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BOOK REVIEW - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW OF RESTITUTION
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW OF RESTITUTION by Peter Birks, M.A., LL.M., Professor of Civil Law, University of Edinburgh, Clarendon Press, Oxford (1985, xxxiv and 447 pp., plus 3 pp. Bibliography and 3 pp. Index). Hardback £40.
This is a remarkable and important book. Students will be fascinated with the rigour and challenge of its academic analysis. Those concerned with practice will find in it much that is
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