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LEADING CASES IN LAW AND EQUITY,
In Taree Series. ioih american Notes.
/. WHITES LEADING CASES IN EQUITY.
Selection of Leading Cases in Equity, with
Notes by F. ii. White and O. d. Tudor, Esquircs,
with Additional Notes, and References to Ameri-
can Cases, by J. ]. Clark Hare. and II. b. Wal
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svo S4 so. Volumes second and third in press,
and will be published earlyin 1851.
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HI.-AMERICAN LEADING CASES. vols
Svo. Second edition, greatly enlarged and much
improved, 1851. Being select decisions of Ameri-
pecial reference to Mercantile Law. By J. i.
Clark Hare and II. b. Wallace, Esqrs. Editors Of
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This work is upon the plan OF Smiths Leading
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NOTICES OF THIS WORK.
sThc decisions on implied agencies are collected
and arranged, with just discrimination, in Hare *
Wailace's American Leading Cases, p. 39S-404"
r. Greenie1f on Evdetce, So, note.
ssSee Hare s. Wallacc's American Leading
Cases, D. l09-45, where the cases on this subject
(the Contracts of Infants) are cited and classified"
r. Greenleaf on Evidence. s4S, note.
''The rule Tin regard to the liability OF principal
and agen) to be extracted from the reported cases.
is we'll Expressed in Amsrican Leading Cases, ,449,
note, as follows" &c.-Opinion Of the Court in
Stanton VS.. Oump, Barbow's Supreme Court Re
ports, 277.
..Sec the doctrine of Application of Payments
fully discussed in American Leading Cases, AL
l5s."--Rsporter's note in Georgia Reports, 35s.
Just published, and valuable work on
MORTGAGES. Treatise on the Law of Mort
cages, by r. II. Coote, Esq. Second American
from the third English edition; by the author and
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IF he N a he
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s.assignment II mortgage" "as to the mortgagee,"
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PENNSYLVANIA EQUITY REPORTS. Vol. /.
Reports of SELECT CASES IN EQUITY, argued
aud determined in the first judicial district of Penn
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V. Parsons, two of the judges of said court. In
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