Compensation to Landowners; being a practical Digest of the Law
of Compensation. By Geo. V. Yool, M.A., barrister-at-law. (W. Max- well.)—The author, who is favourably known to the legal profession by a former work on the law of "Waste, Nuisance, and Trespass," has drawn up a very clear and compendious summary of the powers of railway • companies and the rights of landowners under the Lands Clauses Con- solidation Act. The great secret of the complaints which are now so rife is that the Act was drawn when railways were never admitted into towns, and its provisions are fair enough when the land taken is mere agricultural land ; but the ease, as Mr. Yool points out, is quite different when a man's house or place of business in the heart of a town is taken.. His means of living may be completely taken from him in a very arbi- trary way, or "injuriously affected," without adequate compensation.
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