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The cheapest and mostvaluable series ofreprints
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The ENG LIsH COMMON LAW REPORTS, in
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From Marvin's Legal photography.
GENERAL INDEX to the first foriy- sepen
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The NEW ENGLISH EXCHEQ UER REP
the Gases reported by Meeson and Welsby, in II
vols, and by Wclsby, Hurlstone, and Gordon,
present reporters, in g. oils. They derive increased
value from the Notes and Referencesto american de-
cis;ons, appended by Messrs. J. l. Clark Hare, and
Horace Binney Wallace, esqs., whose labors in
editing Smiths, the American, and Whites Equi.
ty, Leading Cases, have rendered them 80 popular
with the Profession. The ioo price ($2 so per vol
ume) at which they are sold, places them within
the reach ofevery book buyer. 7Aeirmerit recon-
mends them to every lawyer.
Since the reorganization of the Courts Of Exche-
qucr, and the appointment therein OF Judges who
are ranked among the " ,nostlearned and able Ju.
rists Of the Kingdom, these decisions have assumed
acharacterinferior to none of the English Ameri
can Courts; and we find Younge s. Collyer, Nee.
son s. Wclsby, Crompton, Meeson s, Roscoe, Sc,
Sc, perhaps more constantly cited by late Elc.
mentary Writers, and in the cases argued before
the other Courts than my other English Reporters.
A similar opinion of their value and Importance
being entertained by the leading Jurists of this
country, an American Edition cannot but be con.
sidered highly desirable; and the subscribers
issuing it at the very low price of two dollars
and half for each English volume, containing
from 1000 to 200 octave pages, reprinted in full,
in the best style Of the day, with an entirely new
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GENTLEMEN: In reply to your letter, can with
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country. Ofthe high value Of these Reports, both
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not the least doubt; the decisions of this Court, for
the ast fifteen ortwenty years both at Equity andin
any others in England. should think an Ameri.
car lawyers library essentially incomplete with.
out them.
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