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ing and application of the penalties, the number of witnesses, and the jurisdiction necessary to the several convictions, and the chapters and sections of the enacting statutes ; to which are subjoined a variety of adjudged cases. 4th ed. with additions. 4to. London. 1812.
To this edition is added, a continuation of the statutes to the 51st Geo. III. The former editions of this work are those of 1775, 1786, 1795. This Abridgment is little else than a very good Index to the statutes themselves.
ADDAMS, J. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Ecclesiastical Courts at Doctors Commons, and in the high Court of Delegates. Hilary Term, 1822, to T. T. 1825. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1823-25.
. Vol. III. Part I.
ADDISON, ALEXANDER. Reports of Cases in the County Courts of the V. Circuit, and in the high Court of Errors and Appeals in the state of Pennsylvania, and Charges to Grand Juries of those County Courts. 8vo. Washington. 1800.
ADDISON'S REPORTS.
The charges to grand juries are a series of 27 essays upon local and constitutional law and government, and comprise about 300 pages, or half of the volume. General Washington says of them in a letter to Judge Addison, "I wish sincerely, that your good example, in endeavouring to bring the people of these United States more acquainted with the laws and principles of their government, was followed."
ADDISON, C. G. A Treatise on the law of Contracts, and parties to actions ex Contractu. Part I. 8vo. London. 1846.
ADMIRALTY. A collection of Statutes and Parts of Statutes relating thereto. 4to. London. 1742.
. Black Book of the Admiralty.
This work is thought to have been commenced in the reign of Edw. III., and to have received additions till the time of Hen. VIII. It is a sort of manual or book of practice, and is composed of certain old statutes, no where else to be found, regulating the Admiralty jurisdiction. The documents which compose the work are in Norman French, but they were translated into English, temp. Charles II., by Thomas Bedford. Other English translations are mentioned as having been made, temp. Eliz. and Ch. I. Rowghton digested and recast into LI. articuli, considerable portions of the Black Book, which will be found52
