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 cox and accuracy, it is found to be very well adapted to the wants of justices in several of the new States. The last edition is of course to be preferred. COWLARD,. An Essay on the Republication of Devises. 8vo. London. 1833. COWPER, H. Reports of Cases in the Court of K. B. from PI. T. 14 Geo. III. 1774, to T. T. 18 Geo. III. 1778. fol. 1783. 2d ed. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1800. 1st Am. ed. with Notes. 2 vols. Boston. 1809. New York. 2 vols, in 1. By J. P. Hall. 1833. " Cowper's Reports are acknowledged to be a very accurate and valu- able collection; the method of reporting adopted by this author having equally avoided the objection of too great diffuseness and of obscure brevity." Thoy are uniformly received with respect in our judicial tri- bunals, though in one instance at least their authority was questioned. "The case of Hambly v. Tjrott, is not law; and further, 1 never knew a case in Cowper to be received as law in our country." Per Williams, J.; 1 Hayward, 4; Bridg. Bib. 86. COX, E. W. The Registration of Voters Act, 6 Vict. 12mo. London. 1843. COX, S. C. Reports of Cases determined in the Courts of Equity, from 1783 to 1796, inclusive; with a few of an earlier date, by Lord Hardwicke and Lord Northington. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1816. 1st Am. ed. with Notes and References to the subsequent Decisions and American Cases. By Murray Hoffman. 2 vols. 8vo. New York. 1824. " Coxe's Cases in Chancery give us the decisions of Lord Kenyon, while he was Master of the Rolls under Thurlow, as well as the deci- sions of the Lord Chancellor during the same period. They were in- tended as a supplement to the Reports of Brown and the younger Vesey, so far as these Reports covered the period embraced by the Cases, and are most brief and perspicuous Reports of unquestionable accuracy." The American edition is ably edited. 1 Kent's Com. 494. COXE, RICHARD S. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, from 1790 to 1795. 8vo. Burlington. 1816. . A Digest of the Decisions in the Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, and District Courts of the United States. 8vo. Philadelphia. 1829. " It embraces the decisions of the Supreme Court, the Circuit and 235