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 HAR HARRISON, J. B. Reports of Cases in the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans, and in the Supreme Court of Louis- iana; containing the Decisions of those Courts, from the Autumn Term, 1809, to the March Term, 1830, and which were embraced in the 20 vols, of Fr. Xavier Martin's Reports ; with Notes of Louisiana Cases, wherein the doctrines are affirmed, contradicted, or extended, and of the subsequent Legislation. 4 vols. Bvo. New Orleans. 1839-40. The Cases are condensed by omitting the arguments of counsel, which, in Martin's Reports, appear in extenso. The compiler was assisted in his labour to the close of 12 Martin. HARRISON, R. T. A Digested Index to all the Reported Deci- sions in the several Courts of Law and Equity, &c., from 1837 to 1846. 8vo. London. 1837-46. The above is a series of annual Digests, and '' few works are of more sterling merit. Its excellent arrangement reflects the highest credit on the editor. Mr. Tarrant Harrison, the editor of this periodical work, and also of the last voluminous Digest which bears his name, is not the original editor, but a man of much more learning, and one of the most eminent and skilful of our special pleaders." 2 L. M. N. S. 420 ; (4) 360. HARRISON, S. B. An Analytical Digest of all the Reported Cases determined in the House of Lords, the several Courts of Common Law, in Banc and at Nisi Prius, and the Court of Bankruptcy, from 1756 to 1843 ; including also the Crown Cases reserved, and a full Selection of Equity Decisions, wMth the MS. Cases cited in the best modern Treatises not elsewhere reported. 3d ed. By R. T. Harrison. 4 vols. 8vo. London. 1843. The material for this immense Encyclopaedia of the Law, was col- lected from the abstracts of about 11,000 Cases, and embraces most, though not all, of the reported decisions, from 1756 to 1843. It is pretty evident that the compilers of the Digest, generally, used the head notes to Cases furnished by the reporters, who, of all persons, ou^ht to make accurate and reliable abstracts. The general titles and their subdivisions are so well arranged, that the consulfer of the volume can readily find the decisions upon any given point, and the whole exe- cution is perhaps as perfect and accurate as could well be made from the magnitude and nature of the undertaking. Harrison's Digest was re- published in Pliiladelpbia, in 1835. Since then it has been continued by Appendices, by George Sharswood, formed out of the annual Digests of Mr. Jeremy, and the American edition now is in 4 vols., 8vo., Philadel- 372