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The publishers announce in their advertisement that "the object of this series is not merely to give a number of unconnected narratives of men in American political life, but to produce books which shall, when taken together, indicate the lines of political thought and development in American history - books embodying in compact form the result of extensive study of the many and diverse influences which have combined to shape the political history of our country.”

The series thus far numbers eleven volumes, as follows: John Quincy Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, by John T. Morse, Jr.; Alexander Hamilton, Daniel Webster, by Henry Cabot Lodge; John C. Calhoun, by H. von Holst; Andrew Jackson, by W. G. Sumner; John Randolph, by Henry Adams; James Monroe, by Daniel C. Gilman; Albert Gallatin, by

another v. Mary Busch.- Motion to revive action granted without costs-Cyrus H. McCormick, respondent, v. Pennsylvania Central R. Co., appellant.

Ordered, that a calendar be made for a term of this court to be held at the Capitol, in the city of Albany, on Monday, the 19th day of January, 1885, on which shall be placed only those cases in which the returns and notices of argument, with proof of service, shall have been filed with the clerk of this court on or before Wednesday, the 31st day of December, 1884.

NOTES.

John Austin Stevens, James Madison, by Sgruder. AMAN named Corset has tried to kill himself by

Gay. Marshall, by A. B.

Clay, by Carl Schurz; and Van Buren, by William Dorsheimer, are announced as in preparation.

The selection of subjects thus far is judicious; indeed, almost inevitable, unless perhaps the biography of Gallatin might have been spared, and it is a little doubtful whether Randolph was a statesman."

In respect to the treatment we can speak with almost unqualified praise. These are by no means biographies in the hackneyed sense, but rather studies by competent scholars and critics of the career of these distinguished men, written with a great deal of insight and impartiality. The reader will find these the first Americau biographies not tinged by heroworship. We have been most forcibly struck by the calmness of their style and the severity of their judgments. This is particularly noticeable in Mr. Lodge's sketches of Webster and Hamilton. A friendly warmth and exaggeration might well be pardoned in respect to these two brilliant men, but Mr. Lodge is not for a moment betrayed from the coolness of the judge into the panegyric of the advocate. He deals most honestly with Webster's great faults, and has the courage to rate his legal acquirements at their true worth. The sketches of Randolph and Jackson are among the most readable and vigorous.

Nearly all American statesmen have been lawyers. There are still a great many contingent statesmen in the ranks of the lawyers. To all lawyers the biographies of statesmen are of the greatest value and interest, and we do not know of any other source of information about these great men at once so concise, so trustworthy and so entertaining as the present series.

Nearly all of the series have passed more than one edition, some of them as many as six or seven. They deserve this marked success, and we cordially recommend them to the legal profession. The books are handsomely printed, and are of convenient size-16 mo.

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COURT OF APPEALS DECISIONS.

HE following decisions were handed down Friday, Dec. 19, 1884:

Judgments affirmed with costs-Charles F. Nichols, respondent, v. Weed Sewing Machine Co., appellant; Thomas Eames, appellant, v. City of Brooklyn, respondent; John Food, appellant, v. James Dooley, respondent; Victory Webb, etc., Manufacturing Co., appellant, v. John B. Foord and another, respondents; Same v. H. W. Beecher; William H. Popham, respondent, v. Twenty-third Street R. Co., appellant; Union Dime Savings Institution, respondent, v. Thomas L. Sanford, appellant.-Motion to put on preferred calendar denied with costs-Carl F. W. Busch and

cutting his throat. That certainly is the appropriate way for a man of that name to kill himself.Example of French wit brought out by the new divorce law: Husband and wife present themselves before the divorce court. "What do you want, madame?" "Divorce from that wretch." "And you, sir?" "Divorce from that vixen." "The decree is refused; there is no incompatibility of temper. You both seem to be perfectly agreed. Call the next case." -Where the money had gone: "As I was coming home from the lawyer's to-day I noticed the most beautiful sealskin sacque. It cost only $300." "Why did'nt you buy it, my dear?" "I was just coming away from the lawyer's," I said. "Oh!"-Graphic.

-The 56th Vermont Reports is an interesting and well edited volume. We found thirteen cases in it which we deemed of enough general importance and interest to go into the American Reports. This is a large number. Mr. Palmer, the reporter, is doing his work well, and the court is fully up to the high New England standard of ability.

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Cleveland oil transportation case; charge and verdict
in.

Code should not be a digest; proper code mere
frame-work like commandments; mistake in as-
suming "indifference of New York bar in proposed

502

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241

Code
codification, various objections to a commercial
code require only to be faced
exceptions to some suggestions on, in work enti-
tled Some Leading Principles of Anglo-Amer-
ican Law," by Prof. H. T. Terry..
and reform of law of nations; executive coun-
cil of, association for, adjourned to meet at
Hamburg, Germany.
postponement of conference for reform of codifi-
cation of law of nations at Hamburg, on ac-
count of obstruction to travel caused by quar-
antine regulations
142
lynching attributed to, by Mr. J. Bleecker Miller. 501
memorandum upon proposed civil code, by John
R. Strong

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head-notes and indices, Virginia Law Journal on.
legal conclusion should be impregnated with
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Henry, Judge, remarks on disadvantages of contin-
gent fees; suggestion to enact laws to give lien for
reasonable counsel fees

Hoadley, Governor, address before Yale Law School
on codification; extract from, on common-law
pleading

481

Huddleston, Baron, charge of, in case of "Mignon-
ette" cannibals..

English Law Magazine and Review on unofficial
codes, pocket manuals

481

"hugging" a serious offense among English barris-
ters, but not with pugilists..

"The evils of," toast responded to at American
Bar Association, by David Dudley Field, Walrus
and Carpenter...

code of civil procedure; evidence; pamphlet by
David Dudley Field..

441

Illinois reports little cited, considering her wealth
and business activity..

income of lawyers; the profession not well paid
American Law Record on..

181

report of committee of New York Bar Associa-
tion appointed to urge rejection of civil code.. 501
in State of New York, Robert Fowler on...
21
Mr. Fowler's answer to Mr. Carter's objections to.. 462
Governor Hoadley on......

index, best form of, is reproduction of head-notes
where latter properly constructed; examples
from American Reports

1

extract from Gov. Hoadley's address on; incident

construction of an, merely reproducing state-
ments of a syllabi, generally a vicious system.. 261
Indiana Normal School, Law Department, address
before, by Chief Justice Elliott..

of common law pleading..
Kentucky Bar Association, action of, on
Coleridge, Lord, extract from letter to the editor,
relative to statement that he was writing book
on America

Coleridge-Adams libel suit; setting aside verdict....
"Commentaries on American Law," by Dr. Wharton;
remarks of London Law Times
common law, Judge Caldwell on

181

141

indictment of newspapers for mistaken opinion on
estimates, scarcely probable

infant, bicycle may be necessary for ..

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442

international copyright and doctrine of trade-mark,
anomalous condition of law in regard to.
interviewing, poem on....

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concertinas, playing of, or any musical instruments
prohibited by local ordinance in Truro, England.. 281
contingent fees, remarks of Mr. Henry on the dis-
advantage of; suggestion to have laws enacted to
give lien for reasonable counsel fees.
crime, case of yacht Mignonette: one survivor killing
and eating another; necessity no excuse for..
Davis, Judge, remarks on his judicial despotism, by
London Law Times

241

282

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three in Mignonette" case, no difficulty in pro-
nouncing murder

(Eng.) keeping up with business of courts, Law
Times on

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Drummond, Judge, anecdotes reported of.

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denial of anecdotes of self..

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Jackson, Chief Justice, of Georgia, "fiue writing" by, 301
judges, entertainment of, by Lord Mayor of London,
views of master of rolls on ...

their Latin and their grammar

of county courts in England and Wales hereafter
to be styled "His Honor," prefixed to word
judge, and to take rank and precedence next
after Knight's Bachelors..

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Elliott, Chief Justice of Indiana, exceptions to ad-
dress by, at law school commencement; his
estimate of number of deaths by witchcraft 141
on philosophy of punishment for crime..
481
eloquence, British idea of; Mr. David Dudley Field
criticised

citing cases largely from their own States, in New
York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
tendency of, to cite too many authorities..
bad habit of citing name of reporter instead of
State..

fault of, in having reported sexual cases at
length

citing reporter's names, Central Law Journal on, 382
"fine writing" by Chief Justice Jackson, Georgia,
and Judge Manning, Louisiana...
retirement of; salary of; Attorney-General
O'Brien on abridgment of compensation of.... 361
refusing to take judicial note, that beating a
drum is playing a drum, or that a colt is of the
horse species..
judicial despotism, Judge Davis

Judicial administration, resolution by David Dudley
Field to appoint committee to report remedy for
present delay in.

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England, much to learn from United States and
British colonies as regards jurisdiction, etc.
66 eternal vigilance;" correspondence by R. D. Mc-
Gibbon on derivation of phrase; refers it back to
Demosthenes.

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evidence, part four of Code of Civil Procedure, David
Dudley Field.

441

jury in modern corporate life, the, Mr. Edwin Young
Kennedy, Mr., not disbarred as asserted in **Legal
Romance." See September 6.

execution, stay of, pending appeal, refusal of, by
Mr. Justice Manisty.

Karslake, Sir John, still living..

242

122

expert testimony of artists as to obscenity of pho-
tographs on sale, incompetent in trial for indict-

kissing, amusing cases; not legal" consideration;'
"volenti non fit injuria"

ment..

402
Federal Supreme Court, proposal to relieve, by cut-
ting off appeals, Austin Abbott on
.81, 82
fees, inability of English barrister to compel pay-

ment of..
Field, David Dudley, resolution introduced by, at
American Bar Association, to appoint com-
mittee to report remedy for present delay in
judicial administration..

181

law, influence of; extract from address before Uni-
versity Pennsylvania, by Mr. Justice Bradley
Law and Medical Men, the, R. Vashon Rogers..
Law Journal (Albany), complimentary remarks
upon....
Law Times, Eng., Court of Appeals behind on appeals. 21
lawyers in politics; profession notoriously addicted

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collection of his speeches, arguments and papers,
review of; estimate of his legal ability.
part four of Code of Civil Procedure, by, evi-
dence..

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342

"fine writing" by judges.....

301

Folger, Charles James, obituary and personal esti-

financial success of; American Law Record on..
lawyer, the ideal, as portrayed in address by Judge
Cassoday..

mate of; his literary traits.

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fol" on...

Judge, effect of poem "De Massa ob de Sheep-

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Eno, extradition of, George H. Adams on..
Folger, Charles James, some characteristics of.
Forgotten tragedy, a..

RECENT AMERICAN DECISIONS.

Alabama Supreme Court

144

284

202

California Supreme Court

Colorado Supreme Court

Illinois Supreme Court

180, 476
259

297, 451

17, 57, 90, 414

International Law, Lawrence's.

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Nevada Supreme Court.

Legal romance, a, or the Swinfen cases..

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Iowa Supreme Court. 55, 79, 118, 136, 179, 235, 298, 356
398, 418
Kansas Supreme Court.... 16, 156, 238, 298, 355, 453, 515
Maryland Court of Appeals. 18, 79, 155, 198, 257, 296, 317
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
436, 495
Michigan Supreme Court.. 17, 98, 117, 357, 376, 434
452, 517
Minnesota Supreme Court
137, 374, 454, 477
Missouri Supreme Court, 58, 138, 159, 220, 237,299, 396, 435
Nebraska Supreme Court..277, 315, 338, 697, 484, 452, 497

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.375, 437

Levi, J. C., on service of surrogate's citations..
London letter, our....

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458

New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeal
New Jersey Supreme Court..

475

54, 177

Neilson's memories of Rufus Choate.

404

New York Court of Appeals...36, 77, 93,

113, 219, 294, 355

Old cases reviewed, the case of the nine members.. 344
The King's trial

371, 412, 472, 493

384

Ohio Supreme Court.

The true story of Ophelia, or the death of Miss
Stout

Ohio Supreme Court Coun..

455
455, 517

505

Oregon Supreme Court

396

Parker, Courtlandt, conclusion of his address before
American Bar Association...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court.... .39, 56, 98, 115, 156, 178

204

Partnership, by participation in profits, Guy C. H.
Corliss on..

Rhode Island Supreme Court

236, 377, 439, 514
.117, 158, 237, 314, 415

26

Presumptions from alterations of instruments, John
D. Lawson on.....

Texas Commission of Appeals
Texas Supreme Court..

17

115

245

Presumption of intent, the, John D. Lawson on.

66

of payment, the, John D. Lawson on..... 84, 103,
of survivorship, John D. Lawson on.
Prevention of Defective and Slipshod Legislatson,
Simon Sterne on the....

124

45

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Virginia Supreme Court..
West Virginian Supreme Court of Appeals.
Wisconsin Supreme Court

United States Circuit Court...53, 78, 95, 113, 175, 234, 257
276, 295, 813, 337, 395, 430, 473, 494
United States District Court 95, 135, 175, 313, 337, 430
United States Supreme Court..15, 37, 52, 94, 114, 134, 154
174, 197, 233, 256, 312, 336, 372
157, 279, 358, 39, 416
177
315

.38, 57, 137, 317

slipshod legislation.....

223

Swinfen cases, the, a legal romance..

Surrogates' citations, service of, J. C. Levi on...
Temple Church, the.

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Throop, Montgomery H., on women and the legal
profession

For subjects see Index-Digest.
Abstract of
RECENT ENGLISH DECISIONS.
39, 59, 118, 138, 260, 359, 378, 419, 456
For subjects see Index-Digest.

464

True story of Ophelia, the

505

Women and the legal profession, Montgomery H.
Throop on. ...................

464

MARYLAND Court of Appeals Abstract (see Recent
American Decisions).

SCENE IN AN ENGLISH COURT. Sentenced
to death.....

SKETCH IN AN AMERICAN COURT.
SONG, "A Hint to Queen's Counsel"

MASSACHUSETTS Supreme Judicial Court Ab-
strct (see Recent American Decisions).

See General Term.

STATUTE OF FRAUDS, Reed on...

339

140

100

100

444

MICHIGAN Supreme Court Abstract (see Recent
American Decisions).

MILLER, J. B., on Mr. Fowler's pamphlet......
MINNESOTA Supreme Court Abstract (see Recent
American Decisions).

MISSOURI Supreme Court Abstract (see Recent
American Decisions).

NEBRASKA Supreme Court Abstract (see Recent
American Decisions).

NEVADA Supreme Court Abstract (see Recent Ameri-
can Decisions).

NEW JERSEY Court of Chancery (see Recent Amer-
ican Decisions).

Court of Errors and Appeals Abstract (see Recent
American Decisions).

Supreme Court Abstract (see Recent American De-
cisions).

NEW YORK Court of Appeals Abstract (see Recent
American Decisions).

Court of Appeals Decisions handed down (June 27),
20; (Oct. 7), 300; (Oct. 14), 320; (Oct. 21), 340; (Oct. 28),
360; (Oct. 31), 380; (Nov. 25), 440; (Dec. 2), 460; (Dec.
9), 480; (Dec. 16), 500; (Dec. 19), 520.

OHIO Supreme Court Com. (see Recent American De-
cisions).

OREGON Supreme Court Abstract (see Recent Ameri-

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