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LEADING CASES IN LAW AND EQUITY,
In Three Series, ,oih american Notes
l. WHITES LEADING CASES IN EQUITY:
A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity, win
with Additional Notes. and References to Ameri- |
can Cases, by J. l. Clark Hare, and II. b. Wal
lace, Editors of Smiths Leading Cases. vol,
Svo "a 60 Volumes second and third in PRESS
and will be published earlyin 1851.
These volumes have been annotated by Mcssrs |
Hare & Wallace, in the same elaborate and tho |
rough style which distinguished their commenta- |
ries upon Smiths Leading Cases and the Ameri- |
can Leading Cases The American Notes, it is |
believed, will be found TO present an accurate and
complete view of the equity Jurisprudence OF every
State in the Union, in respect to the subjects which
come under discussion.
U.-SMITH'S LEADING CASES, 2 vols, $40.
Third American Edition. With Notes and Ref
erences to late English and American Decisions, by
J. I. Clark Hare and II. b. Wallace. Esqs.
II.-AMERICAN LEADING CASES. vols
improved, 1851. Being select decisions of Amcri-
can courts in several departments Of law, with es
pecial reference TO Mercantile Law. BY J. !.
Clark Hare and II. b. Wallace, Esqrs Editors of
the American Edition of Smiths Leading Cases. &c.
This work is upon the plan of Smiths Leading
Cases, and applies the same method of rescarchand
illustration to various important branches OF the
Law which were not included therein, and Ia, in
effect a continuation of that work. The
sist Of the celebrated decisions in the Federal
Courts and the Courts of the several States, upon
the subjects discussed; accompanied by elaborate
Notes which the Reports of all the States in the
Union have been colfated; SO that the work pre-
sents complete view of AMERICAN LAW upon
the subjects which examined.
NOTICES OF THIS WORK.
'sThe decisions ON implied agencies collected
| and arranged, with just discrimination, in Hare &
Wallace's American Leading Cases, p. 39S-40f.''
leaf glofp
''See Hare & Wallace's American Leading
Cases, p. l0945, where the on this subject
he Contracts of Infants) cited and classified"
r. Greenleqf 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 american Leading Cases, 449,
note, as folows,' &c.-Opinion of the Court in
Stanton vs.. Camp, Barbour's Supreme Court Re
ports, 277.
.Scc the doctrine of Application of Payments,
fully discussed in American Leading Cases, AL
1881 Reporters note in Georgia Reports, 3o9.
Just published, new and valuable work
MORTGAGES. Treatise on the Law of Mort
Cages, by r. H. Coote, Esq. Second American,
from the third English edition; by the author and
r. Coote, Esq, with notes and references to Amer
lean cases. vol. lvo., 800 pages.
Several years having elapsed since the last edition
Of Powell on Mortgages became out Of print it was
| thought that the appearance of q new, greatly
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a reprint of so valuable and standard an authority
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of editor to whom was confded the preparation
of American notes. This duty has been well done
| Upon some of the most important points the notes
are quite elaborate and all exhibit great and
diligence in their preparation The title "as T.,
what will constitute mortgage" "who may re-
deem, and when," Gas to what will and will
not constitute mortgage Of personal property"
sassignment Of mortgage, !" "as to the mortgagee."
sas to the mortgagor," 'notice," "regstry and
priority "what will discharge mortgage" Sc,
are all examined carefully, and illustrated by
ference to large and valuable mass OF authorities.
| We think the work will be found an important ad-
diton to every law library.
In press and will shortly be issued, the follow
! ing valuable additions to the Legal Literature of
the day.
PENNSYLVANIA EQUITY REPORTS VOL /.
Reports of SELECT CASES IN EQ UITY, argued
aud determined in the first judicial district Of Penn
| sylvana by Hon. Edward King and Hon. Arson
V. Parsons, two of the judges of said court In
| volume of over 500 pages.
| The selection of cases has been made with the
greatest care; much time and attention have been
bestowed upon their preparation. The importanceof
the principles involyedin the many important cases
tried before this Court, and the well known ability
and distinguished reputation of the eminent edi
tors, combine in recommending this volume to the
favorable consideration of the professional gentle
men throughout the Union
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