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LEADING CASES IN LAW AND EQUITY,
In Three Series. sOiA american Notss.
j. WHITES LEADING CASES IN EQUITY.
Selection of Leading Cases in Equity, with
Notes by T: H. White and 0. D: Tudor, Esquires,
with Additional Notes, and References to Ameri.
can Gases, by ]. l. Clark Hare, and II. B. Wal
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8vo. 81 SO. Volumes second and third in press,
and will be published earyin 1851.
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can courts in several departments Of law, with es-
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r. Greenlegf ON EUideuce, 56, note.
"Sec Hare & Wallace's American Leading
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the Contracts of Infants) cited and classified %
r. Greenleaf on Evidence. s4S, note.
"The rule Gin regard to the liability of principal
and agent) to be extracted from the reported cases
is well expressed in Amsrcan Lsodinx Cases, z4s,
note, as follows" &c.-Opini0n Qf tie Court in
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..see the doctrine of Application of Payments,
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MORTGAGES. Treatise on the Law of Mort
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Reports Of SELECT CASES IN EQUITY, argued
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