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This edition is nearly 100 pages longer than its predecessor, so room has been found for thirty-four new cases, at the expense of fourteen old ones. Two chapters (14 and 17) and three notes (F, S, and U) are entirely new, and all the other notes have been revised and in some cases rewritten. I have tried to stimulate as well as to inform, by asking questions as well as providing information.
The choice of cases is unlikely to please everyone, but the aim has been to include at least two cases in every important branch of the subject, and to strike a balance between the older classical cases and the newer ones (with a bias towards the new). One case each from Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the United States has been included, on topics where it seemed to me that, in view of the state of the English authorities, a breath of fresh air from across the sea might not come amiss.
I must apologize for having included one judgment which has since been reversed by the Court of Appeal (that of Diplock J. in Adams v. National Bank of Greece and Athens S.A. (post, p. 3). The reversal came too late for me to do more than call attention to it in a footnote. However, leave was granted to appeal to the House of Lords, so let us keep our fingers crossed and hope that all will come right in the end. J.H.C.M. Magdalen College Oxford 15 May 1959
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