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LlSH COMMON LAW REPORTS, ENGLISH
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DY,l
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Since the reorganization of the Courts of Exche-
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character inferior TO of the English AIneri-
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son Welsby, Crompton, Meeson & Roscoe &C.,
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the other Courts than any other English Reporters
similar opinion of their value and Importance
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and half for each English volume, containing
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country:
CAMBRIDGE, January 25, lS45.
Messrs. t. & J. w. JOHNSON
GENTLEMEN !: In reply to your letter. can with
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common force. | scarcely know of any volumes
which deem of more importance value for a
professional library. JOSEPH STORY.
CAMBRIDGE, January 25, ls45.
GENTLEMEN: Your letter of the oath has been re-
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downwards to this time, to American lawyer,
and to the expediency of reprinting them in this
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the last fifteen or twenty years. both at Equity and in
Common Law, being entitled to equal respect with
any others in England should think an Ameri-
car lawyers library essentially incomplete with
out them.
SIMON GREENLEAF.
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