University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Recent Important Law Books. (FOR SALE BY ALL LAW BOOKSELLERS.) Birdseye ' s Abbot ' s Clerks ' and Conveyancers ' Assistant. A collection of forms of Conveyancing, Contracts and Legal Instruments. For the use of Lawyers, Public Officers and Business Men, with Copious Instruc- tions, Explanations and Authorities. The well-known anil standard work originally written hy AUSTIN ABBOTT and BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT. Revised and Greatly Enlarged!, by CLARENCE F. BIRDSKVK, of the New York Bar. A large, compactly printed volume of i,OGO pages, containing over 1,500 Forms. Price, $6.OO net, or $6.30 by express, propaid, on receipt of price. Abbott ' s Forms of Pleading in Actions tor Legal or Equitable Relief. The most comprehensive collection ever published of Forms of Complaints, Answers and Demurrers, etc., in all classes of Actions for Legal or Equitable Relief. Prepared with especial reference to the Codes of Procedure of the various States, and adapted to the present practice in many of the Common Law States. By AUSTIN ABBOTT, LL. D. Com- pleted for publication after his decease by CARLOS C. ALDEN, Professor of Pleading in the New York Uni- versicy Law School. In two volumes of nearly 2,000 pages, containing about 1,600 Forms and full index. Price, $I3-OO net, out sent by express, prepaid, on receipt of price. Haight ' s Questions and Answers for Bar Examination Review. A new and thoroughly up-to-date book for the use of Law Students in all the States in preparing for Bar and Law School examinations. By CHARLES S. HAIGHT and ARTHUR M. MARSH. The book covers all the subjects embraced in a full law course, and may also be used to advantage by lawyers as a book for speedy reference, and will be especially useful to those who have but limited use of a library. As far as such a thing is possible, it is a pocket encyclopedia of legal principles and leading cases. Shearman and Redfield on Negligence, 5th Edition, 2 Vols. Re-written, recast and greatly enlarged. This is the leading work on the Law of Negligence. The Courts have unifornly commended it, and the Federal and State Reports indicate that it has been cited in almost every Court within the United States, and in nearly every case in which any important question concerning the law of negligence has arisen. This new edition contains 40,000 citations of cases on different pertinent points. Price, $!2.oonet, or $12.50 delivered. Beach on Contributory negligence, 3d Revised Edition, by JOHN J. CRAWFORD. Scarcely any modern text- book is more frequently referred to by the Courts than this work. The former editions were most favorably received by the legal profession; and it is believed that the work is now even more valuable as a lawyer ' s tool than it has heretofore been. Price, $6.00 net, or $6.30 delivered. Ash ' s Annotated U. S. Internal Revenue Laws, including the War Revenue Law. This is the only complete and fully annotated edition of the Internal Revenue Laws. It contains very full notes of the Judicial De- cisions; also the Decisions of the Treasury Department and the Commissioners of Internal Revenue. Price, $5.00 net, delivered. Jones on Easements, by LEONARD A. JONES. In continuation of the author ' s treatise on the Law of Real Prop- erty. About twice as many cases are cited in this work as are cited in any other treatise on the subject. Mr. Jones ' works are accepted as the standard authority upon the subjects of which they treat. Price, $6.00 net, or $6.30 delivered. Alderson ' s Beach on Receivers. A new, greatly enlarged and reconstructed edition of Beach on Receivers, by WILLIAM A. AI.DERSON. This new edition is the largest, most complete, and in all respects the best work on Receivers now published. No topic relating to the subject has been omitted or slighted. Price, $6.OO net, delivered. Wait on Fraudulent Conveyances and Creditors ' Bills, 3d Edition, Revised and enlarged, by FREDERICK S. WAIT. This is the Leading American Work on the subject. It is not only the latest but it is in every respect the most complete, able and satisfactory work on this important topic. Over 180 pages of new matter are embodied in this new edition. Price, $6 oo net, delivered. Stickney on State Control of Trade and Commerce by National or State Authority, by ALBERT STICKNEY. This treatise deals with the long series of attempts by government, under both the English and American Law, through Legislatures and Courts, to control Trade and Commerce, especially in the matter of prices. Price, $2.25, delivered. Probate Reports Annototed, vols. i, i, and 3, now ready. Each volume will give, in full, about 100 Recent De- cisions of the Courts of the several States upon all matters of Probate Law, with extensive annotations, and will contain the Cream of Probate Law of the Country. Price, $5.50 per vol., delivered. (Send for descriptive circular.) BAKER, VOORHIS 6c CO., NEW YORK.

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