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WHITES LEADING CASES IN EQUITY.
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NOTICES OF THIS WORK.
sThe decisions on implied agencies collected
and arranged, with just discrimination, in Hare 4
Wallace's American Leading Cases, p. 39S 4O4."
r. Greenlegf on Evideuce, Sc, note
ssSee Hare & Wallace's American Leading
Cases, D. 1896, where the cases on this subject
1.-THE Contracts of Infants) cited and classified
r. Greenleqf on Evidence. 34S, note.
ssThe rule Gin regard to the liability of principal
and agen) to be extracted from the reported cases,
note, as follows" &c.-Opinion Of the Court in
Stanton Cdmp, Barbour's Supreme Court Re
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.'Sec the doctrine of Application of Payments,
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l5S.''-Rep0rtsr's note III 4 Georgia Reports, 359
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