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THE

AMERICAN LAW REGISTER

NEW SERIES,
VOLUME XI.

(OLD SERIES VOL. 20.)

FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1872.

EDITORS:

JAMES T. MITCHELL. Esq., PHILADELPHIA.

hos. ISAAC F. REDFIELD, BOSTON. [PROF. THEODORE W. DWIGHT, N. Y Hos. EDMUND H. BENNETT, BOSTON. HON. J. F. DILLON, Davenport, Iowa ALEX. MARTIN, Esq., ST. LOUIS, MO.

PHILADELPHIA:
D. B. CANFIELD & CO.
1872.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress in the year 1870, by

D. B. CANFIELD & CO.,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

2 0 1969

TABLE

OF

LEADING ARTICLES, ETC.

Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage.

Ancient Commonwealth, .

Are Juries Judges of the Law as well as Facts in Criminal

PAGE

65

465

Law Books, List of New,

Judiciary, Power to Declare a Law Unconstitutional,

Legislative Power to Amend Charters,

Power of Judiciary to Declare a Law Unconstitutional, 729

729

1

64, 136, 536, 726

65

273

537

Priority of Invention,

601

Railroad Corporations, County Subscriptions to,

Reducing an Invention to Practice,

ABSTRACTS OF RECENT DECISIONS.

New York, Supreme Court, 49, 123, 191, 261, 327, 395, 458,