the property is situated; and every such seizure or sale shall be made by the sheriff. And before approving of a seizure or sale, the sheriff shall take into consideration all the circumstances of the case, including among other things, the financial position of the debtor, the amount of the indebtedness, the nature of the chattels and their value, the prospect of realising a fair proportion of the value, the time of year and the degree of hardship which may probably be caused to the debtor by the seizure and sale.' The Sheriff's discretion in so approving or withholding approval, or in postponing a sale, is to be absolute. Severe penalties are imposed on those who seek to contravene these provisions.

The British Columbia Gazette of August 19th, contains the Game Regulations 1915, made by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council under the provincial Game Act.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. F. W. Willson, of the firm of Moncrieff and Willson, of Petrolea, has been appointed police magistrate at Petrolea.

The Vancouver Bar Association has forwarded $2,000 to the acting Minister of Militia, with the request that the department purchase one machine gun for the 7th Battalion and one for the 16th Battalion.

Mr. Joseph G. de Lorimier, of the firm of Angers, de Lorimier, Godin, and de Lorimier, Montreal, was among passengers rescued from the Arabic.

The Honourable L. P. Pelletier, late Postmaster General in the Borden Cabinet, has been promoted from the Superior Court of Quebec to the King's Bench, where he succeeeds the late Mr. Justice Honore Gervais.

We regret to see the death reported of Mr. Duncan C. McLeod, K.C., late of the firm of McLeod and Bentley, Charlottetown, P.E.I., at Charlottetown, on August 10th last; also of the following law students from Vancouver, B.C., killed in action:

William John Bowser, Jr., of Vancouver.

John William McDonald, of Breadalbane, P.E.I.
Eric George Johnson Dunn, of Penticton, B.C.
Frank Wendell Stacey, of Moosejaw, Sask.

Jas Crankshaw Few

Mr. James Crankshaw, K.C., was born in Manchester, England, in 1844. He came to Canada in 1876, and subsequently took the degree of B. C. L. with honours at McGill University. He was not, however, called to the Bar of Quebec Province until 1884. In 1896 he was appointed K.C. by the Quebec Government. Mr. Crankshaw is best known as the author of a work on the Criminal Code of Canada and Canada Evidence Act, to successive editions of which he has devoted many years of his life. Although over seventy years of age, he has now had the energy and industry to produce a new edition of this book, which is by common consent acknowledged to be the most useful work of its kind which the practitioner can have. We hope to notice this new edition at greater length in a future issue. We published a short Appreciation of the author in our number for February last. Mr. Crankshaw is also the author of 'A Practical Guide to Police Magistrates and Justices of the Peace.'

The Law Journal (English) of August 28th, last, has this about the Solicitor-General: Sir F. E. Smith, K.C., M.P., of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, has been promoted a lieutenant-colonel. It is the first case on record of a Solicitor-General, being at the same time a lieutenantcolonel.' We can supply a somewhat parallel case from the annals of this province. In 1812 John Beverley Robinson was a lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of York Militia. Two days after the battle of Queenston, in which he took part, being sent with a number of prisoners to Toronto, he was met at the wharf at Niagara by the news that he had been appointed Attorney-General.

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Those of our readers who have possessed themselves of, and studied Mr. C. C. McCaul, K.C.'s recently published Notes on the Remedies of Vendors and Purchasers of Real Estate, or even read our comments upon the merits of that addition to Canadian text-books in our issue for June last, will we are sure welcome the first instalment, which we publish in our present number, of an Article by him on Options to Purchase Land. The activity of late years in dealings with land in our North-Western provinces has naturally led to a large number of cases arising in the Courts of those provinces on the law relating to such subjects as options to purchase, and specific performance of contracts for the sale of land, and to a consequent development of the law relating thereto, in which Mr. McCaul has taken a prominent part. We esteem ourselves very fortunate in securing his contribution to our pages.

We also call attention to what we claim to be a very valuable Article in our present issue by Mr. F. W. Wegenast on the still vexed question of the respective jurisdictions of the Dominion and the provinces in the matter of the incorporation of companies. Mr. F. W. Wegenast was of Counsel, and won a notable forensic victory before the Privy Council, in the John Deere Plow Company case, on the judgment in which we commented at length in our February number. Mr. Wegenast's views, therefore, in relation to the above subject are of very special value. The outstanding points of interest in his Article perhaps, are the stress he lays upon the fact that the John Deere Plow Company was a trading company; and his suggestions that objects of a company may, apart from territorial restriction to the limits of a province, be so inherently provincial' that the Dominion could not claim the right to incorporate a company with such objects merely by extending the area of the company's permitted operations to two or more provinces.

With reference to the account given by Mr. Justice Riddell in his interesting paper in our last number upon The Duel in Early Upper Canada of the duel in 1833 between Robert Lyon, law student, and John Wilson, also a law student, but who ultimately was appointed to the Bench in the Court of Common Pleas as a puisne judge, Judge Riddell has been good enough to permit us to publish the following