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HET HERON, JOHN. An Abridgment of all the Custom Laws in force, in Ireland, &c. ; with Notes. 8vo. Dublin. 1818. HERTELTi, THOMAS. The Demurrer; or, Proofs of Error in the Decisions of the Supreme Court of New York, in requiring Faith in a particular Doctrine in a Witness. 8vo. New York. HERTSLET, LEWIS. A complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions, and reciprocal Regulations at present subsisting between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council, concerning the same, as far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation, to the Contracting Par- ties ; compiled from authentic Documents. 6 vols. 8vo. London. 1820-44. HERTY, THOMAS. A Digest of the Laws of the United States, from 1789 to 1799. 8vo. Baltimore. 1800. . A Digest of the Laws of Maryland, from the ear- liest period of the Province, to November, 1797. 8vo. Baltimore. 1799. HETHERINGTON v. WOGAN. Case of, in the Court of Error, in Ireland ; with the Judgment of the Court on the Dura- tion of OfTices and Officers in the Administration of Justice. 8vo. Dublin. 1817. HETLEY, SIR THOMAS. Reports and Cases taken as they were argued by most of the King's Serjeants, at the Common Pleas Barre, in the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 7th years of the late King Charles, fol. London. 1657. By the title page, it appears that Hetley was one of the stipendiary Reporters appointed in the reign of James I., through the influence of Lord Bacon, " but from his Cases not being taken until the reign of Charles, and from other internal evidence, Hetley's Reports have never been esteemed official." The Cases were originally taken in French, and all translated before publication, except one, and the editor gives the follow- ing reason for retaining this specimen in the vernacular tongue of the Common Law : " You may perchance wonder why one Case is particu- larly in French ! Truly, the esteeme that I not only set upon the law, but its pristine language, induced me to give the book a relish with that, which is not ungrateful, (I believe) to any lawyer." It is doubted whether Hetley or Littleton is the author of these Reports, "many of them being exact duplicates of those ascribed to 384