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Chamberlayne's

ENGLISH RULING CASES

BEST

— VOL. 27 —

ON

[FIRST SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME.]

EVIDENCE

Abandonment to Will.

Notes brought down to 1908

Early in June we published this volume, which brings the set of English Ruling Cases down to as late as July, 1907.

$3.50 net The notes in this volume differ in some degree from those of its predecessors. No effort has been made to cite all recent American decisions which reaffirm the doc trines of the Ruling Cases. But where those doctrines have been reversed or modified by recent decisions the changes are carefully noted. The notes have been designed not only to deal with matters found in any comprehensive work but to go beyond that and treat question^ ofprocedure U'hich are unanswered in other works. New Features.

The full title of this work, which we have just published, is THE PRIN CIPLES OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE WITH ELEMEN TARY RULES FOR CONDUCTING THE EXAMINATION AND CROSS-EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES. THIRD AMERICAN EDITION-, WITH NOTES TO AMERICAN AND CANADIAN CASES. By Charles F. Chamberlayne, Esq., of the Boston and New York Bars. Title.

It is an edition of a A Practical Work. severely practical nature. There is no new termin ology, and a practitioner will find things where he expects to find them and under the old names.

Mr. Chamberlayne is fighting for relevancy as the dominant test of admissibility, aided by more power of discretion in the judges. Author's Aim*.

The title BAILMENTS was omitted from the original series, but a state ment is made in this volume of some rules which will be helpful in the preparation and trial of causes. Such subjects as CARRIERS, EXTRAORDINARY REMEDIES, INTERFERENCE WITH CONTRACTS, and so on, are examined from the standpoint both of substantive and of remedial law. New Title*.

[Price of volume 27, $5.50. (Set of ENGLISH RULING CASES, 27 vols., $108.00.)]