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38 S. African L.J. 152 (1921)
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handle is hein.journals/soaf38 and id is 182 raw text is: 152 TRE SOUTH AFRICAN LAW JOURNAL. REVIEWS. The Sale of Goods in South Africa, being a Handbook of the Law Relating to the Purchase and Sale of Corporeal Movables in South Africa. By Harold Graham Mackeurtan, LL.B. (Cantab.), K.C., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Advocate of the Supreme Court of the Union of South Africa. Juta & Co., Ltd. 1921. This long expected work has just come to hand. Within the last two years two books have appeared on the Law of Sale, and there is a rumour that publication of the present work was delayed so that the late Advocate Norman's book might have the first market free from opposi- tion. In a previous number of this JOURNAL we have reviewed that book and given our testimony to the painstaking care with which it was cempiled. After a year's constant use of the book we can only endorse that opinion and state that in practice it has been and will be found extremely serviceable. It might then be asked what is the need for a further work on the subject. The answer is that the present work is of quite a different type. Books on law hitherto published in South Africa may be roughly divided into three classes. Reprints of Statutes, with explanatory notes and extracts of decided cases-an excellent work of this kind is the Magistrates' Courts Act by Buckle and Jones. Secondly, compilations of ancient Roman-Dutch and modern South African law on particular subjects, among which we should give Advocate Norman's book a high place. The books of the third class, at present a very limited one, deal with a more limited subject in greater detail, and contain the author's opinions on all matters of difficulty which have occurred to him. In the last class would come two books under review in this number: Mlackeurtan on Sale and Wille on Mortgage and Pledge. The authbr of the present work raises all the difficulties which can occur to an ingenious mind, and boldly faces them. There is no beating about the bush or obscuring of the issue in a cloud of words. Where there is a discrepancy in the decided cases or a doubt in the authorities, the author states it--and gives a decided opinion on the point. In the Preface he states: I have not hesitated to criticise or to express opinions upon doubtful points. Where these criticisms or opinions are right, it is time they were recorded. Where they are wrong I antici- pate speedy correction. In' either event some good will have been done to the cause which has inspired this book. The cause to which he refers is the duty of every South African lawyer to see (as far as he can) that the Roman-Dutch System, of which we are now almost the sole inheritors, is in no way obscured in its practical application by undue reliance upon authorities other than our own. These quota- tions show plainly the scope and intention of the work.

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