Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854,

BY LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

PREFACE.

THIS volume includes a part of the cases tried in the First Circuit since the autumn of 1851. In making the selection, I have endeavored to insert only those which might be useful to the profession. A few of those which turned wholly on the local law of a particular State, I have inserted in accordance with the wishes of gentlemen of the Bar of those States.

WASHINGTON, January 16th, 1854.

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