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PROSPECTUS of THE AMERICAN LAW


Il REGISTERING elevation Of the principal Elitor of
the American Law journal TO the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvana suspended Tor time the publication of that
Work and with the fifth volume the closed To
meet the wants Of tn profession throughout tue United
Periodical. 10 be called HE AMERICAN LAW REGIS
TER the character and design Of ehich will be briefly
STATED
in this country of which hundred volumes are
now printed annually has become 80 great that no
Judge Lawyer command the Slme 10 read or the
buy ali which appear nor can he supply the necs
sity which he Is under OF amiiarZng himself with inc
current Of decision through the medium OF the Digest ex-
cep in very imperfect IL is Indispensable there
fore that plan should be adopted by which the most
cas-. that is those which involve either
PRiNCIPL NOVEL APPLICATION of those already es-
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the Law egser lay before the Pro esson regularly
selection of Cases FROM the American aud English Reports
according their importance, viii be either printed full
or carefully condensed And arrangements have been also
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read ana long before they can be elsewhere reported
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mediate interest, under which the subject OF Medical Jur4
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gsh Cases with references to the American Authorizes,
Cuses from the American Reports ul notes abstracts
Of Cases containing sew PoiNr miscellaneous eSa ih'f
nation and critical notices OF New Books -
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dence win be reprinted translated nom them select
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York ard Boston. IL will be printed royal octave form
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Of over hundred and fifty pages annually and VIII DC
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