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Page 12
... deal more often . The general references he recommended for law students up to the end of his practice were Blackstone , Chitty , Greenleaf , and Story on Equity . 3 C.W. 344 , 4 C.W. 121. For further discussion of Lincoln's lawbooks ...
... deal more often . The general references he recommended for law students up to the end of his practice were Blackstone , Chitty , Greenleaf , and Story on Equity . 3 C.W. 344 , 4 C.W. 121. For further discussion of Lincoln's lawbooks ...
Page 13
... deal with routine situations . They are the kind of instructions that a totally raw beginner might not know existed . The second case of Logan's editing is more clearly significant . This was a slander case in which the defendant had ...
... deal with routine situations . They are the kind of instructions that a totally raw beginner might not know existed . The second case of Logan's editing is more clearly significant . This was a slander case in which the defendant had ...
Page 137
... deal of care , as a lawyer examines a decision , " and that there was nothing of the sort in it . He invited Douglas to " lay his finger upon the place in the entire opinions of the Court where any of them ' says the contrary ...
... deal of care , as a lawyer examines a decision , " and that there was nothing of the sort in it . He invited Douglas to " lay his finger upon the place in the entire opinions of the Court where any of them ' says the contrary ...
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