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CONTENTS.

PART III.

OF THE INSTRUMENTS OF EVIDENCE.

CHAPTER I.

Of Witnesses, and the means of procuring their Attendance

PAGE

. 796-863

A List of the Abbreviations

USED IN THIS TREATISE,

TOGETHER WITH A STATEMENT OF THE

EDITIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTARY WORKS CITED.

NOTE.-The letters A. B. C. D. appended to the American Reports, denote the relative estimation in which those Reports are held by the profession in general, out of the particular State where the decisions were pronounced; A. marking the highest degree of excellence. A very eminent American Jurist has kindly furnished the Author with this guide.

NAME OF WORK, ETC.

Adolphus & Ellis's Reports, King's Bench.

Abercrombie on the Intellectual Powers. 6th edition.
Edinburgh, 1836.

Adam's Roman Antiquities.

Addison's Reports, Pennsylvania. 1791–1799.

1 vol. (C).

Addams' Ecclesiastical Reports.

Aiken's Reports, Vermont. 1826-1827. 2 vols. (B).
See Marsh.

Alcock and Napier's Reports, King's Bench, Ireland.
Alciatus de Præsumptione. Alciati Opera, Basileæ,
1582. 4 tom., fol.

Alison's Principles of the Criminal Law of Scotland.

Alison's Practice of the Criminal Law of Scotland.

American edition.

American Jurist. Boston.

Ambler's Reports, Chancery.

Anderson's Reports, Common Pleas.

Andrew's Reports, King's Bench.

Anstruther's Reports, Exchequer.

Anthon's Nisi Prius Reports, New York. 1808

1818. 1 vol. (D).

Appleton's Reports, Maine, from 1841. 1 vol. (C).
Archbold's Criminal Pleading. 8th edition, 1841.
Armstrong, Macartney and Ogle's Reports, Nisi Prius,

Ireland.

b

NAME OF WORK, ETC.

Armstrong and Trevor's Report of the Case of R. v.
O'Connell, Dublin, 1844.

Atkyns's Reports, Chancery.

Ayliffe's Parergon, 2nd edition, 1734.

Barnewall and Alderson's Reports, King's Bench.
Barnewall and Adolphus' Reports, King's Bench.
Broderip and Bingham's Reports, Common Pleas.
Barnewall and Cresswell's Reports, King's Bench.
Bosanquet and Puller's Reports, Common Pleas.
Bacon's Abridgment.

Bailey's Reports, South Carolina, 1828-1832,
2 vols. (B).

Ball and Beatty's Reports, Chancery, Ireland.
Barnes's Notes of Practice Cases in Common Pleas.
Batty's Reports, King's Bench, Ireland.

Bay's Reports, South Carolina, 1783-1804, 2 vols.
(B. C).

5th edition, London, 1830.

Beames's General Orders in Chancery.

Beavan's Reports, Rolls Court.

Bell's Digest of the Laws of Scotland.

Bentham's Rationale of Judicial Evidence, 5 vols.
London, 1827.

Best on Presumptions, London, 1844.

Bibb's Reports, Kentucky, 1808-1817, 4 vols. (D).
Bingham's Reports, Common Pleas.

Bingham's Reports, New Series, Common Pleas.
Binney's Reports, Pennsylvania, 1799-1814,
6 vols. (A).

Bishop of Tasmania's Lectures on the Christian
Catechism.

Blackstone's Commentaries.

Henry Blackstone's Reports, Common Pleas.
Sir William Blackstone's Reports, (K. B. & C. P.)
Bland's Chancery Reports, Maryland, 1811-1830,
2 vols. (C).

Blackford's Reports, Indiana, 1817-1838, 4 vols.
(C. D).

Bligh's Reports, House of Lords.

Bligh's Reports, New Series, House of Lords.
See Moore.

Buller's Law of Nisi Prius.

Bott's Poor Laws.

Brown's Chancery Cases.

Brown's Parliamentary Cases.

Brooke's Abridgment.

Browne's Reports, Pennsylvania, 1806-1814,

2 vols. (C).

Brownlow's Reports.

Buck's Reports in Cases of Bankruptcy.

ABBREVIATIONS, &c.

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ABBREVIATIONS.

Bulst.

Bunb.

Burge, Comm. on

Col. & For.
Laws,

Burn's Ec. L.

Burn, Just. by Chit.

Burnet Cr. Law,

Burr.

Burr. S. C.

Bynk. Obs. Jur.

Rom.

C. & J.

C. & Kir.

...

NAME OF WORK, ETC.

Bulstrode's Reports.

Bunbury's Reports, Exchequer.

Burge's Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws,
4 vols. London, 1838.

Burn's Ecclesiastical Law, 9th edition, London, 1842.
Burn's Justice of the Peace, by Chitty, 29th edition,
London, 1845.

Burnet on Criminal Law of Scotland.

Burrow's Reports, King's Bench.

Burrow's Settlement Cases, King's Bench.

Bynkershoek, Libri Observationum Juris Romani.
Crompton and Jervis's Reports, Exchequer.
Carrington and Kirwan's Nisi Prius Reports.

C. & M. or Cr. & M. Crompton and Meeson's Reports, Exchequer.

C. M. & R.

Crompton, Meeson, and Roscoe's Reports, Exchequer.
Carrington and Marshman's Nisi Prius Reports.
Carrington and Payne's Nisi Prius Reports.

Caines's Reports, New York, 1803-1805, 3 vols. (A).
Caldecott's Reports of Settlement Cases.

Calvini Lexicon Juridicum Juris Cæsarii. Geneva,
1645, fol.

Campbell's Nisi Prius Reports.

Venetiis, 1781-1785, 5 vols. fol.

Carrington's Supplement of Treatises on Criminal Law.
Carpzovii Practice Rerum Criminalium. Francof. ad
Mænum, 1758, 3 vols. fol.

Carthew's Reports, King's Bench.

Cases in the time of Lord Hardwicke.

Ecclesiastical Reports in the time of Sir G. Lee.
Channing's works, 5 vols. 3rd edition, Glasgow, 1840.
Chitty on Bills of Exchange, 9th edition, London, 1840.
Chitty's Treatise on the Criminal Law, 2nd edition,
London, 1826.

Chitty's Forms of Practical Proceedings in Common
Law Courts, 6th edition, London, 1847.
Chitty's General Practice.

Chitty, Senior, on Pleading, 7th edition, London, 1844.
Chitty's Reports, King's Bench.

Ciceronis Familiares Epistolæ.

New York Recorder, containing Reports of Cases in
City Courts from 1816 to 1821, 6 vols.
Clark and Finnelly's Reports, House of Lords.

Clifford's Southwark Election Case.

Lord Coke's Reports, London, 1826.
Coke on Littleton.

Cockburn and Rowe's Election Cases.

Cod. Lib.

NAME OF WORK, ETC.

Codex Theodosianus, Jacobi Gothofredi.

Code de Proc. Civ. Code Napoleon de Procedure Civile.

Crawf. & Dix,

Abr. C.

Collyer's Chancery Reports.

Commonwealth.

Manning, Granger and Scott's Reports, Common
Pleas.

Comyn's Digest.

Journals of the House of Commons.

Comberbach's Reports, King's Bench.

Conklin's Practice of the Courts of the United States,
New York, 1842.

Connecticut Reports, by T. Day, 1814 to present
time, 15 vols. (B).

Haggard's Consistory Reports.

Constitutional Reports, South Carolina, 1812-1816, 2 vols. (B. C).

Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical.

Amended Constitution of the United States.

Cooke and Alcock's Reports, King's Bench, Ireland.
Cooke's Reports, Tennessee, 1811-1814, 1 vol. (D).
Charles Purton Cooper's Cases in Chancery.

St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians.

Corner's Crown Practice in Queen's Bench, London,
1844.

Cowen's Reports, New York, 1823—1828, 9 vols. (A).
Cowper's Reports, King's Bench.

Cox's Reports, Chancery.

Coxe's Reports, New Jersey, 1790-1795, 1 vol. (C).
Craig and Phillips' Reports, Chancery.

Cranch's Reports, Supreme Court of United States,

1800-1815, 9 vols. (A).

Crawford and Dix's Abridged Notes of Cases in
Ireland.

Crawf. & Dix, C. C. Crawford and Dix, Irish Circuit Reports.

Croke's Reports of the time of King Charles I.

Croke's Reports in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

roke's Reports in the reign of King James.

Ryland's Crown Circuit Companion.

Cruise on Dignities or Titles of Honour.
Cujaccii Opera Posthuma.

Curteis' Ecclesiastical Reports.

Davison and Merivale's Reports, Queen's Bench.
Dowling and Ryland's Reports, King's Bench.
Dowling and Ryland's Magistrates' Cases.
Dowling and Ryland's Nisi Prius Cases.
Dalison's Reports.

Dallas's Reports. Supreme Courts of United States,
and Pennsylvania, 1790-1806, 4 vols. (A).
Dalton's Country Justice.

Daniell's Chancery Practice, 2nd edition, by T. E.
Headlam. London, 1845.