Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-16
PIANOS.

LAW BOOKS.
NEW AND VALUABLE WORK
FOR LAWYERS. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
And all Connected nth the judicial Administration or
the GoUernmem.
II, III IE - IT N - " IL, &c
of the State of indiana,
CONTAINING THE REVISED STATUTEs OF 1852
Z with the amendments thereto and the subsequen
legislation, with and references judicial decisions.
EDITED
JAMES GAVIN AND OSCAR ORD.
Volume /, Published by
BINGHAM a DOUGHTY,
INDIANAPOLIS.
Judge David VIC Donald, one of the most
eminent lawyers the State, volunteered the followne
recommendation of the work:
STATUTES or ISDIASA, GAVIN HoRD.-Some months
ago. the above named gentlemen issued proposals for pub
shng in two volumes octave of some 500 pages each
the statutes of the state passed since ls with
tions The FIRST volume of the work IS now and
the of its execution both mechanically and edto-
rally, deserves the thanks of the profession.
The imperfect manner of publishing statutes under
State authority, has always been of great ncOn-
venence the Indiana Lawyer. The revision of 1857
well the statutes passed since that year. might almost
aswell have been published without index Up &c
thisme the lawyer has constantly been under the
sity turning over, leaf by leaf the volumes o our
find any particular enactment And every
knows how annoying and provoking this is especially in
the hurry of business in Courts Happily for the
profession the publication under consideration promises
better Of things in the future The first volume
nessrs. Gavin Hord's work contains excellent and
copous index which every practicing lawyer the
tate Is itself worth the money which the volume costs
The volume under review contains another excellence
its pages supplied with valuable marginal indices
that glance at the margin sufficient to apprise the
eader Of the contents of the page.
Another matter of great Importance 10 the lawyer in
this volume is good collection of the subjects Of all
slaton ISL Heretofore, the lawyer in examining
our legislation any given subject had first TO find what
relevant to in the Revision of 1852 and then
pages of the volumes Of subsequent Statutes
see how far recentegslson may have repealed mod
fed the provisions contained in that Revision. and even
then he would often feel doubt whether he had found all
the legislation the subject of his inquiry Mesrs Ga
win and HOrt have relieved us OF all this trouble and
doubt They have collected together in consecutive pages
all the statutes made since 1851. the subject
Thus pages 37S to 37 of their first volume they have
collected all legislation, in force, the subject
husband and Wife including the act of 1852 and three
of 1851 And they have followed the same mode CO.
ocaon in appropriate consecutive pages in regard to all
other topics of legislation.
still more valuable feature the copious and accu-
rate contained in the volume in question This VOL
includes the Constitution of the United States. the
Of Indiana and several important vr
GINA and statutes of Congress, and large portion
in force. The numerous decisions the
Courts the various provisions oontainedn these Constis
tuons and found at the bottom of the appro-
pirate pages in the form 81 neat brief and
and references. Messrs Gavin IoTd have per-
formed this part Of their work exceedingly WELL II
have cost them much and labor. BY they have
greatly essened the labor of the practising lawyer and
have well merited his grateful approval.
In every respect the volume under review highly red
table TO the diligence accuracy talents and the taste
its editors well the mechanical skill and
publishers, and IL raise the just expectation
the profession the value of the second volume, which
we understand will be forthcoming in few MONTHS and
which will contain the code of pleading and practice
1852 with subsequent amendments and other statutes.
without any with the editors publishers OF the
volume question: the writer of this article has been in
uced compose and publish this little review Of the book
solely because be believes the editors and publishers de-
serve high commentator for their performance. He,
therefore. deems but just them without being soc
tied Ia il by any TO publish this notice Of the book
over his own proper name. DAVID MCDONALD.
indianapolis, November l. 1860
The first volume is ready and being delivered to
ubscriberS.
PRICE 81 80.
It's for sale by BINGHAM 4 DOUGHTY.
indianapolis.