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ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE

FOURTH EDITION.

THIS edition contains a consolidated digest of all the cases in the second edition of the first volume, and in the second volume, together with the cases since published, and a few of the cases in the fourth volume of Watts and Sergeant. The statements of the points decided in the last mentioned cases, and in those decided in the third volume of Watts and Sergeant, are in the language of the reporters; the sheets having been received while this Digest was passing through the press.

PHILADELPHIA, February, 1843,