The Southern Law Review

Temple of Karnak at Thebes, are secured on their solid foundations only by their own weight. Yet, that has been found sufficient to preserve many of them for four thousand years, and if a traveler should purchase from Mehemet Ali the land on which these interesting ruins rest, it would seem quite absurd to hold that the deed did not cover the statues still standing, and to claim that they were the still unadministered personal assets of the Ptolemies, after an annexation of such long duration. No legal distinction can be made between the Sphinxes of Thebes and the statue of Thom. Both were erected for ornaments, and the latter was as colossal in size and as firmly annexed to the land as the former, and by the same means. I apprehend the question whether the Pyramids of Egypt or Cleopatra's Needle are real or personal property, does not depend upon the result of an enquiry by the antiquarian whether they were originally made to adhere to their foundations with wafers or sealing wax, or a handful of cement. It seems to me puerile to make the title to depend upon the use of such, or of any other adhesive substances, when the great weight of the erection is a much stronger guaranty of permanence."

This work contains over five hundred and fifty pages, and is divided into fourteen chapters, following substantially the arrangement adopted by Mr. Ferard, treating consecutively-Of the Definition and Nature of Fixtures; Of the Right to Fixtures, as between the Owner of the Freehold and a Stranger making Annexations thereto; Of the Legal Effect of Annexation of Chattels to the Soil of Another with His Consent, or Under a Contract, Expressed or Implied, as to their Removal; Of Fixtures as between Landlord and Tenant, Heir and Executor, and Tenants for Life or in Tail, and their Personal Representatives, and the Remainderman or Revisioner; Of Chattels, Heir-Looms, Emblements, etc.; Of the Transfer of Fixtures by Conveyance, Mortgage, Devise, in case of Bankruptcy; Of the Seizure and Sale of Fixtures on Execution; Of Exemption from Distress; Of Rights and Liabilities respecting Land as Increased in Value by the Annexation of Personal Chattels ; Of the Legal and Equitable Remedies respecting Fixtures, and of the Criminal Law relating thereto. Several sections on such topics as Annexations to the Freehold of a Church, Ecclesiastical Persons, English Bill of Sale and Agricultural Holdings Act, Poor Rates, Parochial Rates, may strike the American practitioner as somewhat foreign to what he desires to know of the subject of Mr. Ewell's treatise. But it is a sufficient

answer to any adverse criticism on this point to say that this work is intended for the English as well as the American practitioner; that the author commenced his labors with the design of including in it all the adjudicated cases in this country and England, from the earliest date to the present time, and that an examination of the cases under these heads will show that they are decided on principles applicable to cases arising here.