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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:

District Clerk's Office.

BE it remembered, That on the eighteenth day of March, A. D. 1825, and in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Nathan Dane, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words follow. ing, to wit:

"A General Abi idgment and Digest of American Law, with occasional Notes and Comments. By Nathan Dane, LL. I. Counsellor at Law. In eight volumes. Vol. VIII."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mention d ;" and also to an act, eritled, "An Act, supplementary to an act, entitied, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mention d, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints."

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JOHN W. DAVIS,
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

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PREFACE

TO THE EIGHTH VOLUME.

THIS Volume of references contains the largest Table of Cases, and the fullest Index, to be found in any law work, English or American.

To aid the reader in the ready use of this volume, some arrangements have been adopted which will be made plain in a few words: First, the body of the work (seven volumes) has been formed in one series of Chapters, from one to two hundred and twenty-eight, divided into articles and sections generally Secondly, there are placed on the back of each volume the chapters in it: Thirdly, there are printed in the margin of each page, near the top of it, the proper chapter and article, which may be turned to as readily as as the pages; and both in the Index and Table of Casés, the volume is always referred to, and represented by Roman figures.

These modes of referring, as well as to volume and page, have been adopted for several reasons.

There are

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