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LEADING CASES IN LAW AND EQUITY,
n, Three Series iciM american Notes.
WHITES LEADING CASES IN EQUITY.
A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity, with
Notes by +. II. White and o. ID. Tudor, Esquires,
with Additional Notes. and References to Ameri-
can Cases, by j. |. Clark Hare. and II. b. Wal
lace, Editors of Smiths Leading Cases l VOL,
svo. 81 80. Volumes second and third in press,
and will be published eariyin 1851.
These volumes have been annotated by Messrs
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nI-AMERICAN LEADING CASES. vols
svo. Second edition, greatly enlarged and much
improved, 1851. Being select decisions of Ameri-
can courts in several departments of law, with es-
pccial reference to Mercantile Law. By ]. !.
Clark Hare and II. B. Wallace, Esqrs. Editors of
the American Edition Of Smiths Leading Cases, &c.
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NOTICES OF THIS WORK.
s'The decisions on implied agencies are collected
and arranged, with just discrimination, in Hare &
Walace's American Leading Cases, p. 39S-40i."
r. Greenlecf on Evideues, Sc, note.
ssSee Hare s. Walaces American Leading
Cases, D. 109-45, where the on this subject
(the Contracts of Inants) cited and classified %
r. Greenleaf on EDidence, S4S, note.
"The rule lin regard to the liability Of principal
and agen) to be extracted from the reported cases,
note, as follows" &c.-Opinion of tie Court in
Stanton VS.. Cump, Barbour's Supreme Court Re
ports, 277.
'.See the doctrine of Application of Payments,
fully discussed in American Leading Cases, l4l-
l5S."-Rsporter's note IN Georgia Reports, 359.
Just published, new and valuable work on
MORTGAGES. A Treatise the Law of Mort
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assignment Of mortgage" cas- 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 /.
volume of over 500 pages.
The selection of cases has been made with tl;
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