residence as the test of subjection.

BURGE'S COMMENTARIES ON COLONIAL AND FOREIGN LAW GENERALLY, AND IN THEIR CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER AND WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND. Under the joint editorship of Alexander Wood Renton, Barrister-at-law, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, and George Grenville Phillimore, B.C.L., Barrister-at-law. New edition. In five volumes. Vol. i. London Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, and Stevens & Sons, Limited. 1907.

Four years after the appearance in America of Story's "Conflict of Laws" there appeared, in 1838, in London Burge's "Commentaries," which (if for no other reason) would have been notable as the first systematic treatise by an English lawyer on the problems of international private law, around which so great a literature had accumulated on the Continent. But their intrinsic merits insured their success. Burge's twenty years' experience in Jamaica as advocate and AttorneyGeneral, and his subsequent practice in Colonial appeals before the Privy Council, had given him a unique knowledge of the different systems of law prevailing in the British Empire, and of the conflicts arising from their diversity. Moreover, this knowledge had led to acquaintance with the legal systems of foreign countries also. His work accordingly attained speedy recognition not only in English-speaking countries, but on the Continent. Von Bar, writing at a much later date, no doubt finds fault with the author's scientific method-in declining to enunciate a general principle of his own for the treatment of problems of international private law, and in taking from other authors a large number which not infrequently are contradictory, but for "this most comprehensive work" he has the highest praise. "It is," he says, "remarkable for the astounding knowledge of the most various systems of law and of legislation displayed by the author, for the wealth of legal cases and decisions that are cited and criticised with acuteness and great independence, and for many excellent discussions of different questions."

Since the first edition was published immense changes have been wrought in the laws of various countries within and without the British Empire, not only by codification and decision, but also by international treaty, and the editors in this, which is the first volume of a new edition, have not found. it possible to adhere strictly at the present day to the lines of the original work.

The volume is divided into three main parts. The first