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 COK been suggested, were suppressed because of the Constitutional Cases contained in them. They are less esteemed than the other Parts, Pro- fessor Hoflman, in his course of IiCgal Study, has pointed out those Cases in the Reports most valuable to the modern lawyer, giving refer- ences to leading American and English authorities, that repose upon the labors of " this Hercules in the law." "To Coke's opinion I must attribute more than to any single opinion of any judge. No one man hath deserved so well of the professors of the law; no one man in any human profession, hath written so much and with so {ew errors as he, in those two works which were published by himself." Sir O. Bridgman. In the Vllth Part of Wilson's edition, commences a new paging, which causes no little trouble in finding references. The last English is greatly preferable to all preceding editions, both on account of the excellent and numerous notes and references, and the very copious index prepared by R. P. Tyrwhlt. These volume are ordinarily cited as 1,2, &c. Reports, without mentioning the author's name, a distinction which no other reporter's labors enjoy. Coke himself refers to them as Lib. 1, 2, &c. For Abridgments of the Reports, see Davis, Davenport, Dunlap, Ire- land, Manly, Parsons, and Trotman. 5 Reeve, 242 ; 1 Kent's Cora. 483 ; Sugd. Pow. 25, n. ; North's Int. 22; 13 N. A. Rev. 279; Loft on Libel, 15; 4 Barn. & Aid. GI4; HoflF, Leg. Stud. 179; Nic. Hist. Lib. 183; Brook's Bib. 208; Ram, 103; 11 State Tri. 30; Phillip's Stu. Leg. 115; 1 Bl.Com. 72; Bacon's Law Tracts, 5; 1 Preston on Est. 3 ; Bann. Rep. 460 ; Prest. Abst. 243 ; Wallace's Rep. 21 ; Bridg. Leg. Bib. 67. COKE, SIR EDWARD. The Reports of, in verse, wherein the name of each Case and the principal points, are contained in two lines. To which are added References in the margin to all the editions of the said Reports ; and two Tables, one of the names of the Cases, and the other of the principal matters. A new edition, with a Life of Sir Edward Coke. 18mo. London. 1826, with a Portrait. This is an attempt to versify the principal points decided in the XI. Parts of Coke's Reports. One couplet is devoted to a case, and the poet seems to have been more intent upon giving the point decided than in producing very harmonious verse. No less than three editions have seen the light, and we may therefore conclude that it is a taking book. Who now will hesitate to assert that we may not yet have Viner and the Year Books wrought into immortal Epics 1 The State Trials, in part, have already been furnished with poetical machinery, and are found to run well. 211