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 CRA abridgment of Mr. Reeves' History of the English Law, although the author professes to have written, for the most part, an original work. He has brought the history of the English Law down to a later period than Mr. Reeves, and introduced some historical illustrations that his prede- cessor omitted, which renders it, in some degree, a useful publication, and accompaniment of Reeves' History. 3 Ang. Law. Litel. 1 ; HofF, Leg. Stu. IGl ; G A. J. 215. CRABB, GEORGE. A Digest and Index, with a Chronological Table of all the Statutes, from Magna Charta to the end of the Session, 6lh and 7th Vict. ; to which are added, with great care and exactness, the Reported Decisions of all the Courts with which each Section is connected. 3 vols. 8vo. London. 1841-44. This is a work of immense labor, most carefully and satisfactorily slated. CRAGIUS, THOMAS. Jus Feudale, tribus Libris comprehensum, quibius non solum Consuetudines Feudales, quae in Scotia, An- glia, et plerisque Galliae Locis obtinent, Continentur ; sed uni- versum jus Scoticum, &c. fol. London. 1766. 4to. Lipsiaj. 1716. fol. Edinburgh. 1732. This laborious author, " one of the greatest lawyers whom his country has produced," was many years engaged upon his Jus Feudale, which he left in manuscript at his death. About forty-seven years afterwards it was edited and published by Robert Burnet. The second edition was considerably enlarged by Menckenius, but the last and best received corrections and notes by James Baillie. Its object was to illustrate the Feudal law as applied in Scotland. Kames, in his Remarks upon the Statute Law of Scotland, says, that " Craig has taken little pains to search into the antiquities of our law. It was not the practice in his days either for historians or lawyers to dip into records ; and our author appears to be better acquainted with the Feudal history of other coun- tries, which might be learned from books, than with the Feudal history of his own countrj'-, which must be gathered from records." Kames' Stat. Law, 446; Tyttler's Life of Craig, 158; Irving's Civil Law, 218. CRAIGIE, J. AND J. S. STEWART. Reports of Cases decided in the House of Lords, upon Appeal from Scotland, from the commencement of the Reign of Geo. H. 1720, to 1753, being a continuation of Mr. Robertson's Reports. Svo. Edinburgh. 1825. 237