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II. & J. w. JOHNSON
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Our cheap series of English Reports and Elemen-
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commended TO your notice.
The cheapest and most valuable series OF reprints
now before the public the PHILADELPHIA
EDITIONS of the REG ULAR Series of the ENG.
LISH COMMON LAW REPORTS, ENGLISH
EXCHEQUER REPORTS and the Law IL
BRARY.
The ENGLISH COMMON LAW REPORTS. in
62 volumes, contain, with few exceptions, FULL
REPRINT OF ALL THE CASES decided in the
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ssThe absolute necessity to the American lawyer
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ctrate, and cheap manner in which it is furnished,
and the mine of erceIIent Reports which it en-
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! GENERAL INDEX TO the first forty. seren
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The NEW ENGLISH EXCHEQ UER REPORTS
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Since the reorganization of the Courts of Exche-
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the other Courts, than any other English Reporters.
similar opinion of their value and importance
being entertained by the leading Jurists of this
country, an American Edition cannot but be con-
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We take pleasure in referring TO the accompany
ing letters, explanatory of the character of these
Reports, and their value to the Profession in this
country:
CAMBRIDGE, January %, IS45.
Messrs. T. s. ]. 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 are not exceed by any contempo-
raneous Reports, in learning, ability, or general
utility and interest. The 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
professional library. JOSEPH STORY.
CAMBRIDGE, January 25, 1916.
GENTLEMEN: Your letter of the oath has been re-
ceived, in which you ask my opinion 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
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 Ameri-
car lawyers library essentially incomplete with
out them.
SIMON GREENLEAF.
Messrs. T. & ]. w. JOHNSON.
These series Of Reports are by the regular Re
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lish Authorities, extending from the Year Books to
tween them and the opposition Reports issued in
the English periodicals, as is found in this country
between the regular reports and the Issues of the
various magazines. These are the ONLY SERIES
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ments of value they UNSURPASSED, while
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lishers determined that no effort connected
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as they always have been, highly popular and sat
isfactory to the profession
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