The  Law  of  Injunctions  in  British  India,*^  by  Mr.  Reginald
A.  Nelson,  Principal  of  the  Madras  Law  College,  is  an  excellent
specimen  of  the  modern  legal  text-book.  Mr.  Nelson  has  already
given  evidence  of  his  attachment  to  the  school  of  jurists  who  rely
upon  the  historical  and  comparative  method,  and  in  the  present
work  he  has  not  omitted  to  trace  the  origin  of  the  English  law  of
injunctions  through  the  equity  jurisdiction  of  the  Chancellor  to  the
interdicts  of  the  Roman  Praator.
In  British  India  the  question  of  jurisdiction  is  more  important
than  in  this  country,  where  by  the  Judicature  Act,  1873,  all  divisions
of  the  Supreme  Court  received  jurisdiction  to  grant  injunctions
'^  in  all  cases  in  which  it  shall  appear  to  the  Court  to  be  just  or
convenient."  Similar  powers  were  also  granted  to  county  courts.
In  British  India  the  subject  is  regulated  by  various  Acts,  which
confine  the  jurisdiction  to  certain  courts,  and  which  in  those  courts,
in  some  cases,  limit  the  extent  of  such  jurisdiction.
In  employing  the  comparative  method,  Mr.  Nelson  has  treated
fully  the  English  doctrines  and  case-law,  and  has  thus  produced  a
work  invaluable  not  only  to  practitioners  in  British  India  but  also
to  lawyers  and  students  in  this  country,  embodying,  as  it  does,  such
standard  authorities  as  Fry  on  Specific  Performance;  Story  on
JEq%(/Uy  Jwnsprudence  ;  and  Kerr  on  Injunctions.     The  subject-matter

^  The  Speaker's  Chair,  Its  Origin,  the  Procedures  Historically  associated  with  it,
and  Biographical  Sketches  of  its  Most  Notable  Occupants.  By  Edward  Lummis.
London  :  T.  Fisher  Unwin.    1900.
^  T?ie  Law  of  Injunctions  in  British  India.  A  Treatise  on  the  Modem  Law  of  In-
junctions both  Temporary  and  Perpetual.  By  Ranald  A.  Nelson,  M.A.,  LL.M.,
Principal  of  Madras  Law  College.    Madras  :  Srinivasa  Yaradachari  &  Co.    1900.
