A Useful Book.
A volume has been recently issued
which meets a great need in Wiscon
sin. It is “A Treatise on the Civil
and Criminal Jurisdiction ef Justices
of the- Peace and the Powers and
Duties of Constables in Executing
Process in the State of Wisconsin. by-
Edwin E. Bryant, of Madison, Wis.,
counselor-at-law. It covers not only
the practice in civil and criminal
cases before justices giving the fullest
forms and instructions for the guid
ance of the justice and constable in
all forms of actions, but also contains
a very complete and elaborate sum
mary of the general law of contracts,
including such topics as agency, bail
ment, bills of exchange, bank checks,
chattel mortgages, common carriers,
guaranty, the property rights and
contract liabilities of married women,
the liabilities and disabilities of in
fants. lunatics, drunkards, spend
thrifts; the law regarding sales, war
ranty, principal and surety, and of
promissory notes; also relating to de
fences to actions or contracts. There
is also a brief, but very complete ex
position of the law of evidence, the
law of torts or wrongs, of the measure
of damages, etc., and a very numer
ous collection of forms for all actions,
proceedings, etc., civil or criminal.
