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 LIV than two centuries. 3 L. M. 152; Hoff. Leg. Stu. 230; 2 Angell's Law Intel. 266 ; Pref. to the work. LIVERMORE, SAMUEL. A Treatise on the Law of Principal and Agent, and of Sales by Auction. 2 vols. 8vo. Baltimore. 1818. The author treats the subject in a learned and perspicuous manner, drawing illustrations from the Civil, as well as the Common Law, but the volume has been too long published to serve as a book of reference of the present day. 12 Analectic Rev. 220; 22 A. J. 478; 2 Kent's Com. 647. . Dissertations on the Questions which arise from the Contrariety of the positive Laws of different States and Nations. 8vo. New Orleans. 1828. ♦' The Treatise of the late Samuel Liverraore, of New Orleans, on the Contrariety of Laws, and the Commentary of Dr. Story, on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, are still (1836,) in few hands in this country. They introduce us to the study of the foreign jurists, in a way hitherto unknown in our common language. These writers have the additional advantage of bringing to the consideration of these subjects, an intimate acquaintance with all that has been written and decided, in regard to the different systems of laws obtaining in Great Britain. Their works form an important accession to the legal knowledge of the present age. Inquiries of this kind present a new field for the generous rivalry of kindred nations." Mr, Livermore was one of the most learned and eminent jurists that this country has produced, and his dissertations, though defective in method, are able, and led the way for the more ela- borate and scientific Treatise of Judge Story. The former, at his death, very generously bequeathed his splendid collection of books upon foreign law, to the Law Library of Harvard College, which placed within the reach of the latter, a collection of works of great value, which he after- wards turned to so good an account. Robertson on Personal Succ. 77, n; 1 A. J. 140; 2 Kent's Com. 454, n. LIVES of all the Lord Chancellors, Lord Keepers, and Lord Com- missioners of the Great Seal of England, from William the Con- queror to the Present Time ; but more at large of those two great opposites, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, and Biilstrode, Lord Whitlock, (fee. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1712. of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Geo. IV. By Lord CampbelL 8vo. London. 1845. Reprinted : Philadel- phia. 3 vols. 8vo. 184G. 470