The North-Carolina standard., 1843-11-22
NORTH CAROLINA REPORTS.

We are indebted to the po1iteness Of Messrs
TURNER & HUGHES for very valuable and IN
teresting volume of Reports, entitled "North
Carolina Reports, embracing notes of lew dect
sons in the Superior Courts of the State OF North
Carolina, and in the Circuit Court of the United
States for the District of North Carolina-by
Francis Xavier Martin; Also, Reports of Cases
adiudged in the Superior Courts OF Law and
EQUITY, Court of Conference aad Federal Court
for the State of North Carolina, from the year
1897 to 18O6-by John Haywood, Esq; Second
edition, with notes referring to subsequent enact
ments of the Legislature, and decisions OF the
Court of Conference and the Supreme Court,
marginal abstracts, table of the cases reported,
and new Ihlex-by WILLIAM H, BATTLE,
ESQ" Such work needs no recommendation,
and we can do no better than TO quote from the
advertisement 10 the second edition:
ss4 is we'll known least the members of the legal
profession in this State, that several of the eartef vo-
inmes Of Reports are nea not qalte out OF PriHt,
and that for time past II has been difficult to pro-
cure them. To those who at all conVersant with the
subject is needless to advert to the Importance 1t not
absolute necessity. of having complete serieso the re-
rorted decisions Of our State Courts Tor the use aid guld-
ance ofthose whe eEned either IN the practice,
the administration, of the law Tins consideration led
the Editor to examine these older Reports with view to
their republication In this examination he Found that
ahy eases reported veTy nearly In the 1ers
by different reporters. then occurred 10 him, that by
emitting such cases in all bat book, a by maxim
ether alterations that wsid rather add to, than i'm
pair the vafve of the work several othe volumes of these
Reports might be condensed soa TO reduce their num-
bee and thereby diminish the expense OF proesEng them
Pursuing this plan, the Editor has been enabled to COM
press volumes into tHree of which Martins and
the second volume of Haywood Reports farm The first.
Tayloss and Conference RePors the second, and the
Ava volumes of the CarcFiaa Law Repository and the
North Carolina Term Rep~Cts the third Che FIRST vol
of Haywood's Reports and ie FIRST and second Uf
M1rRAey's Reports not touched. though the
contained in then, decided during the period
braced by those above meptoned, BECAUSE the ciesSf
THEN which have been published aot nearly eShaus
ted, and there viii ao, ur some time to he any
difficulty In obtaining them. fhs explanation will also
Sender obvos the why the repor;e either
ofthen, and likewise IN the oIlcr Reports omitted
in the latter. Be dcs the process Of cnleRsatlon to
wbctthe present Reports have been subjected, tbey
have been attempted to be Improved by adding marg-
nal abstract to each that is not itself but mere ab
s4ract of the point decided and by annexnS note when
required, containing reference to such legislative
aetments judicial DECISIONS bear upon ue point ad
judged, the doctrine embraced in the Whether
the eneeion ofthe present undertaking has any claim
favour it for the public to decide bat the EdoF feels
confident that its desigH will meet with favorable
ception from that liberal profession to which he has the
honor to beleng."