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LEADING CASES IN LAW AND EQUITY,
In Three Series. soiM american Notes.
/. WHITES LEADING CASES IN EQUITY
Selection of Leading Cases in Equity, with
Notes by +. III. White and o. ID. Tudor, Esquires,
with Additional Notes, and References to Ameri-
can Cases, by j. l. Clark Hare, and III. B. Wal
lace, Editors Of Smiths Leading Cases. l VOL,
Svo- 81 SO. Volumes second and third in press,
and will be published earlyin 1851.
These volumes have been annotated by Messrs.
Hare Wallace, in the same elaborate and tho
rough style which distinguished their commcnta-
ries upon Smiths Leading Cases and the Ameri-
can Leading Cases. The American Notes, ii 10
complete view Of the equity jurisprudence of every
State in the Union in respect to the subjects which
come under discussion.
H.-sMTH's LEADING CASES, 2 vols, $40.
Third American Edition. With Notes and Ref
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J. !. Clark Hare and II. b. Wallace. Esqs.
IH.-AMERICAN LEADING CASES. vols
sso. Second edition. greatly enlarged and much
I improved, 1901. being select decisions OF Anerl-
can courts in several departments Of law, with
pecial reference to Mercantile Law. By J. j.
Clark Hare and H. b. Wallace, Esqrs Editors of
the American Edition of Smiths Leading Cases. sc.
This work Ia upon the plan of Smiths Leading
Cases, and applies the same method Of research
illustration to various important branches of the
Law which were not included therein, and is, in
effect. continuation of that work. The cases con-
sst of the celebrated decisions in the Federal
Courts, and the Courts of the several States upon
the subjects discussed; accompanied by elaborate
Notes, in which the Reports of all the States in the
Union have been collated so that the work pre-
sents complete view of AMERICAN LAW upon
| the subjects which are examined
NOTICES OF THIS WORK.
| "The decisions on implied agencies are collected
and arranged, with just discrimination, in Hare &
Wallace's American Leading Gases, p. ass-404."
II Greenlecf on Euideuce, 56, note.
ssSee Hare & Wallace's American Leading
Cases, p l09-45, where the cases on this subject
(the Contracts of Infants) cited and classified,
II Gree,'ieqf on Evidence. s48, note.
"The rule Tin regard to the liability of principal
and agent) to be extracted from the reported cases
is well expressed in american Leading Cases 449,
| note, follows" &c.-Opipion Qf tie Court in
Stanton VS.. Cump, Barbour's Supreme Court Re-
ports, 277.
fully discussed in American Leading Cases, l4l-
l5S.''-R Reporters notein Georgia Reports, 359.
just published, new and valuable work on
MORTGAGES. A Treatise on the Law of Mort
IA,
from the third English edition; by the author and
r. Coote, Esq, with notes and references to Amer
lcan cases. VOL lyo., 500 pages
Several years having elapsed since the last edition
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reprint of SO valuable and standard an authority
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l..k-- - n
Upon some of the most important points the notes
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diligence in their preparation The title ssas t,
what will constitute a mortgage" "who may re.
not constitute a mortgage of personal property"
assignment Of mortgage" Gas to the mortgagee,"
sas to the mortgagor," "nptice," "registry and
priority, !" "what will discharge MORTGAGE &C,
are all examined carefully, and illustrated by re-
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We think the work will be found an important adj
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In press. and will shortly be issued, the follow
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the day.
PENNSYLVANIA EQUITY REPORTS. VOL /.
Reports of SELECT CASES IN EQUITY, argued
aud determined in the first judicial district of Penn
sylvania, by Hon. Edward King and Hon. Anson
v. Parsons, two of the judges Of said court. In
volume of over 500 pages.
The selection of cases has been made with tb,
greatest care; much time and attention have bcsn
Dc1eowcu uPoA snci. PfepdIulion. Aue importance
she principles nvolvedin the many important cascl
tried before this Court, and the well known ability
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