The Judicial Practice of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope..

1893. Important Commentary on Roman-Dutch Law in South Africa Van Zyl (van Zijl), C[aspar] H[endrik] [1842-1913]. The Judicial Practice of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, And of South Africa Generally, With Suitable and Copious Practical Forms Subjoined to and Illustrating the Practice of the Several Subjects Treated of. Capetown: J.C. Juta & Co., 1893. xvi, 674 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Later cloth, original backstrip mounted to spine, endpapers renewed. Some toning, faint dampspotting in places, internally clean. $200. * First edition. This pioneering commentary on Roman-Dutch law in force in South Africa went through four editions by 1931. "This goodly volume, at once of Theory and of Practice, is...the first attempt on the part of any member of the Legal Profession in South Africa to give an account of the Theory and Practice prevailing in our South African Colonies. (...) Mr. Van Zyl is undoubtedly happy in his choice of a subject, and there can be no doubt of the opportuneness of his work. We are glad to be able to say that we think Mr. Van Zyl is no less happy in his general treatment of his subject than in his conception of the book which it seemed to him was wanted. That his treatise will fill what was clearly a want in Colonial Legal Literature we cannot doubt, nor can we doubt that it will be valuable alike to the Practitioner in Privy Council Appeals, and to the Legal Profession at the Cape.": Law Magazine and Law Review (Fifth Series) 19 (1893-94) 93. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 7:47.