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MAJOR NEW TITLES THIS MONTH – Continuedlatest legislation, tribunaland court decisions as wellas HMRC practice.that differed substantiallyfrom English common law.Germany, Greece, India,Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia,Mexico, Norway, Russia,Singapore, Spain, Thailand,and Turkey.Nelson, William E, CommonLaw of Colonial AmericaVolume I: The Chesapeakeand New England 1607-1660, Oxford UniversityPress, Hardback, £18.99,ISBN: 9780195327281William E. Nelson here proposesa new beginning in thestudy of colonial legal history.Examining all archivallegal material for the period1607-1776 and synthesizingexisting scholarship in a fourvolumeseries, The CommonLaw in Colonial Americashows how the legal systemsof Britain’s thirteen NorthAmerican colonies - initiallyestablished in response to divergentpolitical, economic,and religious initiatives -slowly converged into a commonAmerican legal orderNetzer, Antonida, InternationalFranchising: TheComparative Law Yearbookof International Business:Special Issue 2007,Kluwer Law International,Hardback, £102.00, ISBN:9789041127693Franchising has long been anintegral part of the globalizationof business and an importanttool in the spread ofinvestment. In this special issueof the Comparative LawYearbook of InternationalBusiness, practitioners whoare specialized in franchising—itspotentials as well asits pitfalls — provide reportson franchising developmentsin national systems such asAustralia, Austria, Canada,Chile, China, the Czech Republic,Denmark, France,Newcombe, Stephen, Tolley’sTaxation of CollectiveInvestment 2nd ed, LexisNexisButterworths, Paperback,£125.00, ISBN:9781405734172Now in its second edition,Tolley’s Taxation of CollectiveInvestment has been fullyupdated to provide usefuladvice and wide-rangingcoverage on the taxation ofcollective investment vehiclesand investors in thosevehicles. The user-friendly,practical two-part formatexplains in clear detail thetaxation of the different collectiveinvestment vehiclesavailable and, in the secondpart, examines the taxationOCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2008 19