New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-02
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..-.. 90 VIM, Avs OF TKXAs, CAREFULLY
XSN0r4TED BY GEOSsE " yoJf Banks BlGthGTs
rrs. o,ssont volume the contents Of which cannot
20 Challenge the interest Of the legal profession,
-. undsr circumstances which entitle 1t to more
az ordinary attention. The able annotator is Judge
Tn.nhsl formerly of the Supreme Bench Of Arkansas
~ h4,ter known for many years as distinguished
isVver and Journalist of Texas, whose faith IN Inc
1gnon cause never wavered, and whose dangers ana
sntIerings during the Rebellion are somewhat IShli&
90 the country. Judge Paschal was the ShaiImah ol
tha Commitfee on address at the late Philadelphia
SO0nvention of southern lOyalsts, and has more
Recently baen one of the Union Republican speakers
In New.York and New-Jersey. Sucn an intrOduStoh
Vac scarcely necessary for the elaborate VoiuIne
Which he has to the heTOnS PRha The d e inn
vorts II carries evidence of careful study and close
analysis as well as of patient and protracted
labor. We learn from the authors prdace
Tat after years of careful noting he gave the
Vhole of his leisure time to its prep ratlon. Inc
preface as we'll as the character of the work,
show what an earnest determined mind, strong
In the faith as to the perpetuity OF the Union
and the restoration of civil liberty, can perform
under the greatest difficulties. The volume COM
mences with an examination of the Constitution
OF the United States, in which the learned notes
seem 10 have exhausted every respectable legs-
Iatiye, executive, and judicial precedent which
has given Interpretation TO that instrument. AS
the texts we look in vain to any other source for
20 wide field Of valuable reference. As it is
with the Constitution of the United States is it
with the defunct Constitution of the Confederate
States and all the Constitutions Of Texas, including
the late Constitution of the RECONSTRUCTED States"
and the ordinances Of the Convention. These nstru-
Den,s and the notes possess not merely judicial
and legal but historical interest. When we pass TO
the Digest itself we find not only the whole body of
law now in force in Texas but also the repealed laws
upon which many rights rest, arranged and indexed
with an ability which renders them at once easy of ac
cess The reader then, has acoecton of Spanish and
Mexican laws common TO Louisiana, Florida, Texas,
California, and New-MexcO translated and annotated
in style nowhere else to be found in'America. As
lawyers everywhere are sometimes consulted about
land titles marital rights forced hership archives
Embellishments and other subjects peculiar to the
Jurisprudence of the Spanish Codes, we are sure
that the work only needs to be known TO be
rallied for BY hundreds of practitioners and business
men, who are constantly in need of work which
points to every source OF information that affects
their interests. In addition TO these subjects, the
colonial and county boundaries Of Texas through
every period Of its history, are fully described
and explained in the course Of the work. Its COM
pleteness upon every branch of the law is shown
By the fact that the table of references gives the
citation Of $500 cases and several thousand volumes
of civil and common law authorities. We bespeak
fer it the favor which is,dcWanded by such devotion
to the Constitution end laws.