NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12099, 17 March 1910, Page 7

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The tMo following, issued >< by Messrs Whitpombe and Toombs, Ltd., are snore especially works for the legal profession and those similarly Engaged, but to these the; works must prove indispensable. "The Land, Transfer Act, 1908;" by David Hutchen, which supersedes "The Land Transfer Acts of New Zealand,' is a.' handy little, volume m cloth, comprising some 250 pages m all. A copious introduction deals with T the histery o! 'the land transfer system, followed by a' general analysis and explanation of the Act itself. The Act is deaJt with section by section, and 'comments' added, and numerous cases cited so as to make the book a valuable work of reference. Appendix I. deals with i\\i" Native Land Act, 1909, and Appendix: 11. gives a com. • plete set of forms for dealings under the Act, A copious -indei completes the book. '•The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 'and Rules" is edited by Judge Sim, whose name is an index to its merit. The writer h$£ i carefully examined the cases deojdi^^^n X r ew Zealand, and the book xrf^i&P what he considers the whol«j»iirtlie v important decisions as well as a number of leading English cases on the subject. Decisions, which have been superseded have been rejected. - The rules under thb Act are those .ivhich dame into . operation on February 1, 1910, revoking all ruJes and- regulations then m force. The book is proyideil with a complete and comprehensive index."