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Notes and a copious Index, forming a COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE NEW PRACTICE. By ARTHUR WILSON, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Royal 12mo. 1875. Price 18s. cloth.

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Judicature Acts, and to the Orders and Rules issued thereunder. CLOWES, Esq., one of the Registrars of the Court of Chancery. (Uniform in size with the Queen's Printer's Edition of the Acts and Rules). 1875. Price 10s. 6d, halfbound. The above with the Acts and Rules, including Additional Rules issued by Order in Council (Authorized Edition), in one Volume. Price 25s. bound in leather. The same, interleaved, in one Volume. Price 30s. bound in leather.

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Roscoe's Nisi Prius.-A Digest of the Law of Evidence on

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Archbold's Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases.-
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Addison on Contracts.-Being a Treatise on the Law of Contracts. By C. G. ADDISON, Esq., Author of the " Law of Torts." Seventh Edition. By L. W. CAVE, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Recorder of Lincoln. Royal 8vo. 1875. Price £1 188. cloth.

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Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal
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M

AT LAW AND IN EQUITY:

BEING A TREATISE ON

THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING THE

VALIDITY OF AGREEMENTS,

WITH A SPECIAL VIEW TO THE COMPARISON OF LAW AND EQUITY,
AND WITH REFERENCES TO THE INDIAN CONTRACT ACT,
AND OCCASIONALLY TO

ROMAN, AMERICAN, AND CONTINENTAL LAW.

BY

FREDERICK POLLOCK,

OF LINCOLN'S-INN, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW,

LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

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LONDON:
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Law Publishers and Booksellers.

1876.

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