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 An Encyclop/Edia of Equity. THERE are no extra-territorial decisions to which our courts listen with more respect than to a good, pertinent English equit' case. This fact has been recognized in our law literature by the republication of the sixty-nine volumes of the " English Chancery Reports," which are to be found in nearly every town and village in the United States. To these, and to the scores and hundreds of other English equity reports not republished in America, there has been no digest of any kind since the third edition of CHITTY'S EQUITY DIGEST, published in 1853, just a generation ago. The successive English Common-law Digests — Harrison, Fisher, Mews, and the American reprint known as Jacob's Fisher's Digest — contain no equity cases, except a few selected decisions between 1870 and 1880. Whoever has either of these digests, therefore, covers only half the English reports, — the less important half, — and needs besides, to command the whole range of English law, a good equity digest. This need is met by the publication of a jFourti) Ctittton of Ct)itt}>*s Cqmtp Bigest, now passing through the press. Five volumes are ready. Two more volumes, to complete the set, will appear shortly. This excellent work is so admirably arranged, and gives so fully not only a statement of the decision, but also the facts in each case, that it merits the title heading this page, — "AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EQUITY." In most instances, the lawyer who uses CHITTY'S EQUITY DIGEST can find in it all he needs of a case, without referring to the original reports. Each important topic is so well subdivided, and the decisions follow each other in such logical order, as to make almost a treatise on the subject. Mvery lawyer ivho has the " EnglisJi Chancery Reports'^ needs Chitfy's Equity Digest" as a key to them. Every lawyer who has the Law Mepoi^ts needs CJiitty's '"Equity Digest" as a key to the Chancery series. Every lawyer who hrts FisJier's Digest, or Jacob's Fisher's Digest, or Mews' Digest, needs Chitty's "Equity Digest'"' to complete the set. Every lawyer enlarging his library will do well to bay CJiitty's ''Equity Digest," as a storeJiouse of excellent law. ■ Each volume of CHITTY'S EQUITY DIGEST contains over two thousand large and closely printed columns, equal in all to three or more volumes of our own reports. Although the set contains so much matter, and is so expensive to print, it is offered in America (in sheep or in half calf binding, as the purchaser may elect) FOR ONLY EIGHT DOLLARS PER VOLUME, lower, in proportion to its size and contents, than most of our State and national digests. Have you on your shelves a satisfactory digest of the English Common Law Beports ? Lf not, you will find MEWS' C031310N LAW DIGEST (7 VOLS., HALF CALF, $o(i,00 net) by far the best one ever published, as it is the latest.