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The cheapest and most valuable series of reprints
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A GENERAL INDEX to the first FORTY. seuen
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The NEW ENGLISH HEQUER REPORTS
are in 20 vols, and contain uerbatim reprint of
the Cases reported by Meeson and Welsby, in Il
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present reporters, in 3vols. They derive incrcas
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eisions, appended by Messrs. ]. l. Clark Hare, q
editing Smiths, the American, and Whites EoI
ty, Leading Cases, have rendered them SO popY
with the Profession The loto price ($2 so per
utme) at which they are sold, places them WI
hp och of eyer hoo -htrua TIa:~. :k~oA
mends them to every lawyer.
Since the reorganization of the Courts of Il
quer, and the appointment therein Of Judgee~ ~
ranked among the 60 most learned and able J,.W
risfs Of the Kingdom" these decisions have assumed
character inferior to none of the ngsh or Amer-
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mentary Writers, and in the cases argued before
the other Courts, than any other English Reporters
A similar opinion of their value and importance
being entertained by the leading Jurists of this
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and half for each English volume containing
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Reports, and their value to the Profession in this
country:
CAMBRIDGE, January 25, lS45.
ne5srS L. q j. w. JOHNSON.
GENTLEMEN In reply to your letter, can with
great sincerity say, that / entertain very high
opinion of the recent Exchequer Reports. In my
Judgment they arc not excelled by any contempo-
| raneous Reports, in learning, ability or general
utility and interest. The cases decided are dis
cussed with great care, and expounded with un
common force. scarcely know of any volumes
which deem of more importance or value for a
professional library. JOSEPH STORY.
CAMBRIDGE, January 25 1886
GENTLEMEN. Your letter of the o1th haa heep re
ceived, in which you ask my opinion as to the
value of the English Exchequer Reports from Price
downwards to this time, to an American lawyer,
and to the expediency of reprinting them in this
country. OF the high value of these Reports. both
on the Pleas and Equity sides of the Court, have
not the least doubt; the decisions of this Court for
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.
am, gentlemen, very respectfully, yours,
SIMON GREENLEAF.
Messrs. II. & J. w. JOHNSON
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