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LEADING CASES IN LAW AND EQUITY,
In Three Series, ,riM American Notes.
I. WHITES LEADING CASES IN EQUITY
A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity. with
Notes by +. ii. White and Q. ID. Tudor, Esquires'
with Additional Notes, and References to Ameri-
can Cases, by ]. ]. Clark Hare. and H. b. wal
lace, Editors Of Smiths Leading Cases vol,
Svo. S4 90 Volumes second and third in press,
and will be published early in 1851. u.fI
These volumes have been annotated by Messrs
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rough style which distinguished their continental
ries upon Smiths Leading Cases and the Ameri-
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II.-SMITH'S LEADING CASES, vols, Slo
Third American Edition. With Notes and Ref
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svo. Second edition, greatly enlarged and much
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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
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NOTICES OF THIS WORK.
.sThe decisions on implied agencies are collected
and arranged, with just discrimination, in Hare x
Wallace's American Leading Cases, p. 39S-4O4."
r. Greeniegf on Euidsuce, SO, note.
..See Hare s. Wallace's American Leading
Cases, p. 1895, where the cases on this subject
Uhe Contracts of Infantsl are cited and classified"
Il Greenieqf on Evidence. S4S, note.
1.-THE rule lin regard to the liability of principal
and agent be extracted from the reported cases,
is well expressed in Amsrican Leading Cases, 449,
note as follows &c.-Opinion Of The Court in
Stanton Cump, Barbo~'s Supreme Court Re-
ports, 217
.,See the doctrine of Application Of Payments,
fully discussed in American Leading Cases, AL
15S.''-Reporter's notein Georgia Reports. 359.
just published, new and valuable work on
MORTGAGES A Treatise on the Law of Mort
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aud determined in the fret judicial district Of Penn
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" Parsons, two of the judges of said court In
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