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GLA GILMER, W. Reports of Cases decided in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, from 1820 to 1821. 8vo. Richmond. 1821. GILMOUR, SIR JOHN. The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from 1661 to 1666. 4to. Edinburgh. 1701. GILPIN, H. D. Reports of Cases adjudged in the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, from 1828-35. 8vo. Philadelphia. 1837. Judge Hopkinson's decisions occupy the greater part of the volume, and are very able and excellent expositions of Admiralty Law. The Reporter has given clear, and concise statements of the facts in each case, and the book enjoys, in all respects, a high reputation. 18 A. J. 521. — . Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States, from the beginning of the Government, to 1841, taken from Official Documents transmitted to Congress. 2 vols. 8vo. Washington. 1841. " The work is an interesting one, and every way a fitting monument to the reputation of the distinguished men who have successively filled the Attorney-Generalship of the United States." 1 Pa. Law. J. 264. GIRARD WILL CASE. See Binneij. GIRDLER, J. Observations on the Pernicious Consequences of Forestalling, &-C. ; with Lists of Statutes. 8vo. London. 1800. GLANVILLA, RANULPHUS DE. Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus regni Anglise, tempore Regis Henrici secundi Compositus. 8vo. London. 1554. It is not only questioned whether this volume was written by the author whose name it bears, but if so, whether it was not copied from the liegiam Majestalem. That famous legal antiquarian, John Selden, was unable to satisfy himself with regard to its authorship, because " some of the best and antientest copies" have the initials E. de N., which is allowed to mean E. de Narbrough. " But as on the one side, I dare not be confident that it is Glanvill's, so I make little question that it is as antient as his time if not his work." Another writer of some credit, N. Bacon, "a florid gentleman," sup- poses it to have been written by Henry II., " the first Maecenas since the Conquest, that brought on the spring time of a settled Common- Weal ; and therefore left this fair testimony by putting forth the Primrose of English Laws, under the name of Glanville, letting all men know that thenceforth England would no more vale itself in an unknown law." 336